posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

Obesity was the biggest risk factor for bad COVID reaction....now let's go get more obese!

Flip side, people vaccinated are thinking long term about their health and are smart. People not vaccinated are dumb and not thinking about their health...so maybe this is a perfect inticement to get them to do it lol

posted by brutus161

I honestly believe that if Trump has said from the beginning, "just wear a mask, and we'll get through this as soon as we can", he would have gotten reelected. 

Agreed. He’s probably the only person dumb enough to not rally a nation behind a common goal, instead dividing them further to the point we saw in November. 

posted by Spock

Exactly.  The mask didnt work

All those doctors and dentists and nurses and ....

Yep, decades of mask wearing just for fun. They definitely don’t work. Or they did, but once they became political — they stopped working? It’s hard to keep it straight.

posted by justincredible

“Mmmm!…vaccination.” NYC Mayor announces Shake Shack will give free food to vaccinated New Yorkers.

“I want you to look at these French fries and think about how great it is to get vaccinated.”

pic.twitter.com/cLvYQF7xwO

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 13, 2021

I mean, I have an air fryer, potato cutter, spices and even a few potatoes, so gotta do a bit better than that, dude! Sure, I paid for all of that, so it's not free, but I also don't have to go to a place to pick up the fries, so that evens out.

posted by justincredible

“Mmmm!…vaccination.” NYC Mayor announces Shake Shack will give free food to vaccinated New Yorkers.

“I want you to look at these French fries and think about how great it is to get vaccinated.”

pic.twitter.com/cLvYQF7xwO

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 13, 2021

posted by QuakerOats

https://www.wkbn.com/news/ohio/ohio-to-stop-federal-300-a-week-unemployment-benefits/

Ya think?

Science deniers, or something. I thought it was only MAGA people? Or the hordes of people complaining about the CDC new regulations (which somehow changed drastically in only 2 weeks). 

"Are they all vaccinated?”

Pelosi tells CNN masks will still be required on the House floor, despite new CDC guidance https://t.co/0zhm6Wba9X

— Axios (@axios) May 14, 2021

posted by Spock

Oh so science is going to magically change on June 2.  Whatever.  I am not a sheep like 95% of our  country.   I dont wear a mask because I am not stupid.  

posted by kizer permanente

Says the guy who got covid 

To be fair, my wife is an avid mask wearer through most of the pandemic as she works in/out of nursing homes and was scared to take it back to them.

She still got COVID hard from a nursing home even though she was 100% of the time in mask and gloves while there.

She got it right at the height of the first wave last year in late April.

posted by Laley23

All those doctors and dentists and nurses and ....

Yep, decades of mask wearing just for fun. They definitely don’t work. Or they did, but once they became political — they stopped working? It’s hard to keep it straight.

To be fair, I believe dentists/surgeons wear masks when they have an "open" patient (dentist-mouth) is the same reason they scrub the crap out of their hands. 

Bacteria.

From the research I have seen, masks are great at stopping bacteria, not so great at stopping viruses, just too small.

I am willing to be wrong though. I mean the CDC and Fauci said so at the beginning of the pandemic, that masks were useless against viruses, then they changed their tune not based on science, but based on political pressure.

posted by jmog

To be fair, my wife is an avid mask wearer through most of the pandemic as she works in/out of nursing homes and was scared to take it back to them.

She still got COVID hard from a nursing home even though she was 100% of the time in mask and gloves while there.

She got it right at the height of the first wave last year in late April.

It's a favorite, and possibly the most stupid argument in the whole mask thing, Anything less than 100% effective means they don't work.

To be fair I teach gym and really have nothing to offer on this thread outside of an opinion.

posted by queencitybuckeye

It's a favorite, and possibly the most stupid argument in the whole mask thing, Anything less than 100% effective means they don't work.

Did I say masks don't work? I was just rebutting someone else's dumb anecdotal with another anecdotal to hopefully show them they shouldn't use anecdotals.

posted by QuakerOats

https://www.wkbn.com/news/ohio/ohio-to-stop-federal-300-a-week-unemployment-benefits/

I wish they would have let it ride for people on the Shared Work Ohio program (layoff aversion program, companies reduce your hours 10-50%, Ohio pays you prorated unemployment, the $300 for those people basically evened things up). Because that’s the company doing it to them to hold on to them through a slow period. There’s still a decent amount of manufacturers using it.

As for the rest, I see no issue with it

posted by iclfan2

Science deniers, or something. I thought it was only MAGA people? Or the hordes of people complaining about the CDC new regulations (which somehow changed drastically in only 2 weeks). 

"Are they all vaccinated?”

Pelosi tells CNN masks will still be required on the House floor, despite new CDC guidance https://t.co/0zhm6Wba9X

— Axios (@axios) May 14, 2021

We need to stop caring if people are vaccinated or not. They had their chance. If they chose not to and end up sick, well, sorry about your luck. 

posted by friendfromlowry

We need to stop caring if people are vaccinated or not. They had their chance. If they chose not to and end up sick, well, sorry about your luck. 

Agreed. It seems to be the common boogie man argument from the people afraid to leave their houses. If you’re vaccinated, who cares about anyone else? And everyone in Congress could have been vaccinated 4+ months ago. If they want to risk it that’s on them. 

posted by jmog

Did I say masks don't work? I was just rebutting someone else's dumb anecdotal with another anecdotal to hopefully show them they shouldn't use anecdotals.

No, I was agreeing with you.

Kroger and Target saying they’ll continue requiring masks beyond June 2nd. Wonder how much that’ll be ignored.

posted by friendfromlowry

Kroger and Target saying they’ll continue requiring masks beyond June 2nd. Wonder how much that’ll be ignored.

The one thing everyone should agree to in the mostly absurd arguments over masks is that private companies have the right to require them. The marketplace will decide.

I haven't read up on this, in detail, but if you go into an establishment unmasked, are you going to get carded, like at the bar?

posted by BR1986FB

I haven't read up on this, in detail, but if you go into an establishment unmasked, are you going to get carded, like at the bar?

Vaccine carded? No.

The 3 Kroger around us that we go to most often haven't been enforcing the mask policy for a while, though there still seems to be about 99% compliance. It's one thing to require them once the mandate is lifted, but if you're already not enforcing it I can't see that lasting too long before they just give up.

“The choice is yours.” - President Biden

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— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 13, 2021

posted by Laley23

Flip side, people vaccinated are thinking long term about their health and are smart. People not vaccinated are dumb and not thinking about their health...so maybe this is a perfect inticement to get them to do it lol

Was this post in jest or devils advocate?

I disagree on that sentiment if it was not satire

Reds going full capacity and no masks at GABP on June 2nd. Kinda looking forward to my first baseball game in almost 2 years.

posted by justincredible

Reds going full capacity and no masks at GABP on June 2nd. Kinda looking forward to my first baseball game in almost 2 years.