Mask Wearers

[alang1216]

There is no need for a mask...plain and simple. ANYWHERE

Tell that to your surgical staff before your next operation.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Are you wearing the slave mask? Take off the mask!

Wear the damn mask!

A sane Republican! I even voted for him, if you can believe it.

Hogan’s a phony. I call him Jacque Chevalier. Jacque Chevalier is a hardcore lefty who once registered and ran for state senate as a republican just so he could get his name on the ballot. The incumbent dems are so entrenched that he had no chance running as a dem. That’s how bad Hogan is as a repub.
Maryland is the California of the East.

Cool!

You cherish dysfunction.

 

[Drop Dead Fred]

April 19, 2020:

“Costco will require all shoppers to wear face masks inside stores”

Source: Costco will require all shoppers to wear face masks inside stores

December 24, 2020:

“COVID-19 outbreak at Yakima-area Costco leads to at least 68 staff testing positive”

Source: COVID-19 outbreak at Yakima-area Costco leads to at least 68 staff testing positive

 

[candycorn]

There is no need for a mask...plain and simple. ANYWHERE

Are you a epidemiologist? Where did you earn your degree? Dr. Fauci finished first in his medical school class at Cornell. What do you have other than a wish to kill off a couple more hundreds of thousands of citizens? You can`t possibly be that evil so I`ll write it off as just being stupid.

So you believe everything you hear? Did you witness the research yourself? I'd like to know how they have held 200,000 funerals? Have you seen any actual bodies on television that supposedly passed from COVID? I live near a hospital and pass it nearly every day and there is no activity there. Where are all the COVID patients? Have you read what is in the vaccines? Seeing is believing. Just because doctor tells you that you are positive are you going to believe them? Heard of false positives? Awake people know better.

Have you ever seen Africa? Or Antartica? Or a blue whale? I suppose they don't exist either.

 

[Blues Man]

Are you wearing the slave mask?

Take off the mask!

look up the definition of slavery you obviously don't know it

 

[Likkmee]

Are you wearing the slave mask?

Take off the mask!

I wear a mask when going into stores, and when at work when not sitting at my desk.

I do not wear it if I am going to be around family members for more than an hour, because at that point the effectiveness is pretty much shot. Therefore I only go around family if I am high temp negative, and have not been around anyone positive tested within a week.

I've been tested twice in 3 months due to possible work exposures, both times negative.

The only mask that works is the K or N95 .. the rest are useless

Not useless for slowing a person spreading the virus, just not as effective as some are saying.

They also have the side benefit of having you touch your mouth and nose less.

If you use long straws there's no need to touch your nose

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Are you wearing the slave mask?

Take off the mask!

While I agree with your sentiment, your post is nothing but big talk. We recently relocated to the far frozen north from the Baltimore area. Even way up here, out in the middle of bloody nowhere, even Ma and Pa establishments force us to wear masks while pumping gas or they're right on the line to the cops. Unless you're living in the middle of the Antarctic or the Sahara, you wear a mask to buy food.

Furthermore, read about masks...they DO NOT prevent a virus. It's even on some of the mask boxes. It's a slave/control tool no doubt about it.

Hey dumbass! The mask is to protect you as much as it to prevent you from spreading it to someone else. After all this time, you still have not learned that? What an idiot!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Are you wearing the slave mask?

Take off the mask!

While I agree with your sentiment, your post is nothing but big talk. We recently relocated to the far frozen north from the Baltimore area. Even way up here, out in the middle of bloody nowhere, even Ma and Pa establishments force us to wear masks while pumping gas or they're right on the line to the cops. Unless you're living in the middle of the Antarctic or the Sahara, you wear a mask to buy food.

Sorry to disappoint you but EVERY store I have been in I have not once been told to put a mask on. The store employees and management simply leave me alone. I was approached once by a manager and when I told him "I don't wear a mask" and then said if you want I'll leave my items here in the cart and leave your store, he said "no, you can finish."

Same here. Plus, I have been in two different hospitals at least 8 or ten times since July because I broke my leg and my had major surgery and had complications from the surgery, plus four times to the local emergency room. She was forced to take the "covid test" maybe 5 times. I was with her each time, one time over night and walked all over the hospital. They said I could stay in her room over night and I walked to the cafeteria, and out to the car to get my bag. This was a huge hospital. I did it on crutches so I had to stop and rest in various places, and the nurse in my wifes room told me I didn't have to wear a mask. I did have to wear one while she was in surgery and I waited on her. Point being, I NEVER had a covid test and went every where she went except the surgery room and they made her take the tests! Why not me? Probably just so they could fleece her insurance! Of course I didn't want it. I was right there in the same places! This is one reason I call all this reaction total bullshit. It's a scam and the hysterical lemmings swallow it all! Neither one of us has gotten sick.

