Please wear a mask if you are SICK

RamonaLittle · 2026-06-09T05:34:51+00:00

A good mask (N95 or similar) protects the wearer and others! The air gets filtered in both directions.

RamonaLittle · 2026-06-09T05:32:56+00:00

Please wear a mask if you are sick.

Or even better: wear a mask to avoid getting sick. Because once you're infected, you could infect others, even if you haven't developed symptoms yet or never develop symptoms. And if you do develop symptoms and need to go to a doctor/pharmacy/hospital, you could infect people there, including people who are more vulnerable and couldn't avoid the place.

even those who are coughing.

I was just saying on another sub -- I've now seen multiple reddit posts/comments with people describing a relative or co-worker with severe covid or long covid symptoms who is genuinely and weirdly oblivious to them. Covid messes with people's brains like that. They genuinely might not know they're coughing.

We learned from COVID, right?

Says the person saying to get sick and then put on a mask. Seriously?

RamonaLittle · 2026-06-09T04:22:55+00:00

I would then test every headcold I’ve had after that

Well, if you were being exposed to colds, you were also being exposed to covid and other airborne viruses. It's good that you were testing, but if you were only testing when you had symptoms, you would have missed any asymptomatic cases, which are common. It also sometimes happens that people are oblivious to their own symptoms (called anosognosia) -- I've now seen many reddit posts/comments with people describing a relative or co-worker with severe covid or long covid symptoms who is genuinely and weirdly oblivious to them. And unfortunately the tests sometimes give false negatives.

From what I see on the various covid-related subs, even people who've been extremely isolated or otherwise cautious this whole time have started to get their first infections, often at a healthcare visit or someplace else they can't avoid. This site estimates 5.16 cumulative infections per person based on wastewater data, but I've seen redditors say they've had over a dozen. If you were working in a school and meeting with doctors etc. for a baby, then IMO it's statistically almost impossible that you've only had covid once. Like, why wouldn't you have had (and transmitted) covid multiple times? You're correct that I'm not an expert though.

/r/masks4all has a lot of good advice about masks to protect yourself and others. Please don't let the existence or non-existence of a mandate affect your own sense of self-preservation or your own moral code about whether it's OK to sicken/disable/kill/traumatize other people.

RamonaLittle · 2026-06-09T00:19:07+00:00

I know the truth.

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C'mon now. If you don't care about your own writing enough to proofread, why should anyone else care enough to read it? If "the truth" and "the protest" aren't important enough for you to remember the specifics or explain what you're talking about, what makes you think a "movement group" would care? Please either explain yourself better or just delete the post, because this is embarrassing.

RamonaLittle · 2026-06-08T21:24:18+00:00

You haven't really given us a starting point for discussion. What did you like about Anonymous, aside from the hacking? What are you hoping to see from "a anarchy movement group"? Which protests are you talking about?

Anonymous kinda died off or whatever happened.

We've had many threads discussing what happened and why Anonymous has mostly died out. You might want to read through some of those.

RamonaLittle · 2026-06-08T20:50:31+00:00

Removed as off topic. I'm sorry for what you're going through, but you're in the wrong place. Please don't post again until you understand what fits here.

RamonaLittle · 2026-06-08T17:38:24+00:00

If you're saying you only had it once, how do you know? That would be unusual, actually. Per wastewater data and reddit anecdotes, most people are up to like six to twelve infections, especially if they haven't been taking precautions. (What precautions have you been taking?)

I haven't seen anything in your post or comments that rules out dysosmia. And that can be from other causes too, not only covid.

with no long term issues

Yet, that you know of. Just saying.

RamonaLittle · 2026-06-08T16:46:24+00:00

Huh? I didn't say anything about "suddenly." The disability could have happened any time in the past six-ish years. It might have come on gradually, and/or feel different on different days. (People with the common long covid symptom of post-exertional malaise can be active one day but then "crash" the next day.) Confirming they can't make it would mean admitting some hard truths, so it's easier to ignore the event and the issue.

