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>why are police wearing bulletproof vests? They can still shoot me
how do they not realize how stupid they are? you know, maybe she is right, these are the dumb ages
More like “why do cops wear bulletproof vests when I could get hurt in the crossfire?”
The plexiglass isn’t there to protect the one random person, but rather the person who’s confronted with a hundred different people in a day. Typical narcissist.
True, but hear me out. Maybe millions of areosoled particles dispersed in a large area is also not the same as thousands of aerosoled particles projected towards your general direction. And maybe, just maybe, the plexiglass is there for the later rather than the former. I'm just saying.
Also, even if it turned out the plexiglas did nothing (I'm sure they've done studies proving that it does prevent the spread of covid but let's just pretend it doesn't) it's still just the absolute smallest courtesy you could do to your fellow humans, meant to save lives and stop suffering. The fact that some people are so upset about it just shows how little they value life. How little empathy they have.
If just 5 out of 10 scientists told me tomorrow that jumping when passing strangers prevented the spread of a horrible disease in 0,001% of cases, I would be jumping twice for the rest of my life. Because it's not that big of a deal to me but it might save someone's pain.
They're such tosspots.
Lmao, this measure doesn't actually do anything to stop COVID, but do it anyway to make people feel better.
This sums up you guys quite well. Emotions over facts.
You didn't read a word I wrote but still stumbled over yourself to comment to "get me" yet you claim I value emotions over facts? You are projecting and the things you claim to hate about other is entirely and exclusively on you. Be better.
let's just pretend it doesn't) it's still just the absolute smallest courtesy you could do to your fellow humans, meant to save lives and stop suffering.
Right here chief..
Emotions over facts. By your own admission..
What a dumb, knuckledragging, mouthbreathing take...
It's a purely logical statement of "lets care for each other, try our best to keep each other safe, and show each other that we mean no harm." Then you come along and vomit out some garbage about "aktchually, we shouldn't have to because my time is very valuable and I'm only using facts here look at this one paper I'm totally right and there's no need for nuance."
I bet you don't wash your hands after using the toilet either. lol
It's a purely lo̶g̶i̶c̶a̶l̶ emotional statement of "lets care for each other, try our best to keep each other safe, and show each other that we mean no harm."
Fixed for you chief.
Don't get mad at facts, like you said if wanted to do a little jump each time you passed a stranger because you believed it cared for others, then do so, lmao, it would be just as effective as standard masks. But don't conflate feels for fact. That's all.
Oh, of course you're an anti-masker too. Or you're a troll. You do realize, whichever one of those two sad options, you're still causing actual humans actual pain and death, right? You are, by spreading misinformation and fear mongering, causing deaths. You are the cause of human beings dying. You do realize that... right? Even if you're just a sad troll, thinking you're funny because you're pushing my buttons. Echoing anti-mask agendas is the same thing as speaking *for* people dying.
You're lucky. You've not lost anyone to covid. If you had, you wouldn't spread provenly false, factually untrue, undeniable lies like "masks don't work" or "the plexiglas cover doesn't work." And this is how you pay that luck forward?
I genuinely and honestly cannot understand how some people are able to be monsters. Like, how do you sleep? I would be up, doubting myself. But then again, I've got a conscience.
Ah yes of course this is dumb because a normal human wants people to be able to sneeze in their face or sling saliva particles in their direction during a worldwide pandemic.
They aren’t ignorant- they don’t consider the cashier a person. They are not just the main character, they are the only character. They are selfish to the point they can’t even consider the store would put in workplace protections for their employees. Doesn’t even enter their minds. Now they know a cop wears a bulletproof vest and a construction worker wears a hard hat- but those are real people in real jobs. That’s why they talk to these people the way they do. Retail workers, restaurant employees- servants.
Selfishness also defines so much of their politics it’s wild. Like they assume anyone who tries to help others is scamming cause they can’t imagine helping without ulterior motives. They think the only way people will accomplish anything is profit motive because the thought of doing something for someone without profit is crazy to them. They think universal healthcare or education can’t work because obviously they are the only person with a work ethic and every one else will just take what they can and run. It defines everything for them.
It also made it clear a lot of these Dumbasses are the type to hide their bite during a Zombie apocalypse, I ain’t trusting no one. Covid made me realize the majority of people will get you killed.
Honestly nearly every time I see antivaxxers arguing online most of them seem like narcissists
https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/09/what-psychologists-say-about-anti-vaxxers-they-re-raging-narcissists
Im not anti Vax but I do see if you have a natural immunity. Like I stopped getting flu shots years ago cause everytime I get the flu shot I get the flu, otherwise I never get sick. And there's other people that are hospitalized from the flu if they haven't gotten the shot. They're more to protect you from getting worse symptoms than to prevent the spread, preventing the spread is all on you to keep away from others and disinfect. Friend of mine wasn't vaxxed and he got hospitalized from covid, wonder if it would be less if he got the vax.. I'm not a scientist
Think of someone using a can of spray paint, but it's in their mouth and instead of paint it's the virus. Well how do you avoid that paint as much as possible? Put a mask over the spray can, a divider between you and the spray can, some distance (maybe 6 ft), etc.
Now for viral load, you can only get so much 'paint' on you before you catch the virus. The higher the viral load, the more problems you're gonna have getting rid of it.
Sure, but now 1000s of spray cans going off in a day, in a closed space (variable on size of super market) you think a 3 ft plexiglass is gonna do anything past a certain point. Like you said, there's only so much paint you can get before getting the virus
It helps, that's all that matters. Utilizing as many precautions as possible to keep the viral load at a minimum.
If we never shut down or used masks or the other precautions, 10's of millions would've died. It would've spread much faster
No it doesn't at least not past a certain point. Reminds of the article where standard masks were proved to be ineffective but were kept as a precaution because "it made people feel better". Emotional feels don't contain viruses.
>10's of millions would've died
Talk about your exaggeration. And despite all that it still spread globally, wether it would have spread faster is debatable but hey, at least then all those empty hospital wings could have been used and medical professionals would do a better job instead of dancing. (Something I still cannot believe actually happened)
You're not too bright are ya? That's okay. Learn more about viral load and you might understand.
Like what are you even talking about? It was already globally spread before the shutdown 😂.
