EDITION: Wilkes County
FAQs PLACE A CLASSIFIED AD ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS
59 °
Overcast
Registered Users, Log In Here
Should we all still be required to wear a mask?

Thomas Hobbes

Posted 10:19 pm, 05/24/2024

Enough with tyranny. Never again!

Jimbojolly

Posted 9:48 pm, 05/24/2024

Gee, has there ever been a mask mandate before Covid? How did we live through it?


The influenza pandemic of 1918 and 1919 was the most deadly flu outbreak in history, killing up to 50 million people worldwide. In the United States, where it ultimately killed around 675,000 people, local governments rolled out initiatives to try to stop its spread. These varied by region, and included closing schools and places of public amusement, enforcing "no-spitting" ordinances, encouraging people to use handkerchiefs or disposable tissues and requiring people to wear masks in public.

Thomas Hobbes

Posted 9:41 pm, 05/24/2024

I will not obey. Regardless the consequences

Actually

Posted 8:36 pm, 05/24/2024

Who will enforce the new mask mandate that Antithesis wants?


Will you obey?

Actually

Posted 8:10 pm, 05/24/2024

Its funny Underdog2.


The old girl is embarrassing herself and doesn't even know it.

Poor Anti

underdog2

Posted 7:59 pm, 05/24/2024

I have read and seen some bull **** about masks but anti has taken it to new heights.

Actually

Posted 7:57 pm, 05/24/2024

Antithis, how many countries still have the mask mandate?


Do you think the entire world should wear a mask today? To fight this scary COVID?

antithesis

Posted 7:53 pm, 05/24/2024

No the girl said mask were require to be wore while we were inside she said nothing about taking them off and I could see people wearing them at their tables.

In the early days I do remember people expecting to wear a mask while eating, you're right. That was kinda stupid and didn't last long, but I think that was before we understood it too well.

Also maybe you haven't been to applebee's in Boone but even after you have been seated you are still within 6 feet of the table in front and behind you as well as the table to your left or right.

No, I think Applebees is disgusting...

Back then, though, restaurants were required to social distance you by blocking every other table.

If you want to wear a mask more power to you go right ahead But I am not wearing one for a number of reason.

Sure... and you are at least indirectly responsible for the deaths of people.

If you were infected and walked by me without a mask, and I was wearing a mask, I would still have a 10-20% chance of infection. If I was sitting at a table with no mask, either, then the chance of infection is nearly 100%.

But if you were wearing a mask, that chance drops to nearly 0%.

We've talked on here for a long time and I think you're a decent guy, but your ignorance on this is still responsible for a lot of deaths.

It must suck to go through life so scared that you expect everyone to wear a mask

It must be wonderful to have never witnessed the suffering and death of people with respiratory disease...

Truth be told, I'm envious of you and the others. I truly wish that I could be that naive, it would be a much easier life.

Joseph T.

Posted 7:44 pm, 05/24/2024

antithesis (view profile)

Posted 1:22 pm, 05/24/2024

For me it was applebee's in Boone I ask how I was suppose to eat wearing a mask the poor dumb girl had a deer in the head lights look.


If you were infected, walking down the aisle to get to your seat would infect every single person you walked by. Once you were seated, though, you were distanced from the people and could take off your mask.

It's just common sense.

The wife a I went down the street and ate some where else that wanted our money

In other words, you went somewhere that didn't care whether their patrons died.

If they weren't concerned about basic health precautions, I would assume that they also don't wash their hands after t either.
No the girl said mask were require to be wore while we were inside she said nothing about taking them off and I could see people wearing them at their tables. Also maybe you haven't been to applebee's in Boone but even after you have been seated you are still within 6 feet of the table in front and behind you as well as the table to your left or right. If you want to wear a mask more power to you go right ahead But I am not wearing one for a number of reason. It must suck to go through life so scared that you expect everyone to wear a mask

antithesis

Posted 6:25 pm, 05/24/2024

Antithis, when do want the mask mandate to start again?

Do you wish it never ended?

It should have never ended.

Any other country, the people would have had common sense and not needed a law, though. It should have never been a political issue, just a social rule that if you've been exposed to a cold or anything, or if you don't feel well, then wear a mask and social distance.