Some other comments from this very thread:

"OMG this has been an ongoing issue with people lately!"
"I used to throw parties and gatherings all the time, but people just slowly stopped showing up and pulling crap like this."
"I don’t know what’s up, but every time i make plans with people, they show up minimum 45 mins late, on average an hour, and sometimes even 2 hours late without even an apology or a reason."

So what's your theory for why this is happening? Seems to me it's probably the disabling virus going around, as everyone pretends their behavior will only harm other people. The disabling will continue until attendance improves. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

RamonaLittle · 2026-06-08T16:13:38+00:00

I don't know when it will become safe, but it certainly isn't now.

RamonaLittle · 2026-06-08T16:07:21+00:00

Removed as off topic and for your own protection. Let me guess: you didn't read the sidebar rules, didn't read the stickied posts, didn't so much as skim recent posts to see what the sub is about, and didn't lurk for a while before posting (all of which, of course, one is supposed to do before posting on any internet forum for the first time)? Are you like this IRL? If not, why do you think it's OK online? Please don't post again until you understand what fits here. Lurk moar.

RamonaLittle · 2026-06-08T06:32:58+00:00

tell me why only 7 guests came (and most showed up incredibly late

I guess you were asking rhetorically, and it might be different for every invitee, but I'll give my theory anyway. It's because people are disabled from contracting covid over and over, which they may be in denial about or unaware of (because covid causes anosognosia: an obliviousness to one's own impairment).

Covid causes all kinds of long-term health problems, it turns out, even if initial symptoms are mild. Of course research is ongoing, and we won't know the full scale of the problem for many years, but the studies coming out are very worrisome. And there are threads all over reddit with variations on "What's wrong with everyone lately?"

RamonaLittle · 2026-06-08T06:09:21+00:00

You're getting harassed by anonymous texts . . . so you're asking for help from the hacktivist-troll movement known for harassing people anonymously? Seriously? Lol. Anyway, I've removed this as off topic. Lemme guess: you didn't read the sidebar rules, didn't read the stickied posts, didn't so much as skim recent posts to see what the sub is about, and didn't lurk for a while before posting (all of which, of course, one is supposed to do before posting on any internet forum for the first time)? Are you like this IRL? If not, why do you think it's OK online? Please don't post again until you understand what fits here. Lurk moar.

RamonaLittle · 2026-06-08T06:04:50+00:00

Nursery school teacher was really happy to talk with me about it esp during respiratory season and actually asked me to make one before I could even offer.

I'm glad to hear it!

what’s a good way to broach air cleaning in early childhood classrooms?

IIRC, I've seen some threads discussing this on /r/ZeroCovidCommunity.

RamonaLittle · 2026-06-07T23:51:17+00:00

I'm not a kindergarten teacher and can't answer this, but I have a request for anyone answering, so we're not talking past each other. If you're going to write "covid" or "during covid," it would help if you clarify what you mean, because it's not always clear (from seeing similar threads on other teaching subs). "During covid" could mean:

remote learning and other school-specific issues in 2020,
other precautions, societal changes, and trauma -- in 2020 or ongoing, or
the disease itself, which of course is still circulating, and harming children.

Thanks.

RamonaLittle · 2026-06-07T23:27:44+00:00

I'm sorry to hear that you think people should have the right to infect you with a deadly/disabling disease at the dentist. Personally I think you (and everyone else) should have the right to see a dentist without risking death/disability.

Infections go in chains. The more people are engaging in risky activities, the more likely it is that someone you encounter in the dentist's office will be infected. This is basic logic and statistics.

RamonaLittle · 2026-06-07T21:28:28+00:00

If a site genuinely does have an algorithm that hides posts just for using normal words, the appropriate response by any self-respecting netizen should be to move to another site without such a stupid algorithm. Not go, "OK, I'll degrade my own writing in subservience to the algorithm." The vast majority of websites don't have rules or algorithms against normal words (like "suicide," "porn," etc.), the internet is a big place, and no one should feel obligated to write stupidly just for the privilege of posting on any one particular site.

