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The doctor wanted blood work so she sent me up to the local medical lab. I first saw him ahead of me, another slightly older white guy, at the door looking at his phone and wearing a "support the police shirt".
Still looking at his phone he motions its ok to pass him.
I go in and he follows sitting next to a woman he seemed to know in the waiting area and started to chat her up.
At this point he pulls his mask down below his nose and tells her the story about him having short-breathing etc. and that the doctor sent him to the hospital because he was positive for Covid. Complaining like hell that they isolated him. After telling her, and all of us in the waiting room about more symptoms he suffered for over a week in the hospital, he made his conclusion.
He said it was, "no worse than the flu."
At that point I was staring at both of them with my jaw down to the floor. Then the receptionist called my name.
So I tell the kind woman who is taking my blood about him and she shook her head adding, "we are so stupid". I knew immediately what she meant by the "we..". Because we live in a dead red PA county where people think wearing a mask is a result of a moral failure to unseat our great Gov. Tom Wolf and our cool Lt. Gov. John Fetterman.
Around here, "Impeach Wolf" lawn-signs are as common as Trump signs that are still, even now, standing next to since added "Stop the Steal" signs.
The lab worker said people come in "all the time" wearing a mask, only to have them "pull it down" to talk. She said they, "don't understand they are breathing it towards us".
I had to agree and added, shaking my own head, "we are so stupid".
Laelth
(32,017 posts)Even in blood-red rural PA. Kudos to you and to the medical staff that treated you.
-Laelth
JoeOtterbein
(7,783 posts)...from all us sane ones!
BigmanPigman
(52,147 posts)JoeOtterbein
(7,783 posts)...it would not be bad".
Like I was telling Holly today; they are in an insane death cult.
wnylib
(24,103 posts)couple years when the lung and heart aftereffects kick in. No doubt he'll deny that covid19 was the cause, but by a strange coincidence, other people he knows who also had covid 19 will have similar heart and lung problems.
JoeOtterbein
(7,783 posts)...the blood lab!
MustLoveBeagles
(12,376 posts)Thanks for sharing. It's depressing how stupid some people are about this.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,493 posts)wear their masks and wear them correctly?
There need to be giant signs and pictures on the door and inside. And the staff needs to speak up anytime someone pulls down the mask.
And people just don't understand how they are getting this, since they think they "are doing everything right."
JoeOtterbein
(7,783 posts)....checked our temps, questions etc. He had it on correctly when he was looking at his phone. I never saw him after I was done. By the lab worker I had said to me, I'm sure they told him to cover his nose.
Like we both said, "people are so stupid".
Liberty Belle
(9,600 posts)Our lives depend on it.
JoeOtterbein
(7,783 posts)...infect others by being even more stupid.
Woodwizard
(967 posts)Catskills NY
JoeOtterbein
(7,783 posts)...stupid people!
Freddie
(9,587 posts)Shes the only Trumpie in the family. Retired teacher. Owes her comfortable life to public education and the teachers union, 2 things her party hates. We dont communicate much.
Beartracks
(13,462 posts)... then pull it back up.
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disalitervisum
(470 posts)...to determine what textbooks can be used in our schools.
Trueblue Texan
(2,861 posts)...if they tell us to put on some clothes ("Ethyl! Git yer clothes on!" we'll just tell them we are done with being oppressed! We don't wear masks and we don't wear tops! What'd ya think?
JoeOtterbein
(7,783 posts)Or, maybe it would be more effective if us old white guys refused to wear pants?
Trueblue Texan
(2,861 posts)JoeOtterbein
(7,783 posts)....eeee...LOL! (with pants still on so as not to ruin anyone's clean thoughts) Haaaaahaaa.....!!!!!!
retread
(3,816 posts)cannabis_flower
(3,836 posts)people not wearing masks or wearing them wrong I give them a wide berth and tell management. Im not brave enough to say anything to them but Ill be sure and report them to someone.
Same with Facebook. Sometimes its better just to report the post as fake news, hate speech or abuse. After all, they wont know who reported them.
pnwmom
(109,445 posts)I asked her to, and she said that she'd gotten tired of it. And then I pointed to another woman in the small room -- who WAS wearing a mask -- and said, "But she's pregnant."
Instant compliance.
And I think most people wouldn't knowingly take the chance of exposing a pregnant woman. But the thing is, almost any woman under 45 might be early on in a pregnancy. You can't tell by looking.
Celerity
(46,154 posts)MontanaMama
(23,952 posts)bad enough to kill him....bully for him. Tell that to the quarter million dead Americans that werent as fortunate.
JoeOtterbein
(7,783 posts)... smart enough to get it.
MontanaMama
(23,952 posts)But these folks spread the misinformation that this is nothing worse than the flu and other people believe it.
JoeOtterbein
(7,783 posts)...way to many. And could become another pandemic.
They are so stupid.
MontanaMama
(23,952 posts)I hope youre okay after being around typhoid MAGAt. Their stupid is lethal.
JoeOtterbein
(7,783 posts)...worried ever since even though I had a surgical mask on right the whole time there. I plan to get re-tested real soon. Thanks again!
Now I'm even more worried about the workers!
Acornsouth
(343 posts)I think he had a bad case of pneumonia...same symptoms and easier to treat than Covid. yet claim he had Covid ... Months back, remember when he said he was on hydroxychloroquine, on a daily dose?...Well when you take this medicine, you only take one dose a week, and usually before you go into places with Malaria. If he took this stuff on a daily basis, he would be laying six foot under the ground, which makes his claims bogus... The meds he got would clean up pneumonia in a week or so....only thing that throws a monkey into this theory, everyplace he went, Covid broke out.....
live love laugh
(14,111 posts)They never revealed his other test results IIRC.
panfluteman
(2,162 posts)Skittles
(157,978 posts)I am NOT kidding
yuiyoshida
(42,548 posts)n/t
JoeOtterbein
(7,783 posts)...you too!
yuiyoshida
(42,548 posts)If I were to get COVID19 I am done for, finished...
JoeOtterbein
(7,783 posts)....(tears).
JoeOtterbein
(7,783 posts)I was in a little too much of a hurry to get my story out. Thanks again.
live love laugh
(14,111 posts)Meowmee
(5,185 posts)To the receptionist and the office manager and eventually upper management that they are not enforcing the mask policy. There is no way they should be allowing that. Take photos for evidence.
Fyrefox
(320 posts)I find the attitude expressed, "It's not about COVID, it's about control!" The fools need to realize that it's not a "rights" issue, it's a public health issue. As long as we allow health issues to be politicized, the body count will continue to grow...and Trumpers seem to learn little, even after direct observation and personal experience of COVID.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,984 posts)mask, because people are just damn ignorant.
Ahpook
(2,764 posts)I was talking to a person I was friends with for years and is now a nurse. When Trump was selected, he went stupid, and I had to cut it off.
We started talking again because of the mutual love for Eddie Van Halen and his passing. I asked him about how he is doing during covid. Pretty much what I expected!
Washing hands is normal, but masks or anything else are worthless according to THIS nurse.
WTF, man? Masks can only help, and coming from a nurse is insane to me. I hope nobody has to deal with him in a life threatening situation.
JoeOtterbein
(7,783 posts)I hope he is never allowed to change a bandage!
Ahpook
(2,764 posts)I live here for the time being as my mother has dementia, and taking care of her.
I plan to split this shithole sooner or later!