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They work and I don't want covid
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I want to people to see me and be forced to remember that the pandemic isn't over and it's killing thousands everyday
Everywhere I go you'd think the pandemic has been over for years, a distant memory. No, it's still killing thousands a day and hurting countless others. This is completely preventable and we know that because of the successfully handling of it in China.
I love it when people look at me strangely or question why I have on a mask. I want people to be forced to remember that covid isn't over
- I hate my face
- No one can read my facial expression
- Allergies and air pollution
- Covid
I think you are forgetting the most important reason:
- No one cared who I was until I put on the mask.
If they’re not wearing a mask they likely believe the pandemic is over in their country and not too concerned about people dying. That’s only for poor people countries (the ones they promised would receive vaccines)
literally everywhere else besides this site is basically over it. People on Twitter regurgitating chud talking points that have magically become true with big daddy Biden in office
The amazing scientific principal for Libs and Chuds to be so mad at each other but to always end up in agreement in the end will never stop impressing me
Occasionally I see good (highly upvoted, even) comments in the coronavirus subreddit, but yeah, this site is one of the few places I've seen still largely taking COVID seriously. Twitter is a mixed bag, since it literally just depends on who you're following tbh, but yeah, I'm sure the prevailing opinion is that "COVID is over".
Other than that, there's a couple reddit subs I've also seen that take it seriously still, /r/masks4all and /r/covid19positive. And shout out to the comrade who recently recommended the Death Panel podcast, they cover COVID pretty frequently and also have a discord server.
My university ended all COVID precautions to the point that it hasn't restocked hand sanitiser dispensers outside the cafeteria since August. They sent an email bragging about having the most-ever applicants for student housing this semester. Usually only one or two other students per class wear a mask beyond me, and none of my professors despite them being scientists. The rattling COVID cough is just a passive background feature of common spaces. One professor called out with it on Friday, was back on Monday unmasked saying that she's now had multiple students email about COVID absences, and the students in the front row were unmasked.
It's just insane. Wearing a mask is such a non-issue that I mostly do it because I don't want to shave every day, one of those wonderful innovations of Japanese culture that was light-years ahead of the west. Mostly liberal-ish students 1m away from a COVID-positive professor telling them the students next to them are developing COVID pretend none of it is happening.
In a fucked up way, I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing this. I was shocked at how my uni just fucking gave up, and a good 90-95% of the students right along with them. One of my professors is even recovering from chemo, yet she can't mandate masks in her class, only strongly encourage them (and even then some don't care). Just the most :doomer: stuff.
The faculty has full control over teaching assignments, and if she's a professor she's probably salaried. Her colleagues could just place her on sabbatical while she recovers. Not saying they're assholes, but I think my department has historically always shifted sabbatical around for people starting cancer treatment and stuff, even before covid made it more of a concern.
The only new thing is requiring student health insurance or charging them $300/mo for on-campus insurance that entitles them to being seen at the teaching hospital by other students. That's the singular COVID precaution, ensuring that the student can continue paying their tuition fees because something absorbs their medical bills.
Yeah that's not really any news to anyone here.
This reads like a "how do you do fellow leftists" post.
They're brave enough to sass you but not brave enough to tell you how they're doing.
What’s up with the aversion of face mask in the w*st
In Asia, you wear mask by courtesy to not infect the people surrounding you
Growing up in the US south, I'd hear a lot of people make fun of Asia for masking. They tied it into some really racist shit, and now they reflexively hate masking for being too Asian
See also: the US' inability to admit to itself when it just needs to build, just a regular, fucking damn train
Echoing the other poster, prior to COVID it was made fun of. As an example, my mom, proud liberal that she is, mocked asian immigrants for this practice as recently as 2015, saying stuff like "that's so WEIRD, why do they do that?". It was a rhetorical question, though; she was not at all interested in learning the answer, just in poking fun at those kooky foreigners.
On top of other benefits, I like never being sick. Instead of suffering through every cold that comes into town, and fighting off congestion in my lungs for months at a time. I feel like its drastically improved my quality of life and long term issues ive had have resolved themselves. I think this "immune debt" theory trying to normalize constant illness is horseshit.
They work and I don’t want covid
My understanding is that they work the other way, if you're positive they're effective in preventing you from spreading it. This is really important because you're contagious before you get symptoms, and some people are asymptomatic entirely. They're significantly less effective in preventing you from getting it from others.
I got vaccinated to reduce my risk of getting covid. I wear a mask because I don't want others to get it from me if I do get infected.
N95s (or full respirators with P100 filters if you are a true :gigachad:) do prevent infection, as I understand it.
Yeah I think you're right.
My understanding is they do have some protection for the wearer but their real public health power is stopping the spread
Afaik vaccines don’t prevent COVID per se, they help prevent serious illness, hospitalization and death. I don't know if they are effective at reducing transmissions while infectious.
The public health stats for my state show that vaccines are about 50% effective in preventing transmission, 70% effective in preventing hospitalization, and 75% effective in preventing death
