Is Covid over?

Quote: AZDuffman

Agree we do not need another scamdemic. OTOH, lots of maskers are still wearing masks. This time lets let them but let the rest of us lead a normal life.

Speaking of masks, I NEVER stopped wearing masks. Customers haven't seen my full face in FIVE YEARS! 💡 Customers tell me how smart I am for STILL wearing masks while they themselves aren't wearing any masks. Go figure. 💡

Quote: Riverjordan

Speaking of masks, I NEVER stopped wearing masks. Customers haven't seen my full face in FIVE YEARS! 💡 Customers tell me how smart I am for STILL wearing masks while they themselves aren't wearing any masks. Go figure. 💡

You want to look ridiculous nobody is stopping you. Masks are a thing aster or time but some people love them. I heard Kamala’s husband was for wearing them even at home.

Quote: AZDuffman

You want to look ridiculous nobody is stopping you. Masks are a thing aster or time but some people love them. I heard Kamala’s husband was for wearing them even at home.

Lots of people wear masks for all sorts of reasons, even before COVID. In some areas it is advised. Personally, I have always like to in any kind of hospital or clinic, there are just too many people with openly contagious diseases, and too much general nastiness. I often do in homeless camps and airports (especially with international travelers,) as well.

Here is the thing, if masks did not work, people who know (and have the power to do what they wish,) would not wear them (medical practitioners, customs agents, etc....) Masks do protect you from airborne infections.

Quote: Gandler

Here is the thing, if masks did not work, people who know (and have the power to do what they wish,) would not wear them (medical practitioners, customs agents, etc....) Masks do protect you from airborne infections.

Of course they do. The morons out there say that because they are not 100% effective that there is no point. My assumption is that those people have already inhaled some flesh eating bacteria.

Quote: DRich

Of course they do. The morons out there say that because they are not 100% effective that there is no point. My assumption is that those people have already inhaled some flesh eating bacteria.

Masks are designed to keep you from giving something to somebody else, they aren't designed to keep things out. Unless they're super duper expensive and you replace the filters in them constantly, which nobody does, a regular old mask is useless for keeping things out unless they're huge particles like sawdust. I have an allergy to dust if it's in any quantity so I tried one of the covid masks that was supposed to be so great when I was working in my basement two years ago and the dust still got to me through the mask. If it let's big things like dust get through it's not going to stop microscopic bacteria, it's a joke.

Quote: DRich

Of course they do. The morons out there say that because they are not 100% effective that there is no point. My assumption is that those people have already inhaled some flesh eating bacteria.

They are minimally effective at best. The maskers act like wearing masks will save them and save the world. They think wearing a mask at WMT which is just broom-clean is the same as a doctor wearing a mask in a sterile OR with a person who is cut open. The whole mask thing was about getting the sheep to think something was being done when there was really nothing that could be done.

I only wore one because it was required for entry. I left my nose out. Some older Karen yelled at me about it, I forget what I said but it was along the lines of "try to imagine how much I care."

Meanwhile, remember how the vaxers said those of us who refused the vax were going to die and kill everyone else along the way? Still hasn't happened. Still no vax here and no issues. The whole vax thing is now forgotten except among the minority who run out fot the latest booster.

As to what EB said he is correct. You wear a dust mask when you are working with a power saw or sander or something else that throws up particles. Mostly you do that when you are needing it just short term. Now, if you are working with small particles, say painting a car, you need a respirator. The kind with the filters that screw on. Said filters are only good for a couple hours then are supposed to be replaced. When you work with fumugants or really small stuff you wear a scuba tank, because no mask or respirator will protect you.

People who have done the kind of work where you had to wear this kind of PPE were more likely to see how the masks were useless. The maskers in my experience were people who were more likely to have always worked in "clean" places like an office and more than likely in a "clean" business at that. Not used to coming in contact with dust and dirt they were afraid of everything and anything.

Quote: AZDuffman

Meanwhile, remember how the vaxers said those of us who refused the vax were going to die and kill everyone else along the way? Still hasn't happened. Still no vax here and no issues. The whole vax thing is now forgotten except among the minority who run out fot the latest booster.

