Quote Originally Posted by happystuff View Post
wearing a simple protective covering for limited periods of time
It's not limited. It's neither limited within a single day as many now have to wear a mask for 8 hours a day or more on the job. I will have to when I have jury duty because my doctor's office left me a message they won't write me an excuse.

It's also not limited in duration. We are in the second year of this now and my local Board of Health says even if cases drop they will keep the mandate in place until 80% of people are vaccinated. That will never happen with a third of the population are anti-vax.

The people saying it is limited are retired, or work from home (or chose a profession where masking could be expected which is on them). They only mask up when running brief errands. From their mask lite privileged perch they criticize everyone else.

I watched part of the Boston mayoral debate until I just couldn't take it anymore. The poor moderator was asking questions like once kids get the vaccine can the mask mandate be dropped? What if the state drops its mandate? What if we get past delta and no one is getting sick? Will masks ever go away?

And before the first day of school had even started every single candidate was saying the mandate will stay in place the entire school year irregardless of the facts and public health recommendations. Then all the underdogs started attacking the one ahead in the polls because she said she is making long-range plans for the schools and they said all the focus should be on the short term. These are the sorts of bozos running the show. People who believe planning is bad and just slavishly follow the herd with covid paranoia.