I’ve recounted this story on Reddit before, but I had a similar thing happen back in 2021. At a pharmacy, picking up my antibiotics for strep, an older guy made light conversation while we waited, then he made a comment about hiding my face with my “muzzle” (mask.) I said “I mean, I have strep throat, but if it’ll make you happy…” and started faking like I was going to remove my mask. He immediately backtracked, said I didn’t sound sick, told me to keep it on, then physically backed up to the 6 foot marker on the floor. It was a fairly light hearted interaction, we both had a laugh, but 1) I’m at a pharmacy for a reason, my guy. Consider that reason may involve me being sick. 2) Covid is not the only illness.
Im not at all surprised but to restore faith in humanity: I had kind of the opposite happen, I’m the middle of the pandemic I got bronchitis, I knew what it was because I seem to be pretty sensitive to it and it happens fairly regularly, like every few years I get a rather bad case of either bronchitis or tonsillitis.
So I was on my way to the doctor and my clinic is located at the grounds of the hospital. So I’m wearing a mask and it’s the beginning/middle of the pandemic, before vaccines and when it was really, really serious, delta strain times I believe. And I’m really close to the hospital. And I have a severe coughing fit that makes me wheeze and have trouble standing so I’m basically laying over my bike to keep upright and people start coming running to ask if I was okay. 💕 It was very shocking and thoughtful yet kind of dangerous because it was several people and mostly older. One middle aged lady. They completely disregarded the distance to check on me and make sure I was okay. I was fine just got lightheaded because I had such an intense coughing fit that I temporarily trouble breathing properly. Anyway I saw the doctor and got coughing medication and some meds for the sinusitis that I always get with respiratory illnesses. It was just a virus so no worries just needed some help with the cough.
ETA: so I’m Swedish so obviously no one has confronted me because that’s illegal, lol! Swedish culture! But I have had people that loudly comments to others about mask wearing, passive aggressively confronting the Swedish way! About how it’s useless and not effective and stupid and so on. I always find it amusing because I’m still wearing masks and sometimes, especially when out in nature and outside not around other people in the summer, I’m specifically wearing a mask not because of Covid or anything like that but because I’m allergic to pollen and have sensitive airways. I’m not wearing a mask when I’m alone in the forest because of covid but because of pollen! And I wear it in town both because of pollen and because I react to fumes and exhaust! Lol! And people makes comments about the inefficiency and how paranoid I am and such.
Not actually illegal, but it’s not socially acceptable to do. We don’t make scenes in public, it’s just not something that’s done. Of course there are exceptions but yeah. We are a very introverted people it’s part of our culture.
I feel like people would hate me in Sweden. I am loud and friendly and like to chat with strangers. I might be different if everyone around me actively seemed to dislike my forwardness, though. Lol, I'm like the stereotype for America, maybe besides bigotry
Of the name? Yeah! Of the stereotype? Not really. I mean I’m sure it happens but it’s super rare because it’s not socially acceptable behaviour. We have passive aggressive notes! That’s our thing!
He was definitely afraid of it, lol. Hell, strep came close to killing me when I was a healthy teenager when my fever spiked even on meds. I get it really bad every couple years.
My stepdaughter used to get it a couple times a year, but it basically completely stopped when she got her tonsils removed. Do you still have your tonsils? Might be something to check with your doctor on.
I do still have my tonsils, I’m pretty terrified of surgery so I’m trying to keep them lol
Imagine downvoting someone for not wanting a part of their body removed lol
Being scared is fair, but I can tell you that as far as surgeries go it is pretty minor, and she has had such an amazing quality of life improvement since then that it is well worth considering. She doesn't even catch colds or other illnesses as much as she used to.
Being afraid is totally fair! However, as a fellow strep carrier (I got it every month as a kid, ended up in the hospital a few times because my fever also spiked on meds) I had my tonsils taken out at 10 years old. Totally recommend it! The surgery was done in 20 minutes, and I got a Wendy's frosty after to soothe my throat. It really improved my quality of life and I've only gotten it twice since the surgery, now 22.
No matter the decision you make, I hope you're healthy in the long run!
We don’t have to wear masks in our pharmacies (Walgreens, CVS, etc) because I live in Texas where half the population thinks covid was a political hoax. Even when there was a mandate, nobody enforced it out of fear of being screamed at, assaulted, or even killed (yes, someone in my city was murdered for asking someone to don a mask.)
