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PSA - wear a mask to support college football

We all need to do our part so we can enjoy some BIG football. A public service message in Nashville has a guy saying “I wear a mask so I can enjoy college football”. Let’s all do our part wear a mask and convince others to do the same. Go hawks!
Where do you live??

For months now 99% of all businesses around me and anywhere I've traveled have required masks for entry. People are wearing masks.
 
Where do you live??

For months now 99% of all businesses around me and anywhere I've traveled have required masks for entry. People are wearing masks.

Exactly. Where exactly are people not wearing masks in public? Pretty much every business or where people are together at all requires masks. And no, if I'm walking outside 15 feet away from the nearest person I am not passing the virus to another person or getting it if not wearing a masks.

The study by Goldman Sachs found that for every 15% of population wearing masks, it equated to at most 1% in decrease of spread of COVID. So 90% mask compliance means around 6% reduction. I am fine with wearing a mask if a business asks me to.

What doesn't make sense to me is how mask-wearing works when people are constantly taking the mask on and off in a restaurant or at a restaurant. Doesn't taking a mask off, eating, then putting the mask back on defeat the whole purpose? I honestly don't know.
 
Where do you live??

For months now 99% of all businesses around me and anywhere I've traveled have required masks for entry. People are wearing masks.

Nashville. Getting people to wear a mask is a struggle, at least until they get covid or have a connection to someone who does. The state is using football In it’s mask ads.
 
Exactly. Where exactly are people not wearing masks in public? Pretty much every business or where people are together at all requires masks. And no, if I'm walking outside 15 feet away from the nearest person I am not passing the virus to another person or getting it if not wearing a masks.

The study by Goldman Sachs found that for every 15% of population wearing masks, it equated to at most 1% in decrease of spread of COVID. So 90% mask compliance means around 6% reduction. I am fine with wearing a mask if a business asks me to.

What doesn't make sense to me is how mask-wearing works when people are constantly taking the mask on and off in a restaurant or at a restaurant. Doesn't taking a mask off, eating, then putting the mask back on defeat the whole purpose? I honestly don't know.

My neighbor is a good example , thinks this is still a hoax. Has her bible study group over, usually 20 plus people and no masks. It’s amazing as two of her friends were hospitalized, for 2 plus weeks , on a vent. They survived but have lingering issues. Some people will never change, its politics for her. Science be damned. She’s also not into football.
 
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We all need to do our part so we can enjoy some BIG football. A public service message in Nashville has a guy saying “I wear a mask so I can enjoy college football”. Let’s all do our part wear a mask and convince others to do the same. Go hawks!

Or anyone who lives in the IC area plus quarantine yourself for a few days if you get sick and stay away from any football player & staff member you see at all cost you until after Xmas.

In all seriousness I think if we can make it to Thanksgiving Iowa will be in good shape with most of the students will be off campus by that weekend. Part of you hopes it's not our opponent that screws up a game too with an outbreak and cost us.
 
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Or anyone who lives in the IC area plus quarantine yourself for a few days if you get sick and stay away from any football player & staff member you see at all cost you until after Xmas.

In all seriousness I think if we can make it to Thanksgiving Iowa will be in good shape with most of the students will be off campus by that weekend. Part of you hopes it's not our opponent that screws up a game too with an outbreak and cost us.

Agree, concerned with overall student population in Iowa city. We have seen the lack of concern in that group.
 
We all need to do our part so we can enjoy some BIG football. A public service message in Nashville has a guy saying “I wear a mask so I can enjoy college football”. Let’s all do our part wear a mask and convince others to do the same. Go hawks!
So if I wear a mask where I live, I'm actually preventing college football (and every other sport) from getting shut down?

Is that what I've been told on social media for the last 3 months?.............
 
have yet to wear a mask! I am a local truck driver and go into gas stations everyday and have been working ever since this virus started"Essential worker" Go to gorcery stores,wal mart, menards etc. No virus yet and if i get it i get it!

Thanks for being a super spreader. It affects people differently, thanks for your concern for others.
 
