A problem with other people being idiots is that their stupidness affects the non-idiots, too.
True, however at least there is a way to spot them: No mask=idiot. Run like fucking hell.
Would be nice, if at least, systems were put in place so that regular people could get decent personal protective equipment such as n95 masks, but it is crazy that we are several months into this matter and still have not figured out how to make and adequately distribute n95 masks to regular people or even test kits to professional facilities get some priorities straight..
Instead, we neither need personal protective equipment, apparently, nor do we need to have testing available and carried out.
Agreed. I've been wearing my P100 NBC gear when going out, unlike cloth masks it actually will provide solid protection against a moron with a cough. However I have a limited supply of cartridges as I truly figured I would be dealing with nukes which have a shorter half life for the bad stuff. Running for a year is going to be complicated and no there are no spares to be found.
On the positive side I'm still on my first set of filters so they are lasting longer than I thought. Good.
I cannot believe the complete levels of incompetence seen in this event. I swear to fucking God, if gremlins existed we would all be dead in a day:
"Remember: Don't expose it to water...."
"Fuck you, I know my rights (throws gremlin into the nearest ocean)"
Much like no science fiction movie through the 80's really thought of an internet, no disaster movie ever had people begging to be the first to go (well, Lovecraft....)
We might have a little bit of different ideas about masks, and I don't really consider them to be necessary when outdoors (especially if no one is around) or if you are in your car by yourself, so I have seen people wearing masks in those circumstances, and just seems to be overkill to me, but of course a personal choice, and great that they have masks, and I understand that if someone just gets used to wearing a mask a lot of the time, then maybe they will fidget around less with it.
There still seems a BIG lacking of information regarding how contagious the virus is, so yeah, if you go to a bar, and you are close to people, then you touch a glass that was touched by someone else that had the virus and then touch your face, you could get it by the touching or just by being in close proximity with a bunch of people not wearing masks.
We don't necessarily need to go over all of the contexts in which some people are going to be less careful than others, and if you recall in the beginning some of the deniers were going to social events and shaking hands with everyone just to show how tough they were, and then in churches there is a bit of a tragedy with some of those kinds of interactions too, such as the thoughts that god is not going to allow good people to get struck down, and there have been quite a few of them struck down.
It seems to me that there is even some evidence being developed that even if facilities (such as nursing homes) have gotten compromised, there can be effective preventative measures, even in closed environments like that, but the evidence is still developing in those regards, and surely not very scientific to try to figure out what differences might exist between one facility or another, and sometimes we might assert that we do not care whether prisoners get infected, but that is ridiculous, too because even though people frequently don't want to see prisoners getting benefits that regular people do not or cannot get, obligations (standards of care) do trigger when a state takes control over other people, but then sometimes states might relieve themselves of such care obligations by releasing people who might not deserve to be released.... so lots of craziness, inconsistencies, and just gathering of data by some people trying to figure out what is going on - to the extent that data is available (and becoming more available with the passage of time) and not either being hidden or destroyed.. because we have examples of misinformation out there too, which is sad and seems to be part of the motivation behind the lack of PPE and lack of testing.
