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Post by BarrileteCosmico Tue Sep 29, 2020 1:05 pm

Manaus, touted as having achieved herd immunity 2-3 months ago, is now experiencing a 2nd wave

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-manaus-idCAKBN26I0I4

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Post by El Gunner Tue Sep 29, 2020 3:01 pm

CBarca wrote:This thread really gone to shit recently huh

if you say so, Dr. Fauci

https://i.servimg.com/u/f69/18/75/76/10/calvin11.jpg
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Post by Arquitecto Tue Sep 29, 2020 3:10 pm

Myesyats wrote:
Hapless_Hans wrote:It's probably

a mixture of hydroxychloroquine and bleach

+vodka
+gherkins
+garlic
+onion



If people only knew that no medicine or remedy will be better than that of one's local Babushka.
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Post by CBarca Tue Sep 29, 2020 5:59 pm

El Gunner wrote:
CBarca wrote:This thread really gone to shit recently huh

if you say so, Dr. Fauci

https://i.servimg.com/u/f69/18/75/76/10/calvin11.jpg


Imagine feeling smug about being ignorant
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Post by El Gunner Tue Sep 29, 2020 6:25 pm

are you referring to yourself?
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Post by RealGunner Tue Sep 29, 2020 6:30 pm

Things are getting quite bad in the UK again
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Post by CBarca Tue Sep 29, 2020 6:37 pm

El Gunner wrote:are you referring to yourself?


Please explain
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Post by Jay29 Tue Sep 29, 2020 6:38 pm

Parties and universities, basically.

There was a recent survey showing something like 1 in 5 people complying with the guidelines. Apparently the majority of people here don't even know the basic symptoms.

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Post by Zagadka Tue Sep 29, 2020 6:48 pm

RealGunner wrote:Things are getting quite bad in the UK again


It's the cold season. It's everywhere.

Ontario was down to 98 cases a day 2 weeks ago. Now up to 600

Russia was down to 4700 cases a day 2 weeks ago, today 8000 cases

Poland was down to 600 cases a day 2 weeks ago, now 1360

It's flu season and nature. It has little to do with people/gov't actions/ and other factors. Young people everywhere party, most people overall feel fed up with the whole fiasco, no end in the tunnel...the feeling is transparent and consistent everywhere.

Even if everyone followed CSpurs' advise and hid under their beds for 6 months, we'd still see an increase this time of the year. Hell I've caught a cold twice in the last 6 weeks.
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Post by El Gunner Tue Sep 29, 2020 7:23 pm

surprisingly i've not even had a cold this year, and by this time of the year i'd usually have already had it twice
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Post by CBarca Tue Sep 29, 2020 10:17 pm

Just because I don't freak out over the fact that I've been told to avoid going to bars doesn't mean I think people should hide under their beds.

Mate, look at this thread. You're the only one here overreacting. Gov't says avoid bars and here you are saying "Anglosphere has gone full dictator over this."

Complete victim complex Laughing Come on, get a grip Sepi.
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Post by BarrileteCosmico Wed Sep 30, 2020 1:35 am

Zagadka wrote:
RealGunner wrote:Things are getting quite bad in the UK again


It's the cold season. It's everywhere.

Ontario was down to 98 cases a day 2 weeks ago. Now up to 600

Russia was down to 4700 cases a day 2 weeks ago, today 8000 cases

Poland was down to 600 cases a day 2 weeks ago, now 1360

It's flu season and nature. It has little to do with people/gov't actions/ and other factors. Young people everywhere party, most people overall feel fed up with the whole fiasco, no end in the tunnel...the feeling is transparent and consistent everywhere.

Even if everyone followed CSpurs' advise and hid under their beds for 6 months, we'd still see an increase this time of the year. Hell I've caught a cold twice in the last 6 weeks.


