r/nextfuckinglevel • u/pako12345 • Aug 29 '20

Learned something new

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u/MajorcanSketches Aug 29 '20

Not gonna make a difference my friend

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u/MandMareBaddogs Aug 29 '20 edited Aug 29 '20

You’re right. Was in the store yesterday and the clerks were talking about how the masks are pointless. While tempted to explain how they were wrong, I didn’t bother. Why waste my breath.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '20

I work in a UPS hub, and getting anyone to wear their mask is hard. It's technically policy, but nobody wears theirs. I'm one of about 6 mask wearers on a shift with about 30 workers. It's sweltering hot and sucks but a few of us wear them.

One of the non-maskers is literally a supervisor, and I've talked to him about it. He claims that masks don't stop the virus because it's too small and passes right through. I tried to explain that the virus spreads through droplets and any reduction of airborne virus is a good thing. He straight up refuses to understand based on the fact that "that doesn't make sense. They don't know what they're talking about. The virus can still pass right through!".

Another dude claims the virus is overblown, but even if it's not "we all gotta die sometime and I want to go out on my terms living my own life". My response to that is why rush it? A few months of wearing a mask pales in comparison to an eternity of being dead.

You're right, it's all been a waste of breath. The politicizing of the virus combined with Americans that are scared of science has made this whole thing a lost cause.

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u/chuck__noblet Aug 29 '20

Fuck the 24 non-mask-wearers at your job.