lost my shit at an anti masker today

[rdking647]

im in the store when an unmasked woman comes up to me.
i politely asked her to stay 6 feet away since she is unmasked.
she told me if im sol scared i should just stay home.

i lost my shit.
I told her to take her plague rat ass and get teh fuck away from me.
she started to say something else but i told her to smarten up and listen to science instead of right wing lies. then i turned around and walked away

i saw her go over to her husband and start finger pointing at me but i just kept on walking.

Im so sick and tired of these idiots and living in Texas theres a ton of them.
I wish they would all just drop dead. they can all fuck off

[Effete Snob]

1. "I wish they would all just drop dead"

The Covid Fairy just might end up granting your wish.

[roamer65]

3. 🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠

Someone call?



Just don’t expect me to leave money under the effin pillow.


-Delta

[Effete Snob]

5. It's true what they say

[roamer65]

7. 🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠

Oh, YEAH!

https://m.

I love MAGAt Kool Aid drinkers!

[calimary]

88. Yeah, no shit.

Delta IS ready whether you are or not. Delta - as in the VARIANT.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

20. Perhaps it's unfortunate that the vast majority of those who get Covid

survive. I suppose it's possible that a deadlier variant will pop up, but diseases mostly evolve to be less deadly.

[Effete Snob]

25. Things like that are the key to quackery

A lot of things clear up on their own or come and go.

You can have severe joint and muscular pain which, once you get all fired up at the Jesus meeting, magically vanish - at least long enough to throw your cane up on the stage and dance about before the collection baskets come round.

But, yeah, show me a fractional percent fatal disease, and I will show you the promised land of snake oil. Whatever it is you are giving out, it's going to "cure" them most of the time.

[Marthe48]

34. I learned in biology or history

that many microbes, viruses, etc. do get less deadly. The teacher who mentioned it pointed out that a organism will be more successful if it infects more hosts, and if hosts die before they can infect others, then the organism might not be as successful.

I hope Covid follows that path.

[wnylib]

40. Covid probably will follow that path

eventually. But in the meantime it is doing a lot of harm and the potential still exists for a deadlier mutation to occur. If it does, it will, as you point out, defeat itself and die, but will take many people out with it in the process.

Our best hope right now is to stop being hosts for its mutations.

[Marthe48]

51. I know

Right now, we are in a world of hurt, and it probably won't get better in my lifetime. The vaccine is as close to a magic bullet as we can hope. I have faith that the scientists might add improvements that will help even more.

[Maraya1969]

58. I just told someone that if we don't vaccinate then the virus will end up mutating

and becoming stronger. I hope I didn't give the wrong answer.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

57. Smallpox is perhaps the best example.

A deadly, terrible disease that had been around thousands of years. Those who survived were typically scarred badly. I understand that a person without smallpox scars was automatically very attractive.

In the late 19th century two separate mutations occurred in smallpox. One in the U.S, the other elsewhere, perhaps Africa but I'm not sure. Anyway, smallpox now had two different versions: Variola Major and Variola Minor. Major was the one that scarred and killed. Minor rarely killed and never scarred. Plus, because those with Minor were not as sick and could continue moving out and about when infectious, that version was far more readily spread. So Minor was very much replacing Major everywhere to the point where it was moving in the direction of becoming a childhood disease more or less like measles, mumps chicken pox.

By the beginning of the 20th century the smallpox vaccine became widespread, and smallpox was eventually eliminated entirely.

But yeah, the getting less deadly is very important.

The worrisome thing about Covid is that the Delta variant is definitely more contagious than the earlier versions. I'm not at all knowledgeable as to whether it's more or less deadly.

[Marthe48]

74. Confirmed cases, ICU admissions, deaths up

I check worldometers daily. Numbers of deaths from covid-19 was down under 4,000/day/world, and under 300/day/US. In the last 10 days, back up to over 10,000 deaths/day/world, and over 1000 deaths/day/US. I also check Ohio Covid dashboard, which is not entirely updated every day, but shows daily confirmed cases, and ICU admissions. We are averaging 1000 new cases a day/state. Deaths have gone from under 30/week/Ohio to over 100/week/Ohio. More than 100 ICU admissions since last week. Disheartening.