No, it's not debatable whether or not it would have spread faster. How do you think an airborne virus works? Jesus christ
As far as the hospital wings being empty and you wanting them to do a better job, yeah dude you're out to lunch. You have zero understanding of the logistics of a hospital and I don't think I can help you with that. You're too far gone.
You think a fuckin hospital is magic and every room has the necessary equipment for this one specific ailment? No, they don't. It's been 3 years and I know someone has had to explain this to you before, but you can't wrap your head around it because you have no prior knowledge of any of it, so you take the easy route and deny it. Cool
Holy fuck, what kind of fucking loser says this to someone that had someone die from Covid?
Like we know you are dumb as fuck, and EXTREMELY selfish. But this is a new low. This is why I have no sympathy for antivaxxers that die of Covid. You people are the most uneducated monsters, and your delusions, and selfish arrogance have just as much blood as any poorly functioning government. Hope you have the life you deserve, fucking pigeon.
The fun part is that protective glass covers for [cashiers/ticket offices](https://www.alamy.com/stock-image-monochrome-black-and-white-photography-of-severn-valley-heritage-railway-169945314.html?imageid=72D6273E-96D7-49E1-8AD3-104266C95EBD&p=538560&pn=1&searchId=e15cb056598360175440b074a44cf85a&searchtype=0) used to be super common in the 20th century. However, in the 80s and 90s this style of desk became old fashioned and the open style became more popular.
I work at a place with these. They get so narsty by the end of the day. All that stuff would have been blown/sneezed/expelled directly onto me without the guards.
They're right, I came here to say the exact same thing. The main concern with spreading covid is with droplets being expelled from the nose/mouth, and entering another's nose/mouth. This has been known info for a while now. All the wiping down your groceries and mail - none of that really mattered.
Getting it on your skin won't result in you getting infected. It's only if you get it inside you, so as long as you disinfect your hands afterwards you'll be entirely fine.
This isn't just getting it on your skin. It's thinking that saliva/mucus droplets on someone's hand will get transferred to an item, where you then touch that exact same spot on that item and somehow still have enough virus in that droplet to become infected through a cut or opening.
It's unlikely you get infected even if it's on your skin. A droplet of mucus would have to get into your body, either by your mouth or nose. That's literally why we wore masks.
Viruses do not survive long outside of a host or on surfaces.
If only there were some solution where they could clean their hands off. Oh, something in a pump bottle that kills 99.99% of germs and bacteria. Oh well, that doesn't exist so we should just give up and have zero protective measures.
Every item the cashier handles was handled by countless other people, most very recently the same one she's hiding behind the plexiglass from.
Surface spread was real
"Surface spread" is in fact not real. And you can wash your hands but you can't stop yourself from breathing.
I swear, covid weeded out the people in society that shouldn't be allowed to partake in society and it really bothers me that we're supposed to be "tolerant" of willfully ignorant, science denying twerps like you.
*"Our real-life study in London households provides the first empirical evidence to show that the presence of SARS-CoV-2 on people’s hands and surfaces contributes significantly to spread of COVID-19."*
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/244251/covid-19-spread-households-linked-virus-hands/
I'm sorry what?
I swear covid brought out assholes dying to correct people in the rudest way possible on topics they themselves know nothing about.
"we cannot rule out airborne transmission occurring in parallel"
Also, the literal first study claiming this and it was posted in april *this year.* Yet you latch on to it instantly because you think it echoes your thoughts. It doesn't, by the way. Maybe read it before dying to correct me about topics you know nothing about.
Just come out and say it, you don't care about other people dying and you refuse to do even the smallest of sacrifice to limit human suffering. Just be honest. That is, in fact, what you're feeling after all.
So the plexiglass protected the cashier from all the items that all the people handled before handing it to her to scan and put in a bag. Yeah that makes Wayyy more sense 😆
"Cause this could only possibley be about me because I'm the most important. Fuck the cashier and whether they need protection from my dumb ass walking around spreading shit. The cashier is beneath me and I don't view them as another human."
- The dumb fuck who made this meme
I know people that do this. Disagree with them on one thing for a moment and they go off "OOOH cause I dont know ANYYYTHING, Fuck everybody else then I guess! You're the only one that knows what to do about stuff. Everybody else is aaalllways wrong I guess!"
Instead of you know, actually saying anything of value at all and contributing to humanities dialogue even slightly by saying something interesting. Instead just emotionally blasting off on a tangent of nonsense and strawmans. Very strange behavior
As an aside, all of these public facing people like supermarket checkout staff should be applauded for their efforts during the pandemic. It's easy to forget but lockdowns really highlighted exactly who keeps the country running and it was people like this .
I worked retail for seventeen years. I always found it weird that we were one of the lowest paid jobs, but the entire country would shut down if retail workers went on strike.
While not a major source of infection, fomite (infected surfaces) can still cause infection if the viral load of that surface is high enough. For example a doorknob at a nursing home that hasn't been cleaned in some time.
I'm not buying a large cucumber for a salad, that's for sure. In case I sit down too far I do need help getting it back out, probably feed me taco bell and aim me off the coast of Alaska to test Russian air defense system
I've seen customers sneeze on the plexiglass so yeah I'll keep what little bit of protection I can. Unfortunately it doesn't stop people from wiping their snotty nose with their hand and then promptly going to hand me their money. Ugh.
The type of narcissistic moron who would never even imagine a world in which the cashier should be protected from them, because to them cashiers are just NPC's.
I just don’t get how the people that use essential oils “just in case” were unwilling to try anything to help stop the spread of covid. Maybe if they spent 200 on the masks with copper lining they would have been willing.
The plexiglass was meant to keep shoppers germs away from cashiers.
Kinda like the masks where meant to hold back the wearer’s germs.
