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RockRaven

(14,958 posts)
2. I think you overestimate the people who refuse to wear masks. They're not oblivious
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 10:17 PM
Jul 2020

to the concept illustrated. They just don't fucking care about who they hurt, compared to how they value their weird mask-defiance virtue-signaling.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,841 posts)
4. I will disagree and say that most of them truly are oblivious.
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 11:11 PM
Jul 2020

I've seen more than one story of someone who didn't believe in the disease and now, to their shock, they're sick.

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
6. They think they are perfect, incapable of spreading disease.
Mon Jul 6, 2020, 02:02 AM
Jul 2020


Reality is they can carry a whole litany of diseases, as well as mental ones.

ChoppinBroccoli

(3,784 posts)
5. Nothing Will Sway Anti-Maskers.....Until They Catch It Themselves
Mon Jul 6, 2020, 12:06 AM
Jul 2020

This is just another example of how some people will not believe the stove is hot until they touch it for themselves. I actually know people like this. They're not just against masks; they actually believe to their very core that this is all a big hoax, and they PROUDLY proclaim that they HAVE never and WILL never wear a mask. It's shocking to witness this level of ignorance in people you actually know.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,489 posts)
7. Instead of campaign ads, our media needs to be awash with PSAs on the pandemic.
Mon Jul 6, 2020, 03:24 AM
Jul 2020

Most of our public has been lulled into complacency with lies from the right, a cancerous element of society that only cares about profit. Most common everyday folk simply do not know how dangerous this disease is. Much of the info they pick up on social media is bullshit.

If we had effective leadership at the very TOP, we would not be where we are today. We're speaking to you tRump, Pence, most Republican governors, Putin, Jair Bolsonaro and Boris Johnson to name a few.

Snips from the Guardian World News:

The total global number of cases is 11.4 million, according to Johns Hopkins University data. The virus has claimed the lives of 533,780 people.

In the United States, the Centres for Disease Control reported 52,228 new cases on Sunday, marking the fourth day in a row that new cases have been over 50,000 according to its tallies.

Two prominent Texas mayors warned that hospitals in their cities will be “overwhelmed” by cases of Covid-19 inside two weeks, even as Donald Trump continues to portray the coronavirus resurgence nationwide as the embers of a fire he is steadily extinguishing.

From: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/06/global-report-india-sees-record-daily-rise-as-capital-opens-giant-covid-19-hospital


KY rant done.........
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