Still masking but me and the wife feel we’re all alone. On the plus side, people are still friendly towards our mask wearing faces, so that’s good.
I went to Lowes at 6 am this morning, I go that early to avoid people but still wear a mask. One employee was wearing a mask, and me, that’s it.
I needed help at the self check out, the friendly person came over to help unmasked. She had the sniffles and kept using her wrist to wipe or scratch her nose.
I’m sure she was fine but I still sprayed everything she touched when I got home.
The point is, did we not learn anything about general hygiene?
My business for 30 years involves cleaning things, from day one I was taught, in my bio hazard clean up seminar, that every surface with bodily fluids has to be assumed contaminated with bad stuff. You can’t believe the looks we get when we come across bloody surfaces when we don the gloves and pull out the quat disinfectant.
One other observation, when a public toilet is used heavily and toilet paper constantly runs out but hand soap and paper towel never does, wtf does that tell you.
Why can’t people just mind their own fucking business?
Seriously.
It’s like people think getting themselves sick from preventable diseases is some inevitable thing — worse yet some sort of badge of honor.
Fuck that.
So what if I had chicken pox and lived? It sucked a lot, and now I get to worry about shingles as I get older. Lucky me? Then there’s the “it’s just the flu!” crowd. You know what? Being knocked out for a few days or a week with the flu still fucking sucks even if it’s not typically deadly.
I’d rather take reasonable measures and not get sick, and if I do get sick, at least I can know I made the effort and took precautions and just it didn’t work out.
I always mask up when I’m out doing things. I don’t usually catch any crap for it but I’ve had a few odd looks or whispered comments directed my way. Whatever, fuck ‘em.
I’m confused. Why would you do that? You do realize all air in a plane is continually recycled?
I’m pretty sure our consistent use of KF94 masks (as well as reasonable distancing and carrying our own hand sanitizer) is the primary reason we’ve been able to visit Disney World repeatedly since moving to Orlando and have managed to stay Covid-free.
Yeah, I’ve noticed that people working with food in other countries are expected to wear various kinds of face masks. It does seem like a good idea. In this case the “food handlers” are only checking out packaged food items, but they’re the ones interacting with a constant stream of people, so you’d think they’d be eager to protect themselves. Apparently people are convinced covid is “over.”
Here in San Diego there are high vaccination rates but mask wearing varies wildly. I am vaxxed and double boosted but I still wear my mask everywhere. Very often I am the only person with a mask and I do get nasty looks by the usual suspects. However, I must confess, the most underrated thing about wearing a mask is that you can actually be mouthing real-time fuck yous to these troglodytes and they are none the wiser. The trick will be once we truly no longer need masks to probably not do that.
I went to a conference that used lanyard color to indicate proximity comfort. Red for no contact, yellow for minimal contact, green for all contact. Green lanyard people were not respecting other people’s preference and going in close for handshakes and hugs.
In 2020 I saw a stock clerk wearing a high viz vest that said “STAY BACK 6 FEET”. I was kind of jealous at the time.
Now it looks like you can get custom printed ones for under $20 (also a available for bit more if you want to get a better vest and not go through Amazon). I have to admit I’m tempted, though I do don’t want to necessarily use the outdated 6’ distance left over from the days of droplet dogma. Covid is airborne, but aerosols are more concentrated closer to the source. 6’ isn’t a magically safe distance, but it is safer.
Covid-19 is still making the rounds so people definitely ought to mask when around people (inside or outside). The wife of our CEO spoke to me an hour ago and told me that both she and our CEO have Covid. This is her first time, and she is both vaccinated and boosted at least once so she has very mild symptoms.
HOWEVER, this is our CEO’s third confirmed case in 12 months! He was in the hospital for several weeks a year ago and his current symptoms are not mild. I also hear he’s telling people that his doctor told him that he has 100% immunity from Covid-19. He refused to wear a mask prior to the first infection and I think he stopped wearing a mask after last Thanksgiving, thus case number two in early January.
As one of my co-workers sarcastically noted, “Why get vaccinated when he can just get it over and over again.”
It’s the latter. His wife told me after he was discharged that his doctor told him to get vaccinated in X number of days. She is beyond frustrated with him, especially since he passed this last case of Covid-19 to her.
Only about 1/4 of the air in a plane is recycled. The rest comes in from the outside. As far as being someplace inside, a plane is about as safe as it gets. Before take off and after landing the AC isn’t running full bore.
Yes and no. The overall ventilation and filtration can be pretty good, but if you are sitting near someone who is infected you will still be exposed, even more so if you are sitting between them and an intake vent, which will pass much of their unfiltered, infected air right past you.
Aerosols are more concentrated near the source, even when there is good ventilation. When you are sitting 17" away from people the overall filtration rate is only one factor.
I’m in DC suburbs, in general masking tends to get patchier the further from DC you go. I’m in Frederick today, masks are rare. In bluer Montgomery and Prince George’s County, people tend to be better about it.
Still masking, despite being a very distinct minority here. I like not have=ing to worry about which of my faculties the virus will decide to short-circuit. I have managed to duck it thus far, plan on continuing as long as possible.
Our local CVS store had an endcap display with individually packaged 3M Aura masks for free. I took 4, and might go back for more later. DH and I bought a box of KN95 masks from Amazon when the demand and price started to go down. Both of us are in service professions, so we aren’t stopping wearing the masks until COVID is no longer a threat.
Ours had the old cup-style 8210s. They don’t fit or work nearly as well on me as the Auras. Local CVSs near me gave out all their stock quickly. But I’ve heard of some that didn’t run out. One story of a woman being handed a 440 count box of Auras. Damn good masks, those. That was ignorance on the store’s part giving them out that way, but a heck of a score for the woman who got them.