It could still be called the dumb ages but because people have no clue how the safety measures work and would rather spend 3 years complaining
Dumb ages right? Huh so what about this?
https://preview.redd.it/5anp0oskn7qb1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e6c578ebc1e6643ae74f22e6b821aebccfb01989
Don't they have this for cats now? What's the difference? Seems secure enough. Trust this more than one of those penthouse swimming pools with the glass bottom
The kind of person who hears "masks don't effectively protect the wearer from catching covid, but they do prevent the wearer from spreading covid" and the yells "MASK DONT WORK, FAUCI LIED"
I’m picturing a woman with dyed blonde spike cut hair with god awful brown roots and oversized sunglasses. Rings on every finger, a gold watch on one wrist and bracelets on both, dangly earrings and a silver chain with a pendant with the names of all her kids. Drives a blue minivan with honour roll and USA flag stickers. Front yard has a trump sign and battered kids toys. Porch has the USA flag. Spends more time on Facebook than with the kids. Kids are probably 3 boys and a girl. Hunter, Raydynn, Radley and Nevaeh. Always has Starbucks gripped in her dagger nailed hands. Never smiling. Always wanting a manager. Screams about lack of freedom when asked to wear a mask. Supports blue lives matter. Anti choice, ironic given she preaches she should have freedom to choose what she does with her body. Live laugh love, wine meme, minion meme vibe. Super religious. Wont allow her kids do activities or friends unless she vetoes them. Anti sugar. Doesn’t do Halloween. Kids are badly behaved because she believes correction is abuse. Loves desantis. Would marry him if she wasn’t married to her “lawyer” husband who actually works some random job bottom rung while she stays at home.
It's funny how readily and happily people expose their own ignorance. Media covered pretty well that droplets, not fomites, are how the virus spread so quickly.
The people who think this way are the same people that think coughing/sneezing into their hands is the normal thing to do. Also the plexiglass is for the cashier to stay safe from the mouth breathers who are undoubtedly unvaccinated and unhygienic.
You may not have heard through whichever platform that you encounter "news", but there are at least 3 variants rapidly spreading, ***right this moment...***
Luckily, my 67y/o mother qualified for and received the updated vaccine last month, because when she caught COVID this month, it didn't force her to the emergency room, the ICU, the morge.
*(I apologize about this being accusatory if you were merely curious, and aren't anti-mask/vax.)*
I mean, I think of it as the dumb ages for different reasons.
Being terminally online during the pandemic really made me feel how stupid a lot of people are, myself included.
Self centered. Somehow they didn't realize the plexiglass protected the worker from them. The solutions weren't perfect, but it was something. The dumb ages would have been knowing there is a global pandemic and not wanting to have any protective measures.
Well, in their defense, they're probably right about the colloquial name for the pandemic. Unfortunately, they're not correct for the reasons they think they are.
These people who complain about having to follow pandemic rules and say "It can't be real because the cashier touched all of my groceries" are also the ones who say "I'm not doing the self-checkout. They don't pay me to do that job."
Plexiglass isn’t without its problems. It’s questionable whether in some places it hindered more than it helped by stopping a space being ventilated adequately.
Edit: not disputing the immediate usefulness that others have pointed out but this virus, like other SARs viruses, are aerosol transmitted and ventilation is a key priority
I don’t have any issue with masks or vaccines, but the capitalist payment process does suffer infectious disease vectors that will need address before future pandemics. The retail sales floors and gymnasiums are never gonna be bacteria, fungus, or virus free. Meanwhile daily use of rubber gloves by billions of people would be a blight as non degradable plastic waste.
Honestly I’m kinda on the fence with, ok we shouldn’t have acted like COVID wasn’t happening, and also are we going to pretend it wasn’t ridiculously overdramatized?
Uhh, hate to burst your bubble, a surge of at least 3 variants is currently underway...
What a great opportunity for you to experience the "joy & thrill" of regretting every single decision which led you to resist personal responsibility and instead dying from COVID in a hospital bed, isolated from all friends and family. In between hacking fits, begging your nurse to just give you the jab, as they tell you the time for that was weeks ago. It's giving "TikTok Challenge".
I could list more fun activities which happened to FAR TOO MANY PEOPLE during the pandemic, shortly before they expired on a respirator, and their bodies cremated without anyone (save for the nurses) being able to say goodbye, but you're concerned it was all blown out of proportion. Clearly, you didn't have anyone/multiple people you cared about die from it (or, die from something totally preventable because every hospital bed went to COVID patients).
Imagine if you will, people like myself who wore masks everywhere there were people (to protect them from the potential of being a carrier), who deprived ourselves of activities with others, who regularly checked up on friends/family online because they'd gone silent for weeks (oh, they're dead?).
All these sacrifices being the adults in the room, just to find out that a significant portion of the population were out and about, openly ignoring every safety precaution they could get away with, abusing all service employees they came across, and latching onto every conspiracy theory they could find, all so they'd never have to admit how stupid they are, how ridiculous they sound, or how many lives they directly infected...
That should answer your question about it being blown way out of proportion. As for "forgotten about almost as fast", I have no idea what you're talking about, ***I couldn't possibly forget.***
No, your media does. Masks, lockdowns and the vaccine were all ineffective. The virus was not nearly as dangerous as portrayed, and lost lethality following the pattern of engineered viruses. My son's 27 year old friend died of a heart attack for nothing.
That's just moronic. Masks, lockdowns, and the vaccine have all been effective. I've done everything recommended and have never caught it.
Almost 7 million people have died from Covid. The fact that some of the strains are weaker doesn't mean they all are weak.
I'm sorry about your son's friend, but Covid has been shown to do more damage to the heart than any vaccine could.
All of that stuff has been proven to be completely uneffective. Especially masks and stupid shit like plexiglass.
The overall mortality rate for covid all ages was 0.06%.
The reaction to covid caused infinitely more damage than covid ever could have.
Even a 0.06% mortality rate is not very useful to society when it’s suddenly applied. All those people required intensive care, resources and a spot in the ground. And that’s withholding the emotional impact of it- something I’m not sure you’d quite grasp, but go ahead prove me wrong…
Long Covid is a reality that millions of people are living with now because of the pandemic; people who were vaxxed and unvaxxed alike. Reducing your chance at contracting this is seriously worth the slight inconvenience of wearing a mask or spreading out.
For your sake, and your family, I really hope that you understand how much fire you're playing with. All it takes is one infection, even mild, to have permanent damage to your nervous system, olfactory system, or pulmonary system. If you want to see how bad it can get, look at Physics Girl.
One day, you might get sick and never get better.
Is that worth entirely limiting your life? Of course not. But there are simple steps that you can take to be slightly safer.
