Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[MontuckyFried]

lol, at triggered. Look in the mirror dude. You're the one hot and bothered by what a stranger is wearing outside in a supposedly free county.

Hasn't stopped TGR from ripping on gapers endlessly, huh? When Texans ski in jeans or wear their helmets backwards, they get mercilessly ridiculed here. AND RIGHTFULLY SO! Same goes for wearing a mask in the middle of nowhere with nary a soul for miles. Those people just look like tools. They are the same sorts of people who wear their ski boots into the grocery store.

When you're in your car by yourself, you trying to protect yourself from yourself? FFS. There ARE ways you can don/doff your mask without getting your nose-picking slimey fingers all over them ya know.

Do these mask morans make me "mad"? Not really, but they DO deserve to be mocked to a high degree. I guess the only reason I've gotten annoyed in the past though is just because it shows how quickly our society has descended into an Idiocracy world. Bet a large % of the people who wear masks by themselves in the middle of an ocean also believe that Brawndo is what plants crave. It's got electrolytes!!!

[bennymac]

When you're in your car by yourself, you trying to protect yourself from yourself? FFS. There ARE ways you can don/doff your mask without getting your nose-picking slimey fingers all over them ya know.

!

How many different ways can I explain it? And why do I *need* to take it off if I’m alone in the car - do you believe it’s “restricting my breathing”, giving me “carbon dioxide poisoning”, filling my lungs with bacteria - or any of the other ridiculous claims people come up with regarding mask wearing?

You guys should be thanking people like me for occasionally wearing a mask when alone in a car. You’re getting free ego boosts and feelings of self righteousness! And I get to keep my hands away from my face! Everyone wins!

[Benny Profane]

You should catch up. This is a disease primarily transmitted by aerosols in closed, crowded environments. Stop sanitizing.

[wooley12]

I don't often wear I mask in my car but when I do...
It amuses me that I'm pissing off a maskhole.

FWIW, With Covid, I am way more concerned with what I'm breathing than if I'll die from picking my nose or scratching my nutz.

[Benny Profane]

Thanks for posting. Maybe Benny can learn something.


Forever, no. Quite possibly beyond September. Wear a mask to help keep a fellow human being from dying--is that such a huge ask? And as far as social distancing goes--afaik that can go on forever, at least as far as waiting in lift lines go. It's been a pleasure not having people skiing on my skis this winter. They can fill the chairs though.

Listen, we have a situation right now in history that is unprecedented. Medical science and other advances in technology have created a very large population of old people. At the turn of the twentieth century, life expectancy was 50 for a male in America. Now, it's what, 78? Pretty amazing, but, it's not simply life or death. The nuance in all that is that we are keeping many alive that would have died just a century ago. Yeah, they hide, take drugs, or receive expensive treatment for ailments like diabetes for a very long time. Cancer treatments have extended life for many. Some may argue about the quality of those lives. I've watched a few, and it ain't pretty, for sure. But, that's where we are, and, as that technology evolves even further, which it will, we will have tens of millions more people dying slowly because, treatment. I'll leave the profit motive of it out of the equation.

So, as a society, we have some serious ethical issues to resolve among ourselves. Does the healthy large majority have to live a highly restricted life to "save" the immune compromised? Tough question. Because those restrictions have serious financial, and therefore, health implications for the rest of us, both physical and mental. It's definitely something we and the western world will be dealing with for a few years. Although, I tell ya, after my road ride today, I stopped at a bar b que place I haven't been to for over a year for takeout, and the place was mobbed, in and out. America is deciding this, and they want out, no more living like prisoners. So, the whole argument may be moot in six months.

Known human history is a long line of plagues and pandemics, many much worse than this. This would have been written off as a bad cough in the seventeenth century. Shit,major figures of that time were dying in their forties of syphilis. Or gout. The plague. Cholera. Dysentery. Who knows what viruses and bacterias were floating around. There was no science to know. It was all in the hands of God. Even in the late eighteenth century, Hamilton escaped NYC twice from, I think, yellow fever outbreaks. It was part of life. We've been spared for a whole century from anything serious. I seriously thought we solved this as humans. Nope. And, who knows what's next.

[MontuckyFried]

How many different ways can I explain it? And why do I *need* to take it off if I’m alone in the car - do you believe it’s “restricting my breathing”, giving me “carbon dioxide poisoning”, filling my lungs with bacteria - or any of the other ridiculous claims people come up with regarding mask wearing?

You guys should be thanking people like me for occasionally wearing a mask when alone in a car. You’re getting free ego boosts and feelings of self righteousness! And I get to keep my hands away from my face! Everyone wins!

^^
You also wear a condom and sport a dental dam when alone too? You can never be too careful these days, ya know!!! I mean, what's the harm in it, right? It's not hurting anybody.

[bennymac]

^^
You also wear a condom and sport a dental dam when alone too? You can never be too careful these days, ya know!!! I mean, what's the harm in it, right? It's not hurting anybody.

