I have no idea, but I think my mom tried and the delivery thing was borked (I stay alive because they don't have any issue wearing masks).
So, they CAN go to the supermarket?
But suppose for a second that you are not tech savvy, can't afford a monthly phone bill, and are struggling to feed a family. These rules you take for granted are cruel. Typically we only have modesty exclusions to stores (no shirt, no shoes, no service) or behavior (tossing someone out for starting fights) and in fact most states have anti-mask laws. You are required to wear a mask yet it's illegal.
I'm confused. What part of wearing a mask is a problem, specifically?
It's as much a concern as starvation due to hoarding, which again, was totally ignored to push this agenda. In other words, a store that blanket excludes a customer from doing business there loses them as a customer. With clothing, that's not a big deal but with food or medicine super important. Suppose you can't buy your heart medicine? Either compromise what you feel, or die. Those are the choices.
And what are you feeling that prevents access to these things? Again, why is wearing a mask such a sacrifice?
The only thing out of date is the number. They still are fudging the actual amounts. The CDC released a report that said that pure COVID-19 deaths is much less than the 200,000 listed. If next week it is 300,000 or 1 million or 300 million (btw when death toll exceeds 30 million, immediately reject it as a scam; that's 1 in 10 of 300 million US population), my answer is the same. Numbers are inflated.
Except they aren't, if you look at total annual mortality rates on average.
Or traffic accidents. Reread that article. It said traffic accidents and suicides are blamed on COVID.
Only if they are confirmed to have Covid in the first place (something you missed), and the overall number of these cases is statistically very low. You still have to take into account overall average mortality rates being higher under Covid.
She is now on a respirator.
That sucks, but it is not the mask's fault that she didn't use it correctly and nobody tried to educate her.
You have a smug answer for everything but the fact is my mom, who only wears masks occasionally now is short of breath (look up the connection between masks and a condition known as hypoxia),
There is no link between masks and hypoxia - it's a myth. Surgeons and countless other professions wear cloth face coverings for hours at a time several days a week, and have been doing so for years (to say nothing of the widespread social use of masks in public places in Asia), and there has been no recorded rise in hypoxia and oxygen-deprevation related conditions in any of them. It's fabricated nonsense.
SOURCE:
'Deadly mask' claims debunked
If your mother is short of breath, has she had a formal medical diagnosis or a Covid test? You don't need to share any details here, but if she has not then that is what I would recommend. Either that, or your mother is wearing her mask far too tight (it would literally need to be near-air tight in order to re-breath CO2), and/or she is wearing a mask that is not made of sufficiently breathable material.
and my aunt who bought the mask logic but is an older woman without much sense and thought a mask was like wearing a glove where you can just take it on and off rather than something that gets dirty and moldy as you breathe out, is now struggling to breathe unsupported.
Again, that sucks, but it is not the fault of masks that your aunt mis-used them.
Also, gloves also get dirty and need to be washed. Has your aunt never washed a pair of gloves?
But all of this is missing the point. The issue btw is not that masks are good or bad. It's that our town is being made, against its will, to act as a propaganda device.
It's not "propaganda" to practice good health advice. Do you think advising people not to blow smoke in the face of children is propaganda as well?
Blacksmith's shop is closed, weaving is closed, all that made this town is either closed or open only under following the rules. If you don't wear the uniform, you are pariah. Untouchable. Is that really what my town wants?
I'm pretty sure what you town wants is not for many of its already vulnerable members to die unnecessarily due to the thoughtlessness, selfishness and ignorance of others. Maybe, just maybe, people being alive is more important than a blacksmith's shop being open.
To make a three tier caste system (ppl who can't/won't wear masks, people who do, and politicians who are above the rules)?
To pretend that this is a caste system is just plain ridiculous. It's just childish hyperbole, plain and simple.
What about when vaccine comes out? You can shop but only if you vaccinate? If you thought masks are easy to come by and nobody is starving over them, needles are a kettle of fish of a different color. There are people phobic of needles, people who have concerns about Revelation and how they need a mark to show who's vaccinated, people who think vaccines cause autism and other side-effects.
Those people are all making a choice. If I make a choice that I refuse to go anywhere except with my AK-47, or I refuse to ever wear pants, or if I choose to tattoo racist messages in my forehead, I have that freedom. But I would do so with the understanding that doing so would mean I wouldn't be welcome in a very large number of places.
People who are afraid of needles generally grow out of it.
People who fear revelation or think vaccines and linked with autism are just irrational and need not be cowed to.
That could be as much as 1/10 of the population completely unable to enter shops, who have money but cannot spend it.
That's their choice, and the choice of where they spend it.
Also, I'm willing to bet it would be more like less than 1% of the population. And that sucks for them, but if that's what they want to do, it's a rod they're making for their own backs. They would just have to live with alternative means to prevent infection.
On a personal level, do you believe that masks help slow the spread of the Corona virus?