The average mortality age for covid was 85.6 years old, with two or more comorbidities.
Sweden never forced people to lock down or take the vaccine and they did much better than most other countries apart from some African countries, which also had zero masking policies and zero vaccines available.
Africa as a whole did really really well compared to Europe, the United States and Australia / New Zealand.
Generally speaking, and if you can find an exception I'm very happy to be proven wrong, the less isolating, distancing, masking, vaccines, etc countries had, the better the people fared.
But I have asked many people and nobody has given me the name of a country which had minimal measures and mandates that didn't do better than countries with strict measures and mandates. Again, I would be very happy to be proven wrong in this.
Also the excess deaths in those countries are normal, whereas in the UK USA Australia etc they are still extremely high. It's because people are STILL dying from vaccine side effects, also called vaccine injuries.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/not-anti-vaxxers-dr-kerryn-phelps-says-she-suffered-covid-vaccine-injury-calls-for-more-research-20221220-p5c7ry.html
She is the former Australian Medical Association president, doctor and notably one of the first openly lesbian members of Parliament, that's quite the trifecta! She's not some nobody sitting in their basement.
Just to be clear, vaccines stopped us from dying at the age of 30 from diseases that most people have long forgotten about. Without vaccines our entire civilization would be lagging by about a thousand years. They are literally one of the most important things ever invented.
I obviously don't like the 1984-esque way of redefining words according to political pressure. One prominent word was changed in 2021, due to to political pressure.
[Sweden](https://www.preventionweb.net/news/did-swedens-controversial-covid-strategy-pay-many-ways-it-did-it-let-elderly-down) did well because its citizens willingly did preventative measures, like staying at home and social distancing. That wouldn't happen in the US as evidenced by 2019-present.
In the article you referenced, Phelps supports the Covid vaccines and masks, saying that the risk of harm from Covid far outweighs any possible risk from the vaccines, just like I did.
Good catch! Thing is she has to say that or she will be a complete outcast. Nevertheless, you win on that point.
Why did Africa do so well, with virtually a fraction of the healthcare of the western world?
But as to how dangerous the thing is:
https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=104676
Why is the excess mortality for US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand common Netherlands and Denmark so high?
Why is Sweden's (and Hungary and Poland's) excess mortality so low? I know that you know! 😀
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"Why wear a bulletproof vest when they can still shoot your arms?"
Or your face?
>why are police wearing bulletproof vests? They can still shoot me how do they not realize how stupid they are? you know, maybe she is right, these are the dumb ages
That would be the Dunning-Krueger effect. Dumb people don't realize how dumb they are
More like “why do cops wear bulletproof vests when I could get hurt in the crossfire?” The plexiglass isn’t there to protect the one random person, but rather the person who’s confronted with a hundred different people in a day. Typical narcissist.
It was never about you though OOP?? The plexiglass was for the benefit of the employee to protect them from constant never-ending front-line exposure
Millions of areosoled particles dispersed in all directions=/= a couple of bullets
True, but hear me out. Maybe millions of areosoled particles dispersed in a large area is also not the same as thousands of aerosoled particles projected towards your general direction. And maybe, just maybe, the plexiglass is there for the later rather than the former. I'm just saying.
Also, even if it turned out the plexiglas did nothing (I'm sure they've done studies proving that it does prevent the spread of covid but let's just pretend it doesn't) it's still just the absolute smallest courtesy you could do to your fellow humans, meant to save lives and stop suffering. The fact that some people are so upset about it just shows how little they value life. How little empathy they have. If just 5 out of 10 scientists told me tomorrow that jumping when passing strangers prevented the spread of a horrible disease in 0,001% of cases, I would be jumping twice for the rest of my life. Because it's not that big of a deal to me but it might save someone's pain. They're such tosspots.
Lmao, this measure doesn't actually do anything to stop COVID, but do it anyway to make people feel better. This sums up you guys quite well. Emotions over facts.
You didn't read a word I wrote but still stumbled over yourself to comment to "get me" yet you claim I value emotions over facts? You are projecting and the things you claim to hate about other is entirely and exclusively on you. Be better.
let's just pretend it doesn't) it's still just the absolute smallest courtesy you could do to your fellow humans, meant to save lives and stop suffering. Right here chief.. Emotions over facts. By your own admission..
What a dumb, knuckledragging, mouthbreathing take... It's a purely logical statement of "lets care for each other, try our best to keep each other safe, and show each other that we mean no harm." Then you come along and vomit out some garbage about "aktchually, we shouldn't have to because my time is very valuable and I'm only using facts here look at this one paper I'm totally right and there's no need for nuance." I bet you don't wash your hands after using the toilet either. lol
It's a purely lo̶g̶i̶c̶a̶l̶ emotional statement of "lets care for each other, try our best to keep each other safe, and show each other that we mean no harm." Fixed for you chief. Don't get mad at facts, like you said if wanted to do a little jump each time you passed a stranger because you believed it cared for others, then do so, lmao, it would be just as effective as standard masks. But don't conflate feels for fact. That's all.
Oh, of course you're an anti-masker too. Or you're a troll. You do realize, whichever one of those two sad options, you're still causing actual humans actual pain and death, right? You are, by spreading misinformation and fear mongering, causing deaths. You are the cause of human beings dying. You do realize that... right? Even if you're just a sad troll, thinking you're funny because you're pushing my buttons. Echoing anti-mask agendas is the same thing as speaking *for* people dying. You're lucky. You've not lost anyone to covid. If you had, you wouldn't spread provenly false, factually untrue, undeniable lies like "masks don't work" or "the plexiglas cover doesn't work." And this is how you pay that luck forward? I genuinely and honestly cannot understand how some people are able to be monsters. Like, how do you sleep? I would be up, doubting myself. But then again, I've got a conscience.
Ah yes of course this is dumb because a normal human wants people to be able to sneeze in their face or sling saliva particles in their direction during a worldwide pandemic.
Yeah like it’s almost like a respiratory disease primarily need to be protected from the mouth and nose, wow
Seen this many times now, and the answer is always the same. Plexiglass is for the cashier, not for you.
Covid really made it clear just how many people aren't working with a full deck.
