please wear your masks

hedonist

HughFreakingDillon said:

that's not what I was saying, but if that's how you took it, so be it. very cynical and negative spin on it.

It’s not a spin, it’s my opinion.

I don’t like assholes. I generally won’t make excuses for them.

Not too difficult to get, right? 

F Me In The Brain

hedonist said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

that's not what I was saying, but if that's how you took it, so be it. very cynical and negative spin on it.

It’s not a spin, it’s my opinion.

I don’t like assholes. I generally won’t make excuses for them.

Not too difficult to get, right? 

I share that opinion.

OP, I am sorry that you have to endure this.  People can be awful ^&%@s and about half of the population is miserable and will do anything that they can to cause others pain. 

OnWis97

I'm curious about where this store is. (state, city/suburbs/rural...) I go to exactly one grocery store now (Lunds in Highland Park for those who know the Twin Cities; I used to rotate a couple others in). Why? Because the adherence to the mask mandate is 99.99%. On most trips, I don't even see a nose out. It's amazing and as I'm trying to get through the last few months to my vaccination, this is the environment I want to be in.  Then I go to Target and I see noses out all over, a customer pulling her mask down to complain at the cashier, and I get a taste of what I would bet is going on at most stores these days.

God people like the OP is talking about piss me off. We're just trying to get through (speaking for myself, anyway) to the point where we've all had the opportunity to be vaccinated and these people are endangering us out of displaced anger and spite.  And not an ounce of compassion for the people who spend their full days coming in contact with the public.  You want to scream that restaurants should be open and those rights supersede trying to combat this, fine. But to openly risk exposure to provide a point and to be so (willfully, in my opinion) ignorant is just fucked up and these are not good people.

Halifax2TheMax

OnWis97 said:

I'm curious about where this store is. (state, city/suburbs/rural...) I go to exactly one grocery store now (Lunds in Highland Park for those who know the Twin Cities; I used to rotate a couple others in). Why? Because the adherence to the mask mandate is 99.99%. On most trips, I don't even see a nose out. It's amazing and as I'm trying to get through the last few months to my vaccination, this is the environment I want to be in.  Then I go to Target and I see noses out all over, a customer pulling her mask down to complain at the cashier, and I get a taste of what I would bet is going on at most stores these days.

God people like the OP is talking about piss me off. We're just trying to get through (speaking for myself, anyway) to the point where we've all had the opportunity to be vaccinated and these people are endangering us out of displaced anger and spite.  And not an ounce of compassion for the people who spend their full days coming in contact with the public.  You want to scream that restaurants should be open and those rights supersede trying to combat this, fine. But to openly risk exposure to provide a point and to be so (willfully, in my opinion) ignorant is just fucked up and these are not good people.

Deplorable, some might say.

hedonist

OnWis97 said:

I'm curious about where this store is. (state, city/suburbs/rural...) I go to exactly one grocery store now (Lunds in Highland Park for those who know the Twin Cities; I used to rotate a couple others in). Why? Because the adherence to the mask mandate is 99.99%. On most trips, I don't even see a nose out. It's amazing and as I'm trying to get through the last few months to my vaccination, this is the environment I want to be in.  Then I go to Target and I see noses out all over, a customer pulling her mask down to complain at the cashier, and I get a taste of what I would bet is going on at most stores these days.

God people like the OP is talking about piss me off. We're just trying to get through (speaking for myself, anyway) to the point where we've all had the opportunity to be vaccinated and these people are endangering us out of displaced anger and spite.  And not an ounce of compassion for the people who spend their full days coming in contact with the public.  You want to scream that restaurants should be open and those rights supersede trying to combat this, fine. But to openly risk exposure to provide a point and to be so (willfully, in my opinion) ignorant is just fucked up and these are not good people.

Second paragraph, really well-said. 

HughFreakingDillon

hedonist said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

that's not what I was saying, but if that's how you took it, so be it. very cynical and negative spin on it.

It’s not a spin, it’s my opinion.

I don’t like assholes. I generally won’t make excuses for them.

Not too difficult to get, right? 

i didn't think my point was difficult to get either, but here we are. 

hedonist

HughFreakingDillon said:

hedonist said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

that's not what I was saying, but if that's how you took it, so be it. very cynical and negative spin on it.

It’s not a spin, it’s my opinion.

I don’t like assholes. I generally won’t make excuses for them.

