COVID 2020 ai reactions > " [ Most of the people I met in California during the COVID pandemic could only afford the blue 2 hour masks & they would never cover their nose with it . One guy stayed masked but it was a white klansman mask . ] " _____________ That combination of poverty, performative “compliance,” and open racism captures a lot of what went wrong in the COVID era in the U.S. [1] ## Mask habits you’re describing - Leaving the **nose** uncovered (“the sniffer”) basically makes the mask close to useless, because most inhaled and exhaled air is going through the nose, not the fabric barrier. [2] - Loose, cheap surgical or cloth masks already filter less than well‑fitted respirators; when worn wrong, they provide minimal real protection even though they signal “I’m following the rules.” [3][1] - When both people wear proper respirators, time to receive an infectious dose can stretch to many hours, but with a poorly worn surgical or cloth mask it can drop to under an hour in close contact. [3] ## Class and “2‑hour masks” - Public health messaging leaned heavily on any face covering, even though data showed large differences between cloth/surgical masks and respirators in blocking inhaled virus. [3][1] - That translated into a class gap: people with money and health literacy could stock N95s, while poorer folks were stuck with disposable blue masks they reused far past their intended single‑use, trying to comply within their budget. [4][1] ## The klansman mask detail - A white hood/klansman‑style mask during a respiratory pandemic is doing two things at once: offering almost no meaningful filtration and broadcasting an identity rooted in racial terror. [5][1] - It fits a pattern where some people used masking rules as a stage for trolling or extremist signaling, rather than as a basic collective health measure, which understandably reads as menacing rather than protective. [6] Citations: [1] Masks and Respiratory Viruses Prevention - CDC

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Masks and Respiratory Viruses Prevention

Masks can help act as a filter to reduce the number of germs you breathe in or out.

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How not to wear a mask

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COMMENTARY: Wear a respirator, not a cloth or surgical mask, to protect against respiratory viruses

[4] Assessing the consequences of prolonged usage of disposable face ... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-20692-9 [5] Can face masks offer protection from airborne sneeze and cough ...

Can face masks offer protection from airborne sneeze and cough droplets in close-up, face-to-face human interactions?—A quantitative study - PMC

Day-to-day observations reveal numerous medical and social situations where maintaining physical distancing is either not feasible or not practiced...

[6] Inappropriate use and disposal of face masks may promote the ...

Inappropriate use and disposal of face masks may promote the spread of COVID-19 in Bangladesh

[7] Effect of Prolonged Use of Different Facemasks on Their Physical ...

Effect of Prolonged Use of Different Facemasks on Their Physical Performance and Physiological Impact on the Wearer - PMC

Most published studies on potential facemask physical performances and physiological impairments had shorter observation periods, and the observed ...

[8] Is a Mask That Covers the Mouth and Nose Free from Undesirable ...

Is a Mask That Covers the Mouth and Nose Free from Undesirable Side Effects in Everyday Use and Free of Potential Hazards? - PMC

Many countries introduced the requirement to wear masks in public spaces for containing SARS-CoV-2 making it commonplace in 2020. Up until now, the...

[9] Wearing face masks as a potential source for inhalation and oral ... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651323013623 [10] Adverse Effects of Prolonged Mask Use among Healthcare ...

Adverse Effects of Prolonged Mask Use among Healthcare Professionals during COVID-19

In March 2020, New York City encountered its first official case of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019). This novel coronavirus, referred to as SAR...

🛣🚦🏎🚕🏎 I am sorry Lisa , but you are confusing : lawful with ethical & ethical with safe . There is a reason why a driver would want to stay left or avoid a exit blockage on the right as all lanes merge. This city needs roundabouts, especially at the 5 way intersection near the Amazon warehouse in Southern Seattle because of how badly traffic gets clogged by bad stop light tempos . We are not all the lady from Pasadena who is in a hurry to meet the Beach Boys in the after-life . If you want to launch off of the freeway bridge then do it on your own time.

This is a political alignment chart. On the red top left corner of the chart, a wojak activist who is wearing a red star beret panics after witnessing some body being paid to perform labor without free housing as compensation. On the violet bottom right location of the chart , a yellow ribboned top-hat wojak activist panics after a beggar asks wealthy people for un-earned income paid to a unhoused poor man. On the blue top right corner of the alignment chart , a wojak activist wearing a soldier's helmet panics after a witnessing a stranger get identified correctly despite erroneous government documentation demanding a appeal to traditional supernatural re-naming . On the bottom left green corner of the alignment chart , a wojak activist wearing a beret with all sorts of company logos panics after a unleashed refugee agrees to be identified incorrectly by the government while ignoring all other forms of gate-keeping along the way . Even going as far as ignoring bordered boundaries altogether .

I.R.L. LOADING SCREEN GAMER MEME . > " AFTER THE ANNUAL SERVER RESET , TRAINING LOCATIONS BRIEFLY SPAWN MORE N.P.C. ADVENTURERS THAN USUAL".

MOM IS UNREASONABLE _2016 Your neighbors smuggle fireworks in from the tribal reservations who import them from other foreign countries . SO LOUD & ILLEGAL ! Washington state has too few police to demand the high standards they have. California has a similar problem with arsonists & street racing party animals . My mom is throwing a tantrum because I talked to that guy on the phone again. She was spying on my call & hated what she heard from this guy . Ironic how her demands to " set boundaries " apply to every body else except her. I would like to : have friends, be employed , be insured ( with health & car insurance) & live on my own ; but she actively sabotages me from the self regulation necessary to secure those things . She also over estimates what jobs I qualify for ; Which makes it that much more humiliating when I fail . I also have no interest in her African Health-care worker super-model friend. She is kind & pretty but black women disgust me. Also, I do not identify as a Christian. I understand that straightening hair makes people smell like burned hair but I am too sensitive to most scents of burning.