Sounds like you are one of the few "awake" people!

No, he is a moron.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Are you wearing the slave mask?

Take off the mask!

Not right now in my home but when I go in public I do.

What is your problem?

I don't have a problem! Masks are useless! Do the research! There's no "invisible enemy" floating around out there or anywhere for that matter. People aren't doing their homework and researching what a true virus is and how it is spread. Look it up. The wool is being pulled over everyone's eyes and the sheep are believing.

OK, shit for brains! Listen up! The wife of a guy who works for me lost his wife due to COVID in late summer. In November, my daughter lost her sense of tastes and smell and started feeling bad, so she got the test. It came back negative. Her health continued downhill to the point she coughed so hard she could not breathe. She went back to the doctor and they tested her again, and it came back negative. Through social media, she found out of the seven Zumba instructors, of which she is one, the other six were also sick and had positive test results. She stayed sick for a week and self-quarantined. She still has shortness of breath a month after recovering. Why? None of them wore masks while attending their classes.

Now, I'll take my anecdotal experience over any of the bullshit you are spouting. I recommend shutting your cock holster. Have a nice day!

 

[Natural Citizen]

I grew up with science and medicine.

Then surely you're of the educated view that this is not science?

“When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75%,” Dr. Fauci said. “Then, when newer surveys said 60% or more would take it, I thought, 'I can nudge this up a bit,' so I went to 80, 85.”

Close as I can pin that down to any semblance of 'science' would be political science. Which really only requires an agenda and a government gun versus your standard hypothesis and scientific method.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Matter of fact, let's break out the old Boloney Detection Kit.

Here, Sagan reflects on the many types of deception to which we’re susceptible, from psychics to religious zealotry to paid product endorsements by scientists, which he held in especially low regard, noting that they “betray contempt for the intelligence of their customers” and “introduce an insidious corruption of popular attitudes about scientific objectivity.”

Wherever possible there must be independent confirmation of the “facts.”

Encourage substantive debate on the evidence by knowledgeable proponents of all points of view.

Arguments from authority carry little weight — “authorities” have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.

Spin more than one hypothesis. If there’s something to be explained, think of all the different ways in which it could be explained. Then think of tests by which you might systematically disprove each of the alternatives. What survives, the hypothesis that resists disproof in this Darwinian selection among “multiple working hypotheses,” has a much better chance of being the right answer than if you had simply run with the first idea that caught your fancy.

Try not to get overly attached to a hypothesis just because it’s yours. It’s only a way station in the pursuit of knowledge. Ask yourself why you like the idea. Compare it fairly with the alternatives. See if you can find reasons for rejecting it. If you don’t, others will.

Quantify. If whatever it is you’re explaining has some measure, some numerical quantity attached to it, you’ll be much better able to discriminate among competing hypotheses. What is vague and qualitative is open to many explanations. Of course there are truths to be sought in the many qualitative issues we are obliged to confront, but finding them is more challenging.

If there’s a chain of argument, every link in the chain must work (including the premise) — not just most of them.

Occam’s Razor. This convenient rule-of-thumb urges us when faced with two hypotheses that explain the data equally well to choose the simpler.

Always ask whether the hypothesis can be, at least in principle, falsified. Propositions that are untestable, unfalsifiable are not worth much. Consider the grand idea that our Universe and everything in it is just an elementary particle — an electron, say — in a much bigger Cosmos. But if we can never acquire information from outside our Universe, is not the idea incapable of disproof? You must be able to check assertions out. Inveterate skeptics must be given the chance to follow your reasoning, to duplicate your experiments and see if they get the same result.

Just as important as learning these helpful tools, however, is unlearning and avoiding the most common pitfalls of common sense. Reminding us of where society is most vulnerable to those, Sagan writes:

In addition to teaching us what to do when evaluating a claim to knowledge, any good baloney detection kit must also teach us what not to do. It helps us recognize the most common and perilous fallacies of logic and rhetoric. Many good examples can be found in religion and politics, because their practitioners are so often obliged to justify two contradictory propositions...

