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[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Our track record dealing with covid shows us that our approach was largely unsuccessful. Masking must be enforced, not suggested. This is the only effective solution.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You people need to be stopped, you are insane autoritarians. The crisis is over, we are but fin to wear mask forever. You had your time in the lime light, now it's back to normal. Continue to abuse this position and you will not get the population to mobilise again to alleviate the situation.

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago

Protecting other people from death and disability is authoritarian.

we are but fin to wear mask forever

Guy there are better vaccines and anti-virals out there. Literally NO ONE is asking you to "mask forever".

[–] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Stop spitting on everyone around you gross person

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Who let you out of your bubble wrap ? Get back inside !

[–] smooth_jazz_warlady@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Once again we see the abled throwing tantrums over the idea of having to suffer a mild discomfort so as to protect the lives of the disabled, especially the immunocompromised.

I have an aunt whose immune system has to be medicated into nonexistence at all times so it doesn't wreck her body, and she is still fucked up from covid, months after "getting over" it and with multiple vaccine shots beforehand. How many people have you killed or left permanently ill, and never realised, in your selfish ignorance?

If there were any divine justice in this world, idiots like you would be smote with horrible autoimmune diseases or total organ failure, forced to go on anti-rejection drugs for the rest of your lives, and live with the same fear you force on others, the fear that any "harmless" disease could be the death of you.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Your aunt would have to protect herself covid or no covid. Do you think microorganisms only appeared in the last 5 years?

Your last paragraph shows your true self and how "caring" you truly are.

[–] MultigrainCerealista@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The crisis is over

That’s the thing. It isn’t.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It will never ever be under your criteria

[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

your criteria

you mean, science?

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Oh YOU are "Science" now ?

We also need lockdowns where people are supported in staying home long enough to eliminate the virus, regular and updated testing, updated vaccines, free high quality accessible healthcare, and changes to make workplaces safe - like letting people work from home; changing in-person work to be socially distanced, and unlimited paid time off so people can get medical care when they need it.

[–] Chipthemonk@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are very, very wrong.

Read this review. https://www.cochrane.org/CD006207/ARI_do-physical-measures-such-hand-washing-or-wearing-masks-stop-or-slow-down-spread-respiratory-viruses

People like you shouldn’t live in the west. Fuck forcing people to wear a face rag when the science is far from clear on its effectiveness.

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] Chipthemonk@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look at the date you dumb fuck. Then recognize that the Cochrane review is highly respected when it comes to public health science.

You people are ridiculous.

[–] lukini@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

You ever gonna respond to people telling you your posts are a misrepresentation or are you just gonna call people dumb fucks? Kinda hard to trust someone posting like this.

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I tend to agree, but realistically who is going to enforce it? You've got to take into consideration the impact the constant stream of conflict has on low level employees who end up responsible for this enforcement. For those who want to protect themselves, N95 masks are highly effective when used properly.

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

who is going to enforce it?

In an ideal world, the community. In our current world, the government must require businesses to require customers to wear masks and social distance, and threaten them with suspending their business if they do not comply.

the impact the constant stream of conflict has on low level employees who end up responsible for this enforcement

It will not be constant. Places where this was enforced strictly did not have that trouble. It is the wishy-washy enforcement that empowered people to do this. It will be a short lived protest that dies out quickly, and the suffering will be far easier than that of covid deaths.

For those who want to protect themselves, N95 masks are highly effective when used properly

From my understanding, it is not enough. A person sharing a public space with you and not wearing a mask poses a threat, and this threat is massive if they are carrying the virus (even if non-symptomatic).

People must not have the freedom to cause the death or others by spreading respiratory viruses due to childish irresponsibility because their favorite youtuber said so.

[–] Chipthemonk@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Love seeing your dumb ass post the same redacted study over and over and over again.

[–] Chipthemonk@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

It’s not redacted you dumb ass.

[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

People were such dimwits about it though. Even if you had a security guard at the entrance to every shop challenging people to wear properly fitted n95s, I'm certain heaps of people would remove it after they walked past just on principle.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

The American culture is uniquely garbage because of the unique history of having a frontier for self serving pieces of shit to murder a patch of land empty for themselves and assert their right to tell everyone to fuck off. When the frontier was exhausted the homestead became the small business. When the small businesses were absorbed, "you can't tell me what to do" became having a big truck and eating hamburgers with the motivation of spite.

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah it was a shitshow, all because of how politicized it became. No one in 2018 would have thought that asking people to wear a face mask would become such an embarrassing ordeal.

But trust me, it's easy to catch a mask less person in a store. It shouldn't take more than a couple incidents before they learn their lesson and make an example for others.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Police are bad unless it is to arrest people over a mask"

Thanks for coming over from reddit

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Police are bad because they don't serve the interests of the community

[–] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 1 year ago

So? Just remove them once they get inside