Not too difficult to get, right? 

i didn't think my point was difficult to get either, but here we are. 

Dead horse, man. 

JeBurkhardt

With all due respect and sympathy to the families and friends of people who have lost loved ones to COVID, to me one of the worst things that has happened during this pandemic, and honestly even before it, is the loss of empathy that people have. Many people just don't care how their actions affect others. No one wants to wear a mask or social distance, but when you realize that you have the potential to infect someone and not even know you are doing it, it should guide how you act. I get that a lot of people don't like wearing masks, but they are really not the burden that people make them out to be. My experience is that most of the people I am around that don't wear them do so because they won't be told what to do. 

dankind

JeBurkhardt said:

With all due respect and sympathy to the families and friends of people who have lost loved ones to COVID, to me one of the worst things that has happened during this pandemic, and honestly even before it, is the loss of empathy that people have. Many people just don't care how their actions affect others. No one wants to wear a mask or social distance, but when you realize that you have the potential to infect someone and not even know you are doing it, it should guide how you act. I get that a lot of people don't like wearing masks, but they are really not the burden that people make them out to be. My experience is that most of the people I am around that don't wear them do so because they won't be told what to do. 

And this generation of children coming up (Z? Alpha?) collectively sacrificed a year of their childhoods to bear witness to how goddamn shitty these previous generations behave and how their actions/inaction have set them up for incredibly challenging future. 

Americans really are exceptional.

F Me In The Brain

dankind said:

JeBurkhardt said:

With all due respect and sympathy to the families and friends of people who have lost loved ones to COVID, to me one of the worst things that has happened during this pandemic, and honestly even before it, is the loss of empathy that people have. Many people just don't care how their actions affect others. No one wants to wear a mask or social distance, but when you realize that you have the potential to infect someone and not even know you are doing it, it should guide how you act. I get that a lot of people don't like wearing masks, but they are really not the burden that people make them out to be. My experience is that most of the people I am around that don't wear them do so because they won't be told what to do. 

And this generation of children coming up (Z? Alpha?) collectively sacrificed a year of their childhoods to bear witness to how goddamn shitty these previous generations behave and how their actions/inaction have set them up for incredibly challenging future. 

Americans really are exceptional.

#truth

JeBurkhardt

dankind said:

JeBurkhardt said:

With all due respect and sympathy to the families and friends of people who have lost loved ones to COVID, to me one of the worst things that has happened during this pandemic, and honestly even before it, is the loss of empathy that people have. Many people just don't care how their actions affect others. No one wants to wear a mask or social distance, but when you realize that you have the potential to infect someone and not even know you are doing it, it should guide how you act. I get that a lot of people don't like wearing masks, but they are really not the burden that people make them out to be. My experience is that most of the people I am around that don't wear them do so because they won't be told what to do. 

And this generation of children coming up (Z? Alpha?) collectively sacrificed a year of their childhoods to bear witness to how goddamn shitty these previous generations behave and how their actions/inaction have set them up for incredibly challenging future. 

Americans really are exceptional.

My wife is a high school special education teacher. Our school district has had in person classes Monday through Friday 8 am to 2 pm since August, with the option for students to do online learning. With the exception of a few periods of all online due to outbreaks among staff and an extended break around the holidays, about half of her students have been able to attend class the whole time. As much as she tries to reach out and spend extra time online with her distance students, she knows they are falling behind and are going to have a hard time catching up academically. She has set up "office hours" like college professors do to allow a distance student to come to the school after everyone has left so that they can get extra instruction when the building is empty. Many of her students have behavioral and social anxiety issues, and over the years she has been pretty effective in reaching them and helping them develop social skills. This isolation is only destroying the work they have done.      

hedonist

The (our?) repercussions of this will be felt in ways and by some we have no clue about.

Common sense seems to be missing from many of these scenarios. Fortunately, compassion still finds its way in there. Kudos to your wife for actually caring and doing something where she can. Not many are so generous with themselves...or can be. 

JeBurkhardt

hedonist said:

The (our?) repercussions of this will be felt in ways and by some we have no clue about.

Common sense seems to be missing from many of these scenarios. Fortunately, compassion still finds its way in there. Kudos to your wife for actually caring and doing something where she can. Not many are so generous with themselves...or can be. 

She is a "mama bear" to her students. She cares deeply about them, and if you mess with them, watch out!