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originally posted by: tattooedlunchlady
a reply to: Blue Shift
If you think being forced to go everywhere with your face covered up whether you want to or not isn't a threat to your freedom then I think you need to give the matter a bit more thought.
originally posted by: tanstaafl
originally posted by: tattooedlunchlady
Unless I visit a doctor or go into the hospital I will not be wearing a mask.
I'm so sorry to hear about your loss...
Just wanted to add, here is mine:
Firefighter shows Oxygen levels wearing various masks, VIOLATES OSHA
originally posted by: tattooedlunchlady
a reply to: mtnshredder
Extremely interesting! I thought what would happen would be that nothing would show up in the search. What I got though was some other guy claiming that his oxygen level actually went up 1% because of having a mask on. What hogwash! Why would anyone believe that?
originally posted by: tattooedlunchlady
I hate masks. I have a horrible time trying to breathe in them and I despise the whole agenda behind them. Unfortunately, if I need to go to the hospital or a doctor's appointment I have to wear one. No one is allowed in without one.
But I go to Walmart and other stores an average of probably at least once a day. My husband and I always joked that Walmart was our second home. He didn't wear masks either. And we haven't worn them from the beginning.
Then, we both got sick about two and a half weeks ago. Our doctor said we should get tested for covid. We did, I was negative, he was positive. It turned out that I had pneumonia. My theory of why he got it (if it truly was covid and not flu) and I didn't is this: He went out less and less during recent months. The only times he had left the house and went to a public place were 3 visits to a dentist. I think that going out so rarely ruined his immunity.
So, because of the covid as well as some other issues he had been battling he decided to stop doing his dialysis. (He had been a dialysis patient for 5 and a half years.)
It took 6 days for him to die. Up until the last day when he went into the hospital I took care of him. I fed him, bathed him, slept beside him, (day and night because I was sick too). I covered his face with hundreds of kisses. I knew that I wouldn't have him much longer. I did not wear a mask. Never. Not once. And I did not get covid. Or flu or whatever. According to 'science' I should have been vulnerable, since I was already sick with pneumonia. I have asthma too.
So there is my evidence. I am now about to end my quarantine and be out in public again. Unless I visit a doctor or go into the hospital I will not be wearing a mask.
originally posted by: Blue Shift
originally posted by: tattooedlunchlady
a reply to: Blue Shift
If you think being forced to go everywhere with your face covered up whether you want to or not isn't a threat to your freedom then I think you need to give the matter a bit more thought.
Greater anonymity is not giving me less freedom, but more. That's why bank robbers use them. Leave my phone at home, put on a mask, and I'm invisible to a lot of tracking tech. Might come in handy.
The biggest inconvenience I experience from wearing a mask is not being able to smile at people to communicate friendliness or irony.
originally posted by: flice
a reply to: tattooedlunchlady
Sorry for your loss...
How many times did you get tested? Once?
A friend of mine, had 3 tests... 2 negatives and the final was positive.
In a case like this, where one of you is positive and the other negative, I would take two more tests to be sure.
You can easily get a false negativ, but there is no such thing as false positive. So test test test.
Also, you could still have got it from him, but be asymptomatic or your body's immune system, if it indeed was just pneumonia, already be in a combat ready state.
Recently a study showed that one of the reasons kids are less affected by Covid, is because their immune system is wired to be aggressive. One of the ways it does this, is the snotty nose.
Researchers found that kids had a higher amount of Covid anti-bodies in the front-lines than adults do. So the infection never took hold so badly.
If you were already sick, your white bloodcells were probably ready to fight and made it easy for you. But again... if you only had one test; could be a false negative.
All in all, I don't think your unfortunate story and the death of your husband can generate any conclusion whether masks work or not.
But if we take the knowledge about kids and their snotty nose, and then ask; how is the climate in your house? Do you keep it clean (asked with all due respect...)?
If conditions in the place where he spent the most time was not optimal, then that could probably have lead to increased risk.
Another study showed that fresh air and winding out your home twice a day is of great significance.
A final note... there is always the "wrong place at the wrong time". You mentioned dentist... it could be as simple and unfortunate that one of the times he was in the presence of someone asymptomatic while waiting. If anything like here, dentist appointments are always atleast 15 minutes late. He could have touched something, that someone else had touched, right after that individual wipe his nose with his hand. A door handle.
If you are about to enter a building or shop, and there is a societal stigma towards a snotty nose, because "oh man, I don't want them to think I have something", you automatically do that nose wipe.
For most people is even an automatic action, but if you asked them, they would say they don't do that.
In a year full of stress from losing jobs, losing homes etc. Our rational thought resources are at their lowest in a long time. They have been on a decline for a while to begin with.
This leads to people relying much more on automatic actions... "thoughtless" actions. You know, immediate graticifation and assurance.
I don't want to tell you that you aren't allowed to believe Corona doesn't exist or masks don't work or whatever.
But I do think that if as many of us as possible, for the duration, simply just played along with the rules, however annoying you might think they are, there would have been a lot less dead and infected.
I never understood people's objection to masks. Telling you to wear a mask is not taking anything away from you. It's not about exercising control over you. Because it doesn't harm you... but it prevents you from harming others, and others from harming you, by catching what ever particles of spit and viral agents that you might cough up or sneeze out.
Here's another fact, atleast from my part of the world:
- Normal flu is completely unrepresented this season............. not in comparison to covid; in comparison to numbers from last year.
Why? Because masks, social distance, hand gel.
Co-incidently, this also shows us that Covid isn't "just a flu". The normal flu took a dive and covid still went crazy with the current restrictions.
Imagine what it would be like if we hadn't reacted.