Mask mandates, yes or no

[Clipper]

I think you will see some mandates at least in schools and in public buildings. Here in Tennessee our governor believes it should be an issue decided at local levels. We ARE seeing school districts invoke mask mandates thank goodness. I personally am in favor of going back to them if it will slow the spread and flatten the curve again, as it has been credited with doing the first time around. WE are back to wearing our masks when we enter a building or are around other folks.

I just shake my head in disgust when the anti vaccine and anti mask people ramble on with their political BS about it all being a government plot and all a hoax. My sister's neighbor is a man in his mid fifties. He has been outspoken with his opinions concerning anti vaccine, anti mask. He has COPD and is seldom seen without his rescue inhaler at the ready. Well, my sis messaged me and asked for prayers for Jerry. He contracted the Delta variant and yesterday they put him on a ventilator at the VA hospital. Very sad. He has two young school aged girls and a wife. The outlook is grim.

In my opinion people should err on the side of caution and suck it up, but we all have the freedom to decide for themselves at this point. The sooner people get vaccinated the sooner we will see the numbers turn around when it comes to hospitalizations and deaths.

[Atticus Pizzaballa]

I see many people in various stores wearing their mask. I do in any public place

[Clipper]

If people don't do more to turn the tide we are going to end up locked back down, businesses destroyed, and people once again losing their jobs. Curtailed activity is much better than NO activity in my estimation.

[Clipper]

Here is a perfect example of the idiocy when it comes to vaccines. Spoken by a foul mouthed moron brought up in the entitled lifestyle of the rich and famous AND DOWNRIGHT STUPID. It would explain that vacant and clueless look on his face. While looking at his tattoos I have to think he should add one more. A tattoo across his forehead that says "dumbass."

http://instagram.com/p/CScbCu9pZrd

[BHU]

Wait till COVID destroys his immune system, then he'll lnow something. Speaking of shampoo.  Clowns like him are the reason that there are directions on shampoo bottles in the first place let alone FDA approved & he probably washes his head with Preparation H which has shrunk his brain.

I'm going back to a mask because there are too many Bozos like that guy on the loose.

Rant over.

[Clipper]

We went to pick up the motorhome in Kingsport after Kathy's doctor's appointment. We stopped to eat at Golden Corral and noticed that they were back to masks and disposable gloves to handle the tongs and utensils on the buffet. Just about everyone was observing the mask and gloves recommendation. When we picked up the motorhome they had put the plexiglass shields on the service counter but they weren't masking yet.

Stopped for a couple things at Sam's Club and they are requiring masks for entry once again. That is a good sign that maybe even without government mandate people and businesses will smarten up and get with the program.

[Ralph]

   All Walmart employees have been mandated to wear a mask, whether on the clock or not, and no matter if they are in their home store or another.

   Personally, I think that scrubbing the masks and going wide open again, went too far, too fast.  They should have waiting till the vaccination rate was a lot higher than it is, and maybe even waiting until the fall/winter cold season was over.

  The minute the stopped the mandate, Walmart removed almost all traces of anything "Covid related".   We kept the masks around if anyone asked for them and ditched most of the sanitizer stations.  Now they're back tracking a bit.
Too far, too fast...........dumb.

[Clipper]

"I just shake my head in disgust when the anti vaccine and anti mask people ramble on with their political BS about it all being a government plot and all a hoax. My sister's neighbor is a man in his mid fifties. He has been outspoken with his opinions concerning anti vaccine, anti mask. He has COPD and is seldom seen without his rescue inhaler at the ready. Well, my sis messaged me and asked for prayers for Jerry. He contracted the Delta variant and yesterday they put him on a ventilator at the VA hospital. Very sad. He has two young school aged girls and a wife. The outlook is grim."

UPDATE: My sister's neighbor passed away yesterday while on a vent at the VA hospital in Johnson City. Prayers for the family. Very sad that he had to die because he simply poo pooed the vaccines and believed that Covid was no more dangerous than the flu. Sadly he leaves his children and wife behind along with a half remodeled house they recently moved into. He has the interior in a state of unfinished construction. When things calm down and he is laid to rest, I may wait a respectable period of time and then stop and ask his widow if she needs me to complete any of the projects inside that he had begun so that they won't be living with all the construction debris and unfinished work. Jerry was a great guy, but sadly misinformed and he paid the ultimate price. May he rest in peace.

[Atticus Pizzaballa]

I was talking to a guy on the Bus yesterday who I haven't seen in a long time it was work related that I knew him. He said his Uncles neighbor in Syracuse who was only 38 years old and in good health contacted the Delta variant two weeks ago. He always wore a mask and social distanced back when COVD was going wild here. The Delta variant took him out. He died from it. It only took 5 days to kill him, Imagine that....I heard this variant is very bad and highly contagious.