Flu cases are way down due to all the social distancing, pretty much non existent in some countries, maybe this tells us you're not really social distancing hmm

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Post by Zagadka Thu Oct 01, 2020 11:53 am

BarrileteCosmico wrote:
Zagadka wrote:
RealGunner wrote:Things are getting quite bad in the UK again


It's the cold season. It's everywhere.

Ontario was down to 98 cases a day 2 weeks ago. Now up to 600

Russia was down to 4700 cases a day 2 weeks ago, today 8000 cases

Poland was down to 600 cases a day 2 weeks ago, now 1360

It's flu season and nature. It has little to do with people/gov't actions/ and other factors. Young people everywhere party, most people overall feel fed up with the whole fiasco, no end in the tunnel...the feeling is transparent and consistent everywhere.

Even if everyone followed CSpurs' advise and hid under their beds for 6 months, we'd still see an increase this time of the year. Hell I've caught a cold twice in the last 6 weeks.


Flu cases are way down due to all the social distancing, pretty much non existent in some countries, maybe this tells us you're not really social distancing hmm

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Post by rincon Thu Oct 01, 2020 12:02 pm

CBarca wrote:Just because I don't freak out over the fact that I've been told to avoid going to bars doesn't mean I think people should hide under their beds.

Mate, look at this thread. You're the only one here overreacting. Gov't says avoid bars and here you are saying "Anglosphere has gone full dictator over this."

Complete victim complex Laughing Come on, get a grip Sepi.

Ironic that these are the people that throw around 'snowflake' and act tough. Ask them wear a mask to save lives, and all of a sudden you see this frailty and victimhood. The smallest inconvenience is too much, 0 grit.
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Post by Myesyats Thu Oct 01, 2020 12:55 pm

rincon wrote:
CBarca wrote:Just because I don't freak out over the fact that I've been told to avoid going to bars doesn't mean I think people should hide under their beds.

Mate, look at this thread. You're the only one here overreacting. Gov't says avoid bars and here you are saying "Anglosphere has gone full dictator over this."

Complete victim complex Laughing Come on, get a grip Sepi.

Ironic that these are the people that throw around 'snowflake' and act tough. Ask them wear a mask to save lives, and all of a sudden you see this frailty and victimhood. The smallest inconvenience is too much, 0 grit.

I'm surprised those people arent out on the streets protesting against seatbelts hmm
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Post by Zagadka Thu Oct 01, 2020 12:57 pm

rincon wrote:
CBarca wrote:Just because I don't freak out over the fact that I've been told to avoid going to bars doesn't mean I think people should hide under their beds.

Mate, look at this thread. You're the only one here overreacting. Gov't says avoid bars and here you are saying "Anglosphere has gone full dictator over this."

Complete victim complex Laughing Come on, get a grip Sepi.

Ironic that these are the people that throw around 'snowflake' and act tough. Ask them wear a mask to save lives, and all of a sudden you see this frailty and victimhood. The smallest inconvenience is too much, 0 grit.


That's such a NPC talking point. SAVE LIVES !!! ....I live in a province of near 1,000,000 people and we had 96 cases today. I wear a mask when in company of older people in the metro or shop...but there is no reason for me to wear a mask outside or when I'm at a bar with people my age.

Some people are so in the mask cult, they perhaps wear a mask in the toilet...similar to those people in US stadiums sitting literally alone in VIP box and wearing a mask? Are you fucking kidding me? or football players wearing masks on the bench next to the same people they train with everyday and share changing rooms with? Like, what the hell is the point?? Absolutely useless practice, but decent for virtue-signalling. Like these 2 idiots:



Anyways, Peter Hitchens has a good article about this mask-arade

https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/october-2020/democracy-muzzled/

Covid masks are a potent symbol of the West’s headlong flight from Enlightenment values

FEATURES
By

Peter Hitchens
October 2020
This article is taken from the October issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering three issue for just £5.

The long retreat of law, reason and freedom has now turned into a rout. It was caused by many things: the mob hysteria which flowered after the death of Princess Diana; the evisceration of education; the spread of intolerant speech codes designed to impose a single opinion on the academy and journalism; the incessant state-sponsored panics over terror; the collapse and decay of institutions and traditions.

