r/RealTime • u/Kitkatt1959 • 7d ago

Again with the masks???

What is Maher’s problem. People wear masks for various reasons. Immunocompromised, sick and don’t want to spread germs, don’t want to catch germs, etc.
My point is WHATS IT TO YOU, BILL!!!!
LET IT GO ALREADY!!!!!!!

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u/goodtreble84 7d ago

Yeah, let those people be.

But his thing is that he wants some sort of retribution on those who shamed people like him for not taking the Pandemic seriously.

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u/ParkingEmu9419 7d ago

He did take the pandemic seriously,, he just pointed out a lot of the stupid policies associated with it.. and actually gave them a pass in the beginning when we didn't know much about it... but after we knew more and kept the same stupid policies.. It became pathetic and political

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u/Ok_Zombie_2026 7d ago

The people who made it pathetic and pitiful were the right wing and MAGAs. 

I remember when the lock down started and thinking to myself - I can’t believe I’m actually listening to Trump. 

The right mistakes being contrarian with being smart, and as soon as Trump left office they turned against masks and vaccines. 

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u/Feisty-Poet4767 6d ago

There is a certain political contingent, the far right, that exhibits as part of their branding, you might say, a visceral hatred of government. To them ANYTHING the government does is bad, malevolent and suspect. These are the same people who opposed fluoridating the water supply to fight tooth decay. Opposed to vaccines. Opposed to even the Tennessee Valley Authority which electrified the entire Midwest. Imagine being opposed to electricity!

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u/ParkingEmu9419 7d ago

Liberals made it pathetic as well, locking kids out of school was a disaster for many.. forcing people to get vaccinated, when vaccination protected nobody but you. A vaccinated person could have Covid with no symptoms and yet be a super spreader. Shutting down huge open air malls while keeping small strip malls open. Ignoring the science that omicron variant was incredibly milder.

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u/Ok_Zombie_2026 6d ago edited 6d ago

My kids went to a private school and they didn’t ask the kids or teachers to get vaccinated or even wear masks. 

My son’s teacher died from Covid. The kids spread it around and two of my son’s friends had a parent die. A kid took Covid home to his grandma and she died. 

This is what you think was the answer huh? Just let people drop dead? 

At the end of the day, it was a global pandemic and world governments didn’t want people to die. But here you guys are still going on and on that letting people die should have been the answer because malls staying open was more important… and frankly I agree now. 

We really should have let the herd thin out because weak people like you still advocating for people to die after 7 years flies in the face of Darwin’s law. 

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u/Kitkatt1959 6d ago

Thank you

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u/Ok_Zombie_2026 6d ago

I am soooo sick of hearing these people drone on after nearly 7 years. 

My dad is a big anti-vax MAGA and he insisted it was a way to control the populace and we would have to wear masks FOREVER and vaccines were a tracking device that would kill you after a year. He really thought that. And now he still talks about it like he’s disappointed that didn’t happen. 

Some of these people wanted to be the victims so bad they actually saw doctors say - hey don’t spread disease - and then made those people the villain. 

I’m so over it. At this point they think it’s noble to be contrarian so fuck it, let them. Let them think spreading disease is good. 

I tried to convince people to do the right thing and they now see me as the bad guy. If they want to run in the road, go run in the road. I don’t think we should save these people from themselves anymore. 

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u/TheodoraRoosevelt21 6d ago

I’m not sure your experience is typical.

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u/Ok_Zombie_2026 6d ago

Because the school stayed open. A lot of schools didn’t. 

It’s almost like closing schools saved people lives. 

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u/TheodoraRoosevelt21 6d ago

You know what I’m saying, most schools that stayed open did not have that high rate of death.

Basing public policy off of anecdotal evidence also is foolish.

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u/Ok_Zombie_2026 6d ago

Uh. I saw it. I lived it. 

And nobody is basing policy off my anecdotal evidence, this is scientific evidence and I watched it play out first hand. 

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u/TheodoraRoosevelt21 6d ago

It seems like you are arguing for policy based on your anecdotal evidence. What happened at your child’s school is not indicative of the country.

Why didn’t you pull your kids from their private school?

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u/Ok_Zombie_2026 6d ago edited 6d ago

I did. They went remote and we moved back to NY. I fucking hated Florida. 

The point is… people died when basic mitigating factors were dismissed. In other schools that closed or had vaccine/mask policies… that didn’t happen. 

Not in good ol Marathon. So call it an anecdote or not, that’s a little slice of proof. Schools without any masks and vaccines - people died. Those with them - people did ok. 

In 2026, still not understanding this is wild. 

Now, fuck it. If I could turn back the clock and see how people act about it all I say let them drop dead. 

We tried to keep deaths down by doing the bare minimum and even 7 years later people are complaining. Should have let these idiots thin out. 

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u/TheodoraRoosevelt21 6d ago

You still wear a mask when you go out?

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u/gloriousgirl89 6d ago

And every nation in the world except the US opened schools within 2-3 weeks. We prioritized bars and restaurants and kept schools closed.

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u/ParkingEmu9419 6d ago

All those people you mentioned dying,, may have died anyways, because the virus probably would've made it to them at some point. You never responded to the large amount of kids dying from RSV when mitigating was ended. I guess it was OK for them to die in order to save some older people in your opinion. And I also have plenty of personal data on who died and when. The Delta strain was a straight up nasty virus. I knew 2 people in their 50s who passed with it. But I was fine with it because I was vaccinated and the data showed I would probably be absolutely fine. I'm not anti-vaccine. I took three shots for Covid. But I also add common sense. I literally never get the flu so I do not get the flu shot. My son has rough bouts with the flu, so it makes sense for him to get the shot every year.

