Many people are desperately afraid of “forever masking.”
I'm afraid of #COVID19 remaining a top five cause of death indefinitely.
I'm scared COVID will leave billions with lasting damage to their heart, brains, and immune systems.
I'm frightened that children infected three, four or nine times will have lifelong health issues.
I'm worried that a rapidly mutating virus could yet spin off a deadly new variant.
Why is it so hard to do something so simple to possibly save a life? #WearAMask
I feel the same way. Masks aren't hard to wear people. Loss of health and life are hard.
@Snarkycounsel @augieray They underestimated the stupidity of people. They should have simplified it to terms stupidios could understand.
Do you want to wear a $1 mask for maybe one to several hours a day.
Or do you want to wear a humongous medical bill that will financially ruin you for life?
I'll take $1 mask for reducing my chance of getting financially ruin by a medical bill from getting covid and long covid.
You are so right. If the narrative changed and it was about money, they might just start paying better attention. Because we know they don't care about their fellow humans.
@jd1515151 @Snarkycounsel @augieray
A $1 mask isn't really very effective. We got some $10 3M N99 equivalent masks, and those are amazing - you can feel the suction at the edges.
If we're going to be ostracized, might as well do it in style. 😄
@TomSwirly @jd1515151 @augieray
I tried the 3M masks and they are like suction cups for your mouth. :) My go to though has always been the KN95. I have been wearing those since 2020. And escaped Covid both times my boss brought it to the office.
@Snarkycounsel @TomSwirly @augieray
I haven't had any problems with the Honeywell N95 masks.
@TomSwirly @Snarkycounsel @augieray
You can get Honeywell N95 masks on Amazon.com a box of 20 for $21. That is where the $1 figure comes from.
@jd1515151 @TomSwirly @augieray
I didn't know this. I've been overpaying. Thanks :)
Where do you shop for inexpensive N95 masks?
A child born today, with today's lack of precautions in school and daycare would have to be expected to contract COVID upwards of 40 times by college, right? I don't see how that child survives that.
Seems like a lot of people are just waiting for the magic science pill that makes it all go away....which is really no different than people who are "concerned" about climate change but believe scientists will solve the problem any minute now without them having to do anything. Scientific wishful thinking.
Couldn't be more spot on. I say that to people all the time, too!
1)I doubt they'll survive. I'm not sure that a single exposure is survivable. SARS survivors were pretty messed up at 10 years, and a good chunk died between 10 and 20 years. IPF-like pulmonary fibrosis was common among survivors.
CTL remediation is severely impaired. It's almost like HPVs 16 & 18 in that regard, and they're long term killers.
The nucleocapsid protein is highly pernicious. If N is constantly being introduced into the interstitial spaces by infected donor cells
There's certainly both vaccines available as well as masks/ventilation. Unfortunately the vaccine's not sterilizing and only lowers your chances of long COVID about 15%.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01453-0
However, yes, to your point, vaccines(hopefully better ones down the road) as well as masks and ventilation would make a huge difference if everyone used all of it. People would largely rather assume nothing bad will happen to them and then wait for science to fix it once it does, though.
@BE @augieray
What do you want people to do?
71% of carbon emissions is coming from 100 companies. We can't "personal responsibility" our way out of this. I try to reduce my contribution, but my contribution is a sliver of that remaining 29% shared by the rest of the world.
Those 100 companies won't change their ways unless the government forces them to, and they have bought off many of the most powerful countries' governments.
I'm 100% not going to turn another person's COVID thread into a carbon emissions thread, but I'll gladly agree that it does depend on whether you believe that the US(~13% of emissions, but the highest per capita) should lead the way toward a more green future, or whether you believe that China(26% of global emissions, but 4th per capita) should.
Love to discuss either DM or in another thread anytime. It's a good discussion that should be had.
I'm going from the idea that most of the top companies in the list you're talking about are power plants, if I remember correctly, and their output, I think, can be thought of largely in the "personal responsibility" category. But, yeah, personal responsibility isn't going to solve it all, but neither is politics. There's some mix of both required.
I hate wearing them. The stupid elastic catches in my hair. It wasn't so bad when I thought cloth masks were safe enough, but the paper N95s are just ugly.
*** I WEAR ONE EVERY SINGLE TIME I GO OUTSIDE MY HOUSE. ***
Because it's not about my personal annoyance with the blasted things. It's about the fact that they save people's health and lives, including my own.
And that's more important than my hair looking stupid when I'm grocery shopping.
@augieray I saw people wearing masks in Asia in the early 80’s. I was told, ‘maybe they have a cold, they don’t want to spread it.’ Another answer was: ‘air pollution is a problem so some people wear masks for protection’
It baffled me from Day One that a lot of ‘Muricans refuse to wear masks to avoid a highly contagious, possibly fatal, disease
@augieray most of society literally drives around in as powered cars, exacerbating bad air quality, cancer rates, benzine poisoning, asthma, etc, all while spewing brake dust that is wiping out fish species (like Salmon), plus causing 200-400k injuries that leave people permanently disabled in some way on top of the 35-45k killed. In addition, they're one of the biggest causes of ecosystem destruction and pushing the world toward climate extinction yet almost nothing is done...
so...
@augieray all that to say, I'm absolutely not surprised we're barely doing a thing in the US about COVID considering we do nothing that has even greater existential threat to our species and would pose very little actual problems if we started moving society AWAY from it...
and even amidst that, electric cars aren't a solution to barely any of the aforementioned existential problems. They're still pushing us over the cliff.
and cars are just one of the massive problems...
@augieray I worry that the question they want to ask with impunity is this one: "Whose lives are we talking about saving here?"
I'm going to keep on masking in my public travels anyway.
@augieray For a great many reasons but mainly ignorance, stupidity and money.
But I'm with you.
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