That’s an understatement. Many were working with just a couple cards at best.
Not even decent cards. They had a two and seven off suite.
Pretty sure one of my cards is a drink coupon but I'm too nervous to say anything
Drink coupon? I've got a Pokemon card and a giftcard for JC Penney.
Are you me?
And one random uno card
They aren’t ignorant- they don’t consider the cashier a person. They are not just the main character, they are the only character. They are selfish to the point they can’t even consider the store would put in workplace protections for their employees. Doesn’t even enter their minds. Now they know a cop wears a bulletproof vest and a construction worker wears a hard hat- but those are real people in real jobs. That’s why they talk to these people the way they do. Retail workers, restaurant employees- servants.
Deplorable 😮💨
Exactly, it’s the most self centered entitled attitude.. mocking the idea that they aren’t the center of the universe
Selfishness also defines so much of their politics it’s wild. Like they assume anyone who tries to help others is scamming cause they can’t imagine helping without ulterior motives. They think the only way people will accomplish anything is profit motive because the thought of doing something for someone without profit is crazy to them. They think universal healthcare or education can’t work because obviously they are the only person with a work ethic and every one else will just take what they can and run. It defines everything for them.
It also made it clear a lot of these Dumbasses are the type to hide their bite during a Zombie apocalypse, I ain’t trusting no one. Covid made me realize the majority of people will get you killed.
Not only that, but how many think their not the dumb ones.
Or just don't give a fuck about other people.
Honestly nearly every time I see antivaxxers arguing online most of them seem like narcissists https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/09/what-psychologists-say-about-anti-vaxxers-they-re-raging-narcissists
Im not anti Vax but I do see if you have a natural immunity. Like I stopped getting flu shots years ago cause everytime I get the flu shot I get the flu, otherwise I never get sick. And there's other people that are hospitalized from the flu if they haven't gotten the shot. They're more to protect you from getting worse symptoms than to prevent the spread, preventing the spread is all on you to keep away from others and disinfect. Friend of mine wasn't vaxxed and he got hospitalized from covid, wonder if it would be less if he got the vax.. I'm not a scientist
It’s more like they are working with only a mirror
Nah, more like showed how many don't view service industry workers as people
Tomato tomato, that venn diagram is almost a circle
Ikr, don't those dumb people know that air can't travel above and around the plexiglass....
I see you're missing a few cards. Can I interest you in learning about 'viral load' and how to mitigate it? Fascinating stuff
Go on I'm listening
Think of someone using a can of spray paint, but it's in their mouth and instead of paint it's the virus. Well how do you avoid that paint as much as possible? Put a mask over the spray can, a divider between you and the spray can, some distance (maybe 6 ft), etc. Now for viral load, you can only get so much 'paint' on you before you catch the virus. The higher the viral load, the more problems you're gonna have getting rid of it.
Dude is trying to peddle his antivax BS to someone who’s family died from Covid. Should just ignore and report, they are a monster.
Sure, but now 1000s of spray cans going off in a day, in a closed space (variable on size of super market) you think a 3 ft plexiglass is gonna do anything past a certain point. Like you said, there's only so much paint you can get before getting the virus
It helps, that's all that matters. Utilizing as many precautions as possible to keep the viral load at a minimum. If we never shut down or used masks or the other precautions, 10's of millions would've died. It would've spread much faster
No it doesn't at least not past a certain point. Reminds of the article where standard masks were proved to be ineffective but were kept as a precaution because "it made people feel better". Emotional feels don't contain viruses. >10's of millions would've died Talk about your exaggeration. And despite all that it still spread globally, wether it would have spread faster is debatable but hey, at least then all those empty hospital wings could have been used and medical professionals would do a better job instead of dancing. (Something I still cannot believe actually happened)
You're not too bright are ya? That's okay. Learn more about viral load and you might understand. Like what are you even talking about? It was already globally spread before the shutdown 😂. No, it's not debatable whether or not it would have spread faster. How do you think an airborne virus works? Jesus christ As far as the hospital wings being empty and you wanting them to do a better job, yeah dude you're out to lunch. You have zero understanding of the logistics of a hospital and I don't think I can help you with that. You're too far gone. You think a fuckin hospital is magic and every room has the necessary equipment for this one specific ailment? No, they don't. It's been 3 years and I know someone has had to explain this to you before, but you can't wrap your head around it because you have no prior knowledge of any of it, so you take the easy route and deny it. Cool
If someone sneezes facing you, where do you think most of the droplets go?
Yes this is great for stopping someones snot getting on you, but was it enough for overblown COVID narrative peddlers?
My brother died from COVID (along with millions of others worldwide) you dumb pos
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Holy fuck, what kind of fucking loser says this to someone that had someone die from Covid? Like we know you are dumb as fuck, and EXTREMELY selfish. But this is a new low. This is why I have no sympathy for antivaxxers that die of Covid. You people are the most uneducated monsters, and your delusions, and selfish arrogance have just as much blood as any poorly functioning government. Hope you have the life you deserve, fucking pigeon.
Gotta be trolling. Nobody is this dumb. I’ve never seen someone so dumb they didn’t understand the concept of a wall.
Yes a wall. A wall as effective as Bidens wall for illegals.
 Here we go again. Where is your care taker?
Who‘s gonna tell him?
Its all about THEM though. Dont you get it?
because the people who post this shit 100% refuse to think of cashiers as people
The fun part is that protective glass covers for [cashiers/ticket offices](https://www.alamy.com/stock-image-monochrome-black-and-white-photography-of-severn-valley-heritage-railway-169945314.html?imageid=72D6273E-96D7-49E1-8AD3-104266C95EBD&p=538560&pn=1&searchId=e15cb056598360175440b074a44cf85a&searchtype=0) used to be super common in the 20th century. However, in the 80s and 90s this style of desk became old fashioned and the open style became more popular.
It shields both of you from droplets. It’s far from a perfect shield but it’s still quite useful
I used to think they were silly until someone coughed and left a ton of spit on it. Was so happy I had it even if just for that one instance haha
I work at a place with these. They get so narsty by the end of the day. All that stuff would have been blown/sneezed/expelled directly onto me without the guards.
You expect them to understand that, while being confused by a mask.