Total number of Covid deaths in the world is over 4,492,000. Total deaths in the US is almost 652,000.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Here is an interesting article on Edward Jenner: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1200696/

[vanlassie]

27. So far Delta is winning over the -19 tho...

[certainot]

59. thanks for the reminder. if everyone dies it can't keep going.....

[OldBaldy1701E]

64. Based on what I have read

There are plenty of people who have survived Covid who probably wish they had not. There are some really nasty after-effects and most of them seem permanent. So, in that context, I say that those who refuse to think of the greater good and prefer to be self-absorbed asshats and whom contract this can live with the results... hopefully for a long tortuous life. I am disgusted that I feel this way, but the reicht wing has gone way too far in the name of 'sticking it to the libs'.

[lambchopp59]

80. I can confirm

I had the COVID early on in the pandemic. Working in medical Xray/CT, undoubtedly caught it from a patient. I spent the sickest weekend of my life sitting up two whole nights to move air. Sat meter was screaming at me. I exhausted two whole inhalers.
Now I'll admit something a bit embarrassing here. I stayed home roughing it out because the duty ED doc on duty at the nearby facility I worked at... let's just say I wasn't fond of. (trumper)
I considered going to the next further hospital. But my dog had just had surgery and needed someone to watch him.
I've become totally inhaler-dependent asthmatic ever since, every day. My arthritis has given me hell this whole last year and a half, although starting on mega-dose Onega-3's is helping.
I'm on a dual-escape sabbatical, refugee from the fires as well as Delta variant, scares the hell out of me despite being vaxxed.
I'm not ready to retire yet. But I won't return to the front lines until after I've had my 6 month booster.

[roamer65]

2. rdking...

Good job!!!!!

[elleng]

4. Glad you're doing well, and SORRY they're there.

[Hekate]

6. Just cough in their general direction

That should be sufficient

[forgotmylogin]

19. If I ever get confronted, that's gonna be my strategy.

"I'm feeling sick today, so I'm wearing a mask, you want me to take it off-fffffFFFFFFFFF?"

[Hekate]

23. I just want to fill my shopping cart, not have a fight with an idiot, nor do I want to provoke ...

… a fight. But this is my plan: cough through my mask at them, and look sick.

Screw’em.

[Shoeless Louis]

48. Just a slight adjustment, and safer would be...

Tell the person, I don’t mind you not wearing a mask, but you need to know that I just tested positive for Covid-45, the Trump virus. Not my original idea, but I liked it when I heard it. I think it was on DU also..

[wnylib]

46. If you have someone with you,

then you could team up together on this. I am thinking of an early scene in the movie, Ghost, when Sam and his friend Carl get on a crowded elevator. Carl begins coughing deliberately and Sam plays along, asking what his doctor said. The two then play off of each other to create a scary story of a contagious disease that makes everyone on the elevator cringe and back away from them.

[Hekate]

50. Wicked funny

[Backseat Driver]

8. Good - and you walked away

Chill pills don't cure CoVid!

[fescuerescue]

9. Why did she come up to you?

[rdking647]

13. no idea.

[ecstatic]

17. lol. Next time you should step back (if possible) but listen to what they're going to say

It might be interesting or important. One time a homeless guy was trying to get my attention and I sort of brushed him off but he told me anyway: my skirt had literally ripped apart in the back and my freaking panties were showing! Mind you, I was walking down a busy street in midtown Atlanta.

[wryter2000]

43. I brushed off a guy who I thought was trying to sell me something

Turned out I'd dropped my wallet and he was trying to point it out to me. Boy was I red faced.

[Treefrog]

33. Wondered same.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

10. Last summer a guy was harassing me

At our local Target store about my mask wearing. There were some people gathering about.

