Will Democrats mask America forever?

[TBoneTX 45,572]

Good points.  Comments?

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Will Democrats mask America forever?

by Kat Rosenfield - May 17, 2021

 

After a full year of staying home, social distancing, and keeping our faces covered, last week's announcementfrom the CDC was the one many of us had been waiting for: fully vaccinated Americans were finally cleared to get back to normal.  [...]

 

Continues here:   https://unherd.com/2021/05/will-democrats-mask-america-forever/  

 

[Reebsrae 17]

I believe within the next 6-10 months America will return to "normal" 

Those who were scared about the virus will just silently move on after it's shown with each passing month it's "safe", not looking at the statistics of the matter for the past year and the backwards thinking that has gone on. This did show the Democrat leaders that they can push their states, and that it's easy to create division out of anything. 

I do think at the latest, in 10 months- America will return to normal. There may be the few people to be around in close contact to others.. but I believe they will be a small percentage that even "lefties" will ignore. 

 

As a Canadian though, I worry Canada is no longer going to be the country I was born in. It's gone down a scary path. Pastors are being arrested while Palestinian protestors flood the streets. It's much like America last year- however we also had the same issues last year.. and there's no end in sight. I don't see Canada returning to normal, not for at least 3-5 years. Canadians are too complacent and trust whatever is told to them.  

[laylalex 7,293]

 I have no idea why anyone cares whether other people intend to continue to wear masks as the pandemic winds down. If you are permitted to ditch your mask in a setting, and you feel comfortable doing so, good for you. If you want to wear a mask in a setting where you aren't required to, good for you. I don't care. I follow our state and county laws which right now say outdoors fine if you're fully vaxxed (I am not), and indoors everyone wears a mask until June 15th. I may or may not wear a mask indoors in places like stores after that date depending on how busy/crowded it is. Variants are real. In places like the homes of friends and family who are fully vaxxed, sure, masks off.

 

Why should anyone get so bent out of shape about being judged? Or take other's choices so personally if they are following the law? True story, my husband nearly got into a fist fight on Friday with an antimasker who confronted him on the street for wearing a mask. The guy got in his face and told him, hey you, you can take your mask off now outdoors. My husband said, thanks, I'm good, and went back to minding his own business. The guy kept telling him he was brainwashed, and Al started getting more and more angry, and eventually swore (prodigiously) at him. (He is Scottish, it's a default setting I think.) The guy told him he wouldn't get into heaven that way, and he snapped. More swearing followed which I cannot repeat here but the red mist descended and he told the guy to keep walking or... there were suggestions made that are not family friendly. The guy then picked up a rock and started coming at him, and Al basically scared him off because he was a much bigger person than the antimasker. Al said he got very close to pounding this guy's head in but he stopped because... AOS in progress. He said all the rage he had in him over the past year+ at people who do not follow public health rules exploded. He was furious still 2 days later. 

 

I'm not apologizing for what my husband did, which in the end was just a lot of swearing and scaring. Hey, he didn't go after the other guy with a rock! But why did this guy get in his face over a personal decision? Al wasn't hurting anyone, just waiting at the corner of National and Sepulveda for me to collect him from the dentist, reading the news on his phone, wearing a mask. Which as a person who is not fully vaccinated yet is understandable. (Also I am very unwell still, and he's being very careful of my health.) And even if he were fully vaxxed, WHO CARES? Go ahead and judge him, he doesn't care. Just move on. It's like wearing a sweater when it's 60F. Some people think it's not sweater weather, and others feel more comfortable wearing one. And if he judges other people silently, or under his breath, WHO CARES?

 

Do your own thing, within the law. Big whoop. Don't be a jerk and subject other people needlessly to the possibility of transmission. 

Edited May 19, 2021 by laylalex

[TBoneTX 45,572]

Upvoted not necessarily because of agreement, but because of a well-reasoned response and quality contribution to the thread, LL ma'am.  

[laylalex 7,293]

1 minute ago, TBoneTX said:

Upvoted not necessarily because of agreement, but because of a well-reasoned response and quality contribution to the thread, LL ma'am.  

Thanks. I think it's good to agree to disagree without being disagreeable! 

 

I am angry about this too, sort of by osmosis. The idea of someone thinking about bashing my husband's head in with a rock for wearing a mask is terrifying. He said the guy didn't seem crazy or homeless or anything, just a rando. 

[Crtcl Rice Theory 2,432]

 

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Edited May 19, 2021 by CanAm1980

[TBoneTX 45,572]

His (Republican) donors must have told him that this was OK.

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Texas Governor Bans Mask Mandates In Schools Starting In June

MAY 18, 2021 By Jordan Davidson

 

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order on Tuesday banning mask mandates in schools across the Lone Star State beginning in June.  [...]

 

Continues here:   https://thefederalist.com/2021/05/18/texas-governor-bans-mask-mandates-in-schools-starting-in-june/  

 

 

Edited May 19, 2021 by TBoneTX

[yuna628 9,686]

11 hours ago, laylalex said:

 I have no idea why anyone cares whether other people intend to continue to wear masks as the pandemic winds down. If you are permitted to ditch your mask in a setting, and you feel comfortable doing so, good for you. If you want to wear a mask in a setting where you aren't required to, good for you. I don't care. I follow our state and county laws which right now say outdoors fine if you're fully vaxxed (I am not), and indoors everyone wears a mask until June 15th. I may or may not wear a mask indoors in places like stores after that date depending on how busy/crowded it is. Variants are real. In places like the homes of friends and family who are fully vaxxed, sure, masks off.

