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Roland99

(53,342 posts)
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 01:43 PM Aug 2021

I just can't anymore. I don't know why I even did....

I ventured into a local FB group discussion on Covid/masks/kids/school. Been trying to avoid them for a while now. I was deep into "discussions" during a few month furlough last year, trying to lay out the facts and charts and trends and studies, etc.

But yet here we are, 18 months into this pandemic and the SAME goddamn idiocy is still very rampant among at least 30% of Americans, and a good-sized cluster of over-privileged me-monsters in my area.

Sick of them....I'm *this* close to just hoping they all get it but then I think about the needless suffering of any kids involved, through no fault of their own, just their goddamn covidiot parents.

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I just can't anymore. I don't know why I even did.... (Original Post) Roland99 Aug 2021 OP
I just ventured into a discussion this morning after avoiding Bev54 Aug 2021 #1
One person posted a snippet of a study showing cloth masks not as effective as surgical masks Roland99 Aug 2021 #4
For myself, I purchased medical grade N95 masks Bev54 Aug 2021 #6
My employer has developed masks that are very effective Roland99 Aug 2021 #8
Fascistbook is a disease. lagomorph777 Aug 2021 #2
i met with my counselor today barbtries Aug 2021 #3
Haha! 2naSalit Aug 2021 #5
Because of those idiots, mostly Trump zombies, we will never reach herd immunity at the totodeinhere Aug 2021 #7

Bev54

(10,045 posts)
1. I just ventured into a discussion this morning after avoiding
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 01:50 PM
Aug 2021

it for a long time but this particular discussion keeps coming up on my feed 2-3 times a day so I decided to jump in. I live in Canada and I am so tired of these lunatics spouting off bullshit. We have 77% with one vaccine and 66% fully vaccinated and polls have shown that only 8% of Canadians will refuse to get vaccinated. They are however loud, obnoxious and relentless with their bullshit so I jumped in. I am expecting a fight but I don't care it is time the 92% have a voice.

Roland99

(53,342 posts)
4. One person posted a snippet of a study showing cloth masks not as effective as surgical masks
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 02:12 PM
Aug 2021

for healthcare workers

A peer review of the study said estimates were imprecise and not statistically significant.

But that didn't phase the qultist.

And it was 10 years ago, in Vietnam, and didn't describe the cloth masks at all and was geared toward HCWs who wear masks for hours and hours.

Bev54

(10,045 posts)
6. For myself, I purchased medical grade N95 masks
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 03:06 PM
Aug 2021

from a medical supply company because I am sometimes in crowds but am very careful. They have the look of cloth masks. Yes, if I was a healthcare worker, I would be wearing the medical grade masks. It depends on who you are interacting with. They also have the same grade masks for kids and my son and daughter-in-law are looking to get them for their children.

Roland99

(53,342 posts)
8. My employer has developed masks that are very effective
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 03:38 PM
Aug 2021

and they're comfortable with adjustable fabric ear loops and nose area to where my glasses will fit just past the tip and not fog up.

They've done a lot of data modeling, themselves, of masks and airflow in a room or outside with and without masks. Wonderful work that I cannot share publicly but these masks work well. I've had my son wearing one to school but we're all vaccinated. Still, not taking chances where we don't have to

barbtries

(28,787 posts)
3. i met with my counselor today
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 01:57 PM
Aug 2021

and spent a good part of our time together fretting about exactly this.

over it, over it, over it! it's so frustrating!

2naSalit

(86,521 posts)
5. Haha!
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 02:15 PM
Aug 2021

So did I! Just got home half an hour ago. We just have to let nature take its course, those who want to avoid the awful death will, the rest... C'est la vie.

totodeinhere

(13,058 posts)
7. Because of those idiots, mostly Trump zombies, we will never reach herd immunity at the
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 03:11 PM
Aug 2021

rate we are going now. So that means we will be living with this virus pretty much forever. And we will continue to risk getting a new variant that is resistant to the current vaccines. If that happens we will all be back at square one.

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