you runners and bikers on the lakefront who do not wear mask are ignorant (Chicago: restaurants, law)

[ChicagoMeO]

Originally Posted by Master Jay

ChicagoMeO, I was on the North Branch trail, going southeast, after the parking lot by Central Avenue. There is a real sharp curve before you turn to go up the hill, over the Metra track.


I was more worried of that guy flying around that corner than I was ever afraid of Covid!

Oh that! i never visited that.. i probably would not be able to get up the stairs.

[Master Jay]

ChicagoMeo, lucky for you they are NOT stairs! It's a ramp. Give it a shot! Just be careful of bikers with attitudes!

[Kmanshouse]

Honest to God, common sense should prevail here. It's not hard.

Putting the city in a vacuum here, because it's not the same.

I have a mask in my pocket when I go outside. I leave it off unless I am approaching people on the sidewalk. Then I throw it on for 15 seconds, take it back off when I pass by. OR, I move over to the side a few feet and leave the mask off.

Either of those things are acceptable. It's 6 feet OR the mask. Don't need both.

If you are offended at someone moving over a few feet out of courtesy, you need a therapist.

Also, I see some people walking around with a mask on the entire time they are outside. That is totally unnecessary but it doesn't affect my life, so I don't care if someone wants to do that. Just don't judge me because mine is not on my face 100% of the time.

Regarding runners - I do agree that if a runner is maskless and approaching people on the path, it is a courteous gesture to run around someone with a few feet to spare. It's not hard. I run in the streets, when I'm approaching someone I make sure to stay 6-10 feet away from them. If that means I have to *gasp* run on the grass for a few steps, so be it.

Running with a mask is just about impossible and an unrealistic ask. I'd be blind from the fog in my glasses and struggle to breathe. The better tactic is to run around people on the path as you approach.

Simple.

[Master Jay]

Kmanshouse, would you just STOP making this situation easier.?!? LOL

People need things like this to complain about!

[Kmanshouse]

Jay I am so sick of the mask arguments. The solution is so simple and so intuitive. I just can't understand why some people can't figure it out (or refuse to).

[Master Jay]

Kmanshouse, I just hope the numbers go down, they can do away with masks, and we can try to get some "normalcy"

[Bitey]

Originally Posted by Walkaboutcreek

Name calling validates one's superiority.

Yeah, they sure are punching down at the mayor, and our political class being our betters and all shouldn't have to weather the indignities of being mocked by their benighted subjects. I hope she can weather their blows raining uponher from the rabble.

Besides, everyone knows the way to REALLY validate one's superiority is to conspicuously show how you're just so above it all.

So, does anyone not as interested in posturing have an answer to the actual question I asked?

[Walkaboutcreek]

If you're asking where Groot came from I think it started on the secondcitycopblog and it references some alien character in a comic book they think she looks like. It's so juvenile hard to really explain but I hope that sheds light.

I think others adopted it here since they read it on a cop blog it makes them feel secretly like they are a cop and not an internet bad ass only. Some probably don't even know where it started and just copied their hero here to get some "rep" points. In the end it's stupid.

I have no complex, but do I think anyone who can discuss complex issues without name calling is superior to one who cannot, yes.

[Vlajos]

Originally Posted by Kmanshouse

Honest to God, common sense should prevail here. It's not hard.

Putting the city in a vacuum here, because it's not the same.

I have a mask in my pocket when I go outside. I leave it off unless I am approaching people on the sidewalk. Then I throw it on for 15 seconds, take it back off when I pass by. OR, I move over to the side a few feet and leave the mask off.

Either of those things are acceptable. It's 6 feet OR the mask. Don't need both.

If you are offended at someone moving over a few feet out of courtesy, you need a therapist.

Also, I see some people walking around with a mask on the entire time they are outside. That is totally unnecessary but it doesn't affect my life, so I don't care if someone wants to do that. Just don't judge me because mine is not on my face 100% of the time.

Regarding runners - I do agree that if a runner is maskless and approaching people on the path, it is a courteous gesture to run around someone with a few feet to spare. It's not hard. I run in the streets, when I'm approaching someone I make sure to stay 6-10 feet away from them. If that means I have to *gasp* run on the grass for a few steps, so be it.

Running with a mask is just about impossible and an unrealistic ask. I'd be blind from the fog in my glasses and struggle to breathe. The better tactic is to run around people on the path as you approach.

Simple.

This, 100%. I just move away from people. It's way easier than wearing a mask.

[Bitey]

Originally Posted by Walkaboutcreek

If you're asking where Groot came from I think it started on the secondcitycopblog and it references some alien character in a comic book they think she looks like. It's so juvenile hard to really explain but I hope that sheds light.

I think others adopted it here since they read it on a cop blog it makes them feel secretly like they are a cop and not an internet bad ass only. Some probably don't even know where it started and just copied their hero here to get some "rep" points. In the end it's stupid.

I have no complex, but do I think anyone who can discuss complex issues without name calling is superior to one who cannot, yes.

Right, I think I get it. Mocking a powerful elected official, though part of our political traditions dating back to the Colonial era, is not OK. But mocking everyday Joes who read a blog and borrow one of its idiosyncratic references is OK.

I'm definitely starting to see the superiority of it all.