I have to correct myself. A map published by the New York Times showed percent of mask wearing people by zip code. The Trumpians in my wife’s hometown are more likely to wear masks than the people in the low income urban area.That depends very much on where you are.
In the fairly socially and politically conservative small city where I live, nearly everyone wears a mask. 200 miles away, in rural blue collar Trump country where my wife’s extended family lives, most people aren’t wearing masks.
40 miles from here, in a very urban, low income city, people are wearing masks even when they’re out walking by themselves.
I only insist on being free to do what I think is best.Why do you insist on being oppositional and instigating?
@Ruthanne: President Trump has been at loggerheads with the CDC and Dr. Anthony Fauci for quite some time.I simply think we’re being lied to. Our limits are being tested to see how far they can push us. That is what I firmly believe.
I don’t know. I think some are and some are not. I think it’s mostly politics over health. I don’t trust what we are being told. Not for a moment.Are scientists lying to us?
Money. Power. Duress.I don’t see the motivation.
The American people. That’s who.Really? Which particular race/religion is the only one being forced to wear masks in order to identify and separate them?
Seems like a totally stable individual.Be advised there is a rather unique troll here giving likes under a profane username with a rather nutty and rambling profile.
So the mask is to distinguish/set them apart from who?The American people. That’s who.
We face danger every day. For example, we get in our car and drive down the highway. We have to worry about speeders, drunk drivers etc. So what do we do? We take precautions. We wear our seatbelts. We buy cars with airbags. We drive defensively. We look out for ourselves.“Thou shalt not kill, (by spreading your breath to your neighbor when you well know that your exhalations may contain the coronavirus in the midst of this deadly pandemic).”
I don’t think you understand the concept of a society.We look out for ourselves.
Yes, and we prohibit those behaviors and punish people who engage in them. We don’t just shrug and tell everyone to wear a seatbelt.We have to worry about speeders, drunk drivers etc
It is about the government having control over the people, and like sheep we are mindlessly obeying. Just today (07/22/20) Washington DC announced that anyone caught in public without a mask would be subject to a $1000. It has gone from asking people to comply to insisting people to comply and now threatening those who don’t comply.I’m just trying to understand the logic of this internet conspiracy fever dream.
You obviously aren’t getting it. I give up.Yes, and we prohibit those behaviors and punish people who engage in them. We don’t just shrug and tell everyone to wear a seatbelt.
Care to share peer reviewed studies that are lying?..I think some are and some are not. I
Who do you think “the government” is? You know we elect our leaders, right? You’re assuming the mandatory mask rules are being imposed by some external force on an unwilling populace with no (name removed by moderator)ut.Wake up, People! You’re being played like a fiddle! You’re subjecting yourselves to government control and you’re too naive to even realize you are being controlled.
I get your argument fine. It’s just not a good argument.You obviously aren’t getting it. I give up.
I’m not sure that I would lump all three of these issues together. The red light stop rule seems reasonable, to being forced to wear a seatbelt wear less reasonable as the decision not to seems to carry consequences for the person deciding, the auto insurance requirements also I think, are more debatable.Let’s get some things clear here – the Government forces you to wear seatbelts, buy auto insurance and stop at red lights. And they have been forcing you to do these things for our safety for decades.