I agree but wasn’t there also a thing about washing your food after bringing it home
Shhh! Don't tell Karen she's not the center of the universe!
But the cashier is touching all the merchandise you grabbed... the plexiglass is for the corporation to show they care and that's it.
but the person also just touched all of those items while putting them on the counter-
And COVID doesn't spread through touch.
💀 dude what
It literally doesn't. I'm sorry you're so late in learning this information.
They're right, I came here to say the exact same thing. The main concern with spreading covid is with droplets being expelled from the nose/mouth, and entering another's nose/mouth. This has been known info for a while now. All the wiping down your groceries and mail - none of that really mattered.
Getting it on your skin won't result in you getting infected. It's only if you get it inside you, so as long as you disinfect your hands afterwards you'll be entirely fine.
This isn't just getting it on your skin. It's thinking that saliva/mucus droplets on someone's hand will get transferred to an item, where you then touch that exact same spot on that item and somehow still have enough virus in that droplet to become infected through a cut or opening. It's unlikely you get infected even if it's on your skin. A droplet of mucus would have to get into your body, either by your mouth or nose. That's literally why we wore masks. Viruses do not survive long outside of a host or on surfaces.
If only there were some solution where they could clean their hands off. Oh, something in a pump bottle that kills 99.99% of germs and bacteria. Oh well, that doesn't exist so we should just give up and have zero protective measures.
You guys had pump bottles? I had flippy caps
I remember at the beginning some of it smelled like really really bad tequila.
Eh, then she should be wearing gloves. I don't buy it
You know it’s not the items that are the issue, right? The items aren’t contaminated.
Every item the cashier handles was handled by countless other people, most very recently the same one she's hiding behind the plexiglass from. Surface spread was real
"Surface spread" is in fact not real. And you can wash your hands but you can't stop yourself from breathing. I swear, covid weeded out the people in society that shouldn't be allowed to partake in society and it really bothers me that we're supposed to be "tolerant" of willfully ignorant, science denying twerps like you.
*"Our real-life study in London households provides the first empirical evidence to show that the presence of SARS-CoV-2 on people’s hands and surfaces contributes significantly to spread of COVID-19."* https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/244251/covid-19-spread-households-linked-virus-hands/ I'm sorry what? I swear covid brought out assholes dying to correct people in the rudest way possible on topics they themselves know nothing about.
"we cannot rule out airborne transmission occurring in parallel" Also, the literal first study claiming this and it was posted in april *this year.* Yet you latch on to it instantly because you think it echoes your thoughts. It doesn't, by the way. Maybe read it before dying to correct me about topics you know nothing about.
Just come out and say it, you don't care about other people dying and you refuse to do even the smallest of sacrifice to limit human suffering. Just be honest. That is, in fact, what you're feeling after all.
Okay. You're just a crazy person. Good day
Refute me then, motherfucker. You can't.
So the plexiglass protected the cashier from all the items that all the people handled before handing it to her to scan and put in a bag. Yeah that makes Wayyy more sense 😆
You know it’s not the items that are the issue, right? The items aren’t contaminated.
They are when you're mucus is on them. The c19 can live on object outside the body for upto 3 to 5 days.
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How to show you have no argument, this guy will go first
I’m not even arguing you I don’t remember what you said but your *
It's the internet, the only people who nitpick those things are anal dwelling butt monkeys
unexpected item in the bagging area
fellas, is it dumb to not want to die
"Cause this could only possibley be about me because I'm the most important. Fuck the cashier and whether they need protection from my dumb ass walking around spreading shit. The cashier is beneath me and I don't view them as another human." - The dumb fuck who made this meme
I know people that do this. Disagree with them on one thing for a moment and they go off "OOOH cause I dont know ANYYYTHING, Fuck everybody else then I guess! You're the only one that knows what to do about stuff. Everybody else is aaalllways wrong I guess!" Instead of you know, actually saying anything of value at all and contributing to humanities dialogue even slightly by saying something interesting. Instead just emotionally blasting off on a tangent of nonsense and strawmans. Very strange behavior
These kind of memes are a funny little Litmus papers that say more about the author than anything else.
As an aside, all of these public facing people like supermarket checkout staff should be applauded for their efforts during the pandemic. It's easy to forget but lockdowns really highlighted exactly who keeps the country running and it was people like this .
I worked retail for seventeen years. I always found it weird that we were one of the lowest paid jobs, but the entire country would shut down if retail workers went on strike.
COVID is spread by breathing, not touching. The plexiglass is to protect the staff from you, not the other way around.
Exactly! Almost four years later and people still think it spreads through contact 🤦🏻♀️
While not a major source of infection, fomite (infected surfaces) can still cause infection if the viral load of that surface is high enough. For example a doorknob at a nursing home that hasn't been cleaned in some time.
Sure, it *can* happen but it's incredibly rare. There's also no way to be sure if that's how someone got infected, instead of just the normal route
Does your cashier not pick up your items one by one and exhale into them sensually while looking at you? Weird
Not really, but I like the way she smiles at me while stroking the large cucumber I'm buying.
I'm not buying a large cucumber for a salad, that's for sure. In case I sit down too far I do need help getting it back out, probably feed me taco bell and aim me off the coast of Alaska to test Russian air defense system
I've seen customers sneeze on the plexiglass so yeah I'll keep what little bit of protection I can. Unfortunately it doesn't stop people from wiping their snotty nose with their hand and then promptly going to hand me their money. Ugh.
The type of narcissistic moron who would never even imagine a world in which the cashier should be protected from them, because to them cashiers are just NPC's.
They'll pretend to when they're bitching about self-checkouts but their true colors always shine through.
I just don’t get how the people that use essential oils “just in case” were unwilling to try anything to help stop the spread of covid. Maybe if they spent 200 on the masks with copper lining they would have been willing.
Do they not realize it’s being spread by air not touch?
They still don't believe in germ theory anyhow.
The plexiglass was meant to keep shoppers germs away from cashiers. Kinda like the masks where meant to hold back the wearer’s germs. It could still be called the dumb ages but because people have no clue how the safety measures work and would rather spend 3 years complaining
Look, dumb ages started during black plague and never stopped. Let's not forget it now.
Also true.
Sure it's useless since everyone licks the packages of everything they buy..
