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However, due to how Covid works, a grocery store that serves 1000 rural people is still pretty busy in a given day. The air itself, in the store, is pretty much

However, due to how Covid works, a grocery store that serves 1000 rural people is still pretty busy in a given day. The air itself, in the store, is pretty much giving people COVID. I've pretty much been going to the store once a week since this started. I wear nitrile gloves and an n95 mask. I am pretty sure I caught it two weeks ago and my symptoms are just now flaring. I know it's covid because that's pretty much the only thing you're going to catch with all that protection right now. The rural county and city I am in is surging in cases right now, and very few people are wearing masks. I've really questioned my citizenship in the US for the last few months. I don't think it's that I never belonged in the US. I think that people have changed so much that politically they are willing to do harm to others because they don't want to wear a mask. I mean that would not have happened in the 50s - probably everyone would have worn a mask if the government asked them to. Which is ironic because many of the people playing into this masklessness are older. I'm actually quite confused lately about the way people in the world justify the things that they do. Maybe it's just the US?

entitydc 6y ago
For whatever it’s worth, anti mask movements were popular during the last global pandemic in 1918, so I don’t think it’s that people have changed. https://untappedcities.com/2020/07/15/the-anti-mask-league-of-1919-the-cultural-battle-of-an-enduring-pandemic/ https://untappedcities.com/2020/07/15/the-anti-mask-league-o...
- coding123 6y ago
  Wow, thanks for that article. I wasn't aware. I guess it's just people then, not exactly related to the current political climate then, really. It's quite amazing how similar the pictures in 1918 look to today w/respect to mask wearing. I'm curious if anti-mask sentiment is more of an American thing or worldwide...
  - rpiguy 6y ago
    A lot of people simply aren't afraid. There is very little you can do bridge the gap between people who live in fear and those that do not. To put it starkly, most of the death has been confined to nursing homes and most people don't see it. Most people don't know anyone who has died of COVID. It is not that deadly of a pandemic yet. Surging cases isn't surging death. There has been a very small uptick in deaths as the virus spreads through the South, but not nearly as big as the surge in cases. Meaning more people are living through it. It is easy to pretend things are normal and the only thing standing in the way of the unafraid people living normally are the scared people. The scared people like to talk about all the unknowns. Who knows how many will have lasting damage? Who knows if you can get reinfected? The not scared people are okay with the uncertainty. Every day you get into your car you could die in a car accident, you don't get torn up about the unknowns. I've said this from the beginning, if this disease killed more people of prime age, the response would be very different. But it is very hard to scare the confident, unafraid people into submission the way the virus spreads and kills right now.
    - perl4ever 6y ago
      >There has been a very small uptick in deaths Ha, I see the talking point has changed. Everybody was saying the increase in cases meant nothing because it was all due to testing and deaths weren't increasing. Now it is a "very small uptick", meaning, for instance, about 300% in the last 3 weeks in Texas.[1] Darn scared people, like the governor of Georgia, who is so scared of something that he's suing[2] Atlanta's mayor to prevent the city from requiring masks. [1]https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/texas/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/texas/ [2]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53429800 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53429800

entitydc 6y ago

For whatever it’s worth, anti mask movements were popular during the last global pandemic in 1918, so I don’t think it’s that people have changed. https://untappedcities.com/2020/07/15/the-anti-mask-league-of-1919-the-cultural-battle-of-an-enduring-pandemic/ https://untappedcities.com/2020/07/15/the-anti-mask-league-o...

coding123 6y ago
Wow, thanks for that article. I wasn't aware. I guess it's just people then, not exactly related to the current political climate then, really. It's quite amazing how similar the pictures in 1918 look to today w/respect to mask wearing. I'm curious if anti-mask sentiment is more of an American thing or worldwide...
- rpiguy 6y ago
  A lot of people simply aren't afraid. There is very little you can do bridge the gap between people who live in fear and those that do not. To put it starkly, most of the death has been confined to nursing homes and most people don't see it. Most people don't know anyone who has died of COVID. It is not that deadly of a pandemic yet. Surging cases isn't surging death. There has been a very small uptick in deaths as the virus spreads through the South, but not nearly as big as the surge in cases. Meaning more people are living through it. It is easy to pretend things are normal and the only thing standing in the way of the unafraid people living normally are the scared people. The scared people like to talk about all the unknowns. Who knows how many will have lasting damage? Who knows if you can get reinfected? The not scared people are okay with the uncertainty. Every day you get into your car you could die in a car accident, you don't get torn up about the unknowns. I've said this from the beginning, if this disease killed more people of prime age, the response would be very different. But it is very hard to scare the confident, unafraid people into submission the way the virus spreads and kills right now.
  - perl4ever 6y ago
    >There has been a very small uptick in deaths Ha, I see the talking point has changed. Everybody was saying the increase in cases meant nothing because it was all due to testing and deaths weren't increasing. Now it is a "very small uptick", meaning, for instance, about 300% in the last 3 weeks in Texas.[1] Darn scared people, like the governor of Georgia, who is so scared of something that he's suing[2] Atlanta's mayor to prevent the city from requiring masks. [1]https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/texas/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/texas/ [2]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53429800 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53429800