Lame. You can do better.

I don’t want to take my mask off for the couple minutes between stops. But the fact that you get an ego boost out of that is both funny and kinda sad really.

[concretejungle]

I don't often wear I mask in my car but when I do...
It amuses me that I'm pissing off a maskhole.

FWIW, With Covid, I am way more concerned with what I'm breathing than if I'll die from picking my nose or scratching my nutz.

I’m going to start wearing mine every time I’m in the car by myself for this reason alone.

[MTT]

Listen, we have a situation right now in history that is unprecedented. Medical science and other advances in technology have created a very large population of old people. At the turn of the twentieth century, life expectancy was 50 for a male in America. Now, it's what, 78? Pretty amazing, but, it's not simply life or death. The nuance in all that is that we are keeping many alive that would have died just a century ago. Yeah, they hide, take drugs, or receive expensive treatment for ailments like diabetes for a very long time. Cancer treatments have extended life for many. Some may argue about the quality of those lives. I've watched a few, and it ain't pretty, for sure. But, that's where we are, and, as that technology evolves even further, which it will, we will have tens of millions more people dying slowly because, treatment. I'll leave the profit motive of it out of the equation.

So, as a society, we have some serious ethical issues to resolve among ourselves. Does the healthy large majority have to live a highly restricted life to "save" the immune compromised? Tough question. Because those restrictions have serious financial, and therefore, health implications for the rest of us, both physical and mental. It's definitely something we and the western world will be dealing with for a few years. Although, I tell ya, after my road ride today, I stopped at a bar b que place I haven't been to for over a year for takeout, and the place was mobbed, in and out. America is deciding this, and they want out, no more living like prisoners. So, the whole argument may be moot in six months.

Known human history is a long line of plagues and pandemics, many much worse than this. This would have been written off as a bad cough in the seventeenth century. Shit,major figures of that time were dying in their forties of syphilis. Or gout. The plague. Cholera. Dysentery. Who knows what viruses and bacterias were floating around. There was no science to know. It was all in the hands of God. Even in the late eighteenth century, Hamilton escaped NYC twice from, I think, yellow fever outbreaks. It was part of life. We've been spared for a whole century from anything serious. I seriously thought we solved this as humans. Nope. And, who knows what's next.

Just tell me you typed all that on a phone. So I can be impressed. It's not like I ever read it.
But wow.

[KQ]

Listen, we have a situation right now in history that is unprecedented. Medical science and other advances in technology have created a very large population of old people. At the turn of the twentieth century, life expectancy was 50 for a male in America. Now, it's what, 78? Pretty amazing, but, it's not simply life or death. The nuance in all that is that we are keeping many alive that would have died just a century ago. Yeah, they hide, take drugs, or receive expensive treatment for ailments like diabetes for a very long time. Cancer treatments have extended life for many. Some may argue about the quality of those lives. I've watched a few, and it ain't pretty, for sure. But, that's where we are, and, as that technology evolves even further, which it will, we will have tens of millions more people dying slowly because, treatment. I'll leave the profit motive of it out of the equation.

So, as a society, we have some serious ethical issues to resolve among ourselves. Does the healthy large majority have to live a highly restricted life to "save" the immune compromised? Tough question. Because those restrictions have serious financial, and therefore, health implications for the rest of us, both physical and mental. It's definitely something we and the western world will be dealing with for a few years. Although, I tell ya, after my road ride today, I stopped at a bar b que place I haven't been to for over a year for takeout, and the place was mobbed, in and out. America is deciding this, and they want out, no more living like prisoners. So, the whole argument may be moot in six months.

Known human history is a long line of plagues and pandemics, many much worse than this. This would have been written off as a bad cough in the seventeenth century. Shit,major figures of that time were dying in their forties of syphilis. Or gout. The plague. Cholera. Dysentery. Who knows what viruses and bacterias were floating around. There was no science to know. It was all in the hands of God. Even in the late eighteenth century, Hamilton escaped NYC twice from, I think, yellow fever outbreaks. It was part of life. We've been spared for a whole century from anything serious. I seriously thought we solved this as humans. Nope. And, who knows what's next.

The hell with everyone else, I've got mine!

It's about time Logan's Run came to fruition, amiright?

[Benny Profane]

The hell with everyone else, I've got mine!

It's about time Logan's Run came to fruition, amiright?

Just be happy you aren't 16. Those kids are really fucked. And I fear the world they will create and rule over post Boomers.

[k2skier112]

I’m driving 3 blocks between stops. I don’t want to touch my mask repeatedly. Is it that hard to understand that a person might just leave their mask on despite being alone in the vehicle? You’re laughing/amused because you think it’s dumb and misguided. I disagree. I’m amused you guys get amused by stuff like this.