So if I wear a mask where I live, I'm actually preventing college football (and every other sport) from getting shut down?

Is that what I've been told on social media for the last 3 months?.............

Statistics are it will help, if we all wear masks increases the odds it will help. It’s those that don’t wear masks that increase the chance of spread. I know that’s hard for some to understand.
 
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Statistics are it will help, if we all wear masks increases the odds it will help. It’s those that don’t wear masks that increase the chance of spread. I know that’s hard for some to understand.
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My neighbor is a good example , thinks this is still a hoax. Has her bible study group over, usually 20 plus people and no masks. It’s amazing as two of her friends were hospitalized, for 2 plus weeks , on a vent. They survived but have lingering issues. Some people will never change, its politics for her. Science be damned. She’s also not into football.

This isn’t a mask problem. This is a having 20 people in a room problem.
 
I see people in grocery stores still not wearing masks, probably about 20 percent of the people in the stores not wearing masks. Now that we know that any B10 team that has a 5 percent or higher rate of infection that they will not be able to practice or play for 7 days, hopefully people who want to see B10 football will wear masks to better the odds! As to the guy who rides a truck around the country and never wears masks, you could easily be an asymptomatic vector infecting others. You don't know who the people you contact will wind up contacting and where they will travel and contact others so start wearing a mask for the good of other people's health and for the good of B10 and Iowa football! If Iowa gets over a 5 percent team-wide infection rate and misses a game I think every person on here who brags about not wearing a mask should volunteer to get kicked in the nuts by every person here who wears a mask.
 
I see people in grocery stores still not wearing masks, probably about 20 percent of the people in the stores not wearing masks. Now that we know that any B10 team that has a 5 percent or higher rate of infection that they will not be able to practice or play for 7 days, hopefully people who want to see B10 football will wear masks to better the odds! As to the guy who rides a truck around the country and never wears masks, you could easily be an asymptomatic vector infecting others. You don't know who the people you contact will wind up contacting and where they will travel and contact others so start wearing a mask for the good of other people's health and for the good of B10 and Iowa football! If Iowa gets over a 5 percent team-wide infection rate and misses a game I think every person on here who brags about not wearing a mask should volunteer to get kicked in the nuts by every person here who wears a mask.
Love this! Amen!!
 
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I'm honestly not sure why we're still arguing about this. Read up on mask wearing during the Spanish Flu, nothing has changed. People resisted wearing them then and 100 years later we're doing it all over again. Neither side will sway the other. I personally don't understand the outrage over wearing one, but I'm also not going to waste my time yelling at people about it. At the end of the day we're all going to do what we want to do, right or wrong.
 
I'm honestly not sure why we're still arguing about this. Read up on mask wearing during the Spanish Flu, nothing has changed. People resisted wearing them then and 100 years later we're doing it all over again. Neither side will sway the other. I personally don't understand the outrage over wearing one, but I'm also not going to waste my time yelling at people about it. At the end of the day we're all going to do what we want to do, right or wrong.
So the scientific, expert, medical class in Sweden are idiots for opposing masks and the suicidal shutdowns? As you say - read up. They are just fine while you worship the magic mask in day 184 of 15 days to slow the spread to not overload the health systems. Which, btw, never included mask wearing. There are plenty of studies demonstrating the folly and negative consequences of long term mask wearing.
 
have yet to wear a mask! I am a local truck driver and go into gas stations everyday and have been working ever since this virus started"Essential worker" Go to gorcery stores,wal mart, menards etc. No virus yet and if i get it i get it!
Wait....Menards is mask required. It's their company policy
 
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So the scientific, expert, medical class in Sweden are idiots for opposing masks and the suicidal shutdowns? As you say - read up. They are just fine while you worship the magic mask in day 184 of 15 days to slow the spread to not overload the health systems. Which, btw, never included mask wearing. There are plenty of studies demonstrating the folly and negative consequences of long term mask wearing.

All I said was I didn't understand the outrage. I'm not calling anybody out. I'm interested in studies from both sides because I'm not a scientist. I don't claim to know the right answer, I just choose to wear a mask just in case it helps. If it doesn't, then it doesn't. I'm just tired of the pointless arguing that seems to be dividing everyone.
 
