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Honestly I’m sad for everyone that works manual labor. Wearing a mask absolutely lowers the chance of both transmitting covid and getting covid, but working in 90+ degree weather lifting heavy shit for 8 hours a day wearing a mask sucks. It gets moist as all hell and fogs your glasses.
Source: I unloaded trucks outside all day 5 days a week for the entire summer of 2020 and 2021.
A lot of people are doing manual labour in a mask even without COVID, but simply to protect their lungs from excessive pollution in a workplace. Don’t be sad, working in a mask is a norm.
I mean I understand why people do it, but it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t suck and doesn’t make work just a little less tolerable for those having to deal with it.
Have you worked manual labor in a mask in the summer?
I have. The one time I got COVID, it felt like 40-50C all week plus humidity, I was masking with an N95 the whole time when I was around people, but because I was working an outdoor music festival, 95% of the people I was around wasn’t.
I especially could barely get out of bed, had to use my inhaler about 5-10 times a day cuz it kept triggering asthma attacks, my limbs hurt so fucking much, I was nauseous and light-headed and had insane brain fog. It got better after 2 weeks but I was only really ok for about 4 hours a day and could only be vertical for about 2 or I would get really sick.
I had long COVID for about 2-3 months after that, which included severe brain fog, struggling to breathe, and easily got tired all the time.
I also get COVID-like symptoms when I get the vaccine for 2 weeks all 3 times I got it.
I really wish people would understand that masking is to protect other people by not spreading it to them, not yourself from getting sick.
I was a cement truck driver during COVID. They do not wear masks. I also drove long haul and no wearhouse workers wear them either.
Id rather be sick for a week than wear a mask doing physical labour.
That’s a dumb take.
What do you do for a living? For many, wearing a mask while working is a recipe for guaranteed heat exhaustion. I’m not subjecting myself to that, and if the illness is anything at all like the last time I had it, it was a goddamn cold.
Wearing a mask in a hospital full of people with compromised health and all sorts of contagions floating around is a really good idea.
Wearing a mask outdoors in the summer time on a construction site full of other able-bodied people is just fucking silly.
What kind of construction work are you talking about if you’re not wearing a mask? Anything that produces fine dust or requires working with volatile chemicals like paints and aerosols requires you to work in a mask at all times. Do you have any work safety regulations in your country?
Fuck, I’m pro mask and all, but… that’s gonna be a hard sell. And tbh I fucking enjoy not wearing one anymore (unless I’m sick or something).
I was just typing up the same thing. I the UK this would need to get really bad for any sort of compliance to take place
Maybe “something” = “at high risk of getting stick?”
😂
Edit: maybe I should have noted that I agreed with “Maybe “something” = “at high risk of getting stick?”” But just thought it was funny that he had to point that out.
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Imagine the survival rate without precautions. (e.g. look at Italy 2020)
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I think the way you put it is blunt but a lot of people feel this way.
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Maybe instead of speaking your mind you can speak with facts next time.
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So what’s the survival rate of a cold?
Like 120%
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"High five everyone! We got these guys to wear MASKS! LOLOL! Hey, why’d my stocks go down? Oh well, MASKS!!! 🤣 "
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The CDC declared the end in May in the US: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/end-of-phe.html
They were determined that it was all a hoax because they don’t know anyone who died.
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I wish we’d never forced masks to begin with. There wasn’t nearly enough natural selection from the whole thing. Let em kill themselves.
I’ve stopped giving handshakes to almost anyone, favouring the ol’ terrorist fist jab instead. I get awkward reactions sometimes but some people seem to get why. Masking up again is gonna be fun, can’t wait to hear the vaxxosckeptics tell me all about how everything is a hoax again.
Terrorist fist?
Please don’t make me feel old.
Jesus Christ I think I just lost 30 IQ points. I can’t afford that damn it!
jesus fucking christ. they had an entire department working to imagine shit up about the Obama administration and terrorist fist jab is what they air?
what a bucket of chodes
And those were the good old days when they were just trying to be subtly racist, rather than the now times where they’re just straight up trying to smuggle Nazi dog whistles in.