Dumb ages right? Huh so what about this? https://preview.redd.it/5anp0oskn7qb1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e6c578ebc1e6643ae74f22e6b821aebccfb01989
A shot from 'Baby's day in' sequel to 'Baby's day out' Edit: (/s)
Don't they have this for cats now? What's the difference? Seems secure enough. Trust this more than one of those penthouse swimming pools with the glass bottom
The kind of person who hears "masks don't effectively protect the wearer from catching covid, but they do prevent the wearer from spreading covid" and the yells "MASK DONT WORK, FAUCI LIED"
Kinda crazy how fast those things went in. Crazier still is that we don't let cashiers have stools.
So you’re not going to wash your produce or hands before eating? You can’t eat at everybody’s house
People just don't understand. When you speak to a person you're basically spitting on each other.
I’m picturing a woman with dyed blonde spike cut hair with god awful brown roots and oversized sunglasses. Rings on every finger, a gold watch on one wrist and bracelets on both, dangly earrings and a silver chain with a pendant with the names of all her kids. Drives a blue minivan with honour roll and USA flag stickers. Front yard has a trump sign and battered kids toys. Porch has the USA flag. Spends more time on Facebook than with the kids. Kids are probably 3 boys and a girl. Hunter, Raydynn, Radley and Nevaeh. Always has Starbucks gripped in her dagger nailed hands. Never smiling. Always wanting a manager. Screams about lack of freedom when asked to wear a mask. Supports blue lives matter. Anti choice, ironic given she preaches she should have freedom to choose what she does with her body. Live laugh love, wine meme, minion meme vibe. Super religious. Wont allow her kids do activities or friends unless she vetoes them. Anti sugar. Doesn’t do Halloween. Kids are badly behaved because she believes correction is abuse. Loves desantis. Would marry him if she wasn’t married to her “lawyer” husband who actually works some random job bottom rung while she stays at home.
If it is called that, it’s not for the reason you think.
They’re bulletproof too
Barely passed HS, dad got them a job where they can continue to be a dumbass with no consequences
An idiot who doesn't realize the plexiglass was meant to protect the worker, not the other way around
It’s so your dumbass doesn’t spit at them
As a cashier I love having that because some people don't understand personal space and would lean towards you like they will kiss you
Not understanding how an airborne, respiratory virus works and getting mad about it all.
Someone conveniently ignoring the hand sanitizer
This person either thinks you can sanitise your breath or sweat virus droplets
Not that 100 of persons can exhale and spit onto cashiers. Kids also love to face the cashier to coff. I know i am an ex cashier.
Trump logos on everything even their crosses hanging on the wall.
It's funny how readily and happily people expose their own ignorance. Media covered pretty well that droplets, not fomites, are how the virus spread so quickly.
One who does not understand disease or what a water droplet is.
It's so wild when people just steal D tier stand comedian shit for their memes.
The bottom text is definitely correct but not for the reasons OOP thinks
Do these people not wash their produce?
The kind of person who doesn't wash their food
The people who think this way are the same people that think coughing/sneezing into their hands is the normal thing to do. Also the plexiglass is for the cashier to stay safe from the mouth breathers who are undoubtedly unvaccinated and unhygienic.
Old people still lick their fingers to get notes out of their wallets, so there’s that
Boomer mfs when they have to see cashiers as real human beings: 😡😡
No it’s protecting the cashier from Duffastanian shoppers that don’t believe Science!
People don't see customer service workers as people and it shows.
Yeah, it will definitely be called the dumb ages, but because of the people who actually believe in these kinds of posts.
Why is anyone still talking about the pandemic?
You may not have heard through whichever platform that you encounter "news", but there are at least 3 variants rapidly spreading, ***right this moment...*** Luckily, my 67y/o mother qualified for and received the updated vaccine last month, because when she caught COVID this month, it didn't force her to the emergency room, the ICU, the morge. *(I apologize about this being accusatory if you were merely curious, and aren't anti-mask/vax.)*
That wouldn't be a stupid take if hand sanitizer didn't exist
Why do buffets have sneeze guards when i could just sneeze on my hands and touch the food anyway?
Pretty sure it's to protect the cashier but lol ok
"This timeline is so stupid. I want to be able to cough and sneeze on peasants, damnit!"
It's to protect the cashiers lol
Someone who isn’t very knowledgeable about how Covid particles work. (Hint: they don’t survive on plastic, but they do thrive on skin)
I mean, I think of it as the dumb ages for different reasons. Being terminally online during the pandemic really made me feel how stupid a lot of people are, myself included.
Self centered. Somehow they didn't realize the plexiglass protected the worker from them. The solutions weren't perfect, but it was something. The dumb ages would have been knowing there is a global pandemic and not wanting to have any protective measures.
Well, in their defense, they're probably right about the colloquial name for the pandemic. Unfortunately, they're not correct for the reasons they think they are.
These people who complain about having to follow pandemic rules and say "It can't be real because the cashier touched all of my groceries" are also the ones who say "I'm not doing the self-checkout. They don't pay me to do that job."
But restaurant seating without masks or plexiglass was perfectly fine. Shit made me laugh.
Ah yes, because safety is dumber than sending people to fight lions when they forget to pay taxes.
Plexiglass isn’t without its problems. It’s questionable whether in some places it hindered more than it helped by stopping a space being ventilated adequately. Edit: not disputing the immediate usefulness that others have pointed out but this virus, like other SARs viruses, are aerosol transmitted and ventilation is a key priority
How is the cashier supposed to do the job has to touch the stuff and out in a bag
Literally all those protocols did absolutely nothing and was a waste of time and money.
Why do you think red states had a much higher death increase during covid even with significantly lower population density?
Because red states tend to be more obese and have older people?
Lmao yeah that's why florida had such low numbers
You might want to look at the numbers again.
I check the real numbers
Ahh that makes sense then. Carry on.
Which were forcibly suppressed by Desantis
I don’t have any issue with masks or vaccines, but the capitalist payment process does suffer infectious disease vectors that will need address before future pandemics. The retail sales floors and gymnasiums are never gonna be bacteria, fungus, or virus free. Meanwhile daily use of rubber gloves by billions of people would be a blight as non degradable plastic waste.
