It’s important to note that the mask is far more effective in stopping the wearer from transmitting a virus than it is in stopping the wearer from contracting a virus.
High risk individuals rely on others wearing their mask to protect them from infection. Those people will effectively be relegated to their homes through the virus season if they want to remain safe. Hopefully they have the money to pay for deliveries for the season.
I can’t believe we are you still have to explain this in 2024. I have zero faith in humanity left, aside from Luigi ofc.
It’s important to note that the mask is far more effective in stopping the wearer from transmitting a virus than it is in stopping the wearer from contracting a virus.
While this is generally true, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that a properly-fitted respirator provides very good protection. Even more so if it’s an elastomeric with P100 filters (99.97% PFE with absurdly high fit factors).
But…
You’re absolutely right, if everyone would consistently wear at least an earloop respirator like a KF94 or KN95 — even if the quality is a bit sketchy and even if the fit is less than ideal — that would cut down on viral particulate emissions a great deal and task your own respirator with orders of magnitude less particulate to filter out.
Yep I’ve had a cold all last week and have been masking up for my grocery runs. It’s just about being a decent human being.
It’s important to note that the mask is far more effective in stopping the wearer from transmitting a virus than it is in stopping the wearer from contracting a virus.
It’s more effective for others to wear them than for you to wear them. But it is still beneficial to wear a mask outside when you’re at risk of contagion, assuming you pair it with hand sanitizer and other preventative measures.
Those people will effectively be relegated to their homes through the virus season if they want to remain safe.
At some point, telling people not to leave their homes if they want any kind of safety, but denying them access to medical equipment because it makes you feel unsafe only serves to deflect responsibility from the able-bodied to the vulnerable.
It would be like telling people in wheelchairs that ramps make me feel clumsy so you just shouldn’t leave your house if you want full mobility.
Anti-maskers are like 6 year olds throwing a tantrum because you’re making them eat broccoli.
More like because you’re eating broccoli.
If it’s a complete mask ban, then it’s more like they’re throwing a tantrum because you’re eating broccoli.
Those who oppose it for themselves during a pandemic are just children refusing to do their part to help others.
Those who oppose it for others are sex perverts. They oppose masks solely because they want to be able to see the faces of random people in the street so they can commit them to memory and later masturbate to them. Really they belong on the sex offender registry.
Umm… You should talk to someone.
Found the sex pervert!
Since you’re acting like a child, I don’t feel as silly saying this thought that came to mind while reading your absurd take:
“Takes one to know one!”
They know, they don’t care.
American individualist propaganda has a load of people believing they’re free to do whatever the fuck they like, and fuck anyone who tries to stop them.
Selflessness is a rejected concept to them, they will never productively participate in a community of people.
Individualism for me, fashion police for you!
damn you just made some gears spin in my head
I think capitalism promotes “individualism” because the alternative is selflessness which means more money spent for the greater good of society
It took a long time, but one day, the term “human capital” finally clicked in my head and I couldn’t stop mulling it over until I realized how insanely fucked up it is. What are the humans? Capital. What is the capital? Humans. Human. Capital. And we’re so blase about it.
Whatever the fuck I like includes wearing masks. Also dresses. Fight me.
Seems like you could get this shit struck down by challenging it in court based on the ADA
not with republican filled courts lol
Stop talking about selflessness, start talking about selfishness, because wearing a mask is perfectly selfish. Yes it’s selfless, too, of course. But not wearing one isn’t selfish, it’s just dumb. If they were competent and proactive at selfishness they’d be aggressively demanding that everybody wear masks.
The mayor of NYC is talking about it because of Luigi. My brother in Christ, Luigi doesn’t care about your mask ban.
Ok, Mayor Adams, you’re in favor of a mask ban.
So anyway, back to what we were talking about, why haven’t you resigned despite being indicted for corruption and influence-peddling?
Just start coughing. NYC remembers 2020.
is this under the assumption that this isn’t the point? they’re fascists, getting rid of disabled people is on brand and purposeful.
reminder that the party of “death panels will kill your grandma if anyone gets affordable healthcare” actively called for the death of grandmas when they didn’t want to be inconvenienced by a piece of cloth over their mouth.
lets turn this around on them. they aren’t banning masks… they’re banning Halloween.
they’re trying to cancel Halloween! what’s next, Christmas?!
Given the popularity of anti mask overlapping with fundamentalist they would ban Halloween. Possibility even Christmas as the only holiday we are authorized to celebrate is the Lord’s Day, Sunday.
It’s also permissible to celebrate the 4th of July when Jesus came down from Heaven with the Constitution on stone tablets and gave them to the founding fathers.
they aren’t banning masks… they’re banning Halloween.
I’m more than confident that the NYPD will make an exception for something that’s lucrative to Big Business. The issue is that medical masks outside of one day in October aren’t highly profitable, while CCTV cameras on every corner and AI facial recognition running across a thousand enormous data centers absolutely is.
Can’t justify the enormous state investment in spying if these high profile assassinations demonstrate the holes in the system. So we just make masks illegal (except on the one day when it makes businesses money) and tell people with weak immune systems to eat shit.
I’ll make an exception for police who aren’t in my field of vision to live.
Banning masks only serves to increase the overreach of our surveillance state.
Freedom
Private property
This is clearly a proposition intended to remove anonymity from any future shooters in NYC.
You saw the camera footage. It’s as watched as CCTV in London, apparently.
who is banning masks?
Likely Trump when bird flu or mpox goes pandemic.
did he say that though?
Are you trying to suggest that what Trump says he’ll do and what he does are bound by some code of honour or something? That he tells the truth in advance? That he’s honest about his agenda? That he doesn’t just make up shit on the spot like “inject bleach” that strikes him as a good idea at the time in his tiny brain? That’s really not my experience last time round. Outside of a few ideas that he stuck with, whim and unpredictability are the hallmarks of a Trump administration. You never knew what was coming next. Why would we know now?
ill wait and see with him. hes a geriatric tv host.
He’s also the most famously prolific liar on the planet. He genuinely doesn’t care whether it’s true, it’s just not a factor for him, he just cares what saying it can achieve for him.
im aware. I just don’t like jumping to conclusions.
The last Trump presidency wasn’t enough evidence for you?
Also means ridding the world of many of the idiots that espouse such action
This is not a meme.
Check the sidebar.
microblogmemes is meant to be a whitepeopletwitter alternative that doesn’t divide based on race. There’s no rule about it needing to be funny or a joke.
I will continue calling out the political soapboxing here for as long as I either get banned or they change the name of the community.
It seems like you only call out certain political soapboxing. I wonder why that might be?
Because of my hidden agenda against disabled people ofcourse.
You literally can’t change the name of a community.
People used to say this about subreddits too.
It’s a silly thing to say. Communities and subreddits aren’t files you can rename on a whim.
Then perhaps we should just make a community for screenshots of political twitter posts and keep the meme communities for memes.
Or perhaps saying you’ll keep soapboxing until the impossible happens is silly.
I waste my time on pettier things than that.
Soapboxing until the impossible happens is literally what you said you were going to waste your time on:
I will continue calling out the political soapboxing here for as long as I either get banned or they change the name of the community.
You apparently have a poor memory.
Weird, but ok.
Are these “people banning masks” in the room with you right now?
In all seriousness, I wear masks when I go anywhere where there is high traffic and I’ve never even so much as gotten an angry gaze from anyone. I don’t think anyone would enforce such laws or initiatives.
Might vary from locale to locale
some folks on here are very paranoid and might suffer from severe anxiety disorder. They were saying how its draconian for your boss to ask for a doctors note and to fire you if you missed work.
