‘Don’t be a sheep’: Washington sheriff urges residents to defy mask order

ok doser

lifeguard at the cement pond
The problem is that should someone want to risk it, and get seriously sick, some docs and nurses who really dont want to risk it but must, have to deal with it


Right - same way they have to with drunk drivers who create carnage on the highway. Same way we had to do with irresponsible homos back in the eighties who showed up in the ER and ICUs with raging cases of HIV and Kaposi's Sarcoma and all sorts of other diseases that were hardly ever seen in developed countries. Same way they have to deal with people who smoke in bed, burn their houses down and end up in the burn units with 3rd degree burns.

Meanwhile, the rest of us will be building herd immunity

Remember herd immunity?
 

ok doser

lifeguard at the cement pond
Absolutely, let's trust some wingnut sheriff instead.

Dude, he's in America, you're in gay olde England

You don't have to trust him. You don't even have to listen to him. Don't fret your little feathered ruffles, just ignore him you silly little brit. :peach:
 

Jonahdog

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Right - same way they have to with drunk drivers who create carnage on the highway. Same way we had to do with irresponsible homos back in the eighties who showed up in the ER and ICUs with raging cases of HIV and Kaposi's Sarcoma and all sorts of other diseases that were hardly ever seen in developed countries. Same way they have to deal with people who smoke in bed, burn their houses down and end up in the burn units with 3rd degree burns.

Meanwhile, the rest of us will be building herd immunity

Remember herd immunity?

Ah, I see you dont seem to appreciate the difference between an infectious disease that may cause health care workers and others to get sick and those issues you wrote about.

And yes I know about herd immunity, that is the reason we want kids vaccinated for example---herd immunity without getting sick. You want people to get sick, or at least have actually had the virus absent a vaccine.

But perhaps that sheriff is on a 2nd career and has expertise in infectious disease from a prior life time.
 

Arthur Brain

Well-known member
The problem is that should someone want to risk it, and get seriously sick, some docs and nurses who really dont want to risk it but must, have to deal with it. And as local hospitals get overwhelmed others not even connected with the hospital get to suffer because all the beds are full of covid because someone who thought their "rights" were more important than others.

It won't matter to trolls and flag waving morons unfortunately. Well said nevertheless.
 

ok doser

lifeguard at the cement pond
Is HIV transmitted in the same manner as covid?

Nobody knew how it was transmitted in the early eighties when it first appeared on the scene

Is it as contagious?

Nobody knew how contagious it was when it first appeared on the scene in the early eighties


Did it overwhelm hospital systems?

Yes, it did. I was working in the field at the time. The specific "system" in which I was working - the intensive care nursery - was overwhelmed.
 

ok doser

lifeguard at the cement pond
32 million people have died from HIV/AIDS - that's approximately 64 times as many as have died so far from the Kung Flu

And the counts for both of them are going up.
 

ok doser

lifeguard at the cement pond
You are simply ignorant.

no, just realistic

Again: the main purpose of masks is to protect others, not yourself.

right, and as a strategy it's only effective if we have 100% compliance

You are not "risking it" for yourself.

Of course you are - we all are, every time we go out of the house without a full respirator suit.

You are risking it for everybody around you.

That's true as well.
 

ok doser

lifeguard at the cement pond
And yes I know about herd immunity, that is the reason we want kids vaccinated ....

Apparently you don't know about herd immunity.

It has nothing to do with vaccination. It has to do with building your own immunities by exposure to the disease.
 

Tinark

Active member
Just change the law that if someone was not wearing a mask and they are determined to have infected someone who was wearing a mask, make them criminally and civily responsible for their damage. Charge them with manslaughter if the person they infected dies, and charge them money for pain and suffering if the person doesn't die.
 
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