Please don’t make me feel old.
I totally missed that back then. Go figure.
Why would you go to work if you know you are not feeling well??
because your kids are hungry
I raised this exact point to a relative on a similar issue (people on the road during a major blizzard).
That said, there are many jobs where you don’t need to be there in person. Saying “if you feel sick stay home” (or similar) should be encouraged as it’s necessary to enforce this expectation that if you can stay home, you should.
I have a coworker who is here with me today ay my job. he’s horribly sick and lost his sense of taste but still insists on working and the managers let him. so I’ll probably have covid next week.
Thanks to the COVID infection I already had and some other illness, I have no sick time left. So if I get it again, I have to take the entire time I’m sick unpaid.
Now I’m lucky in that I can work from home and would do so while able but contagious, and we can afford me to take a few days off unpaid, but plenty of people are in my situation and can’t afford a single unpaid day.
A numbered amount of sick days is such a stupid concept. I’m glad I have as much as I need.
Agreed, but it’s pretty standard in U.S. businesses- if they give sick time at all.
You guys are really getting fucked over there
People are dumb.
People are often forced to as many live from salary to salary. My country had a genius idea to reduce longest sick time doctor can prescribe without commission to two weeks from previously two months. Imagine how great that must be for everyone having to work their asses off. Especially considering that a lot of salaries are minimum wages and the rest of the salary is tied through KPI bonuses and stuff. So if you miss a day or two a month there goes majority of your salary.
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Laughs in no sick time hours
With a lot of overreactions this gonna be hard this time.
By overreaction I mean f.e. closing forests in my country.
There’s going to be a lot less trust/compliance for any overreach, that’s for sure
I know two people with COVID who don’t know each other at the moment. I don’t remember the last time that happened. It’s BACK.
Id be surprised if anyone actually does this. I don’t think anyone cares anymore.
I am worried about my grandma though, she’s old and covid has a way with old people.
I was just in Japan a month ago and they have somewhere around 99% mask usage.
And still people were catching COVID.
Caught and fainted twice. Rough go this stuff.
I wear a mask when I’m out in public and not feeling well. I won’t wear one otherwise.
Please consider wearing one any time you’re out of your home during any resurgence. You can be a carrier and shredding while asymptomatic. If your masking keeps even one elderly person from getting COVID, isn’t that worth? Even if it just lowers the chance they’ll get it by a few percent?
This is why people spread the disease. For dummies like you :)
I understand this was a playful jest but I think just wearing a mask for anything is admirable.
It blows my mind how upset people get about masking. During the two primary years of Covid where I isolated and masked religiously, I didn’t get sick once or even have allergies (despite visiting parks often).
Now companies have RTO and try to get everyone in on the same days so illness spreads like wildfire. People sitting right beside me hacking their lungs out.
It blows my mind how upset people get about masking
The pandemic is when I gave up on the notion that diehard conservatives had even a shred of intelligence or morals. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing from them.
I wear masks but I absolutely hate it. Maybe if you work from home you don’t notice, but wearing that thing for 9-10 hours can be a real pain. On top of that you miss a lot of a person’s face, I had to meet a lot of new people during that time and it was hard.
I’m not saying it’s enjoyable. It’s especially awful when it’s hot & humid, if you wear glasses, or when wearing for a long period of time. But when the alternative is increasing the chances of catching/spreading a dangerous virus… well there isn’t much of an argument against.
USA will gladly laugh as nobody wears masks. The “but mah freeeedomss” crowd has infected the entire globe at this point.
Werent their antimask protests in Europe?
Yeah, its endemic now. When will it stop being news the way flu is, that kills people too
As somebody with family in the extremely high risk of death category twice over, I’ll make sure we’re all extra careful.
Unfortunately, masks only protect others, not yourself, and so we must rely on the intelligence of others around us to wear masks to protect their loved ones and the at risk British population.
So, we shall see. Mark my words, if these people kill my family, I will never forgive them. Right wing antivax tossers and left wing apathetic idiots, I’ll never forgive either group. On my deathbed in the 2080s I won’t forgive them.
“press X to doubt”
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