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So the scientific, expert, medical class in Sweden are idiots for opposing masks and the suicidal shutdowns? As you say - read up. They are just fine while you worship the magic mask in day 184 of 15 days to slow the spread to not overload the health systems. Which, btw, never included mask wearing. There are plenty of studies demonstrating the folly and negative consequences of long term mask wearing.
I agree, this is just the first step to over throwing the oppression and tyranny of face masks....we won’t stop until they have been completely abolished.

doctors and nurses have fallen victim to this mask hoax for decades and suffered the long term consequences of constant mask wearing!

it’s time to stop oppressing our medical professionals and let them breathe as nature intended them to! If we were supposed to have some filter on our face, don’t you think our bodies would have been given one? its just not natural!
 
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have yet to wear a mask! I am a local truck driver and go into gas stations everyday and have been working ever since this virus started"Essential worker" Go to gorcery stores,wal mart, menards etc. No virus yet and if i get it i get it!

Oh you are so badass dude, really you are. Man, congrats on working throughout the pandemic, I have also, but I am not badasssssss like yourself, I actually give a shit about other, badass.
 
My neighbor is a good example , thinks this is still a hoax. Has her bible study group over, usually 20 plus people and no masks. It’s amazing as two of her friends were hospitalized, for 2 plus weeks , on a vent. They survived but have lingering issues. Some people will never change, its politics for her. Science be damned. She’s also not into football.


Pardon, but is that the same science that said there'd be 2.5 million of us dead by now? The same science that said masks weren't necessary, now they're the virus' Kryptonite?
For the record, I'm part of the "protect the vulnerable ones, if you don't feel well stay the hell home, wash your hands and all the hygienic steps, but live your life smartly" crowd. Not saying I agree with the bible study group and while I don't like the masks, i will wear one where requested and have no problem if a business requires one for my patronage. And I doubt that day one of bible study included a vote of "who wants to save college football", so not sure what the "...not into football." quote was about.
People can think this is real--not a hoax--and at the same time feel it's fear porn being WAY overblown for a number of reasons. People can acknowledge that it can be serious for many people but at the same time feel life should still be carrying on, smartly. And people can think that leaders are not doing things perfectly, while giving a nod to the fact that NO MATTER what those leaders did, a large number of other people will think it's a deadly mistake.
 
Pardon, but is that the same science that said there'd be 2.5 million of us dead by now? The same science that said masks weren't necessary, now they're the virus' Kryptonite?
For the record, I'm part of the "protect the vulnerable ones, if you don't feel well stay the hell home, wash your hands and all the hygienic steps, but live your life smartly" crowd. Not saying I agree with the bible study group and while I don't like the masks, i will wear one where requested and have no problem if a business requires one for my patronage. And I doubt that day one of bible study included a vote of "who wants to save college football", so not sure what the "...not into football." quote was about.
People can think this is real--not a hoax--and at the same time feel it's fear porn being WAY overblown for a number of reasons. People can acknowledge that it can be serious for many people but at the same time feel life should still be carrying on, smartly. And people can think that leaders are not doing things perfectly, while giving a nod to the fact that NO MATTER what those leaders did, a large number of other people will think it's a deadly mistake.

We are obviously learning on the fly with this and will continue to do so. I don’t recall the 2.5M death toll or what time frame that was over. Perhaps wearing masks has curtailed some of the potential damage. It appears more people are taking this seriously as I do see more masks, and some former hoaxers I know have changed their attitudes after they or someone they personally know have covid.
 
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So the scientific, expert, medical class in Sweden are idiots for opposing masks and the suicidal shutdowns? As you say - read up. They are just fine while you worship the magic mask in day 184 of 15 days to slow the spread to not overload the health systems. Which, btw, never included mask wearing. There are plenty of studies demonstrating the folly and negative consequences of long term mask wearing.

