Can any of the posters throwing about this argument - or giving thumbs up to those throwing about this argument - please point to any similar insistences they were making for the flu or common cold?Mike4 wrote: Firstly, YOU wearing a mask is to protect ME from YOUR germs, not the other way around. I wear my mask to protect YOU so I'd be obliged if you'll reciprocate and wear yours in crowded public places please.
Where was this idea that we must wear masks to protect others when the flu was going round?
Where was this idea when we were all getting colds?
I don't recall any of you making this argument back then, yet both flu and cold are INFECTIOUS and can and do kill people every year.
This message is just being pumped out by the behavioural psychologist in order to manipulate the masses, and I find it rather hypocritical of people who parrot this message in some holier than though manner, when they weren't making the same arguments for the cold or flu.
You can't catch covid over the internet, so how the hell is ME wearing a mask about protecting YOU?Mike4 wrote: Firstly, YOU wearing a mask is to protect ME from YOUR germs, not the other way around. ... I can see from your posts you don't care a jot about me or my welfare but that does not alter the function of mask wearing.
(Just using your own capitalisations for the same emphasis).
Clearly your statement is nonsense - I am nowhere near you. Whether or not I wear a mask will make absolutely no difference to the risk of YOU catching covid from ME.
And this does illustrate a point that I've observed in reality - including with my mum who is an avid pro-mask wearer - those wearing masks act as though the mask is protecting them... they don't think twice about hovering around in close proximity to others.
I've mentioned this anecdote before, but I was with my mum in the supermarket a few months back... we were heading to an aisle a few aisles along, but there was a groupd of 3 or 4 people heading our way.... my mum just brushed right past them, really close up, whereas I dodged into a nearer aisle to give them space to pass, before I then moved back out of that aisle to reach the aisle we were aiming for.... when we got there, mum asked where I'd been ... I said giving those people space... she said, that oh she didn't need to because she was wearing a mask.
Masks are not 100% effective. In the majority of cases, the behaviour of those wearing the mask is most likely offsetting any benefit.
Anyway back to the point...
I'm getting sick and tired of people like you telling me that I'm being reckless or not being concerned for your safety just because I don't wish to wear a mask.
Well, notwithstanding the fact there's a bloomin great internet physically separating us, but let's imagine we were to encounter each other in the supermarket.
One thing I can tell you, is that I will be the one giving you more space - including choosing to go to a different emptier aisle while you finish what you want in the aisle you're in.
So I hope you can understand why I'm getting sick and tired of these blindered, tunnel vision comments that somehow people who don't wear masks are being selfish.
Nonsense - masks are only relevant if you come into close proximity. In fact the government consider close proximity less than 2m for something like 15 minutes.
I can assure you, that at no time when I'm in the supermarket am I ever that close to anyone for that amount of time.
So I would appreciate it if you would stop with the personal attacks claiming that I don't care for others just because I would prefer not to wear a mask.
Personally I prefer to keep a distance from people (pandemic or not).