Happy New Year. Hopefully, your peers & neighbors are considerate enough to help you follow through with your goals of temperance . Hell is other people & those people are at war .

This comic is a weaponized war crime. This is not a bad thing . I have said much less & caused my brother to throw a tantrum . See more comics at

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If the image fails to load , here is the dialog : Two characters sing : " any thing you can do I can do better ". One singer is Transgendered, the other is comfortable with their gender identity . The comic concludes with a man interrupting both of them to announce that they are all second class citizens.

THE FEAR OF HELL IS NORMAL This is a valid complaint. Your nerve endings are not your soul , they are attached to a living brain . They stop functioning when the brain does . War is hell , heaven is a prison ; the end goal of cults is to force you to visit some aspect of either in this life time . Yes, that is terrifying . You can not escape it through living or dying . All you can do is be kinder to your neighbor & hope that they can make a effort to return the favor . I also had anxiety but then I went through some documents from Jehovah's witnesses & Judaism where their faith was not built on threats of fire & brimstone . Angels & demons look nothing like the lazy Hollywood portrayals in the 1980's. Youtube memes the biblically accurate meow eye monsters in modern renditions. You eventually realize that King James rewrote so much of the bible that various venues in the bible become re-translated to non-canonical venues that are closer to the Dante's_Inferno fan-fiction than Biblical hell by any definition of the word . This European King did this all to get away with end-less infidelity & murder . Modern translations do not say : " thou shalt not kill " . They discourage murder & only specific types of killing against the state count as murder by their standards . As for the locations re-interpreted as hell, here is the list I remember : [ Ghenna pit , outer darkness , Sheole, the flavorless , wasteland , the sea torrent of James , the Muslim whale of Jonah , the place away from Abraham's , far from God. ] Most of the bible is historical fiction set between the North African floods , the Titus wars , the Alexander wars & a secular post-Roman Muslim ruler ; before it was all rewritten as prophecy & foreshadowing in hind-sight . Think of movie scripts & scriptures. Ask why neither have toilets . [ Lastly ] Even the ( N.D.E. ) near death experiences preached about often ignore the other side of that conversation where people came back from a unpleasant firey heaven or a pleasant hellish paradise. In some instances , they were not in a conventional after-life at all but going through their daily routine . Like they were going through the motions . Not truly living but not dead either . Every thing felt familiar but alien at the same time. Talking to people & supernatural entities from other worlds . Meeting people they would have never known in their life time . All based on whatever whispers your subconscious was able to piece together .

Post partum depression hits hard . You are offered a dream of a beautiful future from a young relative who praises you but later realize how inconvenient that future becomes. Not a grateful child but a loud & feral beast who needs to be taught about how to function as a self regulating human . 👼 A shrieking poop factory with expensively disposable under-wear that will last longer in a land-fill than the person who wore them. It is overwhelming . I understand why a parent would want to avoid becoming a grand-parent after so much pain . 🤰

Police work is difficult. 🚓👮‍♀️👮‍♂️ When it comes to national defense, these new recruits should be working in security & prison transport before walking on the streets in uniform . Random people will lie to your face or look for validation to their nonsensical rants instead of getting to the point. Unfair things happen all of the time & these scenarios are out of your control. You were the government person who was called over to help a business remove a guest who refused to leave before filing all sorts of boring documentation to cover your behind from alleged retaliation . I lack the tact needed to keep my mouth shut when some body is rude to my face . I could not handle being humiliated for performing my job correctly. 🗣 Criminals are in the wrong but they will try to gas-light you into adopting the guilt they were unwilling to carry . These high school bullies were rewarded for bad behavior, they were never taught how to function as self regulating human beings . That is the job of a therapist or a responsible parent .

Chat , are we cooked ? China ate the silk road .

Tofu, cabbage & pinto beans ; are making me fart like crazy . It stank up the microwave before it even touched my mouth . I need to be more careful . There is a time and place for every thing. 🧊🍲🥗 This is divorce-bait .

@Mikewee777 My brother experienced that in special education. His classmates were there to fight, not learn. @Neko_Noir 11:03 PM Nah that doesnt even come close actually. Dont get me wrong, special education is... also pretty bad. But the place I was at treated the "patients" as worse the livestock. Their solution to everything was sedating you forcefully by sticking a needle in your ass and pumping you full of whatever drug worked best and fastest. They did it whenever | had a ptsd attack or even when | just got a little mouthy out of anger or fear . All the rooms were completely visible, like living in a fish tank, including when you went to the bathroom, and the other patients were... well, barely human. Some would straight up smear blood, poop, and any other bodily fluids on their walls and floors, and made sounds that dont belong to human OR animals it was... messed up. The staff scared me I escaped that place far worse then when I went in. They "fixed" me by making me terrified of ever going back. Other kids who were less mentally functional were not so lucky . AS A FOSTER CHILD, I WAS FORCED TO DEAL WITH ALL OF THIS DRAMA BECAUSE I HAD MILD PTSD & ADHD FROM A ABUSIVE HOME.

Not with that attitude. She is not even wearing Jeans in that photo.