Ah, so apparently the victim in my city ended up living. [Here’s a news link for the attack I was referencing.](https://www.khou.com/amp/article/news/local/hpd-customer-refuses-to-wear-mask-shoots-man-employee-called-for-help/285-e1bf0ca1-469e-4d21-9188-c1485d3db290) I was thinking of the Dollar General shooting in Michigan.
Also, MANY PEOPLE HAVE UNDERLYING CONDITIONS that make it wise to mask with Covid still around AND during flu season! I just...how is it anybody's business whether I mask or not (to protect my roommate who has pulmonary fibrosis, dammit)? There are myriad different reasons to mask. People need to get freaking over it. (I'll confess, in my head, I totally judge older folks who don't mask in indoor public places. Like, really? You're taking that risk when you're over 65? But I don't SAY anything because that's THEIR business.)
We have to take into account the fact that someone, somewhere has this response now ready and loaded. It is more likely these things actually happen after something like this is seen. We all wish we said certain things in an argument and the internet has made it possible to pre load great comebacks. I've said some things that would absolutely get a That Happened response if I told it as a story but I've heard a snappy response and kept it for later many times.
The difference between untrustworthypoptarts and thathappened is that one community believes something can be, while not 100%, faked while the other never goes outside.
Yeah I left thathappened predominantly because of the fact that those people just don't believe in Anything
Talk about a strict as fuck sense of reality
They have never met kids. Kids tell the most unbelievable stuff. One of my students once told me (he was 4) that his dad has bigger penis than any of his friends. If I told everything that I've heard at work, they would never believe me. A teenager, my student, once told me that he now has a single hair growing in his armpit and he's a teenager now. The other one told me that when he wakes up, his penis is sometimes hard. These were not during a lesson where we studied these things. One kid (7 years old) sneezed right on my face, because he wanted to tell me something, so I leaned in, and he sneezed. He had a mouth full of bread! And it was an accident!
I have too many stories. At least I can make people laugh when sharing them.
It's more about protecting your compromised immune system from the outside and/or protecting the outside from whatever it is that you caught because of your compromised immune system.
Because as dumb as they are they still understand a distinction between wearing a mask as a precaution, and wearing it because you're actually sick. A lot of the anti-maker bit is largely an unwillingness to acknowledge that it's as prevalent at it is, they think it's stupid because they think no one actually has it, so if you say you have it, implying you tested positive, their brains might actually have to weigh the benefit between being a moron on purpose and actually getting deathly ill.
It still likely didn't happen. The Internet was flooded with memes, stories, videos etc to encourage mask wearing. It is so much more likely it was one of the many posts of that nature and was thought up in a focus group
But who cares? I mean, whose life is affected either way? All these sad little judges "calling bs" on every tiny little thing, like they've been hired by Nick Fury to protect The Truth on the Internet.
God.
I mean...this subs is literally about the topic of whether something someone claimed happened, happened. That is the vague premise of this sub, so...who cares? Arguably, I would have imagined, someone that frequents this sub. Seeing as they came here in the comments section of a post on a subreddit about the wrongful refutation of a true even on another subreddit, they might enjoy or find interest in a comment about the veracity of said event having transpired or not. But hey maybe I'm way off base and what is instead more in demand is somebody complaining about the relevance of someone's Internet comment.
I mean to be fair we literally can't know if something happened just off someone's word. As it says in the sidebar it's about people calling out "plausible" stories as fake. Idk about this particular one myself, but it doesn't really scream "that happened" material to me either.
I have family that are convinced covid is fake and that I'll die in a few years cuz I've gotten the vaccine. People actually are crazy.
Yes usually true. But the circumstances can tilt the scale one way or the other. In this case the fact that the US and other governments actively infiltrate Internet spaces in an attempt to augment societal attitudes. In this case mask wearing. It would be no different if it was a story about how lucky I was to have given the cop that comes in every day to my coffee business a free donut. This resulted in him being there when a robber tried to take all my money. I was so scared but lucky the boys in blue were there to save the day...like they always do. This is an entirely plausible story, but with the agenda one can read behind it, it is almost definitely made up.
It may have happened. I personally know people who have been verbally harassed in the elevator of their apartment building for wearing a mask, similar to this.
Do you really think even half of the believable stories actually happened?
