SARS II: Respiratory Boogaloo

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  1. tafkats

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    Gee, it's almost as if the behavioral changes that work against one respiratory illness can also work against others.
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    Does it work on the respiratory illness of breathing? I can think of a few people who could use treatment...
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    Amazing, ain't it?

    It's wild we ever just accepted the 20k to 70k deaths from flu each year as "just olds™ who didn't matter and invalids who mattered even less." Why suffer at all?
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    I mask every day, and I swear I still get people asking me if I have a cold. At this point I just reply yes, while they hack and cough sputum and half a lung across the table.
    Oh, and get ready for H5N1, folks. We're in for more fuckery.
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    Shirogayne Gay™ Formerly Important

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    I still mask too and I'm surprised I've only been asked about it once since moving to Reno.
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    Fucking of course you do. Probably one of those clowns wearing it by yourself in your car, too.
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    When you see somebody doing that, it's not because they think they'll get a virus alone in their car, it's because they either forgot they had it on or just didn't bother to take it off.

    That, in turn, is because not everybody dissolves into a whimpering pile of goo from having a piece of cloth touching their face.
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    "If you don't wear a mask to bed, in the shower and in the car, you are a huge pussy. :alpha: "

    :lol: Love it.
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    sweet mother of Mercury... what the fuck is wrong with you?
    all the lead fumes at work?
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    She’s protecting you. Why she should is an interesting thought exercise :chris:
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    I hope that continues. I've been getting a lot of dirty looks this weekend while running our booth at the market. It's either the mask or the "There is no sunshine, only Darkness" Lumalee shirt.
    Or both.

    I'm assuming Albert said something moronic about my masking.
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    She did. :spock:
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    People used to ask me that shit on the paintball field especially while on a goggle break. That was often followed with put you fucking barrel plug in and then get the fuck off my field until my boss tells me to let you back on.

    If I am wearing a mask it is probably because I am sick. If you take the moment to ask me why, I am talking my mask off and explaining it in very close proximity to your ass for having the god damned nerve to question my decision to protect you from my germs. Never ask me why I am wearing a mask, because it is respect for you. The main purpose of a mask it to catch the shit coming out of my mouth before it gets in the air around you, or on you.
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    You should thank anyone wearing a mask because the main benefit of masking is for others. Anyone who masks the fuck up because they are sick is doing you a favor while they have to do shit for themselves in the misery of their illness.

    If you ever saw me wearing a mask and had the nerve to even give me the fucking side eye I am sharing whatever I have with you because you fucking asked for it.

    If you ever see someone wearing a mask in public you give them a thumbs up and a thank you for your appreciation. Even if they are a germaphobe who is afraid of everyone else, they have a hard enough life so give them a fucking break.

    UA is the type who0 would laugh at others for wearing a helmet. If you have a condition like MS, cuncussion injuries, or neuropathy where your balance gets fucked and falling is a thing, a helmet would let you enjoy a little more of life. As a person who is prone to falling because of dehydration and neurological damage I am glad to just be enjoying what I can because I have given up partrs of my life to help terminal and heavily damaged people.

    Just live in your hole and fuck @Jenee . No one needs your laughter and bullshit. I know you do not laugh in people's faces like you claim, because there are a lot more people like me who would take a moment to humiliate you for being a dick to others who are just trying to get along.

    Why would you ever laugh at a person wearing a mask? It is like laughing at someone on crutches or using a walker. WTF is wrong with you?
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    Once you get used to it then it is almost like it isn't there. I had to laugh at myself one day. I was wearing my paintball mask when I came in for lunch and was so hungry I forgot to take it off until I bumped my food into it.

    You are a fragile little wussy if you cannot get used to a fabric mask. People get used to that all the time.

    BTW people with a CPAP machine wear a much heavier and more solid mask to bed because it presurizes air to keep their breathing ways open. They are not pussies and get used to it.

    I hope life comes around and swats to fuck out of you someday. I hope you have a long and crippling death where you have to deal with medical problems. You will find out what it truly takes to get used to some other things on your body or die.

    I am actually wondering if you are really a person who welds a lot. I am assuming a profesional welder has to wear a certain type of PPE, and eyewear due to the light of the welding process. Maybe you are not a high end professional welder who is allowed to do those jobs, but from what I know some of those welding masks are strong enough to safely view an eclipse through. I just have this thought that if you find safety equipment like masks so hard to wear, you are not wearing one for welding. A person doing such a thing would know eventually you get used to wearing PPE.

