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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe anti mask idiots, I ask do you wear a fucking seatbelt when you drive
I ask do you wear a seatbelt when you drive vehicle I get the deer in headlights look. Then why can you not understand you need to mask up , science keeps us safe not a trumpig or repig party that denies science or fact. These morons Repig trumpublican are a death cult weak in mind cannot think individually 220.000 dead murdered genocide. I tell them seatbelts save lives.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,757 posts)I'll bet that when seat belts were introduced, they wouldn't wear them!
Walleye
(31,118 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,499 posts)If you dont believe in masks reducing the spread of the virus, next time you go for surgery tell the surgeon that hand washing, gloves and masks are not necessary. Tell the surgeon you respect their freedom not to wear mask and gloves!
cmeneer
(253 posts)The answer is no. She doesnt believe the mask hype and she disengaged her seatbelt reminder on her car. She considers herself very bright (which she was in school) but shes a very stupid woman. I dont get it. She thinks shes a badass that is exercising her freedoms.
Renew Deal
(81,892 posts)A mask isn't much different and is needed for some of the same reasons.
kimbutgar
(21,237 posts)A Lakefield, Minn., man deemed President Donald Trumps biggest supporter in Minnesota was killed in a car crash Monday, reportedly days after meeting the president.
According to a Facebook group, Randal Thom, 60, was the creator of Front Row Joes, an online assemblage of Trump supporters.
Thom was known as Front Row Joe because he had attended so many Trump rallies. He adored our POTUS and was known personally by the secret service.
Thom was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators reported evidence of alcohol use by Thom, who was not wearing a seat belt, the State Patrol report said. Road conditions were reported as wet at the time.
https://www.twincities.com/2020/10/20/minnesotas-biggest-trump-supporter-killed-in-car-crash/
So even his supporters wont wear seat belts or masks!!!!
RockRaven
(15,062 posts)Walleye
(31,118 posts)cos dem
(903 posts)Surely they would insist that their surgeon not wear a mask during surgery. After all, who would want their surgeon deprived of oxygen, or enabling their own virus, or whatever bullshit they come up with?
moondust
(20,019 posts)for not masking the way there is for not wearing a seatbelt, I don't expect much to change. Some will no doubt argue that there have been fines for not masking in some EU countries yet they still have rising numbers of cases, though maybe not as bad as places w/o penalties.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,940 posts)a lot of idiots (probably the same bunch as the anti-maskers) griped that the government was taking away their freedumb by making them wearing seat belts in their own private cars, the very nerve! Same with laws requiring motorcycle helmets, even though ER staff sometimes refer to motorcycles driving by helmetless fools as "donorcycles." I have the right to disregard laws enacted for my own protection because it's none of the government's business if I go out and kill myself, right? Except that the morons who don't wear seat belts or motorcycle helmets or face masks don't just risk killing themselves; they place a burden on the medical system, their families, and taxpayers. But they don't care because freedumb, otherwise known as plain old selfishness.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)I remember the outcry about seatbelt laws when they first started being enacted. (We were living in New York State when a law was enacted in 1984, which I think was the first). Wah, wah, wah.
Ive argued for years for laws mandating bicycle helmets, and all I hear is pushback: how would it be enforced (why not?). Nobody will do it (what does that have to do with making a law?) I say youre nuts if you dont wear a helmet. Ive seen the tragic results of bicyclists who were not wearing a helmet.
Masks? No brainer. Im glad I live in a city where mask compliance is very high.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)They are a cult like the Peoples Temple.
Ohiogal
(32,143 posts)I give you tons of credit for trying, TEB
safeinOhio
(32,744 posts)Many Americans understand the lifesaving value of the seat belt the national use rate was at 90.7% in 2019. Seat belt use in passenger vehicles saved an estimated 14,955 lives in 2017.
So, I'd be OK with a $100 fine.
MineralMan
(146,345 posts)made the news here. He had travelled all over to Trump Rallies. The newspaper noted that he was NOT wearing his seat belt when the car accident occurred. So, maybe he is just really, really stupid about his "freedoms."
ETA: See Post #5, that beat me to this.