I could have been sparky and crude. I looked at this guy snd said..."I am sorry. I do not recall asking you for your opinion about this." The guy started to get red in the face, as if he was going to bitch me out. It was the people watching this guy giving me a hard time that told him to leave me alone and what an asshole he was being.

There are some good people out there.

[louis-t]

32. My favorite line has been:

"You know, all those doctors and all those scientists wasted all that time and money getting their degrees when all they really had to do was ask you for your fucking opinion."

[RicROC]

37. That's a good one! I'm going to borrow from you.

I still need to read Tom Nichols' book, "The Death of Expertise", which basically critiques the same issue. People get medical advice from their MD and then, decide against using based on the opinion of their friends at MahJong.

[Catherine Vincent]

42. lol...good one!

[certainot]

61. good one. and i can add mine on the end

"You know, all those doctors and all those scientists wasted all that time and money getting their degrees when all they really had to do was ask you for your fucking opinion."

"but maybe i can't blame you for being so stupid if you got it from that cancer victim on 600 radio stations that told millions of people for most of 30 years that smoking doesn't cause cancer"

[Paladin]

76. +1000. Thank you. (nt)

[gay texan]

85. you need to go full on pulp fiction

[FoxNewsSucks]

11. Agreed.

The herd needs thinned, and those morons would be a good start

[smirkymonkey]

12. Good for you!

Maybe next time she'll think twice before sticking her nose in where it doesn't belong.

[SmittyWerben]

14. Saw a t-shirt today at a store in Waco that read "Faith not Fear"

In my head I translated it to it's correct form: "Feelings not facts". Get so tired of these fucks being fucks. And yes, she had no mask, but I am sure her god will protect her like he has so many other people of "faith." Oh, wait....

[Mr. Evil]

29. I'm assuming the shirt you saw was regarding religious faith.

That type of faith is based on fear. The fear of being smacked down and smited and all sorts of other horrible things if you don't measure up. I'm not going to have or express 'faith' simply out of social expediency. There are no invisible, all powerful babysitters living in the sky granting wishes if you say the magic words just right. There is no magic.

[Mopar151]

39. Indeed not.

God, The Law of Averages, and Chaos Theory all live at the same address.

[Mopar151]

41. Indeed not.

God, The Law of Averages, and Chaos Theory all live at the same address.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

72. I would respond to someone who said that he/she had faith in God to protect them with the story

Of Mrs Murphy and the flood.

A terrible storm came into a town and local officials sent out an emergency warning that the riverbanks would soon overflow and flood the nearby homes. They ordered everyone in the town to evacuate immediately. Mrs. Murphy, a faithful Christian, heard the warning and decided to stay, saying to herself, "I will trust God and if I am in danger, then God will send a miracle to save me."

The neighbors came by her house and said, "We're leaving and there is room for you in our car, please come with us!" But Mrs. Murphy declined. "I have faith that God will save me."

As she stood on the porch watching the water rise up the steps, a man in a canoe paddled by and called , "Hurry and come into my canoe, the waters are rising quickly!" But she again said, "No thanks, God will save me."

The floodwaters rose higher pouring water into the living room and she had to retreat to the second floor. A police motorboat came by and saw her at the window. "We will come up and rescue you!" they shouted. But she refused, waving them off saying, "Use your time to save someone else! I have faith that God will save me!"

The flood waters rose higher and higher and Mrs. Murphy had to climb up onto the roof.

A helicopter spotted her and dropped a rope ladder. "Climb the ladder and we will take you to safety!" But she still refused, "No thank you! God will save me!"

Shortly after, the floodwaters swept Mrs. Murphy away and she drowned.

So she goes to Heaven, stands before God and is pissed! "I put all of my faith in you. Why didn't you come and save me?"

And God looked puzzled, saying, "I sent you a warning. I sent you a car. I sent you a canoe. I sent you a motorboat. I sent you a helicopter. What more do you want?"