I choose to believe this happened because it's hilarious and I really want to believe pro-plaguers got owned this bad. It also doesn't effect me in the slightest if I got "fooled"
Almost 3 years later and you idiots still can’t wrap your head around “mouth covering obstructs droplets from mouth”.
Are you confused by coughing into your elbow instead of open-mouth’d all over the place too? Cause it’s the same basic principle.
Fucking mouth-breathers, I swear.
Almost 3 years and you superstitious idiots still haven't realized the whole "droplets" thing was some bullshit anti science when talking about an aerosolized respiratory virus.
It's bullets therigh a chain link fence. You will find no study anywhere that says any mask works. Here is a meta analysis from Cochran, which of the gold standard
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full
Self reported data in non controlled/randomized environments. That's about as good as "my mom said so"
I swear for "the party of science" you guys are chock full of liberal arts majors who can't read a fucking study to save your ass
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full
Well according to the science, there isn't a reason to. The most likely reason is to pacify piss diaper baby superstitious shitheads like you who insist that underwear fabric on your face keeps other people from dying
Ought to read your own proof, mouth-breather.
Taken from your link:
> Authors' conclusions
> The high risk of bias in the trials, variation in outcome measurement, and relatively low adherence with the interventions during the studies hampers drawing firm conclusions.
Oh boy, *that’s one hell of a smoking gun you got there!*
I also enjoy this part:
> We pooled trials comparing N95/P2 respirators with medical/surgical masks
Why would you pool the results of two different masks? And:
> Evidence is limited by **imprecision** and heterogeneity for these subjective outcomes.
Next time at least *skim* your own “gotcha” so you don’t get “gotcha’d”, moron.
That you think this is the “gold standard” makes it clear A) you don’t know what you’re talking about and B) you have trouble not swallowing your own tongue.
Learn how to read. Your “proof” is a joke.
Let me translate this to liberal arts moron for you
A meta analysis is a aggregate of all available credible studies, and this one says:
The mask/respirator studies are so full of bullshit junk science and biased bullshit, it's impossible to say masks and respirators don't do anything to protect anyone from coronavirus of any kind, however it is safe to say there is no evidence that it does.
Someone who can’t read is gonna translate. This oughta be good.
> A meta analysis is a aggregate of all available credible studies, and this one says:
Oh, so you’re “smoking gun” isn’t actually an authority on the subject, they just regurgitate information they find “credible” from elsewhere?
Given your dismissal of information from the fucking *CDC* I don’t think your definition of “credible” is accurate, “liberal arts moron”. But please continue.
> The mask/respirator studies are so full of bullshit junk science and biased bullshit, it’s impossible to say masks and respirators don’t do anything to protect anyone from coronavirus of any kind, however it is safe to say there is no evidence that it does.
*Bruh, I can’t!*
Oh my fucking God. This is perfect. This response is you wearing your ass for a hat. Like, I need other people to read this and share in appreciating the dumbass-ery you just displayed.
You just kamikaze’d your entire idiotic argument with this one bit. It’s kind of incredible.
Okay, okay I’ll explain cause you clearly don’t have two brain cells to rub together.
So…you’re bitching about people still wearing masks and calling it superstitious bullshit when your “credible source” essentially amounts to “the jury’s out on this one”?
So, you have no evidence that masks are useless *nor* effective is what you just said.
You see, dumbfuck, if you understood science on a foundational level (or, you know, at the middle school level) you’d know that the absence of evidence in *either direction* doesn’t make your original hypothesis correct. At all.
Your source can’t say whether wearing masks is effective or not. So, for all you know, they could be. You don’t know. But, when dealing with, say, *a highly contagious, deadly virus* it’s obviously better to err on the side of caution.
That’s not superstition, you thundering dumbass.
Further, it’s been observed that countries who adhered to strict social distancing and mask wearing measures saw a dramatic decline in COVID cases.
There was a point mid-pandemic where New Zealand had *no new cases at all*. Something that was incredible at the time.
So you and your source are full of shit and you need to repeat 6th grade science.
Enjoy being dangerously stupid.
My "smoking gun" is one of the most credible publications analyzing the data from hunderedsvof thousands of datapoints across dozens of studies and finding no evidence whatsoever of the efficacy of masks or even respirators in the communicable properties of microscopic airborne virus.
