[Gulfcoast]

Originally Posted by Pairadocs

I agree, just be polite ! I also do NOT understand this whole "mask thing" at all. Help must wear them )according to some people, not according to laws). But what I don't understand is the people going to the restaurants are asked to have masks on to enter, then may take them off to eat. Is the virus then instructed that it is NOT to pass to the severs who bring the food from the unmasked people who are going to eat it ? HOW does the virus know NOT to infect the people while they are eating ? Does the virus know when those eating then pay and put their masks back on that the "time out" is now over and the virus can go back to attacking people ? Same thing with the face shields that are completely open on the top and all around. Does the virus really know it is not allowed to enter all this open space ? So if it is floating in the air at the grocery from the person who went down the isle a few moments before, and sneezed, how does it know NOT to settle on the face of the person with the big piece of plastic in front of their face with nothing but open space all around ? I don't even know how a microbe is trapped by a piece of quilting cotton from JoAnn's with Disney characters on it. Don't read this wrong, I am NOT refusing to do it, I had a family member who died in the 1918 flu epidemic, but I just can't see how the virus can keep straight what and especially WHEN, it can and can not "attack". When I sit in a restaurant and see the people at the next table take off their masks, eat, talk with friends, laugh, even cough and giggle, in other words, acting perfectly normal, I wonder, does the virus know it can not spread at that moment ? What about when the servers can not make themselves understood and pull down their masks to speak, just like the cab drivers, and others, like normal people.... does the virus know and pay attention ?

But, but, but....the experts say that these homemade cloth masks save lives. Surely that must be true .