Do you wear a mask when you go out to crowded public places?

Do you wear a mask when you go out to 'crowded' public places?

  • Yes

    Votes: 37 33.0%

  • No

    Votes: 64 57.1%

  • Sometimes

    Votes: 11 9.8%
  • Total voters
    112
RatLabGuy said:
The epideomiological data is pretty clear - areas where mask wearing is prevelant have lower ratesof breakout. The degree to which it "work" on any one individual level is always debateable and never perfect, but en masse it matters.

Examples:
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00818
(PDF) Association of country-wide coronavirus mortality with demographics, testing, lockdowns, and public wearing of masks (Update June 15, 2020).
(I like thsi one b/c they show that widespread mask wearing would be more effective than a shutdown)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.13553.pdf
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By that logic, Democrats cause CV deaths because the states with (D) leaders have higher death rates per capita.
 
trailhugger said:
By that logic, Democrats cause CV deaths because the states with (D) leaders have higher death rates per capita.
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No, you're drawing causality from a purely correlational relationship with no factor to connect them in that way.
 
Cherokeekid88 said:
Here is my question, and this is strictly just to understand and not to pass judgment on anyone. But other than having a medical condition that doesn't allow you to wear a mask or wear a mask for an extended period of time, why do folks have such an issue with wearing a mask?
I get that a lot of people feel that it infringes on your rights and you shouldn't be told what to do and what not to do and I totally get that, but if wearing a mask when you are out in public will hopefully get us to a point where we can return back to "normal", then what's the big deal? I mean, I hate wearing them. I have to wear one at work all day and it sucks, but how can I complain about the numbers steadily rising if I am not doing my part to help curb it?
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Don't know, you would think that since a lot of the people complaining about the government infringing on their rights and all dont like the government knowing them that a mask being required to hide half their face would be welcome to them. That way big brother dont know who you are walking around, lol.

cranbiz said:
You got to do what you believe. Scientific fact says all the masks that you see do is keep some droplets contained when someone sneezes into the mask. The normal virus particle will pass right through the masks you see out there except an N95 mask and those won't help anyone except the wearer as the N95 is a direct exhaust mask.
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This virus is droplet based and spread through droplets, so if something stops droplets, then it stops the spread.

RatLabGuy said:
And yet there's a whole lot of science disagreeing with you...
If the virus is droplet transmitted, and the masks limit droplet passage, then how does that not limit transmission of the virus?
I feel like we've been through this already.
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Exactly, but science is just so damn hard.

skyhighZJ said:
See also: cross fitters/ vegans.
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I wonder what a cross fitting vegan would be like to talk to? I am not curious enough to seek that waist of dna out though.

RatLabGuy said:
What about pants?
How come nobody is jumping up and down about anti-nudity laws and running around pantsless what it's so damn hot? Why isn't that a major infringeent on your rights and being told what to do?
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I have thought about some this also. One I thought about the other day is how come no complains about having to display a license plate on a vehicle that you own. Its your property, yet the government makes you display a license plate so they can literally know exactly who you are in that vehicle. Seems like a much more invasive over step on the government's part than asking people to wear face masks to slow the spread of a deadly virus during a world wide pandemic.
 
Ill wear one if a private business requests it because its their business and they have the right to do that...just like choosing not to bake a cake.:rolleyes: I can either wear one or find another place to shop.

I do have issues with the govt mandating it. CDC has been for and against masks and have flip flopped on the issue. Making masks mandatory now is moronic.

Cooper just banned the sale of alcohol after 11pm starting Friday. Because Corona can't get you at 10:59 PM with a beer but at 11PM its coming to get ya...:shaking::shaking:
 
i wear a mask when going into business that have the sign (Lowes, Home depot, places like that)while at work, because i have to go in them and im wearing a company shirt and dont want to deal with the phone call if someone called my boss about it. after work they can kick rocks. i was told the other day it was a federal law to wear a mask and i couldn't come in because of it. i told them it wasn't a federal law but covering your face while concealing a firearm was against the law and i didnt wanna break the law and i would take my business somewhere else.

Honestly most places enforced it the first few days, but most places now around here dont seem to care either way. (but get over towards Asheville and they will try to burn you at the stake)
 
I guess where I am at with this whole thing is, where do you draw the line in choosing not to wear a mask because (Insert reason here) and potentially keeping someone else from getting it if you just so happen to be Asymptomatic or keeping yourself from getting it because someone else who has it decided not to wear a mask as well for whatever reason?

This may all end on Nov 5th, but it might not. I just can't take a chance on this all being a hoax.
 
Cherokeekid88 said:
I guess where I am at with this whole thing is, where do you draw the line in choosing not to wear a mask because (Insert reason here) and potentially keeping someone else from getting it if you just so happen to be Asymptomatic or keeping yourself from getting it because someone else who has it decided not to wear a mask as well for whatever reason?

