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One encouraging sign; last night we went to a night club to hear my wife's cousin sing. Only three people, including the pianist, were masked. The place was well-attended. I don't think I saw any outdoor masking. Maybe the mentality is fading away, even the shaming.
If you go to younger crowd events, like parties, concerts, and night clubs, no one has been wearing masks for about a year now.
All kicks and giggles regarding face masks aside, what makes Covid very very hard to eradicate is the fact that it has spread out of control globally for over two years. This virus started in China and should've stayed in China!
Let's think about this hypothetically for a minute... let’s say the U.S. manages to do a great job and manages to completely eradicate Covid from the country. That’s great, but the virus is still spreading in Africa, China, Korea, UK, Canada, etc. So if people are traveling from those countries to the U.S., then the virus will recirculate in the U.S. again. And that’s essentially what’s been going on these past two years, where people are bringing in new variants from other countries and we go through wave after wave.
Thinking about this logically, the ONLY way to really eradicate this virus once and for all is for each country to completely close its borders to prevent further global spread. But we all know that will never ever happen. So, we are screwed.
So whether face masks really work or not may not be what's so important right now. The question is, how do we get every country on the same page and work together so we can combat this virus globally? That's impossible because one country cannot tell another country what to do.
And this is concerning. We are lucky that Covid is beginning to turn into something benign. What would happen if one day we get introduced to a virus that's very contagious and actually very deadly? We couldn't combat something simple like Covid, so how will be prepare for another pandemic that might actually be very deadly? And that's what worries me...
One encouraging sign; last night we went to a night club to hear my wife's cousin sing. Only three people, including the pianist, were masked. The place was well-attended. I don't think I saw any outdoor masking. Maybe the mentality is fading away, even the shaming.
If you go to younger crowd events, like parties, concerts, and night clubs, no one has been wearing masks for about a year now.
The audience was a mix of 20's through 60's. FWIW I am 65, my wife 61.
209 people in the U.S. are dying of covid each day in June 2022.
I wonder how many posters, if any, on this forum have died?
So wear a mask, don't wear a mask. It is your choice. They may or may not be protective.
Wash your hands 20 times a day or don't, your choice.
Funny addendum: I was shopping Home Depot last week...my microwave went Poof.
They had a sale on a HUGE pile of gallon bottles of Purell type alcohol gel. "Formerly $28, SALE $.50"
For a fleeting moment I wondered if they would make a decent slightly gelled-martini.
209 people in the U.S. are dying of covid each day in June 2022.
I wonder how many posters, if any, on this forum have died?
So wear a mask, don't wear a mask. It is your choice. They may or may not be protective.
Wash your hands 20 times a day or don't, your choice.
Funny addendum: I was shopping Home Depot last week...my microwave went Poof.
They had a sale on a HUGE pile of gallon bottles of Purell type alcohol gel. "Formerly $28, SALE $.50"
For a fleeting moment I wondered if they would make a decent slightly gelled-martini.
They prolly were about to expire, thats y so cheap
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They prolly were about to expire, thats y so cheap
How does nearly pure ethyl alcohol expire?"
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