These have all at last flowed together into a single force, and we seem powerless against it. Absurdly, the moment at which they have achieved maximum power is accidental, a wild, out of-proportion panic response to a real but limited epidemic.

Outside total war and its obscenities, we have not seen what we are living through now. To list the constitutional events of the last few months is to ask the complacent chattering classes of Britain what it reminds them of: the neutering of parliament into a rubber stamp controlled by the executive; the death of political pluralism; the introduction of government by decree; the disappearance of the last traces of an independent civil service; the silence in the face of these events of media and courts; the subjection of the police to state edicts rather than to law.

Then those who have for years objected to campus censorship but are oddly silent now should surely list certain consequences for individual citizens: the cancellation of their unconditional freedom of movement; effective house arrest; arbitrary punishment; forced unemployment; restrictions in internal travel; disruption of family life including compelled separation of living spouses at the ends of their lives, and bans on attending funerals; the abolition of the freedom of assembly.

Propaganda is not there to make you agree with it. It is there to tell you that you are powerless against it

Add to these a gap in the life of civil society so long that every remaining independent institution and corporation has been permanently wounded, and the habits of a free country have been forgotten and atrophied. Add also the compulsory cessation of religious worship, the actual cancellation of Easter, the greatest and most subversive of all the Christian festivals; the prevention or severe punishment of gatherings of all kinds (except those approved of selectively by the authorities) and the suppression of education; the introduction of compelled speech, through the forced wearing of face coverings which publicly signal both surrender to the state and acceptance of the utopian, unscientific policy which guides that state.

I have been in some trouble for supposedly making too much of the last of these. Perhaps because I have spent so much time living or travelling in despotisms, I understand the point and nature of mass propaganda better than those who have not. It is not there to make you agree with it. It is there to tell you that you are powerless against it, and must listen without protest to official lying.

It is increasingly a disadvantage in any debate to know anything about the subject under discussion. This obvious aspect of the facemask decrees has so far eluded those who have only just begun to live as citizens of a servile state. Yet I remain amazed that so many either cannot see, or pretend not to see the enormous symbolism of a population compelled by fear of the state to sacrifice much of their individuality, and to adopt a form of dress which is associated with submission. I sometimes wonder where all the amateur Freudians are, normally so ready to offer me analysis of my failings, at moments such as this. A cigar is sometimes merely a cigar, but a mask is seldom just a mask.

The Covid Muzzle demands an extraordinary act of personal self-cancellation

The government itself, when it was still being honest, repeatedly and explicitly admitted in its own documents that these face coverings were of little practical use: the sacred science was then against them. It said in a document published on 23 June that “the evidence of the benefit of using a face covering to protect others is weak and the effect is likely to be small” (and no experiment since then has altered this).

In any case they were introduced long after the disease had done its worst. If these admittedly futile things were party armbands or lapel badges, or the little red flags which citizens of Warsaw Pact countries were once compelled to fly from their crumbling balconies on communist feast-days, their purpose would be more obvious.

But even those nasty totalitarian obligations lacked one important thing which the wearing of face coverings does require. The Covid Muzzle demands an extraordinary act of personal self-cancellation. At a recent anti-lockdown demonstration in Melbourne, police were observed forcibly placing these muzzles on the faces of arrested protesters already in handcuffs and powerless to resist. The officers involved, many of them in heavy body armour, unwittingly illustrated their real purpose — to turn us into mouthless, voiceless servants of power. It is fascinating also to look back at the first pictures of prisoners arriving in Guantanamo, chained and humiliated in orange jumpsuits. They too are wearing the little blue muzzles over their mouths which, 20 years later, are now worn by normal citizens everywhere. Surely nobody can argue that this extra piece of subjugation and belittling was a health precaution.

