07-03-2020, 03:45 PM
(07-03-2020, 02:44 PM)jason Wrote: They look broken inside during day one of our mandatory mask ordinance here in Dayton. If only they could've taken the slightest bit of initiative, and thrown one on indoors on their own it wouldn't have come to this. It's ***** juvenile that they had to be FORCED to wear the damn thing. I just feel bad for the diabetic kid (he has a tattoo on his arm that says he is) standing in front of my grocery store telling people to put them on. I'm sure he's taken some shit for it.
Here's the moronic thing. Our governor, a ***** doctor, gave a mask order using his executive powers that is so weak it isn't even enforceable. Businesses put up signs, because they have to, saying "mask required," but right below it has the caveat Northam put in: "if you have a medical reason not to wear one, it will not be required, and because of the ADA we cannot ask you." So over 50% of the people in my area aren't wearing masks like they should and businesses are scared to refuse service without a mask because of threats of violence. Legitimately.
I cracked a joke about this in the jokes and memes thread, but the masks cannot simultaneously be too restrictive to prevent you from breathing but also be so permeable to let the virus through. Doesn't work like that. But that's the logic we are getting in addition to the "muh freedoms!" nonsense. And as a diabetic with asthma, living with my wife who is also at high risk, and my father-in-law who is also at high risk, it's infuriating. Quite frankly, I don't feel safe going to my office right now, but I feel pressured into doing so because nobody else in my department is working from home anymore, but they ain't wearing their ***** masks when they aren't in their personal spaces, either. I have to go visit departments to do audits and I was at one Wednesday. Not a ***** mask in sight beyond the one on my face and the box of reusable masks that are the ones being handed out to every goddamn employee at the university, one for each day of the work week.
I my be a little frustrated.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR