My response to "why are you wearing a mask?"

[grumpyduck]

So next time somebody asks me that, I'll say, "Well, see, I'm one of those moron idiot shit-for-brains assholes who really believes it's easier to prevent a fire than to put it out. So I'd rather wear this thing than find myself in a hospital plugged into a ventilator. Besides, I don't like hospital food."

[Aristus]

1. My response to "Take off your mask!":

"Take off yours!"

"I'm not wearing a mask!"

"Holy shit! That's your face?"

[Tipperary]

8. Do people really ask you that?

In Seattle? I wear my mask everywhere where people are, and it has just not happened to me. That seems so weird on every level.

[Aristus]

9. No. It's just a planned ripost if someone does.

I like to think we in Western Washington are more enlightened than people living in the below-average half of America.

But I still see people sauntering around in the grocery store without wearing masks.

I'm a little nervous that sooner or later, some bulbous, biscuits-and-gravy bastard is going to get on my case for "scaring people with this hoax!"

[Tipperary]

12. I live in the south, and most people are wearing masks from the observations I have made on the

few occasions I have ventured out. But no one has ever confronted me about wearing one. People seem to mind their own business around here. I cannot imagine someone doing that, but if they did I would just reply I do not want to get sick. Period.

[Aristus]

15. Well, the density of infection does seem to be higher in the South.

Maybe people are being more cautious because everyone knows someone who has the infection. That's the thing about the perception of COVID-19: it stops being a hoax when it starts being you.

[BComplex]

19. I was at a UPS drop-off store the other day, and a dude 6' behind me (!) told me this virus

was intentional & that the Chinese have more of them they're going to let loose on the world.

[Doreen]

32. I live in Lewis County and even being a red county no one has said anything to me.

If they do however, I will take my mask off as I step up to them and tell them that since they think it is a hoax they will not mind me breathing on them despite the fact I tested positive for COVID-19.

Of course I don't and I would not know any way because tests are not available.



Don't worry, I really would not do that but it sure would be tempting.

[HAB911]

2. Start coughing and say

"I'm positive for Covid and I'm trying to protect you"

[elias7]

17. exactly that...

[MontanaMama]

34. This.

+1

[Bernardo de La Paz]

36. 70 to 5. But don't say you are positive or you might get law down on you for not quarantining

[dickthegrouch]

40. Should be an OP /nt

[HAB911]

41. ++++

[luvs2sing]

3. "I'm not going to die of stupid." n/t

[SCantiGOP]

4. What I have trouble with

A mask is fear, but a gun is protection.
???

[essme]

5. I am thinking of saying, "well, I just tested positive, but

I feel completely fine"

and then cough.

[safeinOhio]

11. Mumble that response and when they ask what...

pull your mask down and repeat it while hacking.

[SWBTATTReg]

6. Cough cough cough...clearing my throat...cough...uh, what was the question again? Cough cough cough

[Brainfodder]

7. "I don't like hospital food"

I think that is all one needs to say to the jackasses and immediately RUN in the another direction?

If they tried to stalk me in the store or get grabby and/or violent, they might just not see tomorrow.



My stun gun will be with me if OH MERCY I have to venture out among these assholes.
2M volts should shut them the fuck up for at least a second?
I'll be sure to blast them in the crotch 3 times extra in hopes they can't breed.



^Fantasy, never going out to a store this year, will be pleasantly surprised if in '21?

[CanonRay]

10. My sister in law told a guy that she just tested positive

and the mask was to protect him. He scurried away.

[pazzyanne]

27. Great answer!

That is the reason we wear a mask. Wearing the mask, unless it is an N95 does not protect us.

[MissMillie]

13. "Four reasons...

...because

1) I've been out to the grocery market in the last week or so, and not knowing whether or not I've picked something up, this is how I try to keep other people safe from what I may have;

2) It really doesn't cost much.. homemade mask, and very little of my time and/or energy;

3) It doesn't hurt anything; and

4) There's no good reason not to."

