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Tom | Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n

Even in Florida, if I\u2019m in a medical establishment, it\u2019s mask on. At least in the waiting room, once I\u2019m make it back to the examination room I say (truthfully), \u201cI don\u2019t hear well, can we dispense with these?\u201d The Dr will inevitably say \u201csure!\u201d<\/p>\n

But this morning in the waiting room with about 15 others, all dutifully masked, I went into a slow steam. I really wanted to take my mask off and tell the rest, \u201cDon\u2019t you know even the CDC admits that the masks are 100% useless. Why are we being forced to wear them?\u201d<\/p>\n

I hate the masks for multiples of reasons, even on others, because I wasn\u2019t kidding, I do have hearing problems. The combination of the USMC, many decades of competitive and recreational shooting plus Deep Purple concerts has dropped my threshold for hearing in the 2 kHz-4 kHz range to 90 dB. Add a mask to that to that and I can\u2019t make out doodly-squat.<\/p>\n

Other than medical buildings, there are no masks down here other than the maybe 2% who choose to mask for whatever private reason. I\u2019ve no problem with that, but I hate coerced actions. My sister wore masks before she died a couple of months ago, but that was because chemo had reduced her immune system to junk.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chemist –\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I feel your pain. I work in a very technical field with technical people. Corporate has dictated masks for all. I get it. They don\u2019t want to get sued. So they enforce the mask rule and dutifully report the number of Covid cases per week at our site.<\/strong>
\nI recently went on a rant about the uselessness of the mask and that even the CDC admits they are useless.<\/strong>
\nPeople in the vicinity of my cube defended the mandate. I pointed out the size of a virus and the mesh size of cloth masks. It fell on deaf ears.<\/strong>
\nFinally, one senior person stood up and said: \u201cIts worth it if it saves even one life\u201d and the rest agreed.<\/strong>
\nI doubt masking has saved a single life over the past 2 years around the entire planet.<\/strong>
\nEven if it has, that\u2019s a crappy way to determine policy.<\/strong>
\nBut I gave up. I sat down. Took off my mask (Yes, we can take off the masks when sitting inside our cubicals) and went back to work.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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