Originally Posted by Curtisbwp (Post 1862867)

Why would you ask. I don't care who wears what. I protect myself, that is my responsibility.

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 1862983)

Then WHY are ALL the medical professionals on TV BEGGING US people to wear their masks? And how else can anyone explain why the US with its under 5% of the world's population be CAUSING 19 % of the world's DEATHS. I am thinking that not wearing masks is causing ALL the out --proportioned US DEATHS.

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 1862995)

How would we know that, since we have NOT tried that?

Originally Posted by Gulfcoast (Post 1862916)

You did not wear the same mask all day long. No you did not. Nor were you wearing homemade cloth masks. You were in a sterile environment, wearing medical grade masks and you were regularly washing your hands and switching out your gloves and your masks.

I'm not picking on you but it truly troubles me when medical people make these kinds of comparisons.

Originally Posted by coffeebean (Post 1863009)

I first heard about aerosols lingering in the air from the CDC.

CDC Says Coronavirus Might Be Adrift in Indoor Air - The New York Times

Originally Posted by Gulfcoast (Post 1862921)

Is it true that a gym or grocery store is a sterile environment? Is it true that homemade cloth masks are sterile and as high a quality as medical grade masks? Is it safe for a cashier to be wearing/touching/adjusting a non sterile, non medical grade cloth mask all day long while scanning merchandise that has been touched by multiple hands?

Originally Posted by coffeebean (Post 1863024)

My aunt was an OR nurse for many years. She did wear a mask for hours on end in the OR. I can only report what she told me and I have no reason to doubt her word.

Originally Posted by coffeebean (Post 1863029)

I don't worry anymore about who has touched my merchandise in a grocery store. I've long stopped wiping every single grocery item down with sanitizer once it was stated by the CDC that the virus is not primarily transmitted by touching a surface. I do not ever touch my face with unwashed hands so I have no worry there. It has also been stated by the CDC that food does not transmit the virus so, no, I'm not concerned if people adjust their masks with their hands.

I do, however, wash apples that will not be cooked. It just makes me feel better to do that.

Originally Posted by mneumann02 (Post 1862931)

Thanks for giving us the facts with the appropriate source. Unfortunately, some people just refuse to accept the truth about how dangerous this pandemic is. e.g., they believe it is no worse than the flu. Even more unfortunately, they do not take the precautions the rest of us do, which leads to even more spreading of the disease.

Originally Posted by Number 10 GI (Post 1862955)

Totally untrue, masks cannot and will not stop the spread of the virus.

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 1863007)

The Villages have about everything open, Not on the advice of medical experts. It is open because it was decreed that way by our big-time state tribal leader called a Governor. And this tribal leader has allegiance to ...........something? Out West and in the northern mid-west, the CV is raging and their rec centerlike places called gyms are closing down, and indoor restaurants are closing.

In reality, as a conclusion - we are living in a time period called "before CV and after CV". TV Land has been lucky so far. And some are looking ahead to a vaccine to put all of the broken Humpty-dumpty of America back together again. I predict that that does NOT go smoothly - NOTHING in life goes smoothly. The rec center question is just a microcosm of the greater macro forces of a national nature!

Originally Posted by Number 10 GI (Post 1862959)

The other day at my doctor's office the nurse checked my oxygen level as well as BP, pulse, etc. My oxygen level was 89. She told me to pull up my mask and take a couple breaths, my oxygen went up to it's normal 98. She said that she was seeing that a lot of people had low oxygen levels wearing masks. She has been a RN for a few decades now, so is she a liar?

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter (Post 1862901)

A simple question that could be answered with a phone call has once again turned into a debate on mask use. This debate appears to never have a conclusion.......

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 1862977)

The US has less than 5% of the world's population. It has 19 % of the world's death. That suggests to me that the US has done SOMETHING(?) wrong! Since mask-wearing is the best available response that epidemiologists have STRONGLY suggested to us to do - and since most of we Americans have been propagandized toward not wearing masks - we of TV Land need to talk it out over and over until the CORRECT and unpropagandized message gets through. It is difficult to drill through the hardened layers of propaganda that have clouded the minds of zombiezed Americans. The goal of LIFE, liberty, and happiness starts with LIFE simply because you can't have liberty and happiness when you are DEAD!

I guess unless you maybe believe in reincarnation?

Originally Posted by coffeebean (Post 1863009)

I first heard about aerosols lingering in the air from the CDC.

CDC Says Coronavirus Might Be Adrift in Indoor Air - The New York Times