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[gshase]

We are not anti mask by any means but that is what you hear about on the news. When our daughter was born 26 years ago and due to her health condition we were warned from ever touching door handles, elevator buttons or anything the public touches. We use our knee shirt or skirt to open door handles. I watch people grab a door handle then adjust their mask touching their face. That door handle is touched by 250+ people a day and I doubt it ever gets wiped down.

[vash]

you all are probably professional germ-avoidance at this point. good for you..me? i can always improve.

i dont mind the mask personally. i mind that people mind i dont mind the mask..

it is really odd what a person can get annoyed at..a perfect stranger, you will never ever see again for the most part..who gives a flying rats-ass what they do? i saw a guy yelling at an older lady wearing a mask while driving solo in her car. it really bothered him. makes you wonder about a guy with that much anger.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by vash

you all are probably professional germ-avoidance at this point. good for you..me? i can always improve.

i dont mind the mask personally. i mind that people mind i dont mind the mask..

it is really odd what a person can get annoyed at..a perfect stranger, you will never ever see again for the most part..who gives a flying rats-ass what they do? i saw a guy yelling at an older lady wearing a mask while driving solo in her car. it really bothered him. makes you wonder about a guy with that much anger.

Yeah, people get mad over the weirdest things.

If I run to the store, it's 1/4 mile down the road. I wear my mask. It's easier to leave it on than to take it off and put it back on when I park. If I got to someplace 2-3 miles down the road, I'm probably going to take my mask off when I get in the car and put it back on when I park (assuming I don't forget that I'm wearing it which has happened a couple of times).

I've also seen videos online of folks going off on people that were separated from everyone else. A couple having a picnic away from everyone else, and a crazy woman approached them and pepper sprayed them. Or some other chick with her boyfriend that threw a cup of coffee at a couple of dudes that were hanging out by themselves.

I was going to say, people have lost their minds, but the real deal is that there's now a particular catalyst that is exposing those folks who lost their minds a long time ago.


Initially, I started wearing a mask because my wife wanted me to. I wasn't too concerned (and I'm still not), but it makes her happy. Also, it's no skin off my back to wear a mask and maybe keep myself and/or my family healthy and happy and others.

I'm not a germaphobe, but I do use the paper towel that I dry my hands off with in a public restroom to open the door to get out. I occasionally, depending upon the door location/use, will use an odd part of the handle to open the door. IE, most folks use the central part of a long handle to open a door, but I may use the top or bottom. I may also use my foot or knee to open a door.

[biosurfer1]

My favorite is to see all the people driving to these "anti mask" rallies, because they dont want to wear a state mandated safety device...

...then they get in their cars and immediately put on their seatbelts

[Tidybuoy]

I bought a couple of things on Craigslist this week and wore a mask when I went to the door to pick up (my great stuff). The people seemed surprised that I was wearing a mask.

I guess I'm just used to wearing as I work in a food plant and we've been wearing masks for years when out in the plant. We now wear them in the office when in contact with others. I'm fortunate to have a private office so I can take the mask off during the day but it doesn't bother me to quickly put it on.

When out in public, I'd say 99% are now wearing them but I do see the occasional rebel. I mind my own business. I do think it's dumb when I see someone with a mask but not wearing it or it's just around their neck. Oh well, I feel protected and I sanitize my hands before taking off the mask since I know I touched a million things.

[cabmandone]

My brother says "people are crazy, some just hide it better than others". Seems the hiding is coming to an end and people are just letting the crazy fly. I find it helpful to point and laugh at the person flying off the handle, it really gets em' going. But then again, I'm the kinda guy that if you ride my ass while I'm passing a semi, I'll slow to the same speed as the semi just to piss the person off even more.

[ckelly78z]

Building up a tolerance to germs is healthy...by touching door knobs, light switches, and stairway railings (and not immediately sanitizing), you are toughening up your internal germ fighting abilities.

Using sanitizer will dry your hands to the point of leaving open cracks on your hands (not healthy).

[masraum]

Originally Posted by cabmando

My brother says "people are crazy, some just hide it better than others". Seems the hiding is coming to an end and people are just letting the crazy fly. I find it helpful to point and laugh at the person flying off the handle, it really gets em' going. But then again, I'm the kinda guy that if you ride my ass while I'm passing a semi, I'll slow to the same speed as the semi just to piss the person off even more.

I used to do that some when I was a kid. These days, I just let it go. No point in getting my BP up, or worse yet, really pissing the numbnut behind me off so he can go down the road full of road rage and get in an accident with someone else.

Originally Posted by ckelly78z

Building up a tolerance to germs is healthy...by touching door knobs, light switches, and stairway railings (and not immediately sanitizing), you are toughening up your internal germ fighting abilities.

Using sanitizer will dry your hands to the point of leaving open cracks on your hands (not healthy).

