• finley@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    it’s crazy how conservatives are just an opposition party. Are the dems for something? Then conservatives must be against it!

    they’re all just children with severe behavioral disorders

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      5 months ago

      I always say conservatives have oppositional defiant disorder. How else could you constantly oppose things that everyone else thinks are a better way to live?

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        5 months ago

        Conservatives often answer polls in favor of positive things, but publicly state their opposition to Democrats trying to do those things and elect Republicans who actively tear down anything that works. It is madness.

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          Conservatives often answer polls in favor of positive things

          Because they see themselves as good, reasonable people. They don’t act like it, but they believe they do.

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            5 months ago

            That and they want things as long as the Dems aren’t the ones who get credit for doing it.

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    5 months ago

    Look I fucking hated the masks but also get why we needed them and wore mine. Why the fuck does anyone care if someone else is wearing one…that for them. It like being offended someone is wearing Jordans…it’s not your feet.

    Leave people be and if I’m afraid I’m going to catch the plague then I’m wearing a mask.

    And people can say what they will about effectiveness All I know is for 2 years I wore one and didn’t catch a damn cold.

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    5 months ago

    Edit: To clarify, it would be best if anyone that feels they should wear a mask in the restaurant while they wait for the food, be allowed.

    As someone that thinks masks work, I got a few takes on this.

    1. In the USA, a private company can legally refuse service to anyone for any reason except a legally protected reason. If a company doesn’t like your shirt they don’t have to serve you. But if they don’t like that you are gay they have to say they don’t like your shirt, if they don’t serve you because you a gay, thats illegal.

    2. While it’s stupid that they won’t serve the doctor wearing a mask, wasn’t the doctor going to take their mask of like immediately after sitting at the table to drink something while looking at the menu? At the very most, they would take it off to eat the food right? So they were denied service so that they could at most wear a mask for like 15 mins while they wait for the food to be made.

    3. If you have to take you mask off to eat, is it really worth it to keep you mask on for as much as possible? Assuming your intention is not to spread disease from yourself to others, how much more harm would an additional 15 mins cause? I honestly don’t know but if it’s non-trivial, perhaps eating at a sitdown restaurant (which normally takes longer) is morally wrong. Although, not as morally wrong as denying service to someone wearing a mask.

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      5 months ago

      What if the doctor was just going in to get takeout? Or just plain wants to wear a mask while they’re not eating? Whose business is it but theirs? I thought Americans believed in freedom.

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      Great example of actively harmful rhetoric that attempts to undermine the fact that masking works.

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        5 months ago

        I don’t see how. Since the covid pandemic I wear masks if I’m sick or know I was around someone that’s sick and I have to be somewhere with people. But it would be so much less possible harm if I just stay home during that time. So like if I felt like I needed a mask, I would either not go traveling or I would wear a mask and not eat in public.

        The point is that you can’t wear a mask while eating or drinking so it’s literally 10-15 minutes you’re actually talking about wearing a mask in the restaurant.

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      It’s called being sensible. Like… We all take risks when we go out, but it’s like wearing a seatbelt. Does it eliminate risk? No. Does it reduce risk and is low risk in of itself by wearing it? Of course.

      And ultimately, the insensible thing is banning masks.

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        It doesn’t really reduce risk much because you’re literally about to take it off anyway in that same space.

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          If I’m in transit on airplanes and in airports for 8 hours and I wear a mask for 7 of those hours, the one hour (or probably less) that I take off my mask to eat a meal doesn’t completely negate the good that wearing a mask does for the rest of the time. I’m still reducing my risk (or the risk I pose to others around me) for 88% of my travel time.

        • KneeTitts@lemmy.world
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          I don’t want people forcing me to wear a mask when covid was a problem 4 years ago

          Im sorry to tell you and all conservasuckers this fact, respiratory viruses are on the rise in the last few decades, the next global pandemic which may be worse than covid, is probably going to happen less than 10 years from now. How yall gonna freak out when that one comes chum?

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          5 months ago

          No one’s forcing you to wear a mask, you dumb shit. This post is how a person was denied entrance to a restaurant because they were wearing a mask. That’s completely different.

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      5 months ago

      Just so you’re aware, friend… Lemmy is auto-translating all your posts for all other users - This is what we see wherever you post:

      “I was kicked in the head by a horse 4 years ago”

      Hoping you get the help you need, bud. Sure, you shouldn’t have been playing with that horse’s bunghole, but you didn’t deserve all this.

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          You already told us you were kicked in the head by a horse four years ago. Why do you keep telling us?

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          Dear walking smallpox blanket

          Get fukken ratio’d

          Then get that horseshoe shaped indent in your forehead checked out. Concussions are no joke!