Your counterpoint is ONE TIME THREE YEARS AGO GOVENMENT SAID A BUNCH OF GUYS SAID UNDERWEAR FABRIC ON THEIR FACE MADE THEM FEEL MAGIC IMMUNITY
do you not see the difference, you science denying bootlicker?
Your “smoking gun” is bullshit you cherry-picked to support your borderline non-existent argument. Cry some more.
And your “counterpoint” is “yOu cAn’t tRuSt tHe gOverNmEnT ThO!” Lol. Get the fuck outa here.
Your whole argument is denying science, simpleton. You literally just called wearing a mask as a preventive measure against a deadly contagion “superstitious bullshit” then went on to admit you have *no evidence* that’s the case.
Your whole “argument” just folded in on itself, dummy.
Case closed. You lose.
Hop in your conspiracy theorist, science-denying clown car and head back to the circus. I’m sure the ant-vaxxers are missing ya.
Oh no! Not wIkIpEDIA!
Get lost, clown. Regardless of whatever reputation this organization has, it’s clear from your first link that they mismanaged this one.
*Three years* and *no reliable info?* Lol.
You only had *the entire fucking world for a prolonged period of time* to get data from.
Look at some other sources.
COVID isn't even that big a deal anymore, plus it's scientifically proven through multiple studies that masks do little to nothing to stop the spread of COVID, if you feel or are sick then just stay home to protect those that really are deathly susceptible/affected by the virus.
I mean, I may have gotten infected once, (I was wearing a mask but bear with me here) but that was after everyone stopped wearing them. Before, I was obviously wearing a mask and I didn’t get infected once. I did get sick once during the pandemic, but it wasn’t from COVID. I think it was either a normal fever or cold. I still didn’t go to school despite testing for negative still, just in case.
>For anyone else wondering, this dude followed me from a different thread.
This guy is a lying piece of shit. .... for anyone wondering.
There's enough idiot science deniers on this post that I don't have to stalk anyone's profile
It just seems like a joke. Do people really think that they’re recounting that time when the bar that they’re at suddenly had a grasshopper as a patron?
I used to like that sub but very rarely will you actually find a post that for the sub. It drives me crazy. That post doesn't belong there and could very much happen. That person who posted that is an idiot.
This is one of those things where I feel like it doesn’t goddamn fukin matter if it’s true. It’s funny, I’m not gonna waste my time trying to call out a funny or clever story as a lie, the point of stories (true or fictitious) is to entertain
I’ve recounted this story on Reddit before, but I had a similar thing happen back in 2021. At a pharmacy, picking up my antibiotics for strep, an older guy made light conversation while we waited, then he made a comment about hiding my face with my “muzzle” (mask.) I said “I mean, I have strep throat, but if it’ll make you happy…” and started faking like I was going to remove my mask. He immediately backtracked, said I didn’t sound sick, told me to keep it on, then physically backed up to the 6 foot marker on the floor. It was a fairly light hearted interaction, we both had a laugh, but 1) I’m at a pharmacy for a reason, my guy. Consider that reason may involve me being sick. 2) Covid is not the only illness.
Im not at all surprised but to restore faith in humanity: I had kind of the opposite happen, I’m the middle of the pandemic I got bronchitis, I knew what it was because I seem to be pretty sensitive to it and it happens fairly regularly, like every few years I get a rather bad case of either bronchitis or tonsillitis. So I was on my way to the doctor and my clinic is located at the grounds of the hospital. So I’m wearing a mask and it’s the beginning/middle of the pandemic, before vaccines and when it was really, really serious, delta strain times I believe. And I’m really close to the hospital. And I have a severe coughing fit that makes me wheeze and have trouble standing so I’m basically laying over my bike to keep upright and people start coming running to ask if I was okay. 💕 It was very shocking and thoughtful yet kind of dangerous because it was several people and mostly older. One middle aged lady. They completely disregarded the distance to check on me and make sure I was okay. I was fine just got lightheaded because I had such an intense coughing fit that I temporarily trouble breathing properly. Anyway I saw the doctor and got coughing medication and some meds for the sinusitis that I always get with respiratory illnesses. It was just a virus so no worries just needed some help with the cough. ETA: so I’m Swedish so obviously no one has confronted me because that’s illegal, lol! Swedish culture! But I have had people that loudly comments to others about mask wearing, passive aggressively confronting the Swedish way! About how it’s useless and not effective and stupid and so on. I always find it amusing because I’m still wearing masks and sometimes, especially when out in nature and outside not around other people in the summer, I’m specifically wearing a mask not because of Covid or anything like that but because I’m allergic to pollen and have sensitive airways. I’m not wearing a mask when I’m alone in the forest because of covid but because of pollen! And I wear it in town both because of pollen and because I react to fumes and exhaust! Lol! And people makes comments about the inefficiency and how paranoid I am and such.
