Wisconsin state agency tells employees to wear masks during Zoom calls, even if home alone

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The ridiculousness of these OVERBEARING Government people know no bounds. . . .

(Whaaat! No mask requirement with phone calls??!!)

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Wisconsin state agency tells employees to wear masks during Zoom calls, even if home alone​

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A Wisconsin state agency is reportedly mandating that its employees wear face masks during video conferences, even if they are home alone.

In a July 31 email, the Department of Natural Resources Secretary Preston Cole reminded employees that the governor’s mask order, which requires anyone over the age of 4 to wear a face-covering while indoors, was to take effect Aug. 1, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

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“Also, wear your mask, even if you are home, to participate in a virtual meeting that involves being seen — such as on Zoom or another video-conferencing platform — by non-DNR staff,” Cole said, according to the Sentinel. “Set the safety example which shows you as a DNR public service employee care about the safety and health of others.” . . .

Here is political satirist Mark Dice on this pinnacle of stupidity . . . .


 
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It isn’t as strange a thing as you might think. Societies as well as religions have routinely ritualized edifying practices as a way of incorporating important principles into everyday life.
 
If they want Americans to take mask wearing seriously, they need to be serious in their regulations.
Requiring people to wearing a mask when home is not serious. It’s idiotic.
 
Secular humanism is a funny religion. Blocking your airway with a diaper while home alone does not strike me as one setting a “safety example”, but making a fool of themselves and (for those with breathing troubles) unnecessarily suffocating themselves.

The next time I Skype my gf, I’ll wear a mask. She’ll get a good laugh out of it. 😂
 
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So, @Cathoholic, would you be in favor of “almost-universal” masking, where exemptions are granted for these few people for which it is a problem? Or is the citation of those people just an excuse to make it unnecessary for anyone to wear a mask?
 
What is the relation between wearing a mask and “secular humanism?” I would agree that there is sort of a connection between secular humanism and modern medicine, at least in the historical periods that they emerged, but this seems like a very specific thing to blame on “secular humanism.”

Could you elaborate?
 
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In a time of pandemic, masks represent more than clinical functionality. They signify charity and care for our fellow man.
 
This just looks like a PR decision to normalize and encourage wearing a mask.
 
Maybe the next step is to wear them when we sleep… it honestly wouldn’t surprise me.
 
Once something is normalized, it’s difficult, if not near impossible to go back.
As in going back to it being seen as abnormal and unusual? Why would that be advantageous?
You want to wear a mask forever? I sure don’t.
“Normalization” isn’t the same as “obligation.” Women wearing pants has been normalized. That doesn’t obligate a woman to wear pants.
 
We’re just going to have to disagree on the whole of this.
Okay, that’s cool.

In the pre-covid world, among my peers, there were those of us that would wear mask at work, especially in the colder weather of the year. This was in response to being in a culture in which a person coming to work sick was praise worthy. I’m of the opinion that sick people are better off staying home. It is to the good of the community for them to do so. Since not every one agrees it gave motivation to wear masks.
 
I’ll pass. I wear a mask whenever I go out and maintain social distancing. Just like I don’t need to wear my gloves indoors when I’m at home, I don’t need to wear the mask indoors at home in order to know I have to wear it when I go out.
 
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