Pastadome - A place for friends who are being too friendly in other threads.

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Nobody wears a mask in Queensland, and unlike Victoria or New South Wales, there is no covid outbreak. Social distancing and washing your hands are more than enough to keep it at bay.

If you guys had the infection rate we did, you'd need masks, too. There's a reason it's all over certain areas of the US and it's mainly because idiots are not wearing masks and not distancing. Yeah, if you are outside and away from people for the most part, you don't need a mask, but going into a grocery store or whatever you should wear one

People are already negating the purpose of the masks even while they wear them, still continuing the spread of Covid-19. If "the simplest thing imaginable" isn't working because of the behavior of people who wear it, why should it matter to me whether I or anyone else wear masks or not?

The issue with your statement is that countries that have issued mask mandates have seen significant drops in covid. Masks aren't hard to use correctly; just make sure your mouth and nose are covered. However, the US has selfish people like you who think masks don't work and MUH FREEDUMS are more important than public health, so we will never get that under control

And you may deny being an anti-masker, but you make statements like that and support the anti-maskers and even said you only wore a mask in Walmart because they mandated it. So yeah, you're an anti-masker

 

[The Last Stand]

Since we're talking about being in shape, what's everybody's health goals during this pandemic?

I want to enjoy more outdoors before school starts.

 

[The Sauce Boss]

Since we're talking about being in shape, what's everybody's health goals during this pandemic?

I want to enjoy more outdoors before school starts.

I've been brushing up on my muay thai since i have nothing but time. The hotel i'm staying at for the week to party like a motherfucker out of has a heavy bag, so I was hitting that earlier. It's been fun!

 

[X Prime]

I swear I leave you fellows alone for a few hours and the bitching about stickers starts in earnest.

 

[CheezzyMach]

Believe me, I know just how retarded both sides are. The Democratic party somehow managed to gain and lose my vote over the span of a month with this retardation. The fact is, while both sides are wrong, the side that's actively sitting in the white house is doing active damage in a perceptible fashion where I live. Do I agree with the Dems? No. But it's not blue voters I see running around screaming at liquor store employees and citing QAnon as a reliable source.

If the Dems dumped the woke shit and derangement I'd be on their side in all honesty. Trump routinely makes an ass out of himself on Twitter,his handling of Covid is horrendous and his attacks on section 230 don't exactly please me.

I imagine for a lot of people this election is going to boil down to who you hate less between insane democrats and the bumbler in chief.

 

[Bender]

People who don't wear them are being a sort of sociopath. Wearing a mask has been shown to prevent the spread of covid.

Just a small correction, it doesn't prevent the spread of Covid, rather it reduces it.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Just a small correction, it doesn't prevent the spread of Covid, rather it reduces it.

Right, I meant to say "help to prevent the spread".

Since we're talking about being in shape, what's everybody's health goals during this pandemic?

I want to enjoy more outdoors before school starts.

I lost 5 lb during quarantine, so been working to get that back now that my gym is open again. Been lifting more often while doing less total volume each time and seems to be working better than my old routine, so sticking with that. Also added in a ton of cardio because I've been eating like a madman.

 

[The Pink Panther]

And you may deny being an anti-masker, but you make statements like that and support the anti-maskers and even said you only wore a mask in Walmart because they mandated it. So yeah, you're an anti-masker

You really only think about things in partisan ways, do you?

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

You really only think about things in partisan ways, do you?

If someone supports anti-maskers, likes all their posts and admits to only wearing a mask because they need to in order to go to the store because the store mandates it, then yeah, they're an anti-masker. I call a spade a spade.

 

[The Pink Panther]

If someone supports anti-maskers, likes all their posts and admits to only wearing a mask because they need to in order to go to the store because the store mandates it (need context behind this), then yeah, they're an anti-masker. I call a spade a spade.

That's not always true. Don't you realize that there exist some people who can see sort of the balance of issues on both sides of the matter rather than just being strictly one or the other?

Like if I were to use the argument for why confederates supported slavery (as unjust as it was) back in the day, doesn't make me a slave owner or someone who supports slavery. I'm trying to understand in the historical context for why someone did this or why someone did that.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

That's not always true. Don't you realize that there exist some people who can see sort of the balance of issues on both sides of the matter rather than just being strictly one or the other?