ad hominem — Latin for “to the man,” attacking the arguer and not the argument (e.g., The Reverend Dr. Smith is a known Biblical fundamentalist, so her objections to evolution need not be taken seriously)

argument from authority (e.g., President Richard Nixon should be re-elected because he has a secret plan to end the war in Southeast Asia — but because it was secret, there was no way for the electorate to evaluate it on its merits; the argument amounted to trusting him because he was President: a mistake, as it turned out)

argument from adverse consequences (e.g., A God meting out punishment and reward must exist, because if He didn’t, society would be much more lawless and dangerous — perhaps even ungovernable. Or: The defendant in a widely publicized murder trial must be found guilty; otherwise, it will be an encouragement for other men to murder their wives)

appeal to ignorance — the claim that whatever has not been proved false must be true, and vice versa (e.g., There is no compelling evidence that UFOs are not visiting the Earth; therefore UFOs exist — and there is intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe. Or: There may be seventy kazillion other worlds, but not one is known to have the moral advancement of the Earth, so we’re still central to the Universe.) This impatience with ambiguity can be criticized in the phrase: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

special pleading, often to rescue a proposition in deep rhetorical trouble (e.g., How can a merciful God condemn future generations to torment because, against orders, one woman induced one man to eat an apple? Special plead: you don’t understand the subtle Doctrine of Free Will. Or: How can there be an equally godlike Father, Son, and Holy Ghost in the same Person? Special plead: You don’t understand the Divine Mystery of the Trinity. Or: How could God permit the followers of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam — each in their own way enjoined to heroic measures of loving kindness and compassion — to have perpetrated so much cruelty for so long? Special plead: You don’t understand Free Will again. And anyway, God moves in mysterious ways.)

begging the question, also called assuming the answer (e.g., We must institute the death penalty to discourage violent crime. But does the violent crime rate in fact fall when the death penalty is imposed? Or: The stock market fell yesterday because of a technical adjustment and profit-taking by investors — but is there any independent evidence for the causal role of “adjustment” and profit-taking; have we learned anything at all from this purported explanation?)

observational selection, also called the enumeration of favorable circumstances, or as the philosopher Francis Bacon described it, counting the hits and forgetting the misses (e.g., A state boasts of the Presidents it has produced, but is silent on its serial killers)

statistics of small numbers — a close relative of observational selection (e.g., “They say 1 out of every 5 people is Chinese. How is this possible? I know hundreds of people, and none of them is Chinese. Yours truly.” Or: “I’ve thrown three sevens in a row. Tonight I can’t lose.”)

misunderstanding of the nature of statistics (e.g., President Dwight Eisenhower expressing astonishment and alarm on discovering that fully half of all Americans have below average intelligence);

inconsistency (e.g., Prudently plan for the worst of which a potential military adversary is capable, but thriftily ignore scientific projections on environmental dangers because they’re not “proved.” Or: Attribute the declining life expectancy in the former Soviet Union to the failures of communism many years ago, but never attribute the high infant mortality rate in the United States (now highest of the major industrial nations) to the failures of capitalism. Or: Consider it reasonable for the Universe to continue to exist forever into the future, but judge absurd the possibility that it has infinite duration into the past);

non sequitur — Latin for “It doesn’t follow” (e.g., Our nation will prevail because God is great. But nearly every nation pretends this to be true; the German formulation was “Gott mit uns”). Often those falling into the non sequitur fallacy have simply failed to recognize alternative possibilities;

post hoc, ergo propter hoc — Latin for “It happened after, so it was caused by” (e.g., Jaime Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila: “I know of … a 26-year-old who looks 60 because she takes [contraceptive] pills.” Or: Before women got the vote, there were no nuclear weapons)

meaningless question (e.g., What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? But if there is such a thing as an irresistible force there can be no immovable objects, and vice versa)

excluded middle, or false dichotomy — considering only the two extremes in a continuum of intermediate possibilities (e.g., “Sure, take his side; my husband’s perfect; I’m always wrong.” Or: “Either you love your country or you hate it.” Or: “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem”)

short-term vs. long-term — a subset of the excluded middle, but so important I’ve pulled it out for special attention (e.g., We can’t afford programs to feed malnourished children and educate pre-school kids. We need to urgently deal with crime on the streets. Or: Why explore space or pursue fundamental science when we have so huge a budget deficit?);

slippery slope, related to excluded middle (e.g., If we allow abortion in the first weeks of pregnancy, it will be impossible to prevent the killing of a full-term infant. Or, conversely: If the state prohibits abortion even in the ninth month, it will soon be telling us what to do with our bodies around the time of conception);

confusion of correlation and causation (e.g., A survey shows that more college graduates are homosexual than those with lesser education; therefore education makes people gay. Or: Andean earthquakes are correlated with closest approaches of the planet Uranus; therefore — despite the absence of any such correlation for the nearer, more massive planet Jupiter — the latter causes the former)

straw man — caricaturing a position to make it easier to attack (e.g., Scientists suppose that living things simply fell together by chance — a formulation that willfully ignores the central Darwinian insight, that Nature ratchets up by saving what works and discarding what doesn’t. Or — this is also a short-term/long-term fallacy — environmentalists care more for snail darters and spotted owls than they do for people)

suppressed evidence, or half-truths (e.g., An amazingly accurate and widely quoted “prophecy” of the assassination attempt on President Reagan is shown on television; but — an important detail — was it recorded before or after the event? Or: These government abuses demand revolution, even if you can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs. Yes, but is this likely to be a revolution in which far more people are killed than under the previous regime? What does the experience of other revolutions suggest? Are all revolutions against oppressive regimes desirable and in the interests of the people?)