[ananda]

14. To keep scumbags like you from getting cv.

Oh wait, I already have cv, so let me take it off now
and have a good spit.

[Ferrets are Cool]

16. "Do you have a wife/husband at home with Stage 4 Lymphoma? No?

Then FUCK OFF"
Luckily I haven't had any confrontations yet, but I rarely go out into public.

[Talitha]

18. Why? Because my Mom didn't raise idiots.

[iamateacher]

20. I told them the truth

My son works at a nursing home with dozens of Covid patients and I wear the mask to protect them, not me.

[totodeinhere]

21. Nobody has ever asked me why I am wearing a mask.

Not everybody in my community wears one but many do. I am more concerned about people who wear masks but don't wear then properly. i have seen some people covering their mouths while leaving their noses exposed. The virus could very easily be expelled through their noses and render the mask useless.

[malaise]

22. Mine is

Do I know you?

[kairos12]

23. Mine is go gargle with Clorox.

[denem]

24. A: Because I tested positive for the virus.

Would you like me to take it off?

[TomCADem]

25. Wear a Mask Does Not So Much Protect You From Infection...

...it protects the people around you if you happen to be infected and asymptomatic. Of course, right wingers are so self-centered, that they don't give a shit about other people. What's in it for them?

[Fla Dem]

26. Well actually the response s/b, I wear it so if I'm infected I won't pass it on to you."

From what I understand, most masks used by the general public, prevent to a high degree, your spittle and infectious miniscule particles from your mouth traveling into the air. But are pretty ineffective at preventing virus particles from flowing into your breathing unless you have the high grade N-95 masks.

All of this leakage in surgical and fabric masks are why public health officials generally don't believe that wearing a mask prevents anyone from catching a virus that is already floating around in the environment. Airflow follows the path of least resistance, said Rachael Jones, an associate professor of family and preventive medicine at the University of Utah who was not involved in the new research. If viral particles are nearby, they have an easy path around a surgical or fabric mask. And in the case of a fabric mask, wearers may well be wafting in particles small enough to flow right through the fabric.

But what about the other way around? When the wearer of a mask coughs or sneezes, the barrier might be enough to contain a lot of that initial jet of grossness — even if there are gaps in the fabric or around the sides. That's what the new mask studies aimed to address: Whether surgical or fabric masks did a good job of containing viruses.

https://www.livescience.com/are-face-masks-effective-reducing-coronavirus-spread.html

[sarge43]

30. Mine

"I hope to increase my chances of being alive in November so I can vote total Midnight Blue."

Probably too much for that tiny brain to process.

[lsewpershad]

28. Next time just say

"to protect you idiot, just in case I'm infected"

[jmg257]

29. "Fuck off...80,000 people dead, and im not dying due to stupid....

You make ur own choice”

[McCamy Taylor]

31. Because I do not want to kill my family.

[KentuckyWoman]

33. Been there done that.

I was fairly well taken aback. I'm pushing 80 and barely 5 feet tall. This was a big man but I've always had a mouth. My first instinct was "go fuck yourself" but managed to spit out "quit being a bully" instead. I could afford to be brave. My 6'6", 310 pound retired Marine nephew was with me.

Next time, and hopefully there isn't one, I hope I can remember to say "I don't like hospital food". I really like that one.

[LittleGirl]

35. Bully! Yes! That's what it is! eom

[Harker]

37. I've never been asked.

I was, though, once told, "that mask ain't gonna do you no good, bud."

My reply was that I wasn't wearing it for me, but for everyone else.

Even that didn't stop the patter.

[Ford_Prefect]

38. I ask if they know the how long the sentence is for Manslaughter.

You shouldn't do the crime if you can't do the time.

[Raine]

39. " I want to go into this store

and they won't let if I'm not wearing this hot miserable mask” that's the reason I wear it. No one has ever asked me though because they're all stuck wearing them too.

[egduj]

42. Good response for a question that you'll never be asked.

Unless maybe a toddler, and in that case I'd time it down a tad.