Wikieup Chevron station (Sun City, Sun City West: university, to live, pool)

[fluffythewondercat]

As ever, I am mystified by the staff at the Wikieup Chevron station.

Apparently masks aren't required there and none of the staff wear them. I don't get it. I spent a full day at that Chevron station, stranded by a broken-down car, and I observed at least 95% of the customers didn't wear masks either. With Omicron on the loose, how do the staff not get infected?

Save your rants about freedoms and all that. I want to know why they are so careless with their health. Maybe they're all young and they figure they'll get Covid once, then be immune to it?

One of the women at this Chevron station did me a kindness today but I was unable to find her again later. I wanted to ask her why they work without protection.

[JGMotorsport64]

1. It’s wikieup
2. Unfortunately a lot of people all over the country just don’t care anymore. Some states it’s like 2020 (Washington for example) but most states I visit are like here. A free for all

[wit-nit]

Many people are plain irresponsible or have a death wish. This thing could have been over a year ago if everyone cooperated.

[fluffythewondercat]

So it's irrationality. A big dose of "I just don't give a damn any more. If it's going to happen, it'll happen." But so many other people feeling the same way? It seems to me they're trying to make it happen.

I don't have a death wish. I want to live, even in the way our lives are constricted. I believe there is still joy and satisfaction to be found, that there are things to live for.

I think the media needs to stop scaring us or we need to stop paying attention to it. I saw a photo on Quillette of a scientific conference that drew 30,000 people. Not one was wearing a mask. And these were scientists! Is it like this in other countries too?

[Hawk J]

Everyone is required to wear masks at the Veteran's Hospitals (VA), in Oregon. I get my care at the VA hospital in Roseburg, OR. I haven't been in a gas station lately.

[Bummer]

Unfortunately, Fluffy . . .

More disturbing is the fact that these Non-Masked GOONS are helping to spread the COVID to their family members and/or friends without even showing any symptoms themselves.

Very possibly adding to the COVID Death Toll.

VERY SAD, isn't it?

[phetaroi]

Originally Posted by fluffythewondercat

As ever, I am mystified by the staff at the Wikieup Chevron station.

Apparently masks aren't required there and none of the staff wear them. I don't get it. I spent a full day at that Chevron station, stranded by a broken-down car, and I observed at least 95% of the customers didn't wear masks either. With Omicron on the loose, how do the staff not get infected?

Save your rants about freedoms and all that. I want to know why they are so careless with their health. Maybe they're all young and they figure they'll get Covid once, then be immune to it?

One of the women at this Chevron station did me a kindness today but I was unable to find her again later. I wanted to ask her why they work without protection.

I wondered this when I went to play pool at the Sun City West bowling alley/pool hall last week. It was crowded, and I was one of those wearing a mask (actually a double mask), while about 86% were maskless. I just don't get it, particularly among a more vulnerable population.

[KurtAZ]

Or...worry about yourself and not what others are doing. Wear your mask, get your shots...According to the powers that be they aren't going to hurt you, right?

[AmazingLarry12]

Omicron will destroy us all! Fear! Panic!

[fluffythewondercat]

Originally Posted by JGMotorsport64

1. It’s wikieup

"Forget it, Jake. It's Wikieup."

I did later talk to the woman who did me a kindness -- brought me an electrolyte drink as I was about to pass out -- and she said she had been tested for Covid two days previously at KRMC. Negative. And apparently they have some kind of plexiglass shield in the register area, which I never noticed.

There is also this recent study which has yet to be peer-reviewed.

Coronavirus loses 90% of its ability to infect us within 20 minutes of becoming airborne – with most of the loss occurring within the first five minutes, the world’s first simulations of how the virus survives in exhaled air suggest.

The findings re-emphasise the importance of short-range Covid transmission, with physical distancing and mask-wearing likely to be the most effective means of preventing infection. Ventilation, though still worthwhile, is likely to have a lesser impact.

“People have been focused on poorly ventilated spaces and thinking about airborne transmission over metres or across a room. I’m not saying that doesn’t happen, but I think still the greatest risk of exposure is when you’re close to someone,” said Prof Jonathan Reid, director of the University of Bristol’s Aerosol Research Centre and the study’s lead author.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...s-in-air-study

I think this is amazing and maybe a game changer.