 

Why should anyone get so bent out of shape about being judged? Or take other's choices so personally if they are following the law? True story, my husband nearly got into a fist fight on Friday with an antimasker who confronted him on the street for wearing a mask. The guy got in his face and told him, hey you, you can take your mask off now outdoors. My husband said, thanks, I'm good, and went back to minding his own business. The guy kept telling him he was brainwashed, and Al started getting more and more angry, and eventually swore (prodigiously) at him. (He is Scottish, it's a default setting I think.) The guy told him he wouldn't get into heaven that way, and he snapped. More swearing followed which I cannot repeat here but the red mist descended and he told the guy to keep walking or... there were suggestions made that are not family friendly. The guy then picked up a rock and started coming at him, and Al basically scared him off because he was a much bigger person than the antimasker. Al said he got very close to pounding this guy's head in but he stopped because... AOS in progress. He said all the rage he had in him over the past year+ at people who do not follow public health rules exploded. He was furious still 2 days later. 

 

I'm not apologizing for what my husband did, which in the end was just a lot of swearing and scaring. Hey, he didn't go after the other guy with a rock! But why did this guy get in his face over a personal decision? Al wasn't hurting anyone, just waiting at the corner of National and Sepulveda for me to collect him from the dentist, reading the news on his phone, wearing a mask. Which as a person who is not fully vaccinated yet is understandable. (Also I am very unwell still, and he's being very careful of my health.) And even if he were fully vaxxed, WHO CARES? Go ahead and judge him, he doesn't care. Just move on. It's like wearing a sweater when it's 60F. Some people think it's not sweater weather, and others feel more comfortable wearing one. And if he judges other people silently, or under his breath, WHO CARES?

 

Do your own thing, within the law. Big whoop. Don't be a jerk and subject other people needlessly to the possibility of transmission. 

Big whoop indeed. Yet there have been endless threads opining on how it's such a terrible thing. If someone is that threatened by a mask, how threatened are they by any sort of clothes? Such fragile snowflakes.The mental illness is real. Kids in cabinets, masks hurt muh freedoms, computer chip injections, and me getting vaccinated sheds particles that now makes them want to mask. Good on your husband, I would have knocked the person out.

[Dashinka 24,629]

3 hours ago, yuna628 said:

Big whoop indeed. Yet there have been endless threads opining on how it's such a terrible thing. If someone is that threatened by a mask, how threatened are they by any sort of clothes? Such fragile snowflakes.The mental illness is real. Kids in cabinets, masks hurt muh freedoms, computer chip injections, and me getting vaccinated sheds particles that now makes them want to mask. Good on your husband, I would have knocked the person out.

Considering how politicized the mask wearing has been made in the MSM, not really surprising.  Wear a mask if you want, people do it all the time especially in countries like the ROK.

[beloved_dingo 1,979]

I'm pretty left-leaning and personally I will be happy to ditch mask wearing altogether when the time comes. My husband and I are fully vaccinated and at this point most of the people we interact with regularly are fully vaccinated also. We still take our masks with us whenever we go out and we wear it when it's required but leave it off when it's not. We live in Alabama and the state-wide mask mandate has expired, but the city I live in still has a mask mandate (I think through May 24th). 

 

Alabama summers are brutal as it is...adding a mask during that kind of weather really sucks. 

 

 

 

[Reebsrae 17]

22 hours ago, Reebsrae said:

I believe within the next 6-10 months America will return to "normal" 

Those who were scared about the virus will just silently move on after it's shown with each passing month it's "safe", not looking at the statistics of the matter for the past year and the backwards thinking that has gone on. This did show the Democrat leaders that they can push their states, and that it's easy to create division out of anything. 

I do think at the latest, in 10 months- America will return to normal. There may be the few people to be around in close contact to others.. but I believe they will be a small percentage that even "lefties" will ignore. 

 

As a Canadian though, I worry Canada is no longer going to be the country I was born in. It's gone down a scary path. Pastors are being arrested while Palestinian protestors flood the streets. It's much like America last year- however we also had the same issues last year.. and there's no end in sight. I don't see Canada returning to normal, not for at least 3-5 years. Canadians are too complacent and trust whatever is told to them.  

Oops, I meant to say there may be a few people still too scared to be in close contact to other people- at the end of my first paragraph. Oops!!!

Working too much and too tired, I'm skipping entire words! 😂 

[TBoneTX 45,572]

5 hours ago, Reebsrae said:

I'm skipping entire words!

You have a long way to go before apologizing; remember that NB 2.0, he of the unparalld grammur and speling, is in this thread.  

[LIBrty4all 3,754]

13 hours ago, Dashinka said:

Considering how politicized the mask wearing has been made in the MSM, not really surprising.  Wear a mask if you want, people do it all the time especially in countries like the ROK.

*SICK people

[Dashinka 24,629]

1 hour ago, LIBrty4all said:

*SICK people

Definitely.  For some reason the entire mask narrative changed several times over the past year.  First it was don't wear the mask so as to not dry up the supply for the healthcare workers, then it was wear the mask so a person with a mild case of Covid does not spread it to others, now it seems to be some false sense of personal protection.  Now masks may offer a bit personal protection, the efficacy is questionable, but I agree, if one is sick, it is a good idea for someone to wear a mask.  

[TBoneTX 45,572]

Expressed very well.  Comments?

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Iowa passes the mask bill that every red state needs

DANIEL HOROWITZ | MAY 21, 2021

 

"Breathing freely doesn't seem like something we should have to ask any other people permission for," said 10-year-old John in a now-viral video in front of the Martin County, Florida, school board.  Well, Iowa has taken up that call and has now banned all school districts and local officials from ever instituting a mask mandate again.  This should be a model in every red state.  [...]

 

Continues here:   https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-iowa-passes-the-mask-bill-that-every-red-state-needs#toggle-gdpr  

Edited May 23, 2021 by TBoneTX