Originally Posted by MisterV View Post
Wife and I are fully vaxxed and followed all the proscribed hygienic measure put out by the CDC and thus far we avoided Covid.

My impression of masks: they help prevent someone who has covid from spreading it, as opposed to preventing a wearer from contracting it.

Did the country / world over-react?

No, as the shut down was pre-vaccines; with vaccines there is little to worry about unless you're too fucking stupid, bull-headed, and / or poliiticized to get the innoculations.
You've avoided COVID because you don't do anything. I couldn't even get you to the Pelican Pub & Brewery for dinner.

I like it when I see others wearing masks, although we'll never wear them unless required. Most people are careless with their sneezing and coughing, oblivious to the billions of potentially infectious droplets that instantly scatter. Even if no one else is around at the time of the discharge, the virus lives for a while on surfaces. Think of how many times you've sat a machine banging away at the buttons, completely impervious to what might be on them from other people's carelessness. And let's not even talk about what might be on that cash you're handling.... Many times, those fingers you're hoping will serve up a jackpot inadvertently make it into your eyes, nose, or mouth. And how many players actually clean off the areas they touch on machines as best they can? Very, very few--but I'm one of them.

But this stuff's no different than what can be done to avoid the flu, pneumonia, or the common cold either. The fact that that idiot Fauci touted wearing masks for covid inside and outside, wearing TWO masks, wearing them at home etc. etc. etc. was only to cover up his responsibilities for that Chinese lab leaking the virus in the first place, as we've seen recently but have known all along.

The whole COVID thing is a joke, from start to finish. Tell the masses "you could die!" and they'll do anything, including blindly follow "the science " as well as panic. Then you get the liberal sections of this country looking for "the Government" to "save" them, so they'll do anything they're told, while the feds deflect and divert attention through various freebies and handouts. It is satisfying being independent of all that.