Thomas Jefferson WOULD wear a mask.

If living were easy
then the rich would live
and the poor would die !

Dr. Fauci is the expert and he says he believes a vaccine is a matter of “when and not if.” When we have the vaccine is when I feel safe socializing again. I don't feel safe now. There are too many selfish people running around without masks, putting everyone else at risk.

Thanks for all the fish....Dude.

Ah. Assumptions assumptions assumptions. I go shopping - Home Depot, Lowe’s, Walmart. I go to restaurants. I go to country club breezeways and drink and listen to music. Ride my motorcycle and bicycle. However I do take precautions - wear a mask and practice social distancing. I love it when a post is responded to not based on its content but based on the respondent’s need for hyperbole. So I’ll say it again. Those who don’t like masks will definitely not like ventilators. Personally I don’t like masks. They itch my nose and make me sweat. But if there’s any possibility to avoid the ventilator I’ll suffer the inconvenience. And quite frankly I don’t think I’m missing anything by wearing one. And those around me are definitely benefiting because they don’t get to see my ugly face or have to endure my bad breath.

Your test showing you don't have the virus is only good for the time the test was taken. Anyone with a negative test is still subject to acquiring the virus anytime after that test was taken--whether its 2 days, 2 weeks, or 2 months later.

Likewise the temperature check being used frequently does not really test whether a person is positive. One can be asymptomatic and be positive with no fever at the time the temperature is taken. We used to use universal precautions to assume every patient was carrying a contagious disease, and use infection control guidelines accordingly.

My wife and I use "universal precautions" with Covid-19 and assume everyone is an asymptomatic carrier. Outdoors, we social distance. Indoors, we mask to protect others and minimize our risk. We will resume normal lifestyle once there is an effective vaccine. We are not living like hermits, but we do not socialize without social distancing.

Been hanging out shoulder to shoulder with friends and neighbors since phase I.

Yes.
 

When it becomes "the norm" for folks, that's us, to be responsible about staying home when we're sick, or think we may be, and for the rest of us to call out those who violate this practice. Of particular concern to me is those who NEED to go to work, even though they know they're too sick to be out. There needs to be a way for them to stay home, responsibly, and still provide for themselves or their family. Not an easy fix.

Hope that's right about vaccine.

There you go again, trying to dispel the cloud of ignorance.

And phase 5 might find a few people in Heaven.

Better tax laws could fix it. Laws as in 1950 when the US was #1 and NOT in CV.

Only wimps and those "touchy-feely" types, that actually think of others and not just themselves...wear masks. :oops:

In which case, if your own insecurity is that great, I consider it a badge of honor and am proud...to be called a "wimp." :thumbup:



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Yep. :thumbup:

Oftentimes the poorest/most vulnerable, who provide services for those of us who can afford to hunker down, just also seem to be...the most "essential." :ohdear:

A safe an effective vaccine, or the mutation of the disease into something more manageable. Maybe all the young beach bums are doing us a favor. As more and more of them catch, pass on, and catch again the Covid virus, perhaps it will mutate into a less harmful disease. Meanwhile, may the Lord bless them, and keep them, far away from me.