weasel words (e.g., The separation of powers of the U.S. Constitution specifies that the United States may not conduct a war without a declaration by Congress. On the other hand, Presidents are given control of foreign policy and the conduct of wars, which are potentially powerful tools for getting themselves re-elected. Presidents of either political party may therefore be tempted to arrange wars while waving the flag and calling the wars something else — “police actions,” “armed incursions,” “protective reaction strikes,” “pacification,” “safeguarding American interests,” and a wide variety of “operations,” such as “Operation Just Cause.” Euphemisms for war are one of a broad class of reinventions of language for political purposes. Talleyrand said, “An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public”)

 

[miketx]

Are you wearing the slave mask?

Take off the mask!

While I agree with your sentiment, your post is nothing but big talk. We recently relocated to the far frozen north from the Baltimore area. Even way up here, out in the middle of bloody nowhere, even Ma and Pa establishments force us to wear masks while pumping gas or they're right on the line to the cops. Unless you're living in the middle of the Antarctic or the Sahara, you wear a mask to buy food.

Sorry to disappoint you but EVERY store I have been in I have not once been told to put a mask on. The store employees and management simply leave me alone. I was approached once by a manager and when I told him "I don't wear a mask" and then said if you want I'll leave my items here in the cart and leave your store, he said "no, you can finish."

Same here. Plus, I have been in two different hospitals at least 8 or ten times since July because I broke my leg and my had major surgery and had complications from the surgery, plus four times to the local emergency room. She was forced to take the "covid test" maybe 5 times. I was with her each time, one time over night and walked all over the hospital. They said I could stay in her room over night and I walked to the cafeteria, and out to the car to get my bag. This was a huge hospital. I did it on crutches so I had to stop and rest in various places, and the nurse in my wifes room told me I didn't have to wear a mask. I did have to wear one while she was in surgery and I waited on her. Point being, I NEVER had a covid test and went every where she went except the surgery room and they made her take the tests! Why not me? Probably just so they could fleece her insurance! Of course I didn't want it. I was right there in the same places! This is one reason I call all this reaction total bullshit. It's a scam and the hysterical lemmings swallow it all! Neither one of us has gotten sick.

Sounds like you are one of the few "awake" people!

No, he is a moron.

^^Another media fed fool. Relaying my actual experience showing the hypocrisy of this bullshit makes me a moron. Damn you people are insane.

 

[August West]

I grew up with science and medicine.

Then surely you're of the educated view that this is not science?

“When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75%,” Dr. Fauci said. “Then, when newer surveys said 60% or more would take it, I thought, 'I can nudge this up a bit,' so I went to 80, 85.”

Close as I can pin that down to any semblance of 'science' would be political science. Which really only requires an agenda and a government gun versus your standard hypothesis and scientific method.

Well don`t get the vaccine and tell your like minded friends not to get vaccinated too. It`s not like we have a shortage of assholes here. Quit crying and die already!

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

Well don`t get the vaccine and tell your like minded friends not to get vaccinated too. It`s not like we have a shortage of assholes here. Quit crying and die already!

Your post is proof of what you claim.

 

[toobfreak]

Are you wearing the slave mask? Take off the mask!

Ask not, O ye Malcontent. Put yer faith in the Great Bidini to get you out of Covid Hell! (Send all donations to Biden USA For A Better Life For Joe)

 

[miketx]

 

[miketx]

Are you wearing the slave mask?

Take off the mask!

While I agree with your sentiment, your post is nothing but big talk. We recently relocated to the far frozen north from the Baltimore area. Even way up here, out in the middle of bloody nowhere, even Ma and Pa establishments force us to wear masks while pumping gas or they're right on the line to the cops. Unless you're living in the middle of the Antarctic or the Sahara, you wear a mask to buy food.

Furthermore, read about masks...they DO NOT prevent a virus. It's even on some of the mask boxes. It's a slave/control tool no doubt about it.

Hey dumbass! The mask is to protect you as much as it to prevent you from spreading it to someone else. After all this time, you still have not learned that? What an idiot!

Then what good is social distancing?

 

[toobfreak]

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UNCLE JOE SAYS: VACCINE ASSJECTION MAY KEEP YOUR BUTT FROM CATCHING COLD!

 

[Lesh]

Just wear your fuckin mask jackass

 

[Rambunctious]

I won't put one on...our stores do not make us wear one....only Dr. offices and dentist clinics.....which I have no appointments....so I tossed all mine out....not playing their games any longer....