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Should we all still be required to wear a mask?

Jimbojolly

Posted 7:54 am, 05/24/2024

When Mask-Wearing Rules in the 1918 Pandemic Faced Resistance | HISTORY
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.

UNCW1998

Posted 7:39 am, 05/24/2024

What relevance does a mask mandate have to this discussion? I never wore a mask anywhere during COVID, and never will. The people that wore masks were nothing more than Biden sheeple. Scientific evidence now shows that masks didn't slow down the spread of COVID, dumbest thing ever, it was nothing more than a power push to see what percentage of the population would blindly listen to the federal government.


Actually (view profile)

Posted 7:57 pm, 05/23/2024

Would you respect Stoney Greene more if he had supported a Wilkes County mask mandate?



Note from GoNC: I moved this post and the one to which they were replying from another thread, where they were off topic.

Joseph T.

Posted 7:13 am, 05/24/2024

Thomas Hobbes (view profile)

Posted 6:41 am, 05/24/2024

I routinely entered many places without a mask. I was stopped and asked to put it on a few times but I didn't. Oddly enough the only place I was denied entry too was a specialty beer store. So I just went to a different one.


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

hillbilly666

Posted 7:01 am, 05/24/2024

Maybe if you say it a few more times someone will think it's funny? At least I won't report your joke recycling to the cops.

Thomas Hobbes

Posted 6:41 am, 05/24/2024

I routinely entered many places without a mask. I was stopped and asked to put it on a few times but I didn't. Oddly enough the only place I was denied entry too was a specialty beer store. So I just went to a different one.

SmellySucks

Posted 6:24 am, 05/24/2024

You GoWilkes Democracks don't forget to strap your diaper on your face before you walk out this morning.

underdog2

Posted 5:58 am, 05/24/2024

hillbilly666

Posted 9:44 pm, 05/23/2024

"Hill bill I bet you are one of those idi0ts that wears a mask to this date in your car alone with the windows up."
You make this "joke" like every time masks come up

Its not a joke now is it, you really are one of those idi0ts.

Actually

Posted 5:50 am, 05/24/2024

Flu season is only months away.


Antithesis, when do you think a new mask mandate should start?

Tilly22

Posted 3:27 am, 05/24/2024

Anti why to you insist on repeating misinformation, when it has been debunked over and over?

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.

In fact, Trump pronounced Democratic criticism of his pandemic response a hoax.
https://apnews.com/article/...7c34549da2

One of my people came up to me and said, 'Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia.' That didn't work out too well. They couldn't do it. They tried the impeachment hoax. That was not a perfect conversation. They tried anything. They tried it over and over. They'd been doing it since you got in. It's all turning. They lost. It's all turning. Think of it. Think of it. And this is their new hoax."

Our reading of these comments is that Trump is saying Democratic criticism of him is a hoax, not that the coronavirus doesn't exist or wasn't real.

https://www.politifact.com/...didnt-cal/

Fact check: Biden ad misleadingly suggests Trump called Covid-19 a 'hoax'
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/202...fact-check

antithesis

Posted 1:17 am, 05/24/2024

No one wore a n95 mask.


Doctors and nurses did... But if you read my link, you would have seen that if both parties were wearing even the cheap cloth masks then the odds of transmission were near 0%.

Do you not think that millions refused to mask up? In your uneducated opinion. I'm not asking you for a link
Did millions refuse to wear a mask or did 95% of the country mask up all the time?

In the beginning, it felt like we were all united on masking and precautions. Then Trump told everyone that COVID was fake and that masks were stupid, and suddenly health and safety became political

I'm sure that there were millions that wanted to refuse to wear a mask after that. But when I went to the grocery store or something, I can't think of any time that I ever saw someone without a mask... probably because they just wanted groceries and didn't want to start a political fight with a stranger.

But I know that virtually no one that worked at Tyson bothered to wear a mask, which is part of why they had such a high number of infections.

WFUBMC had an armed guard enforcing their mask requirement at their main campus.

It was a retired nurse that stood at the door, handing out masks and pointing to the hand sanitizer

She definitely wasn't armed!

They do have a security guard (also not armed), maybe you were there when he was just chatting with the girls?

Fakey

Posted 10:40 pm, 05/23/2024

Hey shouldadolly, once again your vile behavior rears its ugly head.


Why do YOU feel compelled to foist your BS onto this site?

UnoFire

Posted 10:27 pm, 05/23/2024

So nothing you encountered. Just hearsay. Got it.

Hospitals have routinely had mask or limits on visitors for the mere flu, why not whine then?

Fakey

Posted 10:09 pm, 05/23/2024

WFUBMC had an armed guard enforcing their mask requirement at their main campus.


I do not know of any pharmacies that allowed the unmasked to enter.

Several schools of "higher" learning enforced mask wearing on their campuses.

UnoFire

Posted 10:02 pm, 05/23/2024

Were any of you ever denied entry for any place you wanted to go?

Be honest.

hillbilly666

Posted 9:44 pm, 05/23/2024

"Hill bill I bet you are one of those idi0ts that wears a mask to this date in your car alone with the windows up."

You make this "joke" like every time masks come up.

Uncle Rukuss

Posted 9:04 pm, 05/23/2024

Kangz dont let anyone tell them to wear a diaper on the face

Uncle Rukuss

Posted 9:03 pm, 05/23/2024

antithesis

Posted 5:49 pm, 05/23/2024

Antithis, do you wish we still had mask mandates?Yes. We almost eradicated the flu! Look how many lives were saved, and how many more could be saved... if only people cared more for other people and less about their own pathetic vanity


Will you wear a mask forever?

Probably.

underdog2

Posted 8:48 pm, 05/23/2024

Hill bill I bet you are one of those idi0ts that wears a mask to this date in your car alone with the windows up.

hillbilly666

Posted 8:44 pm, 05/23/2024

"Do you think we should go back to the government telling us to west a mask to fight Covid, or ax Antithedis css as lord of "The flu""

As a matter of fact, yes, this question did confuse me.

Actually

Posted 7:57 pm, 05/23/2024

Would you respect Stoney Greene more if he had supported a Wilkes County mask mandate?

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