No doubt this self-abnegation and self-cancelling appeals to some. Look and you will see that some wear them with a sort of pride. But most look baffled and captive, as if they are peering out through a slot in a wall behind which they have found themselves trapped. And the constant sight — on streets, in stations, in shops and on TV — of thousands of others, likewise suppressed, maintains the fear, alarm and panic which the government must now preserve for the foreseeable future.

Most people quite like being afraid of something, and many dislike freedom and the responsibility that comes with it

Those who think this is scaremongering need to read an astonishing document still far too little known to the general public. It is a paper submitted to the government’s own SAGE committee on 22 March 2020, and it has the heading “Persuasion”. The key segment reads:

Perceived threat: A substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened; it could be that they are reassured by the low death rate in their demographic group, although levels of concern may be rising. Having a good understanding of the risk has been found to be positively associated with adoption of Covid-19 social distancing measures in Hong Kong. The perceived level of personal threat needs to be increased among those who are complacent [my emphasis], using hard-hitting emotional messaging. To be effective this must also empower people by making clear the actions they can take to reduce the threat.

Documents of this kind are not supposed to get out. In better times than these, with active and critical media, this particular passage — with its clear implication that it was the task of the state to scare us into compliance — might have led to the fall of the government. As it is, you will struggle to find mentions of it in the British national press. They are there, but they are hard to find and not on any daily front pages. This is not because of censorship or because of any kind of collective action.

It is because most people, having lived all their lives in relaxed freedom, are quite unable to believe what is in front of their eyes. It is a Chestertonian paradox which Chesterton himself never wrote: a government changing the nature of the state successfully and without opposition because nobody can believe what they are seeing, and so everybody politely ignores it.

This could not have happened, in my view, 60 years ago. Rigorous education, especially of the elite, had at that time created a significant class of people who knew how to think, and how to assess evidence. There would always have been someone, whether it was a Tam Dalyell or a Churchill, to point out the true direction of events and warn against them, prominently. Much of the press would have given this dissent house room, rather than obediently conforming (in order to #ProtectOurNHS). But in the intervening years such rigorous schooling has been replaced by an egalitarian education system which teaches its students what to think, not how to think. Criticism of the past is obligatory, but any cold-eyed assessment of the present — in which new ideas benevolently rule — is disliked and ignored.

Since the USSR was the arsenal of repression, political liberty in the Western lands was under special protection

As well as this, there have been the various spasms of panic and emotion which convulsed the country after the Cold War ended. These were profound attacks on reason. They were also attacks on limited government and the rule of law, which rest largely on the power of reason. Most people quite like being afraid of something, and many dislike freedom and the responsibility that comes with it. The honest among us all admit it.

Once, before Charles Darwin, Ypres and the Somme, the Christian religion answered those needs. The Fear of the Lord was the Beginning of Wisdom, and the devoted service of Christ was perfect freedom. Faith offered eternal life and helped people to accept temporal death as normal. This belief helped to sustain earthly liberty because, as Edmund Burke pointed out, the man who truly fears God will fear nothing else. No despot can get very far if there are such men around in any number.

But fewer and fewer believed that, and the need for something to replace it had a lot to do with the rise of authoritarian movements all over an increasingly secularised Europe in the 1930s. After the cynicism and the acceptance that ends justify means promoted by World War Two, secularism grew still more.

But for 50 years the Soviet and nuclear threat provided a substitute — an Armageddon to fear, and a reason to rally round the state in the free countries of the West. It provided an unexpected bonus, which protected us all though we did not realise it at the time. Since the USSR was the arsenal of repression, political liberty in the Western lands was under special protection as long as the Kremlin was our enemy. Freedom was, supposedly, what we fought and stood for. Governments claiming to be guarding us from Soviet tyranny could not go very far in limiting liberty on their own territory, however much they may have wanted to.

