SMPhotography Loc: Pawleys Island, SC

I live in FL, Gainesville to be exact and I will not wear a mask. . And sorry Chicken Little, only your sky is falling. We were in the midst of the worst Flu A/B season in decades but not a peep out of our disingenuous lying media about that. In the country, the mortality from COVID-19 was less than 1%, the PI for the flu was running almost 7. I didn't need to draw on my MPH degree to figure out which was the greatest health degree.

Overthehill1

Idiocy like this is why this virus is going to be around along time, I don't care what your credentials are.

SMPhotography Loc: Pawleys Island, SC

And you base this on what exactly? Your vast knowledge of virology, immunology and epidemiology or because the talking heads on CNN told you so. And it is idiocy only to the uninformed and uneducated like you.

HRBIEL Loc: Rapid City, SD

So I suppose your solution to the virus problem is what...herd immunity? At what cost in lives?

SMPhotography Loc: Pawleys Island, SC

Common sense. If you are sick, stay home, wash your hands frequently and use hand sanitizer and maintain a good distance between yourself and others. Just what you should do during the FLU SEASON. And you really should not toss around terms like "herd immunity" when you really have no idea what they really mean.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Wrong.
If you lived in my climate, every Winter you would see the water vapor exhaled with every breath.
If you are infected, very breath includes viruses riding on them.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Sick people should stay home, but as I have already mentioned here, random research performed by Indiana showed that 40% of those infected were unaware that they had the virus.

So, how do you keep six feet away from others in a store?

I went to Lowe's yesterday; it is a large store and didn't have many customers, but even so I had a hard time staying six feet away from the few people who wore their mask under the nose.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Fauci changes what he says about masks more often than some people change their socks.

cameranut Loc: North Carolina

Well, since you are in such a safe place, you can easily afford to skip the mask.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

He recommended that ordinary people not wear masks back in February when masks were very rare.

In March, once masks became more common and he realized how incredibly infectious this virus is, he changed his advice.

I hope you change your socks more often than once.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

When you say “in the country”, do you mean in THIS country, or do you mean in a rural area? If you mean in this country, your figures are not in agreement with the figures published by CDC or Johns Hopkins (which has a pretty fair medical school). The current numbers from CD for Covid 19 are 4.6m cases and 154,000 deaths or a mortality of 3.3% while the CDC figures for the 2019/2020 influenza season are 39-56M cases and 24,000-62,000 deaths or roughly 0.1%. Now you can argue the accuracy of the reported deaths and cases all you want, but that is a 33 to 1 difference in mortality, and even if the figures are off by a factor of 2, your “data” is completely backwards , and if your math is either that bad or you are being that disingenuous, then It’s impossible to take it (or your opinions) seriously.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Your state must be much different than ours.

Last year we lost 131 residents to the flu, and we have real Winter here - we have already lost twenty times that many to Covid.

I don't need any degree to tell which is the greatest health issue.

Yes, I had a flu shot last Fall - I will get shot(s) for Covid as soon as my doctor has them available.

Jeffers

When I worked at Lockheed's Skunk-works, we had name badges with colored squares on them that identified what programs we were cleared into. During one break, two guys slipped out, crossed the street and masked, robbed a liquor store. Then they returned to the break area, perfect alibi. When the break was over, they returned to their work station where Lockheed Security immediately detained them for the police. When they robbed the liquor store, they had forgotten to take off their colorful name badges.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

The mask is probably more psychological than practical the way most people use them or the type they use - those Hollywood Holdup bandannas being a case in point. But they are part of the overall effort - esp for the ones who don't maintain distance, wash hands etc.
My wife is a retired Surgical Nurse/OR Charge nurse and sanitizing is on a par with religion for her. I haven't "really" washed my hands until a layer of skin comes off. (well it seems like it to me when she lectures me)
I am in more than one high risk catagory - 74, asthma, diabetes. I also don't really go out and mingle a lot anyway but I usually went shopping etc 4-5 times a week and one trip to a park or similar to take pictures. Then back to my books, music and cameras. Because she is so worried about me I have stayed home and not left the house, only 6 times since March - 4 of those were to the doctor or the hospital/medical center (spent 36 hours in the hospital on IV for a severe infection after I tore up my leg tripping over a metal electrical box in the back yard by the pool). I do have a home health care nurse come 3 days a week to check on the wound, change dressing and evaluate it. (heals slowly since I am diabetic) It is down to a small (dime size) scab now, it was 1.5" x 2" skinned by the sharp metal edge of the outlet box but they still come to check and evaluate. She has me set up chairs on the front porch to meet the nurse. "They spend their day going from one sick person to another." Shaded and a nice breeze so it is OK, the supervisor is the nurse I see most often and he will stay 1/2 hour, sit and talk while doing reports and paperwork on his laptop while I take pictures of the birds that come to the front yard. "Social Time", he likes history and I taught it for 35 years so he will ask questions about history and geography and I answer.

She insists on me wearing a mask and carrying a small bottle of sanitizer to meet the nurse or the 6 times I got to go somewhere. And since I have asthma even using wood polish etc can set off an attack. I have an old (over 10 years) half face mask with filter cartridges that was coming apart and I recently used the last filters I had for it - she told me to buy a new one instead of more filters. I ordered an industrial grade one from 3M with detachable filter cartridges loaded with P100 filters (bright magenta color coded). I also have a six pack of the cheap face shields for projects, so when the nurse came Friday I was on the porch wearing the new mask and a shield. Jose cracked up when he saw me, I told him I had a new "fashion consultant" named Fauci.

And here in CA we are "mandated" to wear masks when we go out - but a lot of people still don't. My industrial mask and face shield is sort of my "over the top" way of poking fun at it. I am just waiting for someone to ask me why I am wearing them instead of a cloth mask - I am thinking of telling them I have been exposed to Ebola and see how fast they can run.

eskiles Loc: Palmer Alaska

I think the biggest reason people don’t want to wear a mask, is breathing their own foul breath! 🤮