We have been given an effective vaccine. This is how God is saving us from Covid.

[Sogo]

84. Amen.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

15. I wish they'd all drop dead too.

[Missn-Hitch]

16. Don't worry. The next variant will be more virulent for the unvaccinated. Fingers crossed!

[Deuxcents]

18. Maybe it's time we all speak up

When being confronted. We usually just back off or ignore em. I don’t like confrontation but if the situation calls for it, lets let em have it.

[Paladin]

22. By all means, speak up when confronted.

These right-wing disease carriers are wrecking our world. At the very least, they deserve face-to-face challenging of their idiotic, toxic views.

[Texin]

21. rdking647, you may get your wish!

At the rate the Delta variant is surging in circulation, anyone unmasked whether vaccinated or not is putting their lives, the lives of their family members and the public at large at risk.

[Leith]

24. Good for you!

They deserve it.

Instead of pushing the buttons of innocent people, why can't they do what I did at the grocery store? I entered the checkout line and the man in front of me was standing a bit to the side and there was a big space between him and the person ahead of him. I wondered why he was doing that and why he didn't set his items down on the belt.

Then I realized that he was wearing a mask and social distancing. I respected that and backed up a couple steps. I also waited until he was almost done with his transaction before I put my items on the belt (even then I maintained my distance).

It didn't cost me any time or money to be polite and safe. Such a simple thing that covidiots refuse to do.

[rainin]

26. "No problem, lady, I was just thinking of you. I've got a house full of covid positive family

members and I woke up feeling really short of breath. Stand close if you want to."

I'm working on lots of these types of replies. This one might make her back up

[rdking647]

28. i like this

then start coughing....

[pansypoo53219]

30. we need shirts that say freedumb.

[RicROC]

38. more blunt....I don't want to kill you..

well, maybe saying, " I don't want to infect you" is more gracious.

[Jetheels]

31. I got snickered at the other day for wearing a mask.....

I just try to ignore. Yes it’s hurtful. But I find there’s no point in engaging with them.
I can’t be everyone’s teacher especially some random person crossing paths with. They’ve made their choices. I don’t even bother getting into these kinds of arguments with people I’ve known many years.

[Shoeless Louis]

52. Really, this makes the most sense! At the end of the day you have your peace of mind and

… you’re not nursing a black eye or arranging bail. These people are fucking nuts, and it only takes one. Let their gods sort them out.

When things go wrong, don’t go with them.

[twodogsbarking]

35. Masks help but the vaccine is the big hope.

Kids need it.

[barbtries]

36. don't blame you at all.

they are the reason we cannot have nice things. i can't get over why so many of them are so obnoxious about their stupidity and selfishness.

[Moebym]

54. Probably four years of an Enabler-in-Chief

Plus a heaping helping of privilege mixed in.

[SunSeeker]

44. We should all respond like you did. They are literally killing people. nt

[BadGimp]

45. Go ahead and tell us what you really think :)

[secondwind]

47. I don't blame you for what you did... it's happening more frequently .... you are not alone.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

49. I agree with the statement, "I wish they would all just drop dead."

Be patient. The delta variant is just getting started. Eventually, the unvaccinated are going start dropping like flies, but not before totally f*cking up the nation's hospital system, unfortunately.

The worst part of their arrogant ignorance is that they are infecting their children. There's a one-year-old on a ventilator, for chrissake! And they'll still say COVID is a hoax. Sheesh! This the "pro-life" party?

[calimary]

62. Exactly. This is the "pro-life" party.

[Evolve Dammit]

53. I hear ya. Enough is enough. They can't even begin to "get it." They don't want to "get it." That

said, hope the really "get it." Get it? Seriously, I have had similar exchanges and I think more need to. It's not comfortable or something we want but dammit, they ARE ENDANGERING OUR LIVES in an attempt to be rebels. Bart Simpson/ Roseanne Barrs. Fuck 'em.