That protection ended when the Berlin Wall fell. In the same extraordinary moment, the collapse of Russian communism liberated revolutionary radicals across the Western world. The ghastly, failed Brezhnev state could not be hung round their necks like a putrid albatross any more. They were no longer considered as potential traitors simply because they were on the left. Eric Hobsbawm, and those like him, could at last join the establishment. Indeed, fortresses of the establishment such as the BBC now welcomed political as well as cultural leftists onto their upper decks.

Those who think the face-mask will soon be over might like to recall that the irrational precautions of airport “security”

Antonio Gramsci’s rethinking of the revolution — seize the university, the school, the TV station, the newspaper, the church, the theatre, rather than the barracks, the railway station and the post office — could at last get under way. At that moment, the long march of 1960s leftists through the institutions began to reach its objective, as they moved into the important jobs for the first time. And so one of the main protections of liberty and reason vanished, exactly when it was most needed.

The BBC’s simpering coverage of the Blair regime’s arrival in Downing Street, with its North-Korean-style fake crowd waving Union Jacks they despised, and new dawn atmosphere was not as ridiculous as it looked. May 1997 truly was a regime change. Illiberal utopians really were increasingly in charge, and the Cultural Revolution at last had political muscle.

Then came the new enemy, the shapeless ever-shifting menace of terrorism, against which almost any means were justified. To combat this, we willingly gave up Habeas Corpus and the real presumption of innocence, and allowed ourselves to be treated as if we were newly-convicted prisoners every time we passed through an airport.

Millions have greeted this new peril as an excuse to abandon a liberty they did not really care much about anyway

Those who think the era of the face-mask will soon be over might like to recall that the irrational precautions of airport “security” (almost wholly futile once the simple precaution of refusing to open the door to the flight deck has been introduced) have not only remained in place since September 2001: they have been intensified. Yet, by and large, they are almost popular. Those who mutter against them, as I sometimes do, face stern lectures from our fellow-citizens implying that we are irresponsible and heedless.

Now a new fear, even more shapeless, invisible, perpetual (and hard to defeat — how can you ever eliminate a virus?) than al-Qaeda or Isis, has arrived in our midst. There is almost no bad action it cannot be used to excuse, including the strangling of an already shaky economy for which those eccentric or lucky enough to still be working will pay for decades. Millions have greeted this new peril as an excuse to abandon a liberty they did not really care much about anyway.

As a nation, we now produce more fear than we can consume locally, hiding in our homes as civil society evaporates. We queue up happily to hand in our freedom and to collect our muzzles and our digital IDs. And those of us who cry out, until we are hoarse, to say that this is a catastrophe, are met with shrugs from the chattering classes, and snarls of “just put on the frigging mask” from the mob. If I hadn’t despaired long ago, I would be despairing now.


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Post by Freeza Thu Oct 01, 2020 12:59 pm

I wear a mask in public toilets right now when I have it handy. Mainly because of shit particles in the air. I only breathe my own shit.
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Post by Zagadka Thu Oct 01, 2020 1:01 pm

Freeza wrote:I wear a mask in public toilets right now when I have it handy. Mainly because of shit particles in the air. I only breathe my own shit.


I envy the Japanese tbh.....their toilets had automatic air fresheners and purifiers and adjustable music to enrich your shitting/pissing experience.

Truly next level country :bow: bow: :bow:
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Post by Freeza Thu Oct 01, 2020 1:04 pm

Zagadka wrote:
Freeza wrote:I wear a mask in public toilets right now when I have it handy. Mainly because of shit particles in the air. I only breathe my own shit.


I envy the Japanese tbh.....their toilets had automatic air fresheners and purifiers and adjustable music to enrich your shitting/pissing experience.

Truly next level country :bow: bow: :bow:


Well, we've got graffiti and piss on the floor. Checkmate.

