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Apple Requiring Retail Employees in Some Regions to Wear Masks, Other Employees Encouraged to Do So
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You are correct. I should have been more clear that I was including a decreased period of spread and recovery time.
Wait. It sounds like you are saying you wear it because it makes other people feel better when you wear it. Are you saying you don't always look for a reason to get in an argument? What a totally reasonable and socially appropriate way of recognizing other people's concerns. Imagine if everyone did things for others for no other reason than it reduced others' anxiety and concerns.
What about people who hate wearing masks or feel intimidated by them? Screw them, huh?
"Everyone" most certainly did NOT wear masks for 15 months - that's one of the big reasons why COVID is still a thing. If everyone from the top on down had just gone along 100% with the advice of the medical professionals and epidemiologists from the start, several hundred thousand people wouldn't have had to die from this plague. But no! Muh freedums!
We’re going in circles here. Mask compliance in Japan and the Philippines was over 98% for a period of over 12 months, and yet COVID keeps spreading in both places. Are the Japanese a bunch of dumb MAGA mouth-breathers?
Wow, COVID deaths could have been zero? Then why did no one care about 80,000 flu deaths in 2019? Did the epidemiologists not have a genius plan for saving those 80,000 people (in the U.S. alone)?
Wrong. In the US, there are two groups who are not vaccinated. There are people who can't get vaccinated for medical reasons (immuno-compromised and such), who would gladly take the vaccine if only they could. And then there are the selfish idiots who get their "information" from facebook or other rampant sources of misinformation, who willfully choose to ignore the advice of epidemiologists and other medical professionals.
Of course not. We should treat their concerns with the same respect we have for those with seatbelts or helmet discomfort.
Honestly I would love to have seen Apple market helpful means for online collaboration, or even enhance existing tools to compete. Like Zoom is HUGE right now - it would be really cool to see FaceTime expanded as a more platform-agnostic tool (like being able to initiate or run FaceTime natively from a PC or android).
In other words, screw them.
Two-year-old doesn’t want to wear a mask on a three-hour flight? Screw him and his family. They can stay home.
The COVID fanatics are nothing but petty tyrants.
People cared. That's why they have this thing they roll out every year called the flu vaccine and encourage everyone to get it. Hell, Target will give you a gift card to get it. Not as many people die of the flu then of COVID of course, which is why they are more concerned. And why they developed this thing called the COVID vaccine. And encouraged everyone to get it.
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Unfortunately it’s not true. The “wear mask” rule doesn’t take effect if just one hundredth of the people don’t STRICTLY follow it. To my observation, there have been always a lot more occasions than 1% that people either don’t wear their masks or don’t FULLY cover their noses, which is essentially not wearing it.
So many home-schooled epidemiologists here spouting nonsense.
Cracks me up!
Cracks me up!
I think nobody minds one group to think the other group is stupid, vice versa.
Problem arisen when one forces the other to do something for their perceived good.
We should do what we think is good. Not force others to comply into our view of the world.
No problem with war of words. But definitely will not allow it go be compelled under the threat of physical or financial violence (eg. government mandates)
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Stop with the bickering and keep it civil.
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Stop with the bickering and keep it civil.
The “experts” haven’t exactly covered themselves in glory.
Last Tuesday, me and my two kids attended our first Today at Apple at Apple Cherry Creek in Denver. When we showed up, one of the crew approached us and said “sorry, but we just learned that we have to start asking customers to wear masks again.”
“Not a problem - sounds like things might be ramping back up.”
Point for sharing? If Apple’s moving that way, it’s only a matter of to me before we return to more lock down-ish protocol, nationally.
“Not a problem - sounds like things might be ramping back up.”
Point for sharing? If Apple’s moving that way, it’s only a matter of to me before we return to more lock down-ish protocol, nationally.
Apple was among the last to lift the mask mandate. Not surprising they’re quick to put it back in place.
Yeah, better repeat what happened in 2020 then.
We can’t see the virus, so virus won’t hurt us. Got it.
“Freedom day in a free country yay!”
There’s far more evidence to support that cloth masks don’t work or have negligible impact at best. NY, NJ and CA which had the some of the strictest lockdowns and mask mandates have some of the highest infection rates and deaths per capita. States like TX and FL opened a year earlier and had a very loose mask policy, yet fared much better in many respects.
Besides, why are people still demanding other people wear masks? Just get vaccinated! If they don’t trust the vaccines, why are these same people demanding people get vaccinated? It’s a vicious circle of virtue signaling, with no basis in logic, science, reality, or common sense.
Everyone should watch Fear and Social Control. They might see some parallels to what’s happening today.
Maybe because virus always give zero f’s about bickering and in-fight in human society?
Wonder which government love to see their citizens body piling on their streets.
Viruses that are 0.3 microns in diameter also give zero f’s about masks rated to 3 microns.
This isn’t hard.