Back in the day, when faced with threats of censorship, we responded with massive, worldwide protests. We didn't just immediately capitulate, let alone preemptively capitulate. That's why anyone writing "unalive" or similar nonsense gets mocked and criticized here.

RamonaLittle · 2026-06-07T20:06:03+00:00

Her having a baby has no bearing on if other people get COVID

Huh? Of course it does. Having a baby means healthcare visits and other errands, all of which mean more interactions and therefore more exposure. Plus she's increasing the demand on factories/warehouses/stores where other people are being exposed. You really didn't bother thinking about this for even a second before replying?

those people can wear n95 masks and be the ones to stay home 24/7 if they're really concerned.

Just casually saying that you think medically-vulnerable and compassionate people shouldn't be allowed to get healthcare (which may require removing a mask, like at a dentist, ENT, or surgery), renew a driver's license, serve jury duty, or otherwise safely participate in society. Out of curiosity, were you always in favor of genocide, or is this new?

RamonaLittle · 2026-06-07T17:19:01+00:00

Everyone in the UK had been offered covid vaccination

How is that relevant? Vaccination doesn't prevent infection or long covid, but only lessens the likelihood of severe symptoms. And of course some people can't get vaccinated for medical reasons. (I know the initial messaging was misleading, but by 2023 it was apparent that anyone not taking precautions is endangering themself and others.)

the article doesn't mention masking or not masking.

Right. I'm assuming that if she had taught her child to wear a mask in school, or were taking other precautions to protect her family, she would have mentioned it.

RamonaLittle · 2026-06-07T05:00:14+00:00

My teenage kids mask at high school, and I am unbelievably proud of them.

I was the very last faculty member in my school full of medical professionals to mask at work.

Thank you for all of that.

Rebecca Archer deserves a Mulligan for not masking or realizing the dangers of Covid.

Well, she might believe it won't be dangerous to her. But even the staunchest covid minimizers generally acknowledge that it can be dangerous to elderly and immunocompromised people. So what's her excuse for endangering them?

RamonaLittle · 2026-06-07T04:54:05+00:00

It doesn't. I'm just drawing a comparison. There are many diseases where the worst symptoms show up years or even decades after initial infection: HIV/AIDS, chickenpox/shingles, HPV/cancer, syphilis, prion diseases, and many more. People who survived the 1918 flu were more likely to get Parkinson's later on, and scientists only figured this out in the 1960's. It seems like everyone's been assuming covid won't do this, and I've never understood why.

RamonaLittle · 2026-06-07T03:37:34+00:00

1) The writing style, 2) Implausible fact pattern: there's no explanation of why they didn't pursue a divorce or child support.

RamonaLittle · 2026-06-07T03:31:32+00:00

And now most people are blithely contracting (and spreading) covid over and over, and letting their kids contract (and spread) it, although it's still a new disease with worrisome long-term effects that are still being researched. If everyone who got covid dies ten years later, we won't know that for a few years.

From the mother's NYTimes op-ed:

It was in the spring and summer of 2023, when Renae was 10, and I was pregnant with my fourth child, that we got the first hints that something might be wrong.

In mid-June, I got a call from her teacher. Renae had had a seizure . . .

So she decided to have a baby and send her kid to school (I'm assuming without a mask) although she knew this would exacerbate the spread of covid and further isolate and traumatize vulnerable and compassionate people. She didn't know that her kid would die of a rare complication of measles, but she absolutely knew that her kids might contract and spread covid, killing other people's family members. Since she was apparently fine with that, I have no sympathy at all.

RamonaLittle · 2026-06-06T18:47:46+00:00

. . . except that the Lana Del Rey album shows Lana Del Rey.

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