If people wore diapers with the same care with which they’re wearing masks...

[Alex Bridges]

We’d be ankle deep in shit?

[Firefly 35]

If more people used coth ones instead (for both garments), that would drastically reduce how much waste gets left behind. 

[ValentinesStuff]

8 hours ago, Alex Bridges said:

We’d be ankle deep in shit?

I think you are vastly underestimating people.

 

Hip deep at least!

[BabyJune]

9 hours ago, Firefly 35 said:

If more people used coth ones instead (for both garments), that would drastically reduce how much waste gets left behind. 

That's me. And personally, I like wearing a diaper a lot more than wearing a mask but I do wear a mask every time I go out to show my consideration.

[Luvs24]

I wear diapers 24/7 and my wife and I wear a mask while out in public. We also see alot of people at the store who don't even wear a mask. 

[Jan for June]

The terrifying thing is the amount of people not wearing a mask properly. Surgical masks have two directions, for a reason, and most people I see have them on backwards (unless they're all infected) which isn't helping them at all. It's a wonder to me how this hasn't been publicized more widely. 

[willnotwill]

The favorite meme I've seen says that seeing how people wear masks makes one understand why there is so much contraception failure.

[DL-Boy]

47 minutes ago, willnotwill said:

The favorite meme I've seen says that seeing how people wear masks makes one understand why there is so much contraception failure.

True.  Case in point, wearing a mask ACROSS ONE'S MOUTH, with one's NOSE HANGING OUT IN THE OPEN, is not the proper way to wear a mask.

I've seen dozens of people using that method in the past several weeks.  They might get points for trying to wear a mask but if their nose isn't covered, they aren't wearing a mask.  The Texas county I live in (USA) has a judge's order for 100% mask compliance in public places, yet I still see people in stores without masks or with their hooter hanging out over the top of one.

[Little BabyDoll Christine]

Given the things we've been hearing lately about the new spikes in COVID19, they are

Now, if you mean as well as the OUGHT to, then that would be the end of the disposable diaper market. They would want something that is less failure porne, more secure; pins are more secure than the tapes and pin-on diapers do not have the propensity to leak, with better containment. Rubber panteis work better than the thin plastic backings since they are less likely to blowout, and less likely to spread disease by being self-contained eliminating the risk of contamination of things like containers, trucks and landfills

[rusty pins]

..... there would be a lot of people in the White House with wet pants!

[Little BabyDoll Christine]

The way that mamunk runs things, like shticanning inspectore generals and heads of departments then calling them garbage, there probably are

[foreverdl]

6 hours ago, DL-Boy said:

True.  Case in point, wearing a mask ACROSS ONE'S MOUTH, with one's NOSE HANGING OUT IN THE OPEN, is not the proper way to wear a mask.

I've seen dozens of people using that method in the past several weeks.  They might get points for trying to wear a mask but if their nose isn't covered, they aren't wearing a mask.  The Texas county I live in (USA) has a judge's order for 100% mask compliance in public places, yet I still see people in stores without masks or with their hooter hanging out over the top of one.

Very true, I see the same thing every time we go out to a store people putting on the mask because they have to and nose is showing,, because they thinks they won't ever get the virus because they are to good to get sick. Then they spread it to family or friends, who don't even know till it's too late. Some friends of ours were recently infected by there mother, who had to have gotten it form someone they trusted. 

But This rise in cases was talked about back months ago, all of the officials knew it was going to happen but it was more important to open up stuff so people can work and pay bills etc. I won't argue we had to open up safely we all need stores, everything open BUT safely , But you will always have the stupid people out there that think they are above the law,, and rules made to keep them and US safe. Unfortunately we are going to have this covid thing around probably for more than a year because back in March every Body didn't follow the instructions stay home or wear a mask, Every One in the US for a few weeks,, Wearing A Mask would have gotten the numbers much lower. And possibly more controllable of a problem now.

[rusty pins]

On the internet today it shows an article about a "Reopen Founder" who refused to wear a mask ending up getting Covid-19.  GOOD FOR HIM!  Maybe he will learn a good lesson if he survives.  I'm sorry for anyone who comes down with it, but not so sorry for the idiot's who not only refuse to protect themselves but spout out "their rights" in the face of this pandemic.  Masks, distancing and quarantine has shown it slows down the spread of Covid-19.  You think this is the first time in history a quarantine has been enacted?  If some morons out there refuse to wear their masks, waive their confederate flags and scream their rights are being violated (which constitutionally they aren't if they would read that document and it's amendments), when they come down with Covid-19 it's all on them for being stupid in the face of what is clearly going on and being reported every day.  The sad thing is how many more people they will infect with their actions and irresponsibility.  It's the elderly who are just out buying their groceries that I feel the worst for.  They happen to walk by one of these jerks without a mask and they could catch it themselves.  I really don't care so much for the other idiots who also feel they can do as they please.  If they want to sit shoulder to shoulder at the bar guzzling their beer in a place where no one is wearing a mask, then they deserve what they get!  By the way, a couple months ago a member hear was stating that only the old with underlying conditions were getting Covid-19 and dying.  If you have been watching TV the past couple weeks with the surging in half of the USA, you will see the average age of people coming down with the virus is 35.  Ironically (or not), that age and younger seems to be the people who are out on the beaches, at the bars and the ones protesting their rights the most!  Hmmmmm.  Guess they must be right and everyone else must be wrong, but who in the end are the ones now contracting Covid-19? 