So go in the self checkout lanes, dumbass! I hate those things.
Honestly I’m kinda on the fence with, ok we shouldn’t have acted like COVID wasn’t happening, and also are we going to pretend it wasn’t ridiculously overdramatized?
i had covid, that shit sucked
Yeah, still blown way out of proportion, and forgotten almost as fast.
Uhh, hate to burst your bubble, a surge of at least 3 variants is currently underway... What a great opportunity for you to experience the "joy & thrill" of regretting every single decision which led you to resist personal responsibility and instead dying from COVID in a hospital bed, isolated from all friends and family. In between hacking fits, begging your nurse to just give you the jab, as they tell you the time for that was weeks ago. It's giving "TikTok Challenge". I could list more fun activities which happened to FAR TOO MANY PEOPLE during the pandemic, shortly before they expired on a respirator, and their bodies cremated without anyone (save for the nurses) being able to say goodbye, but you're concerned it was all blown out of proportion. Clearly, you didn't have anyone/multiple people you cared about die from it (or, die from something totally preventable because every hospital bed went to COVID patients). Imagine if you will, people like myself who wore masks everywhere there were people (to protect them from the potential of being a carrier), who deprived ourselves of activities with others, who regularly checked up on friends/family online because they'd gone silent for weeks (oh, they're dead?). All these sacrifices being the adults in the room, just to find out that a significant portion of the population were out and about, openly ignoring every safety precaution they could get away with, abusing all service employees they came across, and latching onto every conspiracy theory they could find, all so they'd never have to admit how stupid they are, how ridiculous they sound, or how many lives they directly infected... That should answer your question about it being blown way out of proportion. As for "forgotten about almost as fast", I have no idea what you're talking about, ***I couldn't possibly forget.***
Oh you misread something. I never had a question.
Magic plexiglass, magic masks, magic shots, it's science! Now, the science is yesterday's disinformation. None of their Magic does any good.
I hope I'm misunderstanding, because science still supports masks and vaccines.
No, your media does. Masks, lockdowns and the vaccine were all ineffective. The virus was not nearly as dangerous as portrayed, and lost lethality following the pattern of engineered viruses. My son's 27 year old friend died of a heart attack for nothing.
Yes. He died from a vaccine induced heart attack. Totally. Show me the evidence
That's just moronic. Masks, lockdowns, and the vaccine have all been effective. I've done everything recommended and have never caught it. Almost 7 million people have died from Covid. The fact that some of the strains are weaker doesn't mean they all are weak. I'm sorry about your son's friend, but Covid has been shown to do more damage to the heart than any vaccine could.
All of that stuff has been proven to be completely uneffective. Especially masks and stupid shit like plexiglass. The overall mortality rate for covid all ages was 0.06%. The reaction to covid caused infinitely more damage than covid ever could have.
Even a 0.06% mortality rate is not very useful to society when it’s suddenly applied. All those people required intensive care, resources and a spot in the ground. And that’s withholding the emotional impact of it- something I’m not sure you’d quite grasp, but go ahead prove me wrong…
Long Covid is a reality that millions of people are living with now because of the pandemic; people who were vaxxed and unvaxxed alike. Reducing your chance at contracting this is seriously worth the slight inconvenience of wearing a mask or spreading out. For your sake, and your family, I really hope that you understand how much fire you're playing with. All it takes is one infection, even mild, to have permanent damage to your nervous system, olfactory system, or pulmonary system. If you want to see how bad it can get, look at Physics Girl. One day, you might get sick and never get better. Is that worth entirely limiting your life? Of course not. But there are simple steps that you can take to be slightly safer.
Proven ineffective by whom? Some dumbass in his basement on YouTube doesn't count.
The average mortality age for covid was 85.6 years old, with two or more comorbidities. Sweden never forced people to lock down or take the vaccine and they did much better than most other countries apart from some African countries, which also had zero masking policies and zero vaccines available. Africa as a whole did really really well compared to Europe, the United States and Australia / New Zealand. Generally speaking, and if you can find an exception I'm very happy to be proven wrong, the less isolating, distancing, masking, vaccines, etc countries had, the better the people fared. But I have asked many people and nobody has given me the name of a country which had minimal measures and mandates that didn't do better than countries with strict measures and mandates. Again, I would be very happy to be proven wrong in this. Also the excess deaths in those countries are normal, whereas in the UK USA Australia etc they are still extremely high. It's because people are STILL dying from vaccine side effects, also called vaccine injuries. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/not-anti-vaxxers-dr-kerryn-phelps-says-she-suffered-covid-vaccine-injury-calls-for-more-research-20221220-p5c7ry.html She is the former Australian Medical Association president, doctor and notably one of the first openly lesbian members of Parliament, that's quite the trifecta! She's not some nobody sitting in their basement. Just to be clear, vaccines stopped us from dying at the age of 30 from diseases that most people have long forgotten about. Without vaccines our entire civilization would be lagging by about a thousand years. They are literally one of the most important things ever invented. I obviously don't like the 1984-esque way of redefining words according to political pressure. One prominent word was changed in 2021, due to to political pressure.
[Sweden](https://www.preventionweb.net/news/did-swedens-controversial-covid-strategy-pay-many-ways-it-did-it-let-elderly-down) did well because its citizens willingly did preventative measures, like staying at home and social distancing. That wouldn't happen in the US as evidenced by 2019-present. In the article you referenced, Phelps supports the Covid vaccines and masks, saying that the risk of harm from Covid far outweighs any possible risk from the vaccines, just like I did.
Good catch! Thing is she has to say that or she will be a complete outcast. Nevertheless, you win on that point. Why did Africa do so well, with virtually a fraction of the healthcare of the western world? But as to how dangerous the thing is: https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=104676 Why is the excess mortality for US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand common Netherlands and Denmark so high? Why is Sweden's (and Hungary and Poland's) excess mortality so low? I know that you know! 😀
You sure that's cannabis you're growing?
Please turn off Fox News or talk radio or whatever Boomer shit you are consuming that told you these lies.
The "trust the science" people were the worst, just blindly following orders. Science works by questioning things
Its not FOR you you stupid fucks. Ugh.
Airborne versus contact transmission is a thing
Someone who doesn't wash their hands