You should read up on Sweden a bit more, population of 10 million USA 330 million, No large group gatherings and no travel to or from the country, So a lot of people got it without a mask early on, and now they limit gatherings in public places and do not allow travel. And the 15 day thing would have been more effective if people like you didnt second guess the idea behind wearing the mask. It was super easy, but still people do not get it.
 
Pardon, but is that the same science that said there'd be 2.5 million of us dead by now? The same science that said masks weren't necessary, now they're the virus' Kryptonite?
For the record, I'm part of the "protect the vulnerable ones, if you don't feel well stay the hell home, wash your hands and all the hygienic steps, but live your life smartly" crowd. Not saying I agree with the bible study group and while I don't like the masks, i will wear one where requested and have no problem if a business requires one for my patronage. And I doubt that day one of bible study included a vote of "who wants to save college football", so not sure what the "...not into football." quote was about.
People can think this is real--not a hoax--and at the same time feel it's fear porn being WAY overblown for a number of reasons. People can acknowledge that it can be serious for many people but at the same time feel life should still be carrying on, smartly. And people can think that leaders are not doing things perfectly, while giving a nod to the fact that NO MATTER what those leaders did, a large number of other people will think it's a deadly mistake.

It was 2.5 million dead without mask mandates and lock downs and closures. The science changed very early on when they found out more about the spread. Try reading into stuff a bit more. I agree it is fear mongering, but at the same time respect the thoughts of the vast majority of medical personnel saying wearing a mask will help limit and decrease the amount infected. It is not like I am wearing it in my car or at home or sitting by myself at work. Just when I am near others and in public places. It really isnt that hard.
 
Also I am loving seeing the tone around here changing because we can watch football if we have low case counts on the team and in the community. All of a sudden we are going to be more careful because....football. I said this back in early July. I guess getting something taken away is the best way to make people listen.
 
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Pardon, but is that the same science that said there'd be 2.5 million of us dead by now? The same science that said masks weren't necessary, now they're the virus' Kryptonite?
For the record, I'm part of the "protect the vulnerable ones, if you don't feel well stay the hell home, wash your hands and all the hygienic steps, but live your life smartly" crowd. Not saying I agree with the bible study group and while I don't like the masks, i will wear one where requested and have no problem if a business requires one for my patronage. And I doubt that day one of bible study included a vote of "who wants to save college football", so not sure what the "...not into football." quote was about.
People can think this is real--not a hoax--and at the same time feel it's fear porn being WAY overblown for a number of reasons. People can acknowledge that it can be serious for many people but at the same time feel life should still be carrying on, smartly. And people can think that leaders are not doing things perfectly, while giving a nod to the fact that NO MATTER what those leaders did, a large number of other people will think it's a deadly mistake.


The 2.5 million prediction was only if nothing at all was done to mitigate the spread of the virus leading to half or more of the country getting the virus all at once or in a short-time frame that would cause hospitals and health coverage to be too overwhelmed to be able to treat people who would otherwise be able to be saved. The temporary quarantining, the closing down most of society temporarily, and then the social distancing, mask-wearing, and hygiene protocol mandates and recommendations led to people, impressively, following the recommendations and, thus, severely curtailing the worst possible outcome.

If testing and contact tracing had been implemented very early along with those other measures a lot of lives would have been saved and the economy wouldn't have been as negatively impacted with so much unemployment, businesses failing, and food scarcity for millions. The past is the past, though, and even though more could still be done at the federal level to help, there have been a number of breakthroughs in treatments and better understanding of the disease that time passing has allowed. We're not out of the woods yet, but people are increasingly being careful even though there are still too many not acting safely and causing flare-ups in parts of the country that could otherwise be avoided.

As far as the rest of your post, really good stuff. That's pretty much what I'm doing, too, and it's all that can really be done by everyday people. I stay home when I don't have the necessity to go out, I avoid crowds and even most small gatherings except with a core group of people who are also very safe, and I'm careful to social distance, wear masks, and use hand sanitizer when I have to go shopping or otherwise do business. At this point, I'm so used to it, it's just like showering, brushing my teeth, and doing laundry, just routine things to do in every day life.
 
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