@1dhz+1eNyfwQ6, It's amazing what you find "funny".
No, I don't want to wear an N95 mask for 8 hrs at work. But I do wear one when I'm around people, which is usually in public retail businesses.
I sometimes chuckle seeing people wearing masks in their cars, especially when they're alone, but you don't know why they're doing it. They could be driving across the street from one shopping center to another and just don't want to take it off for a couple of min. Or they could be a Lyft/Uber driver on their way to pick up a fare. I don't want to get in someone's car who's been spreading air-borne germs all over the car. I mean, they're sitting in the front right in front of the air conditioning vents that just blow it all back on me.
People ARE dying all over the place. My team lost a team member who refused to get vaccinated. AND he was a professionally ranked tennis player in college and still played, so he wasn't over 65 and didn't "have 4 or more comorbitiies".
I've lost family, friends, co-workers and know dozens of people who are in the same situation. I don't know lots of people, so it's a significant percentage of people I know.
Where are you getting your information that it's the vaccinated filling the hospitals while unvaxed "are chilling at home watching this nonsense"? All the media I can find is saying that the majority of people in the hospital are unvaccinated. Yes, both spread it and both end up in the hospital, but I think the numbers speak for themselves on the severity of cases between unvaccinated and vaccinated. How is this vaccination any different than the flu shot? It works for some, not for others and the majority of vaccinated people have milder cases of the flu. No one's screaming about whether or not you should get the flu shot.
I'm ready for things to get back to normal. Get the flu shot if you want it. Get the COVID vax if you want it. Get both or neither. I'll wear a mask when & where I want to and you wear one when & where you want to. Keep out of my personal space (which is now 6' instead of 3') and I'll stay out of yours and we can all be happy. No one in my family who usually suffers from seasonal allergies has had any problems in the last 2-3 yrs because they could wear a mask outside and people didn't look at them like they were crazy because most others were wearing one two due to the mask mandates. Asian cultures encourage the wearing of masks when sick, or going in public during cold/flu season. I'd love to see that the norm here.
Wearing a mask doesn't take your "manliness" away from you. If I thought everyone was taking reasonable precautions, I wouldn't wear my mask as much as I do, but it's people who comment sh-t like yours that make me want to wear my mask anytime I'm not with my immediate family.