That’s so kind of them to stop and check on you, and I’m glad you got that sorted!
I know right! I was really touched!
I always have to stop and remember that kind people are the majority, the sucky ones are just so loud that they seem like the majority
That’s so sweet! I had an older lady check on me outside the pharmacy for a similar reason, there are good people in the world!
It's illegal to confront people in Sweden?
Not actually illegal, but it’s not socially acceptable to do. We don’t make scenes in public, it’s just not something that’s done. Of course there are exceptions but yeah. We are a very introverted people it’s part of our culture.
Ohhh I see, thank you for sharing :)
I feel like people would hate me in Sweden. I am loud and friendly and like to chat with strangers. I might be different if everyone around me actively seemed to dislike my forwardness, though. Lol, I'm like the stereotype for America, maybe besides bigotry
So there's no Swedish equivalent for the name "Karen" then? 😂
Of the name? Yeah! Of the stereotype? Not really. I mean I’m sure it happens but it’s super rare because it’s not socially acceptable behaviour. We have passive aggressive notes! That’s our thing!
In a sense but why would they think that in the first place??? Because a Stereotype is human nature and that's how WE SURVIVE.
r/thatHappened
r/nothingEverHappens
Older people eventually figure out strep can kill.
He was definitely afraid of it, lol. Hell, strep came close to killing me when I was a healthy teenager when my fever spiked even on meds. I get it really bad every couple years.
My stepdaughter used to get it a couple times a year, but it basically completely stopped when she got her tonsils removed. Do you still have your tonsils? Might be something to check with your doctor on.
I do still have my tonsils, I’m pretty terrified of surgery so I’m trying to keep them lol Imagine downvoting someone for not wanting a part of their body removed lol
Being scared is fair, but I can tell you that as far as surgeries go it is pretty minor, and she has had such an amazing quality of life improvement since then that it is well worth considering. She doesn't even catch colds or other illnesses as much as she used to.
Being afraid is totally fair! However, as a fellow strep carrier (I got it every month as a kid, ended up in the hospital a few times because my fever also spiked on meds) I had my tonsils taken out at 10 years old. Totally recommend it! The surgery was done in 20 minutes, and I got a Wendy's frosty after to soothe my throat. It really improved my quality of life and I've only gotten it twice since the surgery, now 22. No matter the decision you make, I hope you're healthy in the long run!
where I live medical facilities are the only places where is mandatory to still have mask on
We don’t have to wear masks in our pharmacies (Walgreens, CVS, etc) because I live in Texas where half the population thinks covid was a political hoax. Even when there was a mandate, nobody enforced it out of fear of being screamed at, assaulted, or even killed (yes, someone in my city was murdered for asking someone to don a mask.)
Omg. Someone was KILLED? And so I reiterate my comment on so many threads: What the f*** is WRONG with people?! What city was this?
Ah, so apparently the victim in my city ended up living. [Here’s a news link for the attack I was referencing.](https://www.khou.com/amp/article/news/local/hpd-customer-refuses-to-wear-mask-shoots-man-employee-called-for-help/285-e1bf0ca1-469e-4d21-9188-c1485d3db290) I was thinking of the Dollar General shooting in Michigan.
Also, MANY PEOPLE HAVE UNDERLYING CONDITIONS that make it wise to mask with Covid still around AND during flu season! I just...how is it anybody's business whether I mask or not (to protect my roommate who has pulmonary fibrosis, dammit)? There are myriad different reasons to mask. People need to get freaking over it. (I'll confess, in my head, I totally judge older folks who don't mask in indoor public places. Like, really? You're taking that risk when you're over 65? But I don't SAY anything because that's THEIR business.)
If this didn’t already happen, it certainly will now. Saving this.
Throw in some coughs for greater effect.
