Posted by Delight
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I still have not heard of a person hospitalized and dramatically ill who had a covid test. I have heard second hand of some who had a mild illness and positive test. I live in a state where people I know are actually enraged we do not have a mandatory mask order. Strangely they all hate Trump and think I should vote for a demented misogynist just because he is Democrat AND wear a mask. One friend wore her mask in my yard so she must be wearing it a lot.
I now feel I cannot talk to these friends. I see myself as one of those who is being slowly surrounded by "true believers" who are not "like" they used to be?
I don't have any feeling for Trump. I have no feeling about a danger form the virus. I am mystified by the people I actually know who are SO SURE people who are "resistant to the message of danger" (regarding trump or a virus OR masks or whatnot) are the problem.
This is all becoming so disheartening. An acquaintance on facebook had posted this from another person Marla Frees (a life coach). What is disheartening to me is that people are conflating concerns about masks with intentions to "murder". people are suggesting refusal to wear masks should result in disenfranchisement from health care.
In training for emergency management program, I learned of a situation where people refused to evacuate their homes in the path of the storm. Public Safety employees were dispatched to go door-to-door and for those who would not leave once urged personally, face-to-face, they were to sign a document that said they understood that there was an evacuation ordered and that they were staying in their home despite the best of urging and that public safety would not be dispatched to their home if they called 9-1-1 during or after the storm and emergency. On that piece of paper they were also to put the name and phone number of next of kin, to be notified after the storm should the person be found dead.
If we were to treat in kind, those people who refuse to wear a mask during the pandemic, then they should sign a document that legally relieves the public health and safety community of any responsibility for the health and well being of that individual, should they become sick – they would be denied a bed or ventilator in a medical facility. Should they die, the costs incurred would be the responsibility of their estate and family – and not that of the government.
And finally, if that non-mask wearing person was determined through contact tracing, to have infected another and caused medical bills and/or death to said person or persons, then the non-masked person would be charged with premeditated murder (first degree) and suffer the penalties of their careless actions.
Now, where I live, the government hands out free non-surgical masks. What is the cost of wearing a mask? What is the cost of not wearing a mask?
People who have set themselves out as leaders of "how to live" are not at all concerned that the mask scenario is LITERALLY FULL OF HOLES when it comes to protection from a virus.
Covid has been linked to SO MANY VARIOUS symptoms that almost anyone could "be ill" with issues that suggest a covid presentation... so it is presumed clinically a set of symptoms came form covid FIRST.
Tests have false positives and negatives (even assuming they do measure a covid virus) and asymptomatic carriers is a problematic concept epidemiologically.
AND how can one prove that a "real" infection (not just being ill from another cause) came when NOT wearing the mask.
SO, IMO it is transparent that wearing a mask cannot be a 100% safe guard and NOT wearing a mask a proven threat. SO< i now see that overall, the speaking out against masks is the issue and the refusal IS the threat and people are coming up with ways to make sure people are afraid to speak out and protest... all with the help of the life coaches and the social leaders.
In all cases where there is a social revolution, misery and persecution form the crowd of true believers is all that can make it work. Those who will hide their beliefs and not protest are compeletly understandable. This is the way it has always been. Can this change? I don't want to be persecuted.
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