Skinner, you are as in tune with fashion as anyone I’ve ever seen. Well done.

Smalltown, im backing you in this one. Im really embarrassed to be on this forum with anyone that would give you a hard time about making a statement as simple and harmless as you made. Im relatively certain that the vast majority of people feel as you do but the "vocal minority" have to get their jabs in anywhere they can.

Thank you sir. I expect similar every time I post which is rarely even though I'm on here everyday.

Only in 2020 could you get called a sheep because you went to the grocery store to buy beer and brisket for the 4th of July.

Will wear a mask in business accounts to keep from loosing there business in these tuff times. But anywhere else, if asked why not wearing a mask, will say, have a Med condition. If they as what, will get our my phone, ask name and personal and info so I can report them for violating HIPPA regulations, that will shut them up........

You are blind as a Bat! Its your condescending attitude towards other members here that don't share your opinions is why you get the push back that you get. If you "expect similar every time" you post then its time to look in the mirror and see that the problem might be looking right back at you. You play the victim very well though.

When using your brain leads to you pounding sand all day in the hope it turns into a diamond, I would second guess the people that tell you to pound sand. We know as a species the force and pressure it takes to create a diamond from Sand and how the human is incapable Of it without mechanical force and pressure. So why then, do we continue to pound sand against something that we have no force or pressure against?

Wouldn’t it be smarter to Throw the sand in a different mechanism capable
Of procuring a diamond and not Waste energy doing what most people refer to as the absolute definition of insanity, “doing the exact same thing and expecting a different result”

Mike is content with us pounding sand. Let him have his hard handed sand pounders.
I am More content among the group who feel finding a different mechanism is the answer. We are both in search of the diamond. We both have the same goal in mind.

Somebody must have got their feelings hurt. No need to look in the mirror, I have bigger fish to fry than worrying about what people like you think of me on a Internet forum.

The people making the rules got caught with their pants down again today. Seems as if the hydroxychloroquine works and works really well...seems so many wrote it off due to Trump saying it looks promising.

Wonder if you’ll hear any of that on MSM this evening? It wouldn’t shock me that 3 months from now they’ll come out and say the masks don’t really work.

As a healthcare professional I have to mask up and wear a face shield.

would /s helped or do I need to add emojis?
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Emojis...definitely emojis.

Most of what I’ve gotten outta this thread is Small has game....Buckeye is a well spoken dude and Skinner is much better lookin with mask on......jus sayin

As Bill would say, Majekman is a noticer.

We need a kissazz emoji.

And a like button

Doctors and nurses were masks to prevent infecting patients with bacteria....which is significantly larger than virus and typically spread through droplets from coughing or sneezing. Corona is spread as an aerosol or simply exhaling.

N95 masks do not filter matter as small as the virus. And for them to work you MUST have a complete seal around the nose and mouth. Facial hair, loose fitting, metal band not formed around the bridge of the nose, etc do not provide an adequate seal. So wear one improperly, below the nose, loose on the face etc does NOTHING to protect you or anyone around you....cloth masks are worthless as a defense against spreading the virus.

Medical professionals treating corona patients were PPE similar to this. I have family and friends in the medical field so this is first hand medical information, not simply my opinion....


The only thing that a cloth rag over your face accomplishes is to give a false sense of safety to people. If wearing one makes you feel better knock yourself out. If they truly worked why wouldn’t they open everything up? Why are churches closed and abortion clinics open? Why are box stores open and parks and the beach closed? Why are Trump rally’s bad but BLM protests good? Why are the percentages of cases going up but the percentages of hospitalizations and deaths going down?

If you want to wear one, wear one.... Just don’t get pissy when others don’t....

In all but a very few types of Operations masks and gowns and protective Gear worn for the nurses and doctors benefit, not the other way around. This means the doctors and nurses and techs are protecting themselves from the crap patients have, not the reverse.

In a hand full of orthopedic cases where the infection rates are so high (joints) do The staff wear a space suit type equivalent for infection control and not for protection purposes.

If your (snakewrangler) family in the field of Medicine think otherwise, then either they are in orthopedics, or they are Mistaken. Sterility is a misnomer, and nothing we do is “sterile”, we only practice sterile technique which is to say we try to limit contamination as much as possible.

But make no mistake about it, PPE is for the staff protection, NOT the patients protection.

Envy and adoration does not become you.

I think they are dating

Hmmmmmm.....soooooo, PPE is to protect the medical staff.....gotcha! So then why are they telling everyone you should wear a mask to protect others....and as stated above, the masks don’t do anything....

You took the bait doc...

EDIT: The one I was referring to that has to deal with corona patients is an ICU nurse in Houston and wears the sealed suit every day....fyi

Snake, no bait intended by yourself, and if you were trying to provide bait, your bait was exactly the opposite you think.

I said PPE is for the protection of the staff. Extrapolate out to the general population and it means PPE is for the protection of the population (the staff) from the infected.

Not sure what you meant about taking bait.

Your example of the ICU nurse wearing PPE when caring for covid patients is an example Of my point.
I know a nurse (have said this before) who left Texas to go to NYC and worked covid units in their hospitals. In total, only a few nurses out of a bunch got covid or tested positive for antibodies, an example of how PPE can work. The units were sick sick patients, not icu but close enough that every day they could, they transferred patients to the unit.