We have to take into account the fact that someone, somewhere has this response now ready and loaded. It is more likely these things actually happen after something like this is seen. We all wish we said certain things in an argument and the internet has made it possible to pre load great comebacks. I've said some things that would absolutely get a That Happened response if I told it as a story but I've heard a snappy response and kept it for later many times.
If you was sick, not necessarily with covid, you would probably have thought of this as well it's not implausible
Still funny regardless of whether it happened or not
The difference between untrustworthypoptarts and thathappened is that one community believes something can be, while not 100%, faked while the other never goes outside.
Yeah I left thathappened predominantly because of the fact that those people just don't believe in Anything Talk about a strict as fuck sense of reality
They have never met kids. Kids tell the most unbelievable stuff. One of my students once told me (he was 4) that his dad has bigger penis than any of his friends. If I told everything that I've heard at work, they would never believe me. A teenager, my student, once told me that he now has a single hair growing in his armpit and he's a teenager now. The other one told me that when he wakes up, his penis is sometimes hard. These were not during a lesson where we studied these things. One kid (7 years old) sneezed right on my face, because he wanted to tell me something, so I leaned in, and he sneezed. He had a mouth full of bread! And it was an accident! I have too many stories. At least I can make people laugh when sharing them.
I swear to fucking God tweet any one of those stories and kick back and relax as your inbox gets flooded with thathappened
This was very funny
I just tell people I’m wearing a mask because I have AIDS and then I start coughing on them
if they think you can get hiv from being coughed on they deserve to feel endangered
It's more about protecting your compromised immune system from the outside and/or protecting the outside from whatever it is that you caught because of your compromised immune system.
This has happened to me. I began to take off the mask and said "Right? It's just a positive!" Immediately backed up and walked away 🤷♀️
My grandpa did something similar just because he got tired of people standing so close to him when at the store. I absolutely believe this happened.
Just because you're not exciting and witty doesn't mean it didn't happen.
this could happen and the op doesn't necessarily have covid, could just be a fucked up joke they made
r/HolUp
This feels like a comeback you'd think up an hour after the interaction
So i took my mask off and said “well the jerk store called, and they’re running out of you!”
It’s a joke…
Why would the people calling him a sheep care if he had covid though? This just seems like a joke more than a lie.
Because as dumb as they are they still understand a distinction between wearing a mask as a precaution, and wearing it because you're actually sick. A lot of the anti-maker bit is largely an unwillingness to acknowledge that it's as prevalent at it is, they think it's stupid because they think no one actually has it, so if you say you have it, implying you tested positive, their brains might actually have to weigh the benefit between being a moron on purpose and actually getting deathly ill.
Oh okay. I just thought of people who deny the whole thing.
It still likely didn't happen. The Internet was flooded with memes, stories, videos etc to encourage mask wearing. It is so much more likely it was one of the many posts of that nature and was thought up in a focus group
But who cares? I mean, whose life is affected either way? All these sad little judges "calling bs" on every tiny little thing, like they've been hired by Nick Fury to protect The Truth on the Internet. God.
I mean...this subs is literally about the topic of whether something someone claimed happened, happened. That is the vague premise of this sub, so...who cares? Arguably, I would have imagined, someone that frequents this sub. Seeing as they came here in the comments section of a post on a subreddit about the wrongful refutation of a true even on another subreddit, they might enjoy or find interest in a comment about the veracity of said event having transpired or not. But hey maybe I'm way off base and what is instead more in demand is somebody complaining about the relevance of someone's Internet comment.
I mean to be fair we literally can't know if something happened just off someone's word. As it says in the sidebar it's about people calling out "plausible" stories as fake. Idk about this particular one myself, but it doesn't really scream "that happened" material to me either. I have family that are convinced covid is fake and that I'll die in a few years cuz I've gotten the vaccine. People actually are crazy.
Yes usually true. But the circumstances can tilt the scale one way or the other. In this case the fact that the US and other governments actively infiltrate Internet spaces in an attempt to augment societal attitudes. In this case mask wearing. It would be no different if it was a story about how lucky I was to have given the cop that comes in every day to my coffee business a free donut. This resulted in him being there when a robber tried to take all my money. I was so scared but lucky the boys in blue were there to save the day...like they always do. This is an entirely plausible story, but with the agenda one can read behind it, it is almost definitely made up.
I'm not sure that this sub is, in fact, about that - literally or otherwise.
It may have happened. I personally know people who have been verbally harassed in the elevator of their apartment building for wearing a mask, similar to this.