God I wish we had better public facilities and the will to treat them right.
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Post by El Gunner Thu Oct 01, 2020 1:10 pm

^^that video makes me cringe so much
if there's one positive thing to come out of 2020, it is now we know who the real clowns are, dont worry Sepp
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Post by BarrileteCosmico Thu Oct 01, 2020 1:13 pm

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So maybe you shouldn't be throwing yourself out as an example of how people can still catch the flu even if "they live under a rock for 6 months" Wink
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Post by BarrileteCosmico Thu Oct 01, 2020 1:20 pm

Zagadka wrote:That's such a NPC talking point. SAVE LIVES !!! ....I live in a province of near 1,000,000 people and we had 96 cases today. I wear a mask when in company of older people in the metro or shop...but there is no reason for me to wear a mask outside or when I'm at a bar with people my age.

Some people are so in the mask cult, they perhaps wear a mask in the toilet...similar to those people in US stadiums sitting literally alone in VIP box and wearing a mask? Are you fucking kidding me? or football players wearing masks on the bench next to the same people they train with everyday and share changing rooms with? Like, what the hell is the point?? Absolutely useless practice, but decent for virtue-signalling. Like these 2 idiots:


You absolutely should wear a mask around young people. The goal is to stop spread because you can't control who it gets spread to. Let's say a person had corona (whether they know it or not) and refuses to wear a mask around a young friend, but that young friend then visits grandma and they both end up getting it, that person has some responsibility for infecting a high risk person. I'm sure you understand this, as do most other people who refuse to wear a mask.

You also shouldn't be making assumptions that other young people don't have any pre-existing conditions unless you know them very well. Youth is not the only factor that determines who is high risk.

In terms of "why are people wearing masks when alone??" the answer is that you're supposed to avoid touching your face. Constantly putting the mask on and off involves a lot of touching your face, so some people prefer not to. But again, you also know this.
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Post by rincon Thu Oct 01, 2020 1:24 pm

Myesyats wrote:
rincon wrote:
CBarca wrote:Just because I don't freak out over the fact that I've been told to avoid going to bars doesn't mean I think people should hide under their beds.

Mate, look at this thread. You're the only one here overreacting. Gov't says avoid bars and here you are saying "Anglosphere has gone full dictator over this."

Complete victim complex Laughing Come on, get a grip Sepi.

Ironic that these are the people that throw around 'snowflake' and act tough. Ask them wear a mask to save lives, and all of a sudden you see this frailty and victimhood. The smallest inconvenience is too much, 0 grit.

I'm surprised those people arent out on the streets protesting against seatbelts hmm

100% would be the case if mandatory seatbelts was a new measure at this time.

What's the point of not erring on the side of caution in an emergency situation? If wearing a mask too often proves to be overkill in the end then no real harm done, if it proved to be necessary then not wearing them would mean a lot of death.

Might as well be slightly inconvenienced for the chance to save your neighbors. Especially when all the data we have says it in fact helps.
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Zagadka wrote:That's such a NPC talking point. SAVE LIVES !!! ....I live in a province of near 1,000,000 people and we had 96 cases today. I wear a mask when in company of older people in the metro or shop...but there is no reason for me to wear a mask outside or when I'm at a bar with people my age.

Some people are so in the mask cult, they perhaps wear a mask in the toilet...similar to those people in US stadiums sitting literally alone in VIP box and wearing a mask? Are you fucking kidding me? or football players wearing masks on the bench next to the same people they train with everyday and share changing rooms with? Like, what the hell is the point?? Absolutely useless practice, but decent for virtue-signalling. Like these 2 idiots:


You absolutely should wear a mask around young people. The goal is to stop spread because you can't control who it gets spread to. Let's say a person had corona (whether they know it or not) and refuses to wear a mask around a young friend, but that young friend then visits grandma and they both end up getting it, that person has some responsibility for infecting a high risk person. I'm sure you understand this, as do most other people who refuse to wear a mask.

You also shouldn't be making assumptions that other young people don't have any pre-existing conditions unless you know them very well. Youth is not the only factor that determines who is high risk.

In terms of "why are people wearing masks when alone??" the answer is that you're supposed to avoid touching your face. Constantly putting the mask on and off involves a lot of touching your face, so some people prefer not to. But again, you also know this.

