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#1 ·
How do you feel about having to wear facemasks on the job?
 
#2 ·
I hate it, especially because anything other than an N95 mask is worthless, and those are impossibly to find now. Wearing cloth or a surgical mask is as good as wearing nothing for a virus with a 99.9% survival rate.

Furthermore, if you're on a site with mandated safety glasses, you spend the day looking at fog. Also, it makes communication difficult, especially on loud commercial sites. I think they create more hazards then they are purported to mitigate.
 
#3 ·
We do service and repair, and it doesn't bother me a bit. It makes me money and secures me jobs at the moment.

Does the mask do much for actual protection? Maybe, maybe not. But it has great psychological value, and creates in the mind of certain customers that you care for them.
 
#8 ·
There are many articles about over 60% of N95 face masks failed to meet standards. Some only filtered out 20% and not the 95% as it is supposed to. They could give a false sense of security. Think of the front line workers thinking that they are protected. How many got sick because of these defective masks?
 
#9 ·
Wearing a mask in public is to prevent the wearer sneezing or coughing and spreading the virus to others. Keeps the snot and droplets near the wearer instead of shooting across the room. It is not to prevent you from catching the virus.

A 95 mask, properly fitted is to prevent the wearer from catching a virus in controlled situations, think healthcare or public safety workers. I had to shave my long time beard to get a good fit during respirator training.
 
#12 ·
Maybe they are going from one store to another, and instead of taking the mask on and off, they choose to leave it on.

The less a mask is removed and adjusted, the better off a person is. Taking the mask on/off only serves to cross contaminate.
 
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A virus, by its nature, is small......very small. If a face mask were made to stop it completely, you wouldn't be able to breathe through it.

I doubt if face masks do much of anything to stop the spread so my conspiracy theory is this; I believe that the face mask thing is intended mostly to see just exactly how many people will blindly believe whatever the government tells them.

Looking back, I firmly believe that the nationwide 55 MPH speed limit foisted on us in the 70s had 2 purposes;

1) To see how many people would obey an obviously ridiculous law.

2) To raise funds and thus give government even more ability to abuse us.

Ok, flame on........
 
#20 ·
See, how many theories and opinions did we get in just 18 posts? The so called experts and our wonderful fake news outlets have twisted this thing around to the extreme. Since I wear glasses and any mask I have tried kept me completely fogged up (And how safe is that when you are constantly having to work on circuits that are hot?) I'm glad that None of the trades here are wearing them, at least on any of the projects I have been on. If I get infected with COVID-19 I will let you know... Well, that is if Rose's hasn't hauled me off.
 
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#34 ·
Chicken Little Fauci is just here to put enough fear into us until a Democrat gets elected president and him and Gates get their profits from the vaccine.
Went to the supply house yesterday. They finally unlocked the doors. Big sign on the door said face masks required. Not a single employee wearing them, including one of them who really should have been wearing one. I've known him for over 25 years doing this trade. He was an old man back then:devil3:
 
#35 ·
A virus, a trigger happy cop, being religious or not, someone shooting someone else. Someone mass shooting a school.

If you wait till the tv news passes its view on a subject, and suddenly, your views mirror it, you really need to stop speaking.
Because Tv news has become exactly what we claimed was bad about the communists and the fascist governments in WW2. And that was, that they are influenced by political parties or corporations.

therefore passing the matching views you saw on your channel of choice even for 100% non political things, is illogical.

What should be a non political thing? Anything that the government cannot Prevent or increase.
A spreading virus, a person mass killing, a bad acting cop, or going to church or not, cannot be changed by anyone you vote for.

However, housing, roads, interactions between countries, and things like that? those CAN have a political view.



A virus doesnt give a crap about if you love trump or obama. If you love the police, or feel people shouldnt complain if they break the law and the cops come at them, then in turn, follow your own thinking and put on a mask if your government leaders are telling you they demand it.

Love it or leave it.
Right? If the police can fine or arres you in your state for not wearing a mask, put on the mask.


If you respect this country, and love its cops, then do as they do, and wear a mask. Cops have masks on.

You can complain about it in your house, without your mask.

I dont like wearing masks. Even in dusty work areas.. Hate it.. Hate it..
But now I have no option. Because the law makers said so. Do as they say to do.
Or run for office. But for now, do as told. You wont die from putting on a flippin mask
 
#39 ·
So now it's hot and humid outside, and the new building is directly attached to a working production line that requires steam ovens and resistive heating for melting material, so it's extremely hot inside of the new building just from the heat coming through the wall. A/C is a long way off from operating. Most everyone on the job is not wearing masks anymore and not social distancing. It's simply unreasonable to put these foolish requirements on jobsites especially in the summer.
 
#51 ·
In 16 states including NC under Comrade Cooper it is government mandated. In NC it was actually illegal except under doctors orders, chemical exposures, etc. There is a law making masks illegal that was put in place as a response to the KKK. It is waived until August 1 by the legislature.

Personally I’m not moslem. It’s against my religion.
 
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