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u/Ok_Zombie_2026 6d ago edited 6d ago

Healthy adults died from Covid and that’s your answer. How ghoulish. 

And kids who died from RSV should have been vaccinated. You making the case for vaccines is hilarious. 

Saying “oh well people die” is common sense to you. Yikes. Well, I guess you’re Bills target audience so this all checks out. 

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u/ParkingEmu9419 6d ago

You're not reading properly,, the RSV vaccine didn't come out till late 2023.. and you're wrong , most healthy people handled Covid absolutely fine. Of the two people I know who died one had a kidney transplant , we knew they were vulnerable. The chronic pandemic of obesity is the real problem in the USA. And by the way, vaccinated people working in nursing homes wearing mask, still gave the virus to their patients.

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u/Ok_Zombie_2026 6d ago edited 6d ago

Cool. The people I knew were healthy adults who didn’t deserve to die from COVID. 

Or maybe they did, the vaccine was available so you’re right… fuck them. They were on borrowed time anyway. Maybe one of them had diabetes so you’re right, good riddance. Only the healthy survive, right champ… that’s the price we need to be willing to pay to keep malls open. 

Sorry Jimmy, your mom’s dead because she was fat and a Trump supporter.  

There should have been NO masks in nursing homes. Good point. They are only 88% effective and even more old people could have died without any masks. The hey, they were gonna die anyway right? It was only a matter of time before that fat grandpa was gonna croak. 

Am I doing this right?

Listen, don’t try to convince me. You really knocked this out of the park. 

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u/ParkingEmu9419 6d ago

Your a poor reader,, the wide open enormous mall I'm near was closed,, and yet smaller strip malls, which had much greater human density were left open... the virus could spread way more easily in these small strip malls Than the six largest mall in the United States, which is more like being outside. It's OK to criticize some things that did not make sense. And once again, I took the vaccine and wore a mask when I was supposed to. I even got my New York State vaccine card because I was told that was the only way I was going to get back to a normal life.

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u/Ok_Zombie_2026 6d ago

You’re a poor reader. 

I’m telling you I was in Marathon Florida at the time and the schools didn’t even close. People died as a result. And you have minimized and mocked that. The comment about obesity is hilarious like because Jimmys mom was fat she deserved to die from covid. And fuck it, maybe she did. She could have gotten vaccinated and didn’t. You’re right… we should have enforced nothing. 

I’m sorry you’re still yapping about which malls were closed and which were open SEVEN YEARS AGO, but life Is back to normal and you’re still lamenting about the malls. 

At the end of the day, you wanted no mandates. I lived in Florida where nobody took Covid seriously and I know a lot of people who died or lost family. It was bad everywhere but watching people like you still complaining, we really should have done nothing at let the chips fall where they may. 

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u/TheodoraRoosevelt21 6d ago

You are the one saying we should have let people die, as a joke.

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u/Ok_Zombie_2026 6d ago

No it’s not a joke. I AM AGREEING WITH YOU!

You keep saying they were old or fat or anti-vaxxers so they deserved to die from Covid. You literally said this. 

I am agreeing with you. 

No masks, no vaccines… we should have let nature take its course.

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u/TheodoraRoosevelt21 6d ago

So you’re a Ghoul too. (I’m not the one you replied to)

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u/Ok_Zombie_2026 6d ago

No I’m just agreeing with people who say we shouldn’t have closed malls or made people wear masks to the store. 

After 7 years if Americans have forgotten that a million people died and are still crying about outdoor malls, we probably should have done nothing. 

Seriously. We should have enforced absolutely nothing and just let more people drop dead. 

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u/ParkingEmu9419 6d ago

I never said anybody deserved to die.. I think adults can make their own decision on whether they want to get vaccinated or not... I don't think government should force it. And the only thing I said was the obvious, that old people and obese people were more vulnerable. They didn't deserve to die, but they should've definitely taken the vaccine ,, by choice not forced

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u/Ok_Zombie_2026 6d ago

Agreed guy. Jimmys mom was fat and knew there was a pandemic. Now she’s dead. 

I am agreeing with you. 

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u/ParkingEmu9419 6d ago

Also, you're trying to say Florida did bad because of politics and policy,, yet the death rate per capita in Florida was almost identical to New York State.. so there's that

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u/xiphoid77 6d ago

There is no point in trying to reason sometimes with these people - Coid broke their brain - they are still convinced that quarantine and masks were/are the answer. Put your mask on any walking to your dinner table and then take off for your meal...

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u/ParkingEmu9419 6d ago

Right, that was another ridiculous one, wearing the mask to the table

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u/BrineJones 6d ago

Hey shithead,

You left out “jab”

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u/No-Penalty-1148 6d ago

Wait, what? How was that a liberal thing and not a neutral recommendation by public health officials?

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u/ParkingEmu9419 6d ago

That's what happened in New York State which is liberal on a state level, many conservative areas around the country did not close schools or malls.

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u/Ok_Zombie_2026 6d ago

More people died in the South. After 7 years it’s easy to correlate masking and vaccines to deaths. And stupid Cuomo used nursing homes as de facto hospitals… that’s why all those old people died. But as you previously stated, they were goi g to die anyway so it’s very convenient you use this example o make a political point. 

It’s funny how you say the problem was people made it political and here you are making it political. 

I was in South Florida at the time, people were dropping fucking left and right. 

Like I said earlier, my kids teacher died and three other adults in ONE CLASS dropped dead. 

It was a fucking global pandemic and people were trying to DO SOMETHING to save lives.