[DL-Boy]

But @rusty pins, don't you know that [many of] those between 18-36 are bulletproof, immortal, nothing can touch them...?  </sarcasm>

[ValentinesStuff]

A group of high school students from a nearby small town held an "unofficial" prom. 15 cases and counting.

[Little BabyDoll Christine]

I do not know his age, but if it was under 50, he has a very good chance of survival,  after which he will most likely be immune (otherwise a vaccine would be ineffective). So he may have the last laugh. 97% of COVID19 cases are survivable to mild, with half of them being asymptomatic. Severity and fatality of COVID18 are age-related, with half of those being in nursing homes and assisted living facilities; i.e. relatively crowded conditions which is abnormal and many nursing homes claimed to have been required to accept COVID19 -infected patients; also abnormal. Among the very young, COVID19 appears to induce or leave vulnerable to, a knnd of mutli symptom syndrom which can be fatal. The upshot of all of this is that about .4% of the deaths could be considered "normal". Adding to the panic, and being a main driving force, was the fact that PPE, other supplies and equipment, and facilities were in short supply. Also, though the shutdown and all of this was like trying to kill a fox with a nuke, that was all that could be put together on short notice. Unless the civilization is too stupid to live, in which case COVID19 is Darwin's Hammer to clear the way for a more competent species to rise to the top, we are pedal-to-the-metal stockpiling and preparing for a second wave. It might just be a better idea to let the virus run rampant through the under 40 crowd which has the greatest chance of this being a yawn, while taking steps for those at risk to protect themselves (which I am doing quite assiduously) or be protected, which will drastically cut down on the fatalities in even that sector of the population, maybe by 60%, if what I understand to be the case is true. If this is a normal virus. it will spend itself there and the coveted "herd immunity" .will occur. If it does not follow the rules of immunity. then we're toast anyway unless a strategy other than immunity-bososting vaccine is followed. One of these is to put fake "receptors" in the body that attract the virus and provent it from attaching to receptors at the vital organs (Tulane University), and treatment of infection by antiviral medicines one of which is already in use

ONe of the aspects of viral infaction, as with any "colonial" phenomena, is that it is "statistical". That menas the number of viral units has to reach a "critical mass" if the colonization (infection) is to succeed, the same with bacteria or even human colonies. Since heach viral unit had a limited amount of time before it gegrades, the more transmission to non-survivable sites and subsequent degradation of units, the smaller the active number of untis and the less threatening it becomes. You do not have to actively "wipe out" a colonizing force, simply provide non-survivable transmission sites and some active measures to beat it. Look at the history of Norse colonization of Greenland and North America between 1,000 and 1425 CE. We have found medieval (post 1066 CE) artifacts like coins and at least one small figurine (of a medieval friar) in North America, yet the Norse colonization was a floperoo. It never built up the numbers to be  self-supporting. If you can reduce livable areas available to any colonial force, and degrade those units that do find purches, You do not have to wipe them all out. TheY will fail on their own

 

[Alex Bridges]

8 hours ago, DL-Boy said:

But @rusty pins, don't you know that [many of] those between 18-36 are bulletproof, immortal, nothing can touch them...?  </sarcasm>

But it’s mostly Gen X and Boomers not wars ring and then railing about their freedom to be a disease vector. As much empathy as I have for people different then me, these people are DEPLORABLE!!!

[Little BabyDoll Christine]

1 hour ago, Alex Bridges said:

But it’s mostly Gen X and Boomers not wars ring and then railing about their freedom to be a disease vector. As much empathy as I have for people different then me, these people are DEPLORABLE!!!

Then you mist DESPISE the Millennials and Z's. THEY are the ones actually doing it: PACKING the bars and beaches WITHOUT MASKS from what the news reports say. What is that about a "disease vector"? Actions speak louder than words

[Nat]

Not wearing a mask properly reminds me how I used to wear my seat belt too loose because I hated how tight it felt on me and how it felt across my stomach. 

 

And:

 

https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-20200504-qjpnujrrpzdtzlxlsavkfanjie-story.html

[willnotwill]

The over the mouth only does decrease a lot of the spray that person generates.   Of course it does next to nothing to protect them.

It's the people who think they breath through their chin that gets me that don't cover either.

[rusty pins]

It's not all about protecting the person wearing the mask, but protecting the people around him or her from their germs.  I'm not that concerned with breathing in my own breath from the mask I wear.  It helps protect me from other people and if I was already sick, then breathing in my own mask breath is not going to make it worse since it's my own breath coming out of my own mouth and nose.  If I was sick anyway, I'd be doing the responsible thing and staying home and not going out.

[Cute_Kitten]

Mask compliance in my area hasn't been too bad after the government mandate. I wear a cloth one- I'm allergic to the disposable masks.  I've never tried cloth diapers, so I can't say on that, but I am fond of my disposable diapers. ?

[WetDad]

I watched an older dude in the grocery store a few days ago, and I avoided him. He was wearing a mask made from one layer of bandage gauze. Imagine if he had a diaper like that.

 

Oh- I ended up following him out and yep- he had a MAGA sticker on the back of his truck.

[Alex Bridges]

14 hours ago, WetDad said:

I watched an older dude in the grocery store a few days ago, and I avoided him. He was wearing a mask made from one layer of bandage gauze. Imagine if he had a diaper like that.

 

Oh- I ended up following him out and yep- he had a MAGA sticker on the back of his truck.

Maybe he got the mask from his mummy.

[rusty pins]

So many things I could say but.....