This may all end on Nov 5th, but it might not. I just can't take a chance on this all being a hoax.
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If you're afraid of it, take whatever precautions you deem reasonable. I don't conceal carry to protect anyone else, I do it for myself. If you feel a mask is protecting you, wear one...if you don't, don't. If you wanna wear a hazmat suit...go for it, that's your prerogative. If you wanna remain locked down in your house, you do you. Just let me make own decisions.
 
UTfball68 said:
If you're afraid of it, take whatever precautions you deem reasonable. I don't conceal carry to protect anyone else, I do it for myself. If you feel a mask is protecting you, wear one...if you don't, don't. If you wanna wear a hazmat suit...go for it, that's your prerogative. If you wanna remain locked down in your house, you do you. Just let me make own decisions.
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Well, I guess I wear a mask not for myself but for my wife, my mom, my mother in law and for you. I'm not afraid of everything and feel like I need to be in a bubble so that the bad virus doesn't get me. I would feel horrible if I knew I was going out in public places and didn't try to protect myself and then went around my family/friends/whatever and they ended up getting it because of my negligence... Not saying people who choose not to wear a mask are wrong or should be punished, just how I feel. In the beginning, I was against wearing masks... thought it was stupid and a waste of time, but then I realized that wearing a mask was a small price to pay for my loved ones.

And I bet you really conceal carry for not only yourself, but also for your family and for any person who is being harmed.
 
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Cherokeekid88 said:
Well, I guess I wear a mask not for myself but for my wife, my mom, my mother in law and for you. I'm not afraid of everything and feel like I need to be in a bubble so that the bad virus doesn't get me. I would feel horrible if I knew I was going out in public places and didn't try to protect myself and then went around my family/friends/whatever and they ended up getting it because of my negligence... Not saying people who choose not to wear a mask are wrong or should be punished, just how I feel. In the beginning, I was against wearing masks... thought it was stupid and a waste of time, but then I realized that wearing a mask was a small price to pay for my loved ones.

And I bet you really conceal carry for not only yourself, but also for your family and for any person who is being harmed.
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The key to what I said was LET ME MAKE MY OWN DECISIONS. What I have and who I got it for is irrelevant, it's my choice to do with it as I please. Assess your own risk...let you make your own decisions, and if those decisions aren't the same as mine, that's cool. My dad is and has been one of the highest risk individuals, if he remained locked down in his house and remained in a sterile environment through all of this, you're right...I'd probably wear a mask to see him. But he hasn't, hell...he doesn't even wear a mask...so neither do I. If I go somewhere that actually enforces wearing a mask (which has only happened with one store in 4.5 months), I don't make a stink about it...I either wrap something around my face to gain entry if I really want whatever widget I went for, or I go somewhere else. It's not that complex of a concept...you be responsible for you and do what you think is necessary.
 
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People don't get to make their own decision about wearing seatbelts...
 
drkelly said:
People don't get to make their own decision about wearing seatbelts...
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I make the decision to not wear one in my personal vehicles every since I got my license in 1990. I have gotten lots of speeding tickets and moving violations but never gotten a seat belt ticket. I always wear one when I’m on the trails and when I’m in my work truck.
 
obullfish said:
I make the decision to not wear one in my personal vehicles every since I got my license in 1990. I have gotten lots of speeding tickets and moving violations but never gotten a seat belt ticket. I always wear one when I’m on the trails and when I’m in my work truck.
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Y U no make sense?
 
obullfish said:
I make the decision to not wear one in my personal vehicles every since I got my license in 1990. I have gotten lots of speeding tickets and moving violations but never gotten a seat belt ticket. I always wear one when I’m on the trails and when I’m in my work truck.
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I quit wearing mine the summer after high school when I got a job delivering pizza and had to get in and out of my car 100 times every night. 12 years later at the age of 30 I got pulled by a state trooper for not wearing my seat belt and he gave me a $75 ticket. I've been wearing it ever since.
 
drkelly said:
I quit wearing mine the summer after high school when I got a job delivering pizza and had to get in and out of my car 100 times every night. 12 years later at the age of 30 I got pulled by a state trooper for not wearing my seat belt and he gave me a $75 ticket. I've been wearing it ever since.
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I guess back in my younger ticket getting days I was doing something so stupid or dangerous in their eyes they were so pissed they couldn’t see the no seatbelt violation. Now I drive like I have some sense about me and don’t even flinch for a blue light on my tail. If I get a seatbelt ticket I’ll pay it and continue to not wear it.
 
obullfish said:
I guess back in my younger ticket getting days I was doing something so stupid or dangerous in their eyes they were so pissed they couldn’t see the no seatbelt violation. Now I drive like I have some sense about me and don’t even flinch for a blue light on my tail. If I get a seatbelt ticket I’ll pay it and continue to not wear it.
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What if you got in an accident and were thrown through the windshield and lived...would you wear one then?
 
drkelly said:
Lived but paralyzed?
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If we're playing hypotheticals...how about 'wore a seat belt, got stuck and was burned alive'. So, I double back to, you do you, I'll do me...and everyone can do as they please with the information presented.
 
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