This one really gets me angry.
FACT: I wresteled Freshmen year in HS back in the 2000s we never had to worry about measles!!!
UTAH: High school wrestling teams see rise in measles cases after state meet
Source of information.
1. Fox13 Now.
https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/northern-utah/high-school-wrestling-teams-see-rise-in-measles-cases-after-state-meet
COMMENT,
..I believe your anger and concern is justified, Data. I think acknowledging the past is key in understanding and modifying today's systems for today's times. I am often upset with society's systems and customs that don't modify their systems in a way that protects people... there are more viruses going around so it seems there should be more precautions being taken in the systems. Ever since 9/11 airports adopted new security measures and have stuck with them insofar as I know while have doctor's offices changed their offices and healthcare facilities to reflect what has happened since covid and a surplus of other viruses such as measles outbreaks have entered the picture!? No they haven't adapted or modified. Same goes for all gatherings. What other than hand soap dispensers are located on side of busy maskless receptionists offices are there to encourage people to take precautions?
What we have done and how we respond with as a whole since covid and measles outbreaks doesn't reflect or match up to what has happened. We respond to terrorism attacks but not virus attacks... Its like wrestling we are outmatched in size strength and number with viruses compared to the past in pre 2019 days. If we don't modify and adapt to what has happened since covid and measles outbreaks how are we going to survive physical and economically if and when other even more vicious outbreaks come?
I'm 55 and I couldn't deal with being a kid right now ..the kind of pressure to attend schools and gatherings.. imagine wondering if you are going to give covid or measles to your folks.. that would would be horrible at any age to have to worry about with society's pressures to act as if viruses aren't worse in this era in the face of all these current virus outbreaks. So glad I am old enough to say I can wear a mask and don't have to go to school! Since we live in an era where covid outbreaks strike, why not act like it!?
All I know is that ever since 2020 I prefer to live as if a virus could make me ill and suffer so I have modified behavior to reflect my beliefs that virus outbreaks are very real and pose a threat to me. Just like falling off a bicycle poses a threat to the head I wear a bicycle helmet is in the same lines as to why I wear a mask... I wear a mask because I had a respiratory disease as a child .. I wear a mask because I deem covid and other viruses dangerous for me. I simply modify my behavior and wear mask and take precautions like a game of chess to defend myself the best way I see fit. I know what could get me and hit me the hardest so I mask.
Pretty scary stuff it's like nature put a gun in everybody hands only instead its a virus that was put in everybody's face and now we as individuals have a license to inflict illness and disease upon each other... that's why I mask. I trust the virus inflicts some serious damage. I see it this way Manny animals aren't as lucky as us human's are in the sense that many animals don't have the ability to wear masks. To me that is what separates the victim from the surviver...
.. the other animals don't have the ability to for-see the danger, modify behavior and take precautions such as masking that I do. Think I'm overreacting think again ..they never had anything such as "quad-epidemics" when I was a kid.. that's when four viruses are circulating at hospitals after Mardi Era in 2026.. That's four viruses against one guy .. me! You never heard of "quad-epidemics" which is why I mask nowadays. I seriously question if it isn't suicidal, more than reckless, downright negligible and masochistic and sado masochistic to be maskless in a healthcare setting(or any setting fir that matter) during a 'quademic'. I'm simply keeping up with the times and science by masking and taking precautions. When I mask I'm thinking about me!
Even if I am wrong, I'm safer for masking and that is all that counts.
I'd rather be guilty "to err on the side of caution" , and to have masked for nothing,
The Masked Man
