Tue Aug 24, 2021, 01:43 PM

Roland99 (53,235 posts)

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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8 replies	Author	Time	Post
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

Response to Roland99 (Original post)

Tue Aug 24, 2021, 01:50 PM

Bev54 (8,542 posts)

1. I just ventured into a discussion this morning after avoiding

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.

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Response to Bev54 (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 24, 2021, 02:12 PM

Roland99 (53,235 posts)

4. One person posted a snippet of a study showing cloth masks not as effective as surgical masks

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.

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Response to Roland99 (Reply #4)

Tue Aug 24, 2021, 03:06 PM

Bev54 (8,542 posts)

6. For myself, I purchased medical grade N95 masks

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.

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Response to Bev54 (Reply #6)

Tue Aug 24, 2021, 03:38 PM

Roland99 (53,235 posts)

8. My employer has developed masks that are very effective

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

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Response to Roland99 (Original post)

Tue Aug 24, 2021, 01:51 PM

lagomorph777 (30,613 posts)

2. Fascistbook is a disease.

Avoid it like the plague. Mask up and stay six feet away.

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Tue Aug 24, 2021, 01:57 PM

barbtries (27,922 posts)

3. i met with my counselor today

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

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

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Response to barbtries (Reply #3)

Tue Aug 24, 2021, 02:15 PM

2naSalit (73,789 posts)

5. Haha!

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.

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Tue Aug 24, 2021, 03:11 PM

totodeinhere (12,718 posts)

7. Because of those idiots, mostly Trump zombies, we will never reach herd immunity at the

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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