Walmart requiring masks starting July 20th

I see people wearing masks all over the place including Walmart. I wish the reports would show how many died from Florida, vs who died that lived outside of Florida. We're getting a bad rap out there, like we all said screw masks lol. Just like your town, there are people that don't wear them.
 
It's sad that so many people in the US have the opinion that things are all good and it's only the media lying because they have never seen someone personally die from the disease.
 
JoeTech said:
It's sad that so many people in the US have the opinion that things are all good and it's only the media lying because they have never seen someone personally die from the disease.
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Didn't want to bring it up, but this bares saying.

My wife's cousin here in our city died last week from COVID. He was the 2nd fatality here from it. In Tennessee right now, my oldest son (32), his daughter (3) and live in GF (29) have COVID. Their results came back on Monday positive and they have to quarantine. My parents, both in their 70's, now have to be tested because my son has been over their house a few times. We have flights to TN in August.

Putting this out there because here, we do wear masks and have been since the beginning when it was advised we do so. Whether it helps or not is not up for discussion for us, but rather it at least lowers the chance of getting COVID if anything. I've barely left the house in over a month, thank goodness for remote services, and my wife has to go to work because her job is an essential business.

Not going to lie, it's a complete shitte show here. The top advocate here against wearing masks was recently admitted in the hospital with COVID. Last month, our city went from less than 7 cases to over 40 in the span of a week AFTER protesters came here. Those protesters came from Denton County, which has nearly 4500 cases. 11 of those protesters are currently in our hospital because they were sick as hell and still came here to march. Our daughter lives in Austin which has over 16,500 cases and nearly 200 deaths. She thankfully hasn't got the virus, but had the normal flu a couple weeks ago, however, her room mate just got over the COVID.

Look, everyone has their own opinion about the matter and I am fine with that. Following guidelines or not is up to each person. Mentalities change when they or someone close actually contracts the virus. Perhaps following guidelines would have helped in not contracting it or perhaps it would have made no difference. Who knows? Flip a coin right?
 
Your PCMD said:
Following guidelines or not is up to each person.
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But therein lies the problem with American culture these days, writ large: It is considered by most to be "up to each person," that guidelines are not enforceable, and that laws/orders can be safely flouted and claimed to be an infringement on "my personal rights." I'm no fool, there has always been a very strong streak of individualism in American culture, but there was, through most of my life, an equal sense that we had obligations to others - the people we work with, our communities, the nation as a whole. That sense is now largely gone, and it's gone because certain political quarters have spent approximately 50 years carefully cultivating attitudes that are actively antagonistic to fact and expert opinion and that trust be placed in no one but the wild-eyed messenger of anger du jour. What we are witnessing now is the entirely logical result of cultivating a benighted mob and believing you can control same.

Your personal rights do have limits. In a public health crisis the personal rights of everyone carry equal weight to yours, or greater if you wish to go about in public making yourself either the perfect target for the coronavirus or as a spreader of same if you already have it by refusing to wear a mask. It is entirely appropriate that there be consequences that you will suffer (in addition to the greatly increased likelihood of contracting the coronavirus) if you act like an entitled idiot, ignoring the legitimate rights of others.
 
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