Posted on 05/20/2020 5:16:48 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
We need to proactively reach out to these companies that are allowing this behavior and tell them it is NOT acceptable. I just left a message for the CFO of Costco and I highly recommend you all do the same.
The forcing of masks on us like we're sheep is completely unacceptable and if we don't step to the plate and push back on this they won't stop.
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Is someone forcing you to line up and go to Costco?
Me, I go by the Trader Joes within walking distance and see a line down the block and then DON’T GET IN LINE.
Pretty simple.
What happened to “ welcome to Costco, I love you?”
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Now it’s, “Shut up slave! Put on your muzzle!”
In our “racially sensitive, non gender specific, politically correct, if it only saves one life” world, those in charge went about this all wrong. Again the typical reaction, punish the majority for the minority. In Minnesota it’s only Minneapolis, quarantine the hell out of them, wall them off. In Nebraska it’s only Omaha, the same. So I live in the country and I’m expected to wear a mask and stay at home. Come on. As to the man who obviously watches CNN and throws out the 93K dead figure as FACT. I’ll bet it’s half that. They count everyone. So the obese woman with diabetes and high blood pressure living in a nursing home at 88 contracts a strain of Covid, dies...IT’S COVID. Really. It’s not.
I had no idea that Coscto is now performing medical operations in their stores. How much for an appendectomy?
I much prefer Sam's over Costco for the product selection anyway.
Very nice.
Yes, they have that right, but doesn’t mean its a good idea or that customers can’t voice complaints.
Masks don't work. So why wear one, either at Costco or the hospital?
BTW, I just parted ways with my church temporarily over this. They are welcoming everyone back starting next week but you have to wear a mask and social distance.
This is worse than the flu. Just ask the people in N. Italy and Wuhan PRC.
It’s not the black death but it is worse than the flu.
To use the number of deaths without admitting that mitigation measures have slowed the spread is irresponsible. Just look at the sorry state of NYC which claimed it was a racist attempt by the Trump administration to smear Chinese. The virus spread there because the Democratic Thralls in Eeew Yuck thought it was just the flu. Now about 1/2 the deaths from this thing in the country are located there.
Compare Eeeew Yuck to Hong Kong. Both cities are about the same size, and both are densely populated. Hong Kong has had less than 200 deaths from the Wuhan Flu because people wear a mask in public, buildings have installed hand sanitizing stations, and even floor mats at entrances soaked in disinfectant. They also closed the border with the PRC except for food deliveries. Hong Kong citizens returning from abroad are REQUIRED to quarantine for two weeks. If you won’t do it voluntarily they put you in a converted summer camp for two weeks. Hong Kong closed down for 2 weeks and then opened back up.
I should also state that groups that trace such thing will tell you Hong Kong is consistently rated as a freer society than the US. So don’t even think about pulling the “They’re just like the evil PRC!!!!!!” canard out of your hat.
The HK government handled the protest last year in the worst possible way. But it got the response to this virus spot on.
Neither do you have a God-given right to infect other people if you are sick.
93000 dead. Since Feb 29.
It’s NOT the flu bro.
I know tats the figure that is being put out there. However, I don’t believe it to be accurate by any stretch. Here in Pa., we have doctors and coroner’s disputing the death figures because of the virus that are being put out. Seems like all deaths, regardless of actual causes are being lumped as covid. There are plenty of reasons to suspect the death numbers attributed to covid.
Are you going to do all the other things they do in an OPERATING ROOM?
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Wrong. Masks work. The science behind the use of masks is conclusive. Even a simple double-layered piece of cotton sheet, "worn badly", stops 96% of disease-carrying microdroplets in cough, sneeze or breath.
It is not much different for most people. No more risk level for people under 60 that do not have other health issues.
It’s still a big deal as a whole.
My opinion on this issue specifically. Costco can do what they want to virtue signal. We can choose not to go. We can also contact them to let them know. I won’t be going until they remove this ridiculous rule but that’s my choice. It also makes sense to let them know. Their revenue is likely fine as are box stores are in high demand but at some point they need to end this dumb policy and more revenue from customers sitting on the sidelines is a pretty good justification to do it sooner than later.
Good layman’s summary of the science behind mask-wearing:
A second layman’s article on the science behind mask-wearing:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200504-coronavirus-what-is-the-best-kind-of-face-mask
Composition of saliva (the microdroplets generated by coughs and sneezes):
https://www.thejpd.org/article/S0022-3913(01)54032-9/fulltext
Size distribution of microdroplets generated by sneezing:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2013.0560
Particle sizes stopped by masks (this is the most important link:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.0c03252
Positive pressure face mask (for those prone to hypoxia):
https://cleanspacetechnology.com/us/cleanspace2/
Can we all agree that it shouldn’t be nationwide policy?
LOL! I do know that masks work, so there's that.
I’m one of those Christians that really has a tough time with the whole American “church” paradigm. I go for only two reasons:
To learn from the body and teach the body.
We were created as communal creatures. We need each other’s company similarly to a beehive or pride of lions. I don’t need to “go to church” to take communion, study the bible and other historical recordings of Christianity, pray or worship. The only thing I need it for is to commune with other believers, gathered together in Jesus’ name.
I don’t get that from TV preachers.
I don’t get that from Zoom sunday school.
I don’t get that with everyone hiding their face with a useless mask.
So for a while I’ll not be attending a church, but I’ll still be studying, taking communion, praying, etc. And I have my wife with me.
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