Oso planning to go pro
There seems to be a big difference between you and Fluff, though. My guess is that you and Chick respect those who choose to wear masks or take more precautions than we do. He would rather criticize them.
I don’t know who has the high ground in the race to claim aggrieved status. This recent circle around the toilet bowl all started by calling out someone wearing a mask in a pool. The pandemic not being over yet and the vaccinated being able to and actually taking more risk can happen at the same time.
It was 745 am. I'm not surprised that you are a in car masker.
I disagree. I think we are in year 2 of a 5 year process and at the end there will be a medicine to render it irrelevant. Hopefully, society will actually take it.
Who was I criticizing? I said if the woman Wags was talking about was vaccinated and didn't have any underlying health conditions, that she was being illogical because the chances of her catching Covid was slim. But I would hardly disrespect this person if she was my neighbor. I wouldn't care in the least if she wore her mask to the pool.
Just to play Devil's Advocate, is it illogical to wear a seat belt since the chances of needing it are exceedingly slim?
I view it more like my old landlord in Chicago who insisted we had flood insurance, in addition to our renters insurance and all his homeowners insurance…because I had a 20 gallon aquarium and it might shatter
Yet another thing posted as something that can never happen that started a fire I have been to.
I don't mean to be argumentative tower but what Wags said was that flood insurance for a fish tank feels like overkill. I actually thought his vaccine=seatbelt analogy was pretty spot on. I'm confident there isn't a single horrible situation you haven't come across. I'm sure seeing the crap you see is tough, especially when way too much of it is directly tied to stupid. I think that everyone here agrees that being unvaxxed is like not wearing a seatbelt.... stupid. But I still drive my car in the rain and try to be careful when I do it. A risk I take, I suppose.I also think Wags makes a solid point about the societal dangers of misinformation and those that disseminate it, something we all should oppose.
It isn't common. But it isn't impossible. Your example made me laugh, that's all.
We’ve traded some barbs recently, so I’ll take laughter
Just one bone to pick with the idea that the pandemic isn't over yet. That implies it will end at some point. It seems pretty clear to me that COVID will be endemic going forward and we're all going to have to learn to live with it.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v1Not peer reviewed yet but this was discussed recently on scoop and it seems the problem might be more prevalent then originally thought.
Rut roh....https://www.wfla.com/community/health/coronavirus/ivermectin-causes-sterilization-in-85-percent-of-men-study-finds/