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In reply to the discussion: Hey Jon Stewart, Jokes About Wearing Masks Aren't Funny [View all]
markodochartaigh
(4,959 posts)64. If rich people who own businesses and make
their money from investment and speculation support Democratic politicians and liberal causes, that's great. I will get behind their parade and gladly sweep the streets.
But they should realize that covid, and long covid are real. When their customers die, or are too feeble to buy their products they lose a lot more than if they had separated the tables in their restaurants and encouraged the simple precautions which are all anyone is asking for.
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Maybe it's someone who has something contagious, absolutely had to leave the house for some reason,
tanyev
10 hrs ago
#3
For fifty years I never asked the old Asian ladies on the bus why they were wearing masks.
Iggo
10 hrs ago
#8
Exactly. I always wear a mask to my regular checkups because Hello! the doctor's office is full of sick people.
tanyev
10 hrs ago
#14
Have seen people masked in AZ for decades. Some are fragile and some have really horrible allergies
Attilatheblond
8 hrs ago
#40
Yep. It's been years. They know the answer. They just want to fight. So I cut out the foreplay.
Iggo
8 hrs ago
#39
I, too, was stationed in Japan, at Yokota Air Base, in the late 1970s. Come fall and winter illness...
3catwoman3
8 hrs ago
#41
The surgeon and assistants wear masks to protect the patient. If it was proven it didn't work, they wouldn't do it.
surfered
9 hrs ago
#22
Wedges, wedges! So we are going to worry about the utterance of a comedian when
PatrickforB
9 hrs ago
#24
deep breaths there buddy. It's okay to make an observation about an entertainer. What's your plan in the meantime?
WhiskeyGrinder
9 hrs ago
#32
Or *you* could stay home. Sometimes people have no choice and have to go out.
Ocelot II
8 hrs ago
#36
Kinda funny how right-wingers never joke about wearing ear protection at the shooting range.
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
9 hrs ago
#30
When I was an exchange student in Tokyo in 1972, everyone wore masks in public in winter
Wild blueberry
8 hrs ago
#35
I saw the same thing when stationed at Yokota Air Base outside of Tokyo in the late 1970s.
3catwoman3
8 hrs ago
#43