Nearly Arrested Yesterday - Mask issue

[mrbieler]

Sounds like way too much excitement for a tank of gas! I don't wear a mask most of the time. I carry a couple in case I need to go into a business or am at one of my customers that wants me to wear one. At this point, my take on it is that the retailers and shops are just trying to keep a float and I don't need to make their situations any more dramatic. Same for my customers. When I go to my hospitals, factories, commerical properties, and school accounts, they're just trying to do the best they can within guidelines they're given and my job is not to make their lives any more difficult.

That said, the Ken's and Karen's of the world make this rather entertaining.

Today at the post office, I watched a little old Asian women start to walk in without a mask. She caught my eye and I pointed to my mask (having already gotten an earful from the employees there in the past). As I was pointing, this jackass walks up and starts ripping into her for not wearing one. It was difficult not to bitch slap the ****, but I told him what I thought of him and held the door open for her.

The situation is ****ing stupid right now, but some folks seem hell bent on making each other miserable as icing on the COVID cake.

[Co-gnARR]

Saw this earlier today. This is fine.


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I'm having a hard time seeing the picture. Is that Karen wearing a face shield? Symbolic gestures = virtue signaling raised to the log of idiocy

[chadbag]

In case anyone was unclear on my stance: I actually am not advocating mandates or laws or ordinances requiring a mask. I think we should all be smart enough (or have enough peer pressure) to realize it is in our best interest as a member of this society to wear one in public -- at least crowded public places (I don't care if you are jogging by yourself in a secluded part of the park without a mask, etc). We need to get to the point where we, as a society, have been exposed enough to have acquired a form of herd immunity so that virus recedes to be one of those yearly nuisances like the flu, and not something overwhelming our ICUs.

Maybe not in all parts of the country, but in many parts, ICUs are full of Covid patients and the personnel working there are getting burned out. My wife's hospital, the largest in Utah, has their Covid wards basically full and are having to convert more ICU space into Covid wards (and non ICU space for those sick but stable and not severe enough to need to be in the ICU). It is in no ones interest to have their hospital unable to take the severely sick with non-Covid issues because their ICU beds are full of Covid patients.

Sometimes things really are just as they appear and don't have some sort of conspiracy behind them (meaning the idea of wearing a mask).

[Artos]

The purpose of the vaccine is more to prevent you from being infected asymptomatic, or relatively well, and passing it on to at-risk people. It’s important in healthcare settings, long-term care facilities, or anyplace elderly or immunocompromised people congregate and may interact with the general public.

None of this is about regular healthy people. The median age of those killed from Covid is greater than the American life expectancy.


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The purpose of the vaccine is to make certain folks extremely wealthy...vaccines make more $$$$ than any other prescription drug. I know at least a dozen folks who got the flu shot & still caught it & then I get to hear the wrong strain was guessed. I'm all for vaccines that have wiped cooties off the map & not an anti-vaccer across the board, but don't buy it for the flu & covid type viruses. I can promise a year or two from now when the vaccine is being given to the sheeple & they still come down with it, it will have morphed & need to come up with a multi combo for a new covid 21 vaccine & the game continues. Same reason they don't have a vaccine for the common cold.

ALL of this is about putting fear & control into regular healthy people...they don't make the big $$$$ unless the masses of all ages fall in line to be saved from the ever deadly less than 1% mortality C19.

[OH58D]

If only officer Olguin knew how close he came to getting bayoneted.

My opinion on the masks is they are the health equivalent of the TSA. Lots of show and inconvenience practically worthless at protecting anyone, as almost no one I have seen is breathing through the mask

Actually it was officer "Holguin". I see you're in the Duke City. My son's flight came in late Wednesday evening, but all of his luggage didn't arrive, so we had to return to the Albuquerque Sunport the next morning. It started out as a beautiful morning. I snapped this picture from the top of the parking garage at the airport looking towards downtown with several balloons flying. You never know what you're going to face in life. The wife thinks it was racially motivated since I am white, the counter gal was Native and the cop was Mexican.

[PracticalRifleman]

At least for Utah, this is not true. The median age for a Covid death in Utah is 73 per the state's website. The life expectancy in the USA is 78.6 per this website: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/...ec-2019-update

I would expect that the median age for a Covid death in the US would be somewhat similar to the Utah numbers but I don't have any hard data. In any case, it is not higher than the US average life expectancy as far as I can see.

It is a case that the older folks are more likely to die. In Utah, 70% of deaths were 65 and over. And those 45-64 make up the next biggest block.

The last number I read was 78. I thought you were leaving?


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[Honu]

Well not to derail instead bummer it happened to ya for sure !!!!

Sadly this seems to be like others said why LEO might loose out the war with the only support they have if it keeps going the way of say teachers did where now good teachers are one in a hundred
Will LEO become the one good out of a hundred ?

Maybe we need to agree lets defund the police rip down the country as we know it then let the war break out and rebuild and this time on the 1st and 2nd we clearly state what they mean and to never add or take away from it

[pag23]

I wear one when going into stores as per it is a business, don't wear one otherwise and usually take it off or on when exiting or entering.

I have to wear one for work but only when visiting customers...

We all are going to get a form of this virus at some point....



I am really surprised the cop gave you such a hard time, especially when you were covering your face with something...

[Mozart]

Among the good cops are way too many power hungry assholes. “Verbal assault”?? Really???? Guarantee that guy is hated by the rest of his PD, but he’ll likely be the chief one day because he’s petty jackass who carries out all orders without question and holds the public in contempt.

Yup. I know the type. He’s probably hated not only because he’s an incompetent pussy, but mostly because he’s a snake. He routinely attempts to make colleagues look bad in order to make himself look better. He’s “loyal” to command staff and yes, follows all orders like a damn robot. He never uses discretion and always throws the book at people. He has no sympathy for anyone . . . . (In robot voice) “Violation observed. Issuing citation.”

[Diamondback]

Yup. I know the type. He’s probably hated not only because he’s an incompetent pussy, but mostly because he’s a snake. He routinely attempts to make colleagues look bad in order to make himself look better. He’s “loyal” to command staff and yes, follows all orders like a damn robot. He never uses discretion and always throws the book at people. He has no sympathy for anyone . . . . (In robot voice) “Violation observed. Issuing citation.”

And when somebody catches him breaking the rules and says something, promptly runs over to CopsWritingCops or whatever it's called now and cries like a little bitch. I'm not LE, but I've seen the same species of snake in plenty of other sectors.