So Confusing

   So. The Federal Government decided to pass masking decisions to the State Governments.  

   Some of the State Governments made mask mandates and ordinances. 

   Some State Governments passed the decision down to the Local Governments.

   And everything went to hell. 

   A police chief in Arkansas sent a letter to the governor saying he wouldn't enforce the Governor's mask mandate. 

    Some of the Local Governments have made mask mandates and ordinances.

   People where local governments made mandates are claiming that it should be the Governors decision or made at a national level.

   

   I'm gonna tell ya this. I wear a mask when I go in the store. Heck, I wear a mask when I go through the drive-thru at McDonald's.

      Lord, have I learned a lot about masks on the past few months. 

   You may or may not know these facts, but I'm fixing to let you in on what I've learned:

   I've also noticed that some of the people that stated they wouldn't wear a mask unless they were forced to, have the most problems with wearing a mask since it's mandated some places. They have creatively interesting reasons for not wearing masks: my response to each of those arguments is in italics.

1. The virus isn't a bad as they say it is. They're inflating numbers to make it look like more people are infected than really are.

   If they're inflating numbers to make it look like more people are infected, then the numbers of recovered cases will be inflated when their recuperation period has completed.

2. Nobody else is wearing their mask right,

   If everybody else jumps off a bridge, are you going to do it too? Don't be such a sheep (or lemming as the case may be), be a leader and wear your mask right.

3. Wearing a mask violates my constitutional right.  

   The Preamble of the Constitution has a phrase that says the Constitution is to , among other things, promote the general welfare. If wearing a mask can help slow the spread or reduce your viral load (which improves your chances of survival) then wearing a mask is not violating your rights.

4. I don't want to wear a mask and you can't make me. 

   You're an adult, act like one.

5. Masks are uncomfortable.

   Breathing tubes and catheters are uncomfortable. Masks are a minor irritation in comparison.

6. Masks don't prevent the Coronavirus, it says so on the box.

   The company doesn't want people who wear their masks to sue them if they catch the Coronavirus by some other means.. 

7. OSHA says don't wear masks.

   OSHA says wear masks in contaminated or potentially contaminated environments.

8. The CDC says don't wear masks.

   The CDC has changed that, they do recommend wearing masks.

9. I can't breathe wearing a mask.

   See your doctor about that. You have a medical issue. 

10. I have a medical issue that prevents me from wearing a mask and HIPPA rules prevent me from telling you what it is.

  It's HIPAA and that doesn't apply. I 

11. Masks don't filter anything out.

   A screen is going to catch something when the air passes through it.

12. Masks reduce your oxygen levels.

   So masks can't filter anything out except oxygen? Coronavirus can go right through the mask, but the instant you put one on you start starving your brain for oxygen.

13. Wearing masks is destroying your immune system. 

   Masks that don't filter out anything (#10) actually are filtering out oxygen and germs other than the Coronavirus? It must filter them out, otherwise it wouldn't be destroying our immune systems. 

14. Masks don't keep you from spreading the Coronavirus. Cause they don't filter anything coming out(see #11)

   But the tests they've shown many places show the opposite.

15. Masks cause a buildup of carbon dioxide.

   Wait. Masks let everything that you breathe out go right through the mask(#14). Except carbon dioxide.

   I've heard all these excuses given. The one about HIPPA was offered to me unsolicited at the doctors office. He even spelled it out for me. I corrected his spelling for him and told him it didn't apply. He didn't appreciate it. When he got up to go to the bathroom, his wife apologized for her husband and said he was a dumbass. I suggested that might be considered a disability that would prevent mask wearing.... He wanted to know why she was laughing when he came back.

   The second day our local mask ordinance went into effect I was in Wal-Mart. in front of me was a little white haired lady. There was a guy walking the other direction wearing his mask around his neck. Evidently she looked at him wrong about the way he was wearing his mask. He pointed to the mask around his neck and said loudly to her that he WAS wearing his mask, She sweetly said "I feel sorry for your wife....if you can't wear a mask right, there's probably other things you can't do right."

  

  At that point I violated the mask ordinance. 

   I pulled mine down so I could laugh at him.

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HOW DARE THEY?!?!?!!!!

I can't BELIEVE they'd do this!

THIS is an OUTRAGE!

What about the Children?

   If you don't know what I'm talking about. It's football. The governor has declared that there can be no contact practice until August 29 for High School and Jr High..

   My children don't play football, so I'm not too concerned.

   For those people whose children do play football, I'd like to offer some advice.

   Take your child. Put a mask on them. Put their football clothes on them. Put their football hats on them. Contact 10 of their friends. Those friends should also put on masks and football clothes and football hats. They should get them a football and go to a football field and protest for their right to score football points.

   They should march down the field protestong for their right to score football points!

