Fear and Anxiety

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The only two stores that I go to are the grocery store and the gas station. People are not wearing a mask or gloves.

I asked one man at a grocery store, (who wasn't wearing a mask or gloves), "Aren't you scared about getting the coronavirus?" He said, "No, I've been to two other countries and haven't caught anything."

Then I see parents in the grocery stores with their child in the seat and they're holding onto the handle, and I was thinking, I hope that child will not catch anything. What are these people thinking?

I wish the president would say that everybody entering a store, gas station, & etc. has to wear a mask and gloves to enter. It is these people who are going to spread it to someone, and then that person spreads it to so and so, and on and on. This just showed me all these people that do not wear a mask do not care about children or the elderly. There are a lot of people in this world that don't care and I've seen it. SHAME ON THEM!!

I want to get back to socializing. I can't even go to church and be with my church family because of this virus. I miss being around them. I also miss being around my grandbabies and all my loved ones and friends.

My anxiety is through the roof! When I do go to these two places, I just get out start walking into the store like always and think, "Oh my gloves and my mask." Then I start talking to God, and say "Please DEAR LORD let people listen about wearing gloves and masks so other people don't get it and die."

We need to get this pandemic taken care of. I just think it should be mandatory for everybody that goes to the stores, gas stations, etc. to wear masks and gloves. And maybe we can get this thing under control and go back to a normal life.

I feel sorry for people out of work. Because some of them don't have the money for their bills. I'm sure it's been like a small vacation for them, but I would like for them to get back to their jobs and get the economy going again, so everybody is paying their bills correctly and not worrying.

HEROES, KEEP STAYING SAFE. NURSES, DOCTORS, & FRONTLINERS, YOU ARE THE BEST!! MAY GOD KEEP YOU SAFE FROM THIS PANDEMIC.

You deserve a wonderful vacation to wherever you want.

Small prayer... Please dear Lord Will you keep my brother safe as he is really in the front lines in the hospitals not just one but a few because he is a director of them. And he has diabetes. Keep you're umbrella over him so that he is safe. AMEN!

I hope that soon the president will make everybody wear gloves and mask until this virus is over.

THANK YOU!!

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EDITED TO ADD

I found out that the President said the Coronavirus Committee recommended that everyone should wear masks in public and that it is up to the Governor of each state to make sure that this happens.

I don't think we are ready to open up businesses because people are not wearing masks. I know people need their money, and I miss going in restaurants, grocery stores, etc. without having to wear my mask.

Please, everyone, be careful!

This should be a wake-up call for the United States of America. None of us were prepared for this deadly virus.

I guarantee I will be stocking up on all kinds for items and be ready.

Just like we have to be ready and get our tornado precautions together during tornado season. Please businesses, I hope they do like everything they are supposed to so that we may not continue to spread this virus around. Good luck businesses I'm glad that you are getting to open. I'm just scared that it will still spread.

Everyone be safe and God bless you!

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

Masks I can see. But the way the general public is wearing gloves does nothing to protect themselves or others. They are wearing the gloves at all times- handling food, putting it back on the shelf, touching raw meat packages, touching their face, touching things at home with bare hands that those dirty gloves hands touched, etc. In healthcare we know, discard gloves after each individual task. In this case, the gloves are a fomite and a false sense of security. And from what I’ve seen in parking lots, litter. Now, my local grocery store is sanitizing carts after use. You pick up from the clean side and return to the dirty side, and there is someone there at all times to make sure used carts don’t go back in the clean side.

[caliotter3]

You should see all the discarded gloves and masks around my apartment building. More than the dirty diapers, fast food trash, and beer cans that usually decorate the property.

[A Hit With The Ladies, BSN, RN]

This is America, not North Korea, not Saudi Arabia. When the government goes around dictating what people must wear in public, we are no longer a free country but a totalitarian one.

Here in Houston, this twentysomething county judge said she'd impose a $1000 fine if people weren't wearing masks in public. Thankfully, the police said they wouldn't levy the fine. I hope our governor just overrides her and says "no fines at all" already. We don't have to all go Bubble Boy to cater to hypochondriacs in our society.

[hppygr8ful, ASN, RN, EMT-I]

As a Libertarian I resent the government interfering in the lives of law abiding citizens. That being said I wear a mask to prevent exposure to myself and the people I care about. I have been exposed and am currently trying to get a COVID test. The incredible circus act I am going through is incredible.

However my major pet peeve is people wearing gloves in public to shop or to the gas station. Unless you are changing you glove every time you touch something it's useless because you are not really protecting yourself because when you touch something with gloves then pick up something else you are still cross contaminating and bring the germ back to your home. Nurses should know this an be an example to the public

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/why-you-shouldnt-wear-gloves-to-the-grocery-store/

Hppy

[adventure_rn, MSN, NP]

Apparently they've tried mandating masks as businesses reopened in some cities, and they've had to revoke the mandate because cashiers and restaurants hosts have been getting death threats (I.e. coming back and shooting up the store). IMO, those people need to be thrown in jail.

