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Their policy probably says "everyone must wear masks"; it's irrelevant that you used to be a member. At least they didn't take your money and only then alert yo

Their policy probably says "everyone must wear masks"; it's irrelevant that you used to be a member. At least they didn't take your money and only then alert you to the issue.

sergiotapia 4y ago
That's an extremely cringe policy in 2022. At this point if you're wearing a mask you are quite a kook. I'm in Miami, I very very rarely see anyone wearing a mask except senior citizens. The way it should be because they are at higher risk of not only covid but flu etc.
- pedalpete 4y ago
  I think we can get to the point where we're comfortable with people who want to wear masks wearing them, and people who don't want to don't. I don't but I don't think anything less of people who do. I'm probably kookier than they are in most ways. ;)
  - snoopy_telex 4y ago
    Absolutely in agreement here. We have zero clue about their life and the decisions made to get to this point where they’re deciding to wear a mask. Maybe they have auto immune issues, or maybe they just want to. It doesn’t hurt me in any way. Why should I care if they wear a mask or not? And if someone feels better if I wear one, it’s really no skin off of my back. I generally don’t wear a mask anymore, but I have zero issues with those that do. And I respect them for holding to their own in a time where people are judging them as kooks.
  - sergiotapia 4y ago
    That's the thing, people who want to wear them want to force people who don't want to wear them like in OP's message.
    - rozap 4y ago
      nah
    - pedalpete 4y ago
      That may be the case for some people, but that is likely a gross over-generalization. Also, do you really care about what other people want you to do?
- LBJsPNS 4y ago
  I have a compromised immune system after kicking cancer to the curb. Kook indeed. The last thing I need or will ever need is a fool with no care whatshoever for the public health telling me I don't need a mask. HN policy precludes me from using the language that I would consider appropriate in this case.
  - wrycoder 4y ago
    So wear an N95. Your problem is not everyone else’s.
    - balthigor 4y ago
      Your garbage attitude is a problem. Keep it to yourself.
      - wrycoder 4y ago
        My first sentence is good advice. I assume they are already following it. But, they sound entitled. There is no reason that the general public has to make unusual accommodations for their condition. It’s up to them to restrict their activities and provide protective gear as their situation requires. Like many others, I’m a cancer survivor too. I’m not expecting special treatment or sympathy.
        sokoloff 4y ago
        I don't read the slightest sense of entitlement in their post*. All they said was they have rational reasons to wear a mask themself and those rational reasons make them not a kook when they choose to wear a mask. Your reply would be more on-target if they'd asked everyone else to wear a mask around them because of their medical condition, but nowhere did they make nor imply that request. * - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32199251 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32199251
        wrycoder 4y ago
- wheresmycraisin 4y ago
- woodruffw 4y ago
  We are, blessedly, not at the hands of people whose decision function includes "cringe or not cringe."
- JoshTriplett 4y ago
  The pandemic is not over. Wear a mask, or stay home and don't go to spaces where people are taking precautions to not get sick.
  - sergiotapia 4y ago
    Nah - at this point we're back to normal.
- ryanmercer 4y ago
  >At this point if you're wearing a mask you are quite a kook Masks are still very much a thing for a LOT of people in the midwest. In the past 2 weeks we've had at last 7 family members (my 69 year old mother, some of my wife's siblings and their children) diagnosed with covid. One of my sisters-in-law works in a nursing home and they currently have 17 cases of covid between staff and residents.
  - zo1 4y ago
    Wtf is going on? I'm on the other side of the world and things are 100% back to normal. The tinfoil hat person in me would say there are spies and chaos organizers going around infecting people with covid on purpose to keep it going.
    - wrycoder 4y ago
      The BA.4/5 variants are not effectively stopped by the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines. It’s those two variants that are becoming the dominant strains in the US.

Their policy probably says "everyone must wear masks"; it's irrelevant that you used to be a member. At least they didn't take your money and only then alert you to the issue.

sergiotapia 4y ago

That's an extremely cringe policy in 2022. At this point if you're wearing a mask you are quite a kook. I'm in Miami, I very very rarely see anyone wearing a mask except senior citizens. The way it should be because they are at higher risk of not only covid but flu etc.

pedalpete 4y ago
I think we can get to the point where we're comfortable with people who want to wear masks wearing them, and people who don't want to don't. I don't but I don't think anything less of people who do. I'm probably kookier than they are in most ways. ;)
- snoopy_telex 4y ago
  Absolutely in agreement here. We have zero clue about their life and the decisions made to get to this point where they’re deciding to wear a mask. Maybe they have auto immune issues, or maybe they just want to. It doesn’t hurt me in any way. Why should I care if they wear a mask or not? And if someone feels better if I wear one, it’s really no skin off of my back. I generally don’t wear a mask anymore, but I have zero issues with those that do. And I respect them for holding to their own in a time where people are judging them as kooks.
- sergiotapia 4y ago
  That's the thing, people who want to wear them want to force people who don't want to wear them like in OP's message.
  - rozap 4y ago
    nah
  - pedalpete 4y ago
    That may be the case for some people, but that is likely a gross over-generalization. Also, do you really care about what other people want you to do?
LBJsPNS 4y ago
I have a compromised immune system after kicking cancer to the curb. Kook indeed. The last thing I need or will ever need is a fool with no care whatshoever for the public health telling me I don't need a mask. HN policy precludes me from using the language that I would consider appropriate in this case.
- wrycoder 4y ago
  So wear an N95. Your problem is not everyone else’s.
  - balthigor 4y ago
    Your garbage attitude is a problem. Keep it to yourself.
    - wrycoder 4y ago
      My first sentence is good advice. I assume they are already following it. But, they sound entitled. There is no reason that the general public has to make unusual accommodations for their condition. It’s up to them to restrict their activities and provide protective gear as their situation requires. Like many others, I’m a cancer survivor too. I’m not expecting special treatment or sympathy.
      - sokoloff 4y ago
        I don't read the slightest sense of entitlement in their post*. All they said was they have rational reasons to wear a mask themself and those rational reasons make them not a kook when they choose to wear a mask. Your reply would be more on-target if they'd asked everyone else to wear a mask around them because of their medical condition, but nowhere did they make nor imply that request. * - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32199251 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32199251
        wrycoder 4y ago
wheresmycraisin 4y ago
woodruffw 4y ago
We are, blessedly, not at the hands of people whose decision function includes "cringe or not cringe."
JoshTriplett 4y ago
The pandemic is not over. Wear a mask, or stay home and don't go to spaces where people are taking precautions to not get sick.
- sergiotapia 4y ago
  Nah - at this point we're back to normal.
ryanmercer 4y ago
>At this point if you're wearing a mask you are quite a kook Masks are still very much a thing for a LOT of people in the midwest. In the past 2 weeks we've had at last 7 family members (my 69 year old mother, some of my wife's siblings and their children) diagnosed with covid. One of my sisters-in-law works in a nursing home and they currently have 17 cases of covid between staff and residents.
- zo1 4y ago
  Wtf is going on? I'm on the other side of the world and things are 100% back to normal. The tinfoil hat person in me would say there are spies and chaos organizers going around infecting people with covid on purpose to keep it going.
  - wrycoder 4y ago
    The BA.4/5 variants are not effectively stopped by the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines. It’s those two variants that are becoming the dominant strains in the US.