[The Wizard]

55. May the reich wing butt plugs

feel Darwin's wrath.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

56. You did well. You came close to the key phrase: "You've been lied to."

They can have their own opinions, but they don't get to have their own facts.

[spanone]

60. K&R

[brewens]

63. I use my cart to block people. I keep it behind my in line at checkout now when I

would normally unload it on the conveyor and push it ahead to be ready to load it up when I bag my stuff. I can maintain my distance form the person in front of me and the person behind me is forced to.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

65. I'm going to start doing that if I go to the store. Last time I went

cart was in front of me and I looked back and there were maybe five people unmasked and scrunched up in line behind me. I motioned for them to step back and they didn't. I asked the clerk to tell them to step back. She said she would love to but she would get in trouble for doing that.

[brewens]

66. That is exactly why I started doing it. People get in a hurry to crowd up and unload,

but it goes just as fast if they stay back.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

71. Yeah the only problem is at our store people bag

your groceries. So when you walk up there's someone there saying "can I have your cart." Guess I need to shop with two carts LOL

[Liberal In Texas]

68. Some of these maskholes are looking for a confrontation.

For 4 years they were given permission to be jerks and belligerent and it hasn't stopped. Especially since their cult leader is still out there being covered by the media and the RW propaganda is still pumping out.

[lambchopp59]

69. Free Dumb

Anti Masker: (btw cowboy sort packing 2 pistols ahead of me in checkout in Walmart): "the only mask I wear is freedom, they should be illegal" (clearly motioning my way)
"Really?" I retorted through my mask, "You want the nanny state to forbid my freedom to protect myself from a deadly virus?"
Cowboy: "ahh... guh... er..."

[Laura PourMeADrink]

70. I hope you don't do this again or anyone else that said they would

I have done it in Texas too. And agree sometimes anger takes over and you can't resist.

But then it dawned on me. Why would I provoke any stupid unmasked person to speak and spew potential virus particles?

My new strategy, which sounds very third-grader ish, is to put a scared look in my eyes put my hand over my mask for extra protection and to move away quickly. Make sure they see me act like they are poison. Of course I don't know what it makes them feel like but hoping it makes them think twice.

[Hangingon]

75. I am so glad I left Austin.

One day we realized the town we loved was gone. Tons of arrogant and often angry people came in and ruined the place. When 5hey combined with the local nuts it became unbearable.

[Paladin]

77. You sound like all my old school friends who still live in Austin.

Any time I encounter somebody ooo'ing and ahh-ing about how cool a place Austin is, I counter with "You're 50 years late for the cool stuff" delivered in my best, curmudgeonly, old-guy growl....

[Hangingon]

78. I don't growl but I do sound disappointed that the old Austin is gone.

My grandson in another state was bragging about how great his town is and how high on the desirable lists it is. All I could say is stop telling people about it. If you brag it up people will come and change it. It is good to know there are old Austinites still around.

[Paladin]

79. The old Austinites are easy to identify.

They're the ones griping, non-stop, about the taxes and the traffic and the new residents, particularly those from California. I've learned to let them rant for a while, and then to buy them a beer---preferably at Scholtz's.

[Hangingon]

82. I miss Scholtz!

And Broken Spoke, Top Notch, El Arroyo and Texas French Bread. I have heard all about Californication from family. In the 80s it was Michigan. Once I left, I saw how high the taxes were. It is still a great city, just not for my generation.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

87. I heard an NPR bit about a family that moved from California to Austin

To supposedly be in a blue City and pay a lot lower amount of taxes. After a year he is moving his family back. He said that he was nickeled and dimed so much tax burden was more than in California.

[chwaliszewski]

73. Idiots, the lot of them.

[vierhandig]

81. Just sit and wait...

Just sit still and wait. They are all self-exterminating by not getting the vaccine and not wearing masks.

[DownriverDem]

86. Anti maskers & anti vaxxers

need to be ostracized. It's time to make them uncomfortable.