I doubt mask mandates would fly in most parts of our country (because "this is 'Merica!"), but I really think they should.

5 hours ago, A Hit With The Ladies said:

This is America, not North Korea, not Saudi Arabia. When the government goes around dictating what people must wear in public, we are no longer a free country but a totalitarian one.

I disagree. They aren't forcing anybody to wear a mask; they're setting parameters that people have to abide by to protect others if they want to go back to their business.

Surgical masks do very little to protect the wearer from the virus, but they do protect the people others around the wearer because it prevents the wearer from unknowingly spreading the virus. It's all fine and good if you don't to wear a mask because you don't feel like it. However, you, possibly as an asymptomatic carrier, could breathe on the immunocompromised little old lady at the grocery store (even if she is wearing a mask) and still get her sick. Your decisions affect the health and safety of others.

To me, it's equivalent to mandating that all kids need vaccines in order to attend public school, or mandating that you can't drink and drive. The government doesn't force you to do either; they give you a choice. You can choose not to vaccinate your kid, or you can choose home schooling/private school. You can choose to drink or you can choose to drive.

You should have the choice to go out with a mask (and protect the most vulnerable people in our population) or choose to stay home.

Granted, @A Hit With The Ladies, I know from your prior posts you think this is just "killing off the weakest" and "culling the herd;" I'm guessing you may not feel any personal responsibility for the well-being of the little old lady at the grocery store because her death is inevitable anyway...

[InTheLongRun]

5 hours ago, caliotter3 said:

You should see all the discarded gloves and masks around my apartment building. More than the dirty diapers, fast food trash, and beer cans that usually decorate the property.

It's like they couldn't care less that sanitation workers and apt employees have gotten infected having to clean up trash let alone this stuff.

[A Hit With The Ladies, BSN, RN]

58 minutes ago, adventure_rn said:

Apparently they've tried mandating masks as businesses reopened in some cities, and they've had to revoke the mandate because cashiers and restaurants hosts have been getting death threats (I.e. coming back and shooting up the store). IMO, those people need to be thrown in jail.

I doubt mask mandates would fly in most parts of our country (because "this is 'Merica!"), but I really think they should.

I disagree. They aren't forcing anybody to wear a mask; they're setting parameters that people have to abide by to protect others if they want to go back to their business.

Surgical masks do very little to protect the wearer from the virus, but they do protect the people others around the wearer because it prevents the wearer from unknowingly spreading the virus. It's all fine and good if you don't to wear a mask because you don't feel like it. However, you, possibly as an asymptomatic carrier, could breathe on the immunocompromised little old lady at the grocery store (even if she is wearing a mask) and still get her sick. Your decisions affect the health and safety of others.

To me, it's equivalent to mandating that all kids need vaccines in order to attend public school, or mandating that you can't drink and drive. The government doesn't force you to do either; they give you a choice. You can choose not to vaccinate your kid, or you can choose home schooling/private school. You can choose to drink or you can choose to drive.

You should have the choice to go out with a mask (and protect the most vulnerable people in our population) or choose to stay home.

Granted, @A Hit With The Ladies, I know from your prior posts you think this is just "killing off the weakest" and "culling the herd;" I'm guessing you may not feel any personal responsibility for the well-being of the little old lady at the grocery store because her death is inevitable anyway...

A false equivalence. You not wearing a mask is nowhere near as dangerous to the public as drinking and driving. Enough is enough. We cannot keep catering to the rest of society forever. By next month people will stop wearing masks altogether. Which is great in my book. This is the land of the FREE and if you want to wear a mask for the rest of your life that is your choice. Individual liberty is sacrosanct here.

[InTheLongRun]

12 minutes ago, A Hit With The Ladies said:

A false equivalence. You not wearing a mask is nowhere near as dangerous to the public as drinking and driving. Enough is enough. We cannot keep catering to the rest of society forever. By next month people will stop wearing masks altogether. Which is great in my book. This is the land of the FREE and if you want to wear a mask for the rest of your life that is your choice. Individual liberty is sacrosanct here. 

I just have to ask, are you in the funeral services industry?

[A Hit With The Ladies, BSN, RN]

Nope, just an RN who believes in the American value of individual liberty.

[adventure_rn, MSN, NP]

Just now, A Hit With The Ladies said:

Nope, just an RN who believes in the American value of individual liberty.

...over the well-being of our most vulnerable members of society...

[A Hit With The Ladies, BSN, RN]

You are free to wear a mask or whatever else YOU want. Go around telling others what to wear and what to do, and you're going to have a few expletive-laden words thrown right back at ya.