Right, my immune system is top notch. I've lived with germs for a bunch of years, and I rarely get sick.

Still, there are times to avoid them if possible. I don't go around eating old food thinking "if the food poisoning doesn't kill me, it'll make me stronger." I also wouldn't recommend having as much unprotected sex with as many strange women as possible to give your immune system a bump.

[vash]

Originally Posted by biosurfer1

My favorite is to see all the people driving to these "anti mask" rallies, because they dont want to wear a state mandated safety device...

...then they get in their cars and immediately put on their seatbelts

or carry guns for protection. hahha..i think a germ attack is more probable.

you gotta love the myriad of flavors people come in..

[RWebb]

it seems this virus 'specializes' in attacking immune systems that are top notch

[unclebilly]

Originally Posted by masraum

I also wouldn't recommend having as much unprotected sex with as many strange women as possible to give your immune system a bump.

That’s an interesting reason to have all that crazy secks with all those strange womens... doing it for the immune system!

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by ckelly78z

Building up a tolerance to germs is healthy...by touching door knobs, light switches, and stairway railings (and not immediately sanitizing), you are toughening up your internal germ fighting abilities.

Using sanitizer will dry your hands to the point of leaving open cracks on your hands (not healthy).

Careful, I don't think that fits the narrative.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by ckelly78z

Building up a tolerance to germs is healthy...by touching door knobs, light switches, and stairway railings (and not immediately sanitizing), you are toughening up your internal germ fighting abilities.

Using sanitizer will dry your hands to the point of leaving open cracks on your hands (not healthy).

A few years back we went to the Louisville Slugger factory. They have a ton of hands on items and encourage you to pick up bats and touch the exhibits. I touched them all, and watched a movie and sat in seat that had someone else in in shortly before I sat down.

Near the end of our stay after the tour of the bat production line I went into the gift shop and it was PACKED wall to wall with people. Then we loaded up on a bus to go to a restaurant. I was thinking I really want to wash the dirt off my hands before I eat. They took us to the wrong restaurant, and that was a fiasco and the restaurant put us in a back room and with all that I forgot all about washing my hands. I proceeded to eat a burger that was great. Then I remembered I never washed my hands. No big deal, I did not get even a little sick. Immune systems are great. The common cold or the flu or the Kung Flu can get the healthiest person. So I don't push my luck.

I wear a mask in public.

[island911]

don't we all...

[Crowbob]

There are quite a few germophobes out there that have, until now, suppressed their fears and were able to function fairly normally. I’ll bet they are the ones flying off the handle at the sight of an unmasked person. Gotta be a living hell.

Even when I watch a movie or whatever and see how close people are to each other and how dirty they are and their complete disregard for viruses and bacteria I cringe.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by ckelly78z

Building up a tolerance to germs is healthy...by touching door knobs, light switches, and stairway railings (and not immediately sanitizing), you are toughening up your internal germ fighting abilities.

Agreed. But if you haven't built up a tolerance to this particular "germ" by now its a little late to get started. I think the definition of a pandemic is that of a disease that spreads so quickly the population cannot develop an immunity fast enough.

[island911]

Some people are fortunate enough to walk around with nothing but a functioning immune system. Crazy, I know.

As the OP surely knows, people with lung transplants, and the like, are on all sorts of immunosuppression drugs so that their bodies will not immediately reject the foreign parts.

Life; it's messy.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by island911

Some people are fortunate enough to walk around with nothing but a functioning immune system.

They are of the superior race that will inherit the planet.

[island911]

We are them.

We all come from long lines of those whom have survived all sorts of viruses, fungi, bacteria...

Obviously surviving and thriving are two different things. - doing the covid cower is not thriving. Now wear your face mask. You know, the one that leaks around all the edges. It will protect you . . . from angry Karens.

[Purrybonker]

Originally Posted by ckelly78z

Building up a tolerance to germs is healthy...by touching door knobs, light switches, and stairway railings (and not immediately sanitizing), you are toughening up your internal germ fighting abilities.

Using sanitizer will dry your hands to the point of leaving open cracks on your hands (not healthy).

I know, right? Personally, I've been shooting myself in various parts of my body with a 9mm over the last few years, you know - once every 6 months or so, just to build up immunity to that caliber of bullet.

I think I've pretty much got 9mm immunity down cold, I'm going to move on to 45 ACP next.

It's really been a valuable growth experience for me, both from a health perspective (educating my body to resist foreign invasion) and in the aspect that I've met so many new, lifelong friends at the local walk-in clinic and hospital ER.

I just wish that my wife would join me on my journey to health independence, I've been trying to convince her that a bullet to a non-essential limb once every few months is the true path to lead/steel projectile immunity.

I actually think this is only baby steps, I have no doubt that nuclear immunity is possible within a few generations applying this same techinque.

Help me get the word out!