   But they need to beware. Counterprotesters will show up. Ideally, they will be wearing masks and wearing football clothes and football hats. 

   The counterprotesters will try to keep then from scoring football points. 

   They'll even go so far as to take the ball away.

   This is where it'll get weird.

  The counterprotesters will now be protesting for THEIR right to score football points. And the ones that were protesting will turn into counterprotesters.

   There will then appear some people that will try to mediate the protests. They will probably try to organize the protesters and counterprotesters by the colors of their football clothes.

   Ideally, there needs to be a time limit on the protesting and counterprotesting. 

   I don't know, maybe I'm just being silly. 

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50/50

   That's what the Dr said the odds are that what I went through 2 years ago, I may be having to go through again.

   I haven't been this excited since my cat had kittens and my dog had fleas. 🙄  If I gotta go through it again, I'll go through it again.

   I'm not excited about the prospects. But  it is what it is. And I'll find out what's going on next week and the week after. 

   There is one thing I'm kinda worried about though. Ya see, the last time I had to go through treatment, I'd wear a mask when I went out sometimes. Especially right after my chemo. The doctors said it would help prevent me getting an infection that could have set back my treatment. 

   Now we got this here Coronavirus crap going around and a whole bunch of folks  think wearing a mask is silly or that you're giving in to liberal media fear mongering.

Some folks really like that phrase. They keep repeating it over and over. Like a bunch of sheep bleating. 

   I have seen a report that says masks do not provide any deterrent to the spread of the virus. There are some numbers if you follow the link in the report. The way it reads, they swabbed the outside of the masks and found the Coronavirus. And thus deduced that masks didn't reduce the spread of the virus. I'd really need Bob Trejo to double check my thinking, but if there is virus left on the mask after you cough through it, didn't it reduce the virus that entered the environment?

   But I digress, I don't know what the results are going to be from my doctor visit and my PET scan next week. And those results or lack thereof will determine the course of treatment. 

   I hope they don't have to cut my head ¼ off the way off. Again. 

  I also hope if I'm out wearing a mask that someone doesn't make a disparaging remark, cause I might be forced to inform them their information is coming from a non peer reviewed source using non sufficient data on a study that doesn't contain enough replications (none) to get a red ribbon in a 4th grade science fair. 

    I'll find out a little Monday, June 1.

My PET Scan is June 5 and my doctor appointment is June 8 to get my results. 

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Let's Face It

   This is a facemask. It is made out of cloth. It won't prevent the Coronavirus from getting to me. The virus is so small it can pass through the weave of the fabric. But it can improve my odds of keeping it away if I'm exposed to someone who has the virus. It helps in 2 ways. There are 3 layers of fabric between me and the rest of the world. 4 where the nose and tongue are. 
   It also protects me because when people see me wearing a mask, they practice social distancing. Some of them even give me more than the recommended 6 feet of space. If I cough or fake a sneeze, they'll give me a good 20 feet. I ain't going out in public much anyway. The drive-thru at McDonald's is pretty much it.

   This is my other mask. I made it first. It's a manly mask. It has burlap on the outside. People will give me social distance when I wear it. They look like at me like I want them to give me their wallet. Nobody has offered me their wallet, but I think they'd probably give it to me if I asked.
   The top mask is the one I'm going to wear to my scan and my Dr appointment. I've always heard laughter is the best medicine. I may not cause anyone to laugh, but I'm pretty sure I'll bring a smile to someone's face. 
   Oh, just in case you thought you'd get away without seeing it:

Dog bite 

This was 14 days after the bite. The bruise was going away more I'm left with a lump. It's not really painful unless I put pressure on it, especially around the sides. It's between the size of an orange and a  grapefruit. Well if you cut them in half. And stuck half of it under the skin of your buttocks. Although I'm not sure why you'd want to do that. It's really not that great if a feeling.



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Coronavirus

 

That is a picture of a Coronavirus. It's not a picture of my bruise. I thought I'd give you a break from that. If you put it on a chain and attached it to a stick, it looks kinda like a weapon called the mace. 
   Coronavirus has been in the news a lot lately. Some people were saying it was being blown out of proportion by the news media. 
   Wednesday night, the President addresses it. Then Friday, some emergency proclamations were issued. I haven't heard the people who were saying it was being blown out of proportion commenting on that. They may be out trying to find toilet paper???
   I don't have the Coronavirus. I don't know anybody who has the Coronavirus. I don't know anybody who wants the Coronavirus. But I know some people that definitely don't need to be exposed to it. And some of them are my relatives. The person that just finished chemotherapy whose immune status is probably at its lowest it'll ever be. Coronavirus could kill them.

6 days after dog bite

   I changed my mind. This is 144 hours (6 days after the dog bite), the lump is still there and the bruise is still spreading around my body. I'll update some more later tonight or possibly tomorrow.

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