Pretty much this. A friend in the US, 29 year old, got covid. Mild symptoms no big deal. It was a big deal though for his dad who got covid with him and died. Was his dad infected through him, or was it viceversa? Who knows, doesn't really matter in the end because this can be a common occurrence. A 'safe' person transmits to an at risk person and the consequence escalate.
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Post by Zagadka Thu Oct 01, 2020 1:53 pm

BarrileteCosmico wrote:
Zagadka wrote:That's such a NPC talking point. SAVE LIVES !!! ....I live in a province of near 1,000,000 people and we had 96 cases today. I wear a mask when in company of older people in the metro or shop...but there is no reason for me to wear a mask outside or when I'm at a bar with people my age.

Some people are so in the mask cult, they perhaps wear a mask in the toilet...similar to those people in US stadiums sitting literally alone in VIP box and wearing a mask? Are you fucking kidding me? or football players wearing masks on the bench next to the same people they train with everyday and share changing rooms with? Like, what the hell is the point?? Absolutely useless practice, but decent for virtue-signalling. Like these 2 idiots:


You absolutely should wear a mask around young people. The goal is to stop spread because you can't control who it gets spread to. Let's say a person had corona (whether they know it or not) and refuses to wear a mask around a young friend, but that young friend then visits grandma and they both end up getting it, that person has some responsibility for infecting a high risk person. I'm sure you understand this, as do most other people who refuse to wear a mask.

You also shouldn't be making assumptions that other young people don't have any pre-existing conditions unless you know them very well. Youth is not the only factor that determines who is high risk.

In terms of "why are people wearing masks when alone??" the answer is that you're supposed to avoid touching your face. Constantly putting the mask on and off involves a lot of touching your face, so some people prefer not to. But again, you also know this.


I appreciate your very specifically scientific and guideline-driven approach BC.

Maybe it's a cultural thing, but I haven't been to Anglosphere for over a year, but it appears as the public there is taking is A LOT more seriously and severely than Slavistan. They didn't let for example my mom on a plane from Canada to US even after her 14 day quarantine in Toronto, as they said the day they she arrived doesn't count, and hence she had to return to the airport on the 15th day.

So maybe I am a bit out of touch with reality of most people here, because frankly following to the tee what you described above would get you ridiculed and socially isolated here in Poland. People would treat you as a paranoid weirdo with no balls. Even the older generation here who are "at risk" don't go to such careful length of what you described. Laughing

That's why I genuinely think I'll feel like an alien zombie if I returned to Canada tomorrow, for example.
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Zagadka wrote:I appreciate your very specifically scientific and guideline-driven approach BC.

Maybe it's a cultural thing, but I haven't been to Anglosphere for over a year, but it appears as the public there is taking is A LOT more seriously and severely than Slavistan. They didn't let for example my mom on a plane from Canada to US even after her 14 day quarantine in Toronto, as they said the day they she arrived doesn't count, and hence she had to return to the airport on the 15th day.

So maybe I am a bit out of touch with reality of most people here, because frankly following to the tee what you described above would get you ridiculed and socially isolated here in Poland. People would treat you as a paranoid weirdo with no balls. Even the older generation here who are "at risk" don't go to such careful length of what you described. Laughing

That's why I genuinely think I'll feel like an alien zombie if I returned to Canada tomorrow, for example.

I don't really know the reality in Poland, maybe @myesyats can add additional context for what locals think there, but fear of being ridiculed doesn't seem like the smartest way to make decisions about a public health crisis.

I can understand refusing to quarantine or being upset at some of the other measures being used to curb Covid. Asking people not to work or see their loved ones is unreasonable for extended periods of time. Masks, though, seem like such a low-effort high-reward tool that I have a very hard time seeing why anyone cares that much about them.

I'm also not sure why you keep referring to the Anglosphere. If anything Anglo countries are behind the curve and Asian countries take it far more seriously, to much greater success.
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