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Originally Posted by Icky Thump
Watch me. I’m already rubbing maskless coworkers the wrong way by telling them to take the next elevator.
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I'm totally just done with everybody. People are so fucking bitchy and self-righteous these days about almost everything I Can't Even.
Fucking cranks on the Right talking about CRT and "Let's Go Brandon" (thank god we decided not to hold Easter, so I don't have to listen to my right wing relatives talk that nonsense). Science illiterate utopians on on the Left asserting China's was the correct Covid response.
Turn on the news and its dimwits in FL trying to stuff homosexuality back in the closet. Or some buffoon defending allowing a person who is still very much a male physically being allowed to compete against female swimmers.
The Neocons are back, hectoring for a confrontation with Russia. Yay! Love those assholes.
Who's woke? Who isn't? What's woke? What's not?
Elon Musk is taking over Twitter. He's dangerous. Why, is he going to preclude free speech? No. He's inclined to allow too much of it! We need more preclusion of it, to stop misinformation. What's misinformation? Well, just ask five people. And you'll get five different answers. But each one of those five assholes will be cocksure he's got the only true definition.
The grumpy old men with no personal lives want everyone back in the office, to stroke their egos. Workers are all complaining they're fried. Some correctly, others because they're precious shits.
People are sticking these annoying "Joe Biden Did This" stickers on the gas pumps. Guess they don't like inflation. But they sure liked all the free money they received from Uncle Sam during Covid, which in significant part caused the inflation.
And then we come to masks. Where everybody knows everything and no one knows really knows much. And a whole army of folks want to demonstrate their position by wearing or not wearing them. And every semblance of common fucking sense goes out the window.
I just left a crowded grocery store and coffee chain. Masks? Next to none.
Those are facts.
Here are some more facts:
If I was to wear a mask in there, I'm stopping what percentage of possible transmission? Well, the figure is so small it's not even worth noting. Irrefutably, there is no sane cost/benefit to me wearing a mask into those places, as nobody else is doing so. The only logical reason is Ty's - that he wants to avoid getting sick and sickening his spouse. My spouse isn't masking in any of those venues anymore than I am. So that cost/benefit does not apply to me. My immunocompromised friends and acquaintances are not even masking in crowded venues.
This view that one with minimal if any chance of harming anyone else by not wearing a mask - in a society where almost no one is masking anymore - must act like its March 2020, is simply not well reasoned.
If everyone starts wearing them again, I'm happy to do so. I like hiding in plain sight. But if there's no possible benefit to doing so, and there isn't when everyone else has eschewed them, I needn't wear one.