Just because you repeat the same bullshit ad nauseum doesn’t make it true. We ‘vaxxers’ never said those who refused the vax were going to die! Anyone who did was on the fringe. What we said, AND WAS PROVEN TO BE TRUE, was that you’d be MORE LIKELY TO DIE. Why you can’t get that through your thick skull is a mystery. And you mentioned ONE (you) person who survived unvaxxed is beyond stupid. Do you want me to list 1,000,000 dead unvaxxed COVID victims?

As far as me ‘running out’ for the latest booster, what I do is what I do for all of my medical decisions. I get advice from those who know more than I do, evaluate the advice, and usually take the advice! So just like I took the Shingrix shot, the flu shot, and the Pneomovax shot, I took the most recent COVID booster.

Edit…. But ‘Is COVID over’? To me it is. In the sense that, other than a shot I get around once a year, it does not affect my life. At least no more so than any other potential medical problems. And it’s ‘over’ because the ‘political’ aspect is done with. People will die from it. But it will pale in comparison to deaths from smoking, drinking, obesity, etc…

Quote: SOOPOO

Just because you repeat the same bullshit ad nauseum doesn’t make it true. We ‘vaxxers’ never said those who refused the vax were going to die! Anyone who did was on the fringe. What we said, AND WAS PROVEN TO BE TRUE, was that you’d be MORE LIKELY TO DIE. Why you can’t get that through your thick skull is a mystery. And you mentioned ONE (you) person who survived unvaxxed is beyond stupid. Do you want me to list 1,000,000 dead unvaxxed COVID victims?

Lots of people on the fringe then. Remember calls for "vaccine passports" where you had to show your papers to enter places? As to "more likely to die" I could care less. I calculate I have about 15 years left. I already almost died 3 years ago, it does not scare or worry me. I am more concerned about putting a vax that even its supporters say does not work--if they thought it did they would not worry about me choosing not to vax.

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As far as me ‘running out’ for the latest booster, what I do is what I do for all of my medical decisions. I get advice from those who know more than I do, evaluate the advice, and usually take the advice! So just like I took the Shingrix shot, the flu shot, and the Pneomovax shot, I took the most recent COVID booster.

I took the shingles vax because I have known people who had it and it is not a fun thing. It was developed over many, many years. The rewards outweigh the risks. I skip the flu shot. It is the opposite. Maybe if I was in a higher risk group. But generally I do not want stuff injected into my body. Too many side-effects and risks.

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Edit…. But ‘Is COVID over’? To me it is. In the sense that, other than a shot I get around once a year, it does not affect my life. At least no more so than any other potential medical problems. And it’s ‘over’ because the ‘political’ aspect is done with. People will die from it. But it will pale in comparison to deaths from smoking, drinking, obesity, etc…

The next thing will come along to replace it. I saw a compilation of TIME covers since 2000 with many of them. Every few years a scare, why I said don't take the china virus serious when it came out. I was wrong in thinking it would be forgotten 6 months later, it was the one with staying power. How much of that was real and how much political we will never know, but it does not get called the scamdemic for no good reason.

The whole thing being split on political lines keeps showing how each side thinks. Part of our society accepts risks, another part fears any risk.

Quote: SOOPOO

Just because you repeat the same bullshit ad nauseum doesn’t make it true. We ‘vaxxers’ never said those who refused the vax were going to die!

Sure you did. That moderator at the time, the one from England, said that he hoped everybody who refused the vaccine died from covid. He lost his moderator position because of that statement.

Quote: Evenbob

Sure you did. That moderator at the time, the one from England, said that he hoped everybody who refused the vaccine died from covid. He lost his moderator position because of that statement.

You’re better than that Bob. Hoping everyone dies is not even close to the same as saying everyone WILL die. The overwhelming vast majority of people who were ‘for’ the vaccine believed it would lower their chance of dying, which it UNEQUIVOCALLY did. I felt that at the onset of the epidemic, before the docs figured out the best ways to treat it, I had around a 1% chance of dying if I caught COVID. Maybe the vaccine lowered it to 0.1% chance. Worth the shot.