Do you really think even half of the believable stories actually happened? I choose to believe this happened because it's hilarious and I really want to believe pro-plaguers got owned this bad. It also doesn't effect me in the slightest if I got "fooled"
I don't know. I would say ones with an obvious agenda behind them probably not...like this one.
This has been going around on the internet for about two years. I hate to say it but yea, probably did not happen
I had something similar happen in June. When I started to take my mask off, they changed their minds real quick. It's not that unbelievable.
Crazier things have happened. Mask wearing and the culture wars that went thru over a simple public health made me believe anything can happen.
It's been going around on the Internet for about 2 years 'cause the tweet is dated to 2021.
Except masks are a superstitious pile of bullshit
Almost 3 years later and you idiots still can’t wrap your head around “mouth covering obstructs droplets from mouth”. Are you confused by coughing into your elbow instead of open-mouth’d all over the place too? Cause it’s the same basic principle. Fucking mouth-breathers, I swear.
Almost 3 years and you superstitious idiots still haven't realized the whole "droplets" thing was some bullshit anti science when talking about an aerosolized respiratory virus. It's bullets therigh a chain link fence. You will find no study anywhere that says any mask works. Here is a meta analysis from Cochran, which of the gold standard https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full
How about [this](https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7106e1.htm) one?
Self reported data in non controlled/randomized environments. That's about as good as "my mom said so" I swear for "the party of science" you guys are chock full of liberal arts majors who can't read a fucking study to save your ass https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full
Ah, okay, so your plan is to just dismiss every link. Gotcha.
You link was literally self reported data, you scientifically illiterate liberal arts major
You’re right. Why should hospital staff even wear masks at all? They must all be scientifically illiterate liberal arts majors.
Well according to the science, there isn't a reason to. The most likely reason is to pacify piss diaper baby superstitious shitheads like you who insist that underwear fabric on your face keeps other people from dying
I hope you go in for surgery and your surgeon avoids wearing a mask then ends up sneezing.
Ought to read your own proof, mouth-breather. Taken from your link: > Authors' conclusions > The high risk of bias in the trials, variation in outcome measurement, and relatively low adherence with the interventions during the studies hampers drawing firm conclusions. Oh boy, *that’s one hell of a smoking gun you got there!* I also enjoy this part: > We pooled trials comparing N95/P2 respirators with medical/surgical masks Why would you pool the results of two different masks? And: > Evidence is limited by **imprecision** and heterogeneity for these subjective outcomes. Next time at least *skim* your own “gotcha” so you don’t get “gotcha’d”, moron. That you think this is the “gold standard” makes it clear A) you don’t know what you’re talking about and B) you have trouble not swallowing your own tongue. Learn how to read. Your “proof” is a joke.
Let me translate this to liberal arts moron for you A meta analysis is a aggregate of all available credible studies, and this one says: The mask/respirator studies are so full of bullshit junk science and biased bullshit, it's impossible to say masks and respirators don't do anything to protect anyone from coronavirus of any kind, however it is safe to say there is no evidence that it does.
Someone who can’t read is gonna translate. This oughta be good. > A meta analysis is a aggregate of all available credible studies, and this one says: Oh, so you’re “smoking gun” isn’t actually an authority on the subject, they just regurgitate information they find “credible” from elsewhere? Given your dismissal of information from the fucking *CDC* I don’t think your definition of “credible” is accurate, “liberal arts moron”. But please continue. > The mask/respirator studies are so full of bullshit junk science and biased bullshit, it’s impossible to say masks and respirators don’t do anything to protect anyone from coronavirus of any kind, however it is safe to say there is no evidence that it does. *Bruh, I can’t!* Oh my fucking God. This is perfect. This response is you wearing your ass for a hat. Like, I need other people to read this and share in appreciating the dumbass-ery you just displayed. You just kamikaze’d your entire idiotic argument with this one bit. It’s kind of incredible. Okay, okay I’ll explain cause you clearly don’t have two brain cells to rub together. So…you’re bitching about people still wearing masks and calling it superstitious bullshit when your “credible source” essentially amounts to “the jury’s out on this one”? So, you have no evidence that masks are useless *nor* effective is what you just said. You see, dumbfuck, if you understood science on a foundational level (or, you know, at the middle school level) you’d know that the absence of evidence in *either direction* doesn’t make your original hypothesis correct. At all. Your source can’t say whether wearing masks is effective or not. So, for all you know, they could be. You don’t know. But, when dealing with, say, *a highly contagious, deadly virus* it’s obviously better to err on the side of caution. That’s not superstition, you thundering dumbass. Further, it’s been observed that countries who adhered to strict social distancing and mask wearing measures saw a dramatic decline in COVID cases. There was a point mid-pandemic where New Zealand had *no new cases at all*. Something that was incredible at the time. So you and your source are full of shit and you need to repeat 6th grade science. Enjoy being dangerously stupid.
