07-03-2020, 04:55 PM
(07-03-2020, 03:45 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: 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.
I was truly shocked by the 100% compliance in my local grocery store. But hey... My area did a pretty good job of hanging back early on, and had the lowest amount of cases in all of the metro counties in Ohio. We're now one of the "red alert" hot spots. Do who knows? I'd say we were probably somewhere between 30 and 40 % of people wearing masks in public before the order.
I'm gonna break every record they've got. I'm tellin' you right now. I don't know how I'm gonna do it, but it's goin' to get done.
- Ja'Marr Chase
April 2021
- Ja'Marr Chase
April 2021