Covid19 Seclusion Thread

[bri]

Chin up, old friend. Don’t go fatalistic on me now. Control the situation and never cede control or lose hope.

Kind of exaggerating to make a point.

Really though, I still think I have already had it.

My wife is high risk. Me probably moderate. Things are going to get more complicated as the next round of treatment for wife will "reboot" her immune system, I will need to be even more careful than I have been for 3 mo.

Taken some time away now while she is a bit better.

 

[mgreenspan]

So like I guessed the kid’s test came back negative. Back to normal.

 

[SCSL]

So the county in which I work went to mandatory face masks effective today. Are masks required where you live or work? And if so, how has the compliance been?

 

[rover rob]

So the county in which I work went to mandatory face masks effective today. Are masks required where you live or work? And if so, how has the compliance been?

hit or miss where I am ( upstate ny ) a lot of people up here wont wear them because in the county I live we had under 1k cases out of 126k people.

 

[Howski]

They’re mandated in grocery stores and restaurants (when not eating) here. Compliance had been o-k depending on where you went but seems to have gotten better only after we were been labeled a ‘hot spot’... Plenty of people still gathering in large groups and being careless in the process

 

[fishEH]

Masks have been required here in all stores and public settings where 6ft distance is not possible. Most places turn you away at the door if you don't have one. My work's official stance is wear a mask anytime 6ft isn't possible. I'm in public works though and nobody is following it. It's been 90+° here for almost two weeks now and the fact is the guys aren't going to wear a mask while sweating their balls off repairing a water main break.

 

[DiscoHasBeen]

It's been 90+° here for almost two weeks now and the fact is the guys aren't going to wear a mask while sweating their balls off repairing a water main break.

Same here. 105 heat index the last couple of days. like 92 with 60% RH. Even hotter next week. Old people would be stroking out walking from the parking lot to Walmart entrance. Heatstroke, COVID, or shot. Dead is dead I guess. What's the saying, dammed if you do...

 

[discostew]

Masks have been required here in all stores and public settings where 6ft distance is not possible. Most places turn you away at the door if you don't have one. My work's official stance is wear a mask anytime 6ft isn't possible. I'm in public works though and nobody is following it. It's been 90+° here for almost two weeks now and the fact is the guys aren't going to wear a mask while sweating their balls off repairing a water main break.

None of my techs wear masks. I have to wear one when I go up front to the showroom or offices, but I peel that bitch off as I'm going back into the shop and the heat. I go thru about a qrt of hand sanitizer a week. Getting in everybody elses car with the fan blowing full blast kind of sucks a little bit.

 

[bri]

So the county in which I work went to mandatory face masks effective today. Are masks required where you live or work? And if so, how has the compliance been?

Tricounty Health made it mandatory. Douglas County opted out and is no forming their own health department.

I am not sure what the deal is with masks. They can help.

I would say that about 30% to 40% of people are not wearing masks. I steer clear of anyone without a mask.

 

[DiscoHasBeen]

Tricounty Health made it mandatory. Douglas County opted out and is no forming their own health department.

I am not sure what the deal is with masks. They can help.

I would say that about 30% to 40% of people are not wearing masks. I steer clear of anyone without a mask.

I guess I would wonder if you understand how "mask/filters" work? If it fits loosely it doesn't work. If you have a beard it doesn't work. If not made of the right material doesn't work. If pulled down over your nose doesn't work. Just putting a piece of cloth over your face and believing you're good is a fool's errand.

 

[discostew]

Tricounty Health made it mandatory. Douglas County opted out and is no forming their own health department.

I am not sure what the deal is with masks. They can help.

I would say that about 30% to 40% of people are not wearing masks. I steer clear of anyone without a mask.

Me too usually. But I have to deal with these guys all day hard to stay 6 feet away sometimes. I'm not asking them to wear a mask. Working in this heat in one of those is probably not good for you.

 

[fishEH]

I love the people driving in their car, BY THEMSELVES, wearing a mask. Cracks me right up.

 

[mgreenspan]

Masks serve a purpose and should be used in certain situations. Not being aware of another individuals level of illness is careless and was careless well before the rona ever came around. I’ve doused credit cards in disinfectant after obviously sick cashiers have touched them. I don’t mess with your germs and don’t expect you to mess with mine. As the saying goes, don’t make your inconvenience my inconvenience.

 

[mgreenspan]

I love the people driving in their car, BY THEMSELVES, wearing a mask. Cracks me right up.

I like the folks running by themselves.

 

[bri]

I guess I would wonder if you understand how "mask/filters" work? If it fits loosely it doesn't work. If you have a beard it doesn't work. If not made of the right material doesn't work. If pulled down over your nose doesn't work. Just putting a piece of cloth over your face and believing you're good is a fool's errand.

If you could read rather than infer, I said masks *can* help.

The 30-40% of people I see without masks don't have beards and aren't wearing anything and still get closer than 6' to people all the time.

I deem people that get within 6' of me without a mask a risk to my health, so in general I steer clear of any fucking idiot coming close to me mask or not.

I won't even go down an aisle in the grocery store that has people in it. Fuck that. It's not worth my wife's life.

Guess what, thus far I have not brought anything home to the wife.

I don't give even one fuck about masks. As a result, I believe we should just mandate masks and start fining people that do not wear them.

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[Blueboy]

As a result, I believe we should just mandate masks and start fining people that do not wear them.

In public places masks are mandated in PA. And in the rural area where we live majority of folks don’t wear one which pisses off my wife especially in the grocery store. At the same time our case / death numbers are very low.
However it will be a cold day in hell I’m going to wear a mask biking, hiking, etc. no matter what the latest in vogue gov’t mandate is.

 

[discostew]

When I was on my covid lay off I saw a cool demonstration on tv about what the masks do and don't do. The best demonstration I saw was a guy saying normal greetings at normal volume into a box set up with a black light to show the droplets coming out of his mouth. The mask stops them. It doesn't have to seal to your face, beard no beard it doesn't matter. The mask catches the droplets that I would have never thought came out of everyone wnen we speak.
I wish I could stay home, but at some point we have to suck it up and go back out there. I think as a country we're headed for some pretty severe psychological problems with people afraid to leave the house. I know I was a little scared to go back to work on june 1st. But in the end I knew I had too. It's a big old scary world.

 

[DiscoHasBeen]

When I was on my covid lay off I saw a cool demonstration on tv about what the masks do and don't do. The best demonstration I saw was a guy saying normal greetings at normal volume into a box set up with a black light to show the droplets coming out of his mouth. The mask stops them. It doesn't have to seal to your face, beard no beard it doesn't matter. The mask catches the droplets that I would have never thought came out of everyone wnen we speak.
I wish I could stay home, but at some point we have to suck it up and go back out there. I think as a country we're headed for some pretty severe psychological problems with people afraid to leave the house. I know I was a little scared to go back to work on june 1st. But in the end I knew I had too. It's a big old scary world.

Since this all started I've read mask don't work, do work, might help, don't help, etc. Not long after all this started I read you needed at least a N95 mask. Now people are making them out of tee shirts. Like everything else with this virus it's hard to wade through all the BS. I just don't go anywhere I don't have to and stay the fuck away from others when I do. But that's what I've always done so things seem pretty normal to me.

 

[gimebakmybulits]

The science is out there for the people willing to do their own due diligence but the long and short of it is that the majority of people with a coronavirus don't give it off through respiratory exhalation or droplet and homemade masks don't work. Wearing a mask without understanding and implementing proper hygiene/safety protocols eliminates what little effectiveness they may have had.
Wash your dick skinners, don't touch your face (mucus membranes) and don't let mouth breathers get close are the only safety measures that are going to work........period. People have been conditioned to be so scared of other humans that they will jump into traffic to avoid passing another human on the sidewalk..............There is a reason for this and I bet it has nothing to do with a virus.

 

[bri]

In public places masks are mandated in PA. And in the rural area where we live majority of folks don’t wear one which pisses off my wife especially in the grocery store. At the same time our case / death numbers are very low.
However it will be a cold day in hell I’m going to wear a mask biking, hiking, etc. no matter what the latest in vogue gov’t mandate is.

No one mandates a mask hiking or bikiing. But if you are biking on a path in an urban area amongst the hoards that I have seen you'd be an idiot not to. FFS, all it takes is a huge sneeze of someone ahead of you and you will drive right through their cloud.