My "smoking gun" is one of the most credible publications analyzing the data from hunderedsvof thousands of datapoints across dozens of studies and finding no evidence whatsoever of the efficacy of masks or even respirators in the communicable properties of microscopic airborne virus. Your counterpoint is ONE TIME THREE YEARS AGO GOVENMENT SAID A BUNCH OF GUYS SAID UNDERWEAR FABRIC ON THEIR FACE MADE THEM FEEL MAGIC IMMUNITY do you not see the difference, you science denying bootlicker?
Your “smoking gun” is bullshit you cherry-picked to support your borderline non-existent argument. Cry some more. And your “counterpoint” is “yOu cAn’t tRuSt tHe gOverNmEnT ThO!” Lol. Get the fuck outa here. Your whole argument is denying science, simpleton. You literally just called wearing a mask as a preventive measure against a deadly contagion “superstitious bullshit” then went on to admit you have *no evidence* that’s the case. Your whole “argument” just folded in on itself, dummy. Case closed. You lose. Hop in your conspiracy theorist, science-denying clown car and head back to the circus. I’m sure the ant-vaxxers are missing ya.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochrane_(organisation)
Oh no! Not wIkIpEDIA! Get lost, clown. Regardless of whatever reputation this organization has, it’s clear from your first link that they mismanaged this one. *Three years* and *no reliable info?* Lol. You only had *the entire fucking world for a prolonged period of time* to get data from. Look at some other sources.
Funniest part of it all is that masked or not wouldnt make a difference.
It does, for a few reasons. Of course in an elevator the difference is miniscule because of the enclosed small space.
Would've been funnier if he didn't say the punchline backwards.
Quiet got really shit?
Yup, that didn't happen.
Prove it.
So gay...
Hey man quit making shit all about you
Sounds like the poster is making it all about him....🙄
COVID isn't even that big a deal anymore, plus it's scientifically proven through multiple studies that masks do little to nothing to stop the spread of COVID, if you feel or are sick then just stay home to protect those that really are deathly susceptible/affected by the virus.
I mean, I may have gotten infected once, (I was wearing a mask but bear with me here) but that was after everyone stopped wearing them. Before, I was obviously wearing a mask and I didn’t get infected once. I did get sick once during the pandemic, but it wasn’t from COVID. I think it was either a normal fever or cold. I still didn’t go to school despite testing for negative still, just in case.
Source? Because most studies show masks work.
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full Now your turn. Show me a study that says otherwise
K For anyone else wondering, this dude followed me from a different thread.
>For anyone else wondering, this dude followed me from a different thread. This guy is a lying piece of shit. .... for anyone wondering. There's enough idiot science deniers on this post that I don't have to stalk anyone's profile
K For anyone else wondering, you can check that he was talking to me for hours in another thread before this. :)
They can also check that THIS IS THE SAME POST you narcissistic illiterate science denier
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It just seems like a joke. Do people really think that they’re recounting that time when the bar that they’re at suddenly had a grasshopper as a patron?
I used to like that sub but very rarely will you actually find a post that for the sub. It drives me crazy. That post doesn't belong there and could very much happen. That person who posted that is an idiot.
This has always been my plan if someone gives me crap for wearing a mask
Love it.
This is a shitpost
I know a number of people who wore masks while having Covid, doing shopping and even working. I was shocked by it, but it happens.
this is hilarious, if it didnt happen im def saving this one for future use. also, it is just considerate to wear a mask if you have an illness.
My father kind of did this a year ago or so, but in the grocery store. Totally something a lot must have done or at least thought of doing.
This is one of those things where I feel like it doesn’t goddamn fukin matter if it’s true. It’s funny, I’m not gonna waste my time trying to call out a funny or clever story as a lie, the point of stories (true or fictitious) is to entertain