But since it DID become political, Republicans are the ones that feel like they can't wear a mask or they'll appear to be a Biden supporter. God forbid THAT happen, so they'd rather people die.

Without an enforced law on it, I don't know any other way to fix it.

Antithis, are you disappointed in GoWilkes Jason not wearing a mask when he spoke at the Wilkes County Office Building.

A little bit, yes. There was no need to wear a mask when he was talking to the Commissioners since they were so far away, but everyone in the crowd should have been wearing one. If just one person in the room had the flu, or even COVID, then they would have all gotten it! Then took it home to their families, taken it to work with them the next day...

Actually

Posted 3:26 pm, 05/24/2024

Antithis, are you disappointed in GoWilkes Jason not wearing a mask when he spoke at the Wilkes County Office Building.

Actually

Posted 3:24 pm, 05/24/2024

Antithis, when do want the mask mandate to start again?


Do you wish it never ended?

antithesis

Posted 1:29 pm, 05/24/2024

Antithesis says if you didn't wear a mask all the time, you are a murderer.


I never said "all the time," I said that you maskholes that refused to ever wear a mask are murderers. And you are. Even if you were never infected, you encouraged others to join your ic gang... and many of them got and spread COVID.

Because of your enforced ignorance, 77.5% of the United States got COVID.


And 1.2 million of them died from it.


I know that you have to tell yourself that you're not a murderer, you're not responsible for that many people dying. If you recognized it, how could you sleep at night?

But the facts remain... you and your ilk are murderers and monsters.

Back to the post... I didn't say that you had to wear a mask all the time, just when you were going to be within 6' of someone else. And if you did that then you were safe to not wear one at home.

Had everyone done that, COVID would have been gone by April, like Trump said! You are the ones that kept it going for years, put us in quarantine, created the Depression, and created the subsequent hyper inflation.

antithesis

Posted 1:22 pm, 05/24/2024

For me it was applebee's in Boone I ask how I was suppose to eat wearing a mask the poor dumb girl had a deer in the head lights look.


If you were infected, walking down the aisle to get to your seat would infect every single person you walked by. Once you were seated, though, you were distanced from the people and could take off your mask.

It's just common sense.

The wife a I went down the street and ate some where else that wanted our money

In other words, you went somewhere that didn't care whether their patrons died.

If they weren't concerned about basic health precautions, I would assume that they also don't wash their hands after t either.

antithesis

Posted 1:19 pm, 05/24/2024

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is presenting a distorted account of President Donald Trump's words on the coronavirus, wrongly suggesting Trump branded the virus a hoax.



He repeatedly said that it's a hoax perpetrated by the Democrats, and that it only came from immigrants. He also said that the "press is in hysteria mode" about it, that it was overblown and would "miraculously" go away on its own so no one needed to do anything.


surfer

Posted 11:41 am, 05/24/2024

Look back 3 years ago compared to today...makes you say hmmmm.

Actually

Posted 11:36 am, 05/24/2024

Antithesis says if you didn't wear a mask all the time, you are a murderer.


Logger1, how many did you kill?

logger#1

Posted 11:28 am, 05/24/2024

The mask were good only for one thing to make the people that made them rich . The masks were a joke for small minded people and be told we had to wear them if we went in any stores . That was BS

Actually

Posted 8:39 am, 05/24/2024

Hillbilly, do you think we should have another mask mandate, or do you disagree with Antithesis and 1Goddess?

hangsleft

Posted 8:22 am, 05/24/2024

I still wear a mask in large crowds. To be honest, I enjoyed not catching even so much as a cold.

These wanna be tough guys that think they'll say something to me for wearing one, try me.

Eliminate Basement & Foundation Water Problems!
Waterproofing and gutters should be a high priority for every homeowner. With Parks Waterproofing you never have to worry about basement and foundation moisture again! Click here for more information
Enter to win a Norwegian Cruise for 2
Are you dreaming of a getaway? Enter now to win a Norwegian Cruise for 2 in a balcony stateroom! Savor seaside dining, explore new destinations, and enjoy the journey of a lifetime. Enter by 1/12/25.
Adams Funeral Home of Wilkes
Offering funeral and cremation services. Serving Wilkes, Alexander and surrounding counties. Contact us today about pre-planning arrangements.