You do you. Makes no difference. I'd rather people wear it more than less.
Your logic makes sense over those paranoid about constantly wearing a mask.
I take my mask on and off all the time, haven't had a cold or the flu since October 2019

[KQ]

Honestly, it's been 13 months. No one is saying this I'd going to go in for the rest of time. Is it so hard to do the right thing until we get through this? Stop behaving like toddlers. Next time it might be you who is vulnerable seeking understanding and a little sacrifice on the part of others.

[Benny Profane]

At this rate, it will go on for the rest of my and your time. So, get used to it. Because we can't bring ourselves to do the right thing.

[Hott Butt Mud]

Hasn't stopped TGR from ripping on gapers endlessly, huh? When Texans ski in jeans or wear their helmets backwards, they get mercilessly ridiculed here. AND RIGHTFULLY SO! Same goes for wearing a mask in the middle of nowhere with nary a soul for miles. Those people just look like tools. They are the same sorts of people who wear their ski boots into the grocery store.

When you're in your car by yourself, you trying to protect yourself from yourself? FFS. There ARE ways you can don/doff your mask without getting your nose-picking slimey fingers all over them ya know.

Do these mask morans make me "mad"? Not really, but they DO deserve to be mocked to a high degree. I guess the only reason I've gotten annoyed in the past though is just because it shows how quickly our society has descended into an Idiocracy world. Bet a large % of the people who wear masks by themselves in the middle of an ocean also believe that Brawndo is what plants crave. It's got electrolytes!!!

Gaddamn, couldn't have said it better.

[old goat]

The front of the shirt you wear at breakfast has food stains. Yes or no?

I eat breakfast in my bathrobe. So no.

[pureantigravity]

Listen. Situation unprecedented. Profit motive.

Healthy large majority. Road ride. bar b que. mobbed. Moot in six months.

Known human history is a long line of plagues and pandemics. bad cough. yellow fever outbreaks.

Who knows what's next?

I shortened that for anyone that needs the quick and dirty.

[Ted Striker]

Hasn't stopped TGR from ripping on gapers endlessly, huh? When Texans ski in jeans or wear their helmets backwards, they get mercilessly ridiculed here. AND RIGHTFULLY SO! Same goes for wearing a mask in the middle of nowhere with nary a soul for miles. Those people just look like tools. They are the same sorts of people who wear their ski boots into the grocery store.

I'm all for mockery, but FTR the mocker is the trigged party, not the mockee.

I'm on record here making fun of people a year ago for similar behavior, but it just isn't funny anymore.

[wooley12]

I eat breakfast in my bathrobe. So no.

Silk or a stripped cotton rag ala The Dood?

[Single Track]

Not sure what I’m really adding to the “conversation” other than an anecdote, but I have consistently seen this elderly person out walking early in the morning while on my runs for basically the last year. Is always wearing an N95 while I, who has never gotten without 30-40 feet of her (opposite side of the street or opposite sidewalk) wears no mask. I mean it’s early and I never run into anyone. She always waves and says hi so I think it’s clear she isn’t bothered by my lack of mask.

Honestly, I just feel bad for her that she can’t smell these nice cool, Spring mornings. She has to be vaccinated by this point one would think. Perhaps she has a severely compromised immune system. Idk, she seems perfectly content.

But nah, from now on, I think I’ll just mutter “stupid as fuck” from a distance.

[wooley12]

I'll wear a red Speedo to mow the front lawn sometimes She knows we don't know if she can still be a spreader so she is doing what I do on my walks. Keep waving and smiling and maybe cross the street to say hi. And wear your fucking mask when you do.

[old goat]

Silk or a stripped cotton rag ala The Dood?

Fleece. Artificial.

Masks are nice during allergy season.

[KQ]

Not sure what I’m really adding to the “conversation” other than an anecdote, but I have consistently seen this elderly person out walking early in the morning while on my runs for basically the last year. Is always wearing an N95 while I, who has never gotten without 30-40 feet of her (opposite side of the street or opposite sidewalk) wears no mask. I mean it’s early and I never run into anyone. She always waves and says hi so I think it’s clear she isn’t bothered by my lack of mask.

Honestly, I just feel bad for her that she can’t smell these nice cool, Spring mornings. She has to be vaccinated by this point one would think. Perhaps she has a severely compromised immune system. Idk, she seems perfectly content.

But nah, from now on, I think I’ll just mutter “stupid as fuck” from a distance.

You can still smell through the masks. I have to wear N95s when I clean stalls in the morning because of the dust from the shavings and hay and I can still smell the manure and urine just fine.

[John_B]

You can still smell through the masks. I have to wear N95s when I clean stalls in the morning because of the dust from the shavings and hay and I can still smell the manure and urine just fine.

But then how do the masks keep the virus out?!? o.O.o

Sarcasm so I dont get mistaken for more of an idiot than I already am.

[pureantigravity]

You can still smell through the masks. I have to wear N95s when I clean stalls in the morning because of the dust from the shavings and hay and I can still smell the manure and urine just fine.

Can certainly smell my own bad breath now that I'm masking up.