    Could it be that UA is a fucking liar about being a welder, or is it that maybe some welders do not wear facial protective equipment?
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    I have had to point out to a few people who were making comments about people wearing masks. Who cares if they want to? Even if you are just wearing it because you are worried about other people, feel safe and as comfortable as you can. If it is getting on you to be around people, but you also weant some socializing or to go out sometimes, then wear a mask if it makes you feel better.

    I have seen the micro level stuff our bodies shed. We are putting out cells, and droplets of waste. That is how our bodies excrete toxins. Started masking up again for a couple of weeks because I got COVID, and I had to feed myself. If someone had the nerve to give me shit over that I would have made sure to shake their hand after wiping my mouth, and breathe all the fuck over them while taking off my mask. You are going to find out why in a couple of days.
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    well, he thinks "retard" is an insult. Not like bullying the handicapped is anything new to him.
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    I would rather be thought a retard than @Uncle Albert .
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    Exactly. I wear it because I'm Type 1 Diabetic, and am at serious risk of not just COVID, but every other damn virus that has managed to intensify thanks to the pervasiveness of what COVID did to our immune systems. The masks I wear are specialized and filter the air coming in and going out. I wear these (admittedly expensive) masks to protect myself from the people coughing up a lung right out in the open, and to protect others from my own illnesses when I am sick. This is something people in Japan do all of the time, every day, as a consideration for the people around them. You know, empathy. You and I understand what this is, of course. Some people simply do not comprehend why some of us might give a damn about anyone not ourselves.

    This. I stopped using ableist language (as best as I can up to this point) because I realized I would hate for my person to be used as an insult. It's a matter of empathy. Would I like to be used as a slur? No. So I don't do it to others. UA doesn't comprehend this, like he doesn't comprehend why people would mask.
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    I would not even put UA in the same group as those with down syndrom, or even just a slower person. If it is a choice between them and him I am going with them. I am perfecty fine with him living in whatever hell hole he lives in and having his homunculous suck the stank off of him. We all know I mean @Jenee for enabling him and trying to tell us he is really good down below all the shit.
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    Oh, I understand you just fine, turbo twat. You are equal parts sanctimonious and histrionic. The masking and anti-"ableism" are superficial poses you strike to feel morally superior.
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    :lol: It's really that hard for you to believe people are considerate of others, huh?

    That's a skill issue, honestly :clyde:
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    The only reason Scrooge thought Christmas was a humbug is because he was so miserable, so selfish, he couldn't imagine when people said Merry Christmas, and talked about their loved ones, that it was anything other than a put-on, a falsehood, make believe, self-deception. Scrooge could not fathom people genuinely cared about each other, because he'd let his heart become so shriveled, miserly, and empty, his blinders kept him from connecting with others.

    I say that because UA makes Scrooge look positively bleeding heart liberal by comparison.
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    UA has empathy for punched Nazis, and bear-maced Nazis, and cancelled racist comedians.
    Scrooge was redeemable, UA is not.
    He's not aggressive super villain evil, he's that passive "laugh at the fat guy being mugged" evil like the Seinfeld gang.
    Which is weird, because he hates them, but he is them.
    Put a pink wig on the mugged guy, he'd be pulling his pud furiously.
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    You know what is really sad is this one does not even have the courage of his convictions. Not that he should be kicking cripples over because he hates able-ism and it threatens him, but he isn't. It is likle @14thDoctor trying to use the US military to kill all muslims for his racism. UA wants everyone else giving trans and gay kids a hard time because that is what he wants to see, but he also whines like a cowardly craven imp because he is too afraid to really go out there and do something.

    In the end, as long as he is told no to having the government persecute and torture trans kids for him, I am ok with him whining like the little craven coward he is. I hate top have to say this to the trans people, but all the people in the world do not have to like and respect you. People should be allowed to, and we should have social contracts of laws and manners where we do have reprocussions for harassment and violence based on prejudice and bigotry, but we have to let whining dogs whine when they know better than to do anything.

    Just like a barking dog in a cage or on a leash, UA is trained and knows his master will boot up his ass if he does what her wants.

    Before anyone whines, the same thing does go in reverse. I know I do not stalk and kill UA because I will go to prison and it really is not worth the effort when I have uplifting things to do.
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    As I've said before... If he's really like this in public, he's a pretty garbage human being.
    But if this is jsut a pose for him, thinking he's winding folks up for kicks, then damn... that's both disturbed and sad.

    Like, I've got one resident at work who pisses herself and will buy eggs just to throw at her own apartment walls because at least she can get attention and heap abuse on people trying to help her. But at least she's deeply schizophrenic as a reason for it. Not sure what the gratification is for him?
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