Covid patients breathe out large amounts of virus early on

Re:Covid patients breathe out large amounts of virus early on by mcpackieh on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @03:03PM (#37486154)

"I know a guy", as we grew up down the road from each other and I was a groomsman at his wedding. We've known each other for 30 years. This isn't some random guy I see on the street. I see maybe one in a hundred strangers in public still wearing a mask, which is why I mentioned 99% of the public. That's my estimate for how many people gave up masks. I take it you are among the 1% of those who keep it up.

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Re:Covid patients breathe out large amounts of virus early on by gumby on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @03:31PM (#37486675)

I don't know where you live, but I live it's somewhere between 5 and 10%, asymmetrically distributed by age and social group.

I still attend scientific conferences this year that require 100% masking indoors and proof of vaccination to attend in person.

At my work all the scientist (mainly microbiologists) are still masking indoors, not just in the lab.

I don't care a whit if other people mask or not, but I do. I don't understand what kind of "help" you have in mind, but would genuinely be interested in learning.

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Re:Covid patients breathe out large amounts of virus early on by elil17 on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @03:29PM (#37486637)

It used to be 80% of people didn't wear a seatbelt. By your logic the 20% that did should have had someone try to "help them" be normal.

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Re:Covid patients breathe out large amounts of virus early on by mcpackieh on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @05:16PM (#37488523)

> It used to be 80% of people didn't wear a seatbelt.

A few years ago, 80% of people who wore a mask. Which way are these things trending? Wearing a seatbelt has become the normal attitude towards car risk. Wearing a mask was briefly the normal attitude towards risk, but has since become [again] an abnormal attitude towards risk.

If you're so keen to be abnormally safe and think everybody else is being unreasonable, why don't you get your three-point seatbelt replaced with a five-point harness? It's established well characterized technology that undeniably makes you safer You'll definitely be an odd man out rejecting social trends so expect to have people wonder why you're so paranoid. But by your logic you shouldn't care about that.

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Re:Covid patients breathe out large amounts of virus early on by gumby on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @05:43PM (#37488898)

I don't understand what point you are trying to make. Are people with masks hurting you in some way?

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Re:Covid patients breathe out large amounts of virus early on by weaksauce on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @06:28PM (#37489450)

> Are people with masks hurting you in some way?

they are making the people that want to pretend the virus is just something you have to live with instead of taking precautionary measures feel bad.

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Re:Covid patients breathe out large amounts of virus early on by gumby on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @07:39PM (#37490192)

Oh, thanks! I will now straighten my shoulders and walk with pride, knowing I am repressing some busybodies who want to butt into my business.

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Re:Covid patients breathe out large amounts of virus early on by mcpackieh on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @12:09PM (#37498606)

Who said they're hurting me? People who live in fear are hurting themselves. I don't care, except in the case of my friend. I don't like to see my friend hurt himself, is that so radical? Radical to you maybe.

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Re:Covid patients breathe out large amounts of virus early on by myko on Thursday September 14, 2023 @11:00AM (#37509936)

I think you have to understand that to your friend and a large number of people wearing a mask isn't hurting him.

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