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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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.
Will the government mandate sunscreen? And ban "immodest" clothing like in Middle Eastern countries for "public safety" against incitement and immorality?
As you know, sunburn is not contagious and we do have guidelines for clothing.
I think what this discussion and others have shown that we are all products of our environment, the old nature versus nurture.
I do regret leaving the comment above. I was frustrated with the way the discussion was going. I think if we continue infighting we have more to worry about than to mask or not. I am willing to wear a mask to protect others and I hope others will wear masks to protect me. I can only hope others do it for humanistic reasons. I am recently retired and hope to live many more years. I do have concerns regarding my ability to survive Covid-19 as I have pulmonary fibrosis.
Mask your own damn self if you want. It's a FREE country and if you try to force people to mask up there's going to be a strong counterreaction against it.
So you admit that you feel it's your right to infect other people with a virus that can cost them illness, financial impairment or even death?
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1 hour ago, A Hit With The Ladies said:
Wearing seat belts is enough. Hell no to forced masks in public. Will the government mandate sunscreen? And ban "immodest" clothing like in Middle Eastern countries for "public safety" against incitement and immorality? Enough is enough. Mask your own damn self if you want. It's a FREE country and if you try to force people to mask up there's going to be a strong counterreaction against it.
I'm certain that as a health professional you understand the difference between catching or spreading a novel virus and getting sunburned. Similarly, I'm not a risk of catching my neighbors Carharts or North Face when we meet over at the local Spring to collect water for the animals and garden. He could, however give me COVID and I appreciate that he is wearing a mask to reassure others when they observe his smoker's cough.
We are seeing a "strong" counterreaction right now from a very small but angry subset of America. They are loudly presenting weapons and political messaging with their "protests". They don't represent the best of humanity or the USA, in the view of the majority of Americans. They are well funded though.
I wonder how committed they would be to their protests if the authorities treated them like they treated the water protesters...meeting them with dogs, rubber bullets, and icy water cannons.
So you admit that you feel it's your right to infect other people with a virus that can cost them illness, financial impairment or even death?
Before Corona, were you living in a hazmat suit 24/7 to protect all the unfortunate immunocompromised souls in our society? No? Because you believed that people at risk are responsible for their own personal safety? Hmmmm
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On 5/4/2020 at 3:13 PM, A Hit With The Ladies said:
Nope, just an RN who believes in the American value of individual liberty.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Preamble to the Declaration of Independence
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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. ___ Preamble to the United States Constitution
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Preamble to the Declaration of Independence
All white, land owner MEN were created equal.
Hey, I'm not knocking the declaration of independence.. just throwing a bit of perspective in there.
Before Corona, were you living in a hazmat suit 24/7 to protect all the unfortunate immunocompromised souls in our society? No? Because you believed that people at risk are responsible for their own personal safety? Hmmmm
So, the fact that we're in the midst of an established, highly contagious pandemic is irrelevant to you as far as changing your behavior for the protection of yourself and others then?
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9 minutes ago, A Hit With The Ladies said:
Not what I said at all. You don't get to put words into my mouth.
You have the option to clarify. In the absence of clarification, the mentioned interpretation seems reasonable. Besides, the remark addressed to your comments was a clarifying question, not a declaration.
Before Corona, were you living in a hazmat suit 24/7 to protect all the unfortunate immunocompromised souls in our society? No? Because you believed that people at risk are responsible for their own personal safety? Hmmmm
This poor “unfortunate immunocompromised soul” has and is actively contributing to the economy. I take my own personal safety seriously ... and feel safer on my COVID unit than I do in the grocery store because of attitudes like this.
Take all of us immunocompromised people out of the equation and “your” economy isn’t as bustling.
As a human being I feel a responsibility toward my fellow man to protect. This is a unique time, with a unique infectious virus that we are still in the beginning of learning about. I don’t know if that little old lady at the store is going home to her husband undergoing cancer, or that teenage boy at the register is immunocompromised with diabetes ... My husband just tested positive .. with no s/s.
Your argument is uneducated at its best, and so selfish at its worse. Your wording of us “poor immunocompromised souls?” How demeaning - Kick rocks.
Btw, comparing wearing a mask to protect others to ordering a Muslim woman in Saudi Arabia to wear her niqab is the very definition of male privilege. They’re not even comparable. Not even close.
Quarantine yourself if you're vulnerable. Nobody is dragging you out into the public to go to work if you're so scared of Coronavirus. Free country. Likewise, we don't have to cater to you.
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As you know, sunburn is not contagious and we do have guidelines for clothing.
I think what this discussion and others have shown that we are all products of our environment, the old nature versus nurture.