Like if I were to use the argument for why confederates supported slavery (as unjust as it was) back in the day, doesn't make me a slave owner or someone who supports slavery. I'm trying to understand in the historical context for why someone did this or why someone did that.

Right, but posting support for slave owners and saying slavery was a good thing would probably make you a racist. Liking posts where the person states untrue stuff like masks don't work makes someone an anti-masker.

 

[The Pink Panther]

Right, but posting support for slave owners and saying slavery was a good thing would probably make you a racist.

I don't think it makes you a racist, per say, but it does make you a supporter of slavery. The problem with our society is that we have associated the idea of slavery with race because of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (as well as the lead-in to Jim Crow laws) which isn't necessarily true. The majority of the countries that existed in that time used slavery around the time, specifically the Middle-Eastern, African, and European countries who didn't really see it as a way of oppression, but a way to make business. It was only until the period of industrialization where slavery was seen as not beneficial for the economy until the invention of the cotton gin which is what then led into the Civil War where slavery was seen as a bad thing. And nowadays we associate the premise morally rather than economically because of the changes we've made in our society in how we view historical events, which gives a great oversimplification to the issue at hand.

Liking posts where the person states untrue stuff like masks don't work makes someone an anti-masker.

Yea, you can say that. But that's not really what I think the context of @Iwasamwillbe's argument is.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

I don't think it makes you a racist, per say, but it does make you a supporter of slavery. The problem with our society is that we have associated the idea of slavery with race because of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (as well as the lead-in to Jim Crow laws) which isn't necessarily true. The majority of the countries that existed in that time used slavery around the time, specifically the Middle-Eastern, African, and European countries who didn't really see it as a way of oppression, but a way to make business. It was only until the period of industrialization where slavery was seen as not beneficial for the economy until the invention of the cotton gin which is what then led into the Civil War where slavery was seen as a bad thing. And nowadays we associate the premise morally rather than economically because of the changes we've made in our society in how we view historical events, which gives a great oversimplification to the issue at hand.

There's a pretty high chance that if someone supports slavery in the US, they're a racist.

Yea, you can say that. But that's not really what I think the context of @Iwasamwillbe's argument is.

And his argument was entirely wrong. Wearing a mask isn't all that hard (just cover the nose and mouth) and countries with mask mandates have seen a huge drop in covid cases and rates). There might be a few morons that only cover their mouth or something, but that's the vast minority of people and if everyone else is wearing them correctly, it won't make a huge difference. If those other countries can wear masks correctly, we can, too. He's just using another red herring argument because he thinks masks are bad

 

[and 3 others]

People who don't wear them are being a sort of sociopath. Wearing a mask has been shown to prevent the spread of covid. Even though you're against masks, you probably say "all lives matter", which is hypocritical as you don't think that high-risk lives matter.

It's really not hard to put a damn mask on. If I can wear a mask at the gym, your fat manlet ass can wear it going to Walmart

Honest question here. Regular flu seasons kill tens of thousands of Americans per year. Healthy people go to the store, catch the flu, then pass it to their vulnerable relatives. Did you wear a mask during previous flu seasons to slow that process?

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

The issue with your statement is that countries that have issued mask mandates have seen significant drops in covid. Masks aren't hard to use correctly; just make sure your mouth and nose are covered. However, the US has selfish people like you who think masks don't work and MUH FREEDUMS are more important than public health, so we will never get that under control

Do you believe that masks alone possess this magic virus-stopping property you seem to ascribe to them, because, again:

Well the mask itself is just a moot point. If you're still touching your face, rubbing your hands all over stuff, pulling the mask down or getting into sweaty slap-fights with other people, the mask is absolutely fucking pointless. If you're not adhering to proper PPE then you might as well not even bother wearing one, and if you go out in public and look at the average person, they spend every other second touching crap all around the room and then rubbing that all over the mask when they adjust it every half-second.

They help, absolutely, in the same way that a box of matches can help you start a fire, but if you're going to soak the logs in water, dump dirt all over the tinder, mash it all into mud and then throw that in the river, the matches aren't going to fucking help that much anymore. If people won't adhere to PPE then that mask is barely anything more than a placebo.

And you may deny being an anti-masker, but you make statements like that and support the anti-maskers and even said you only wore a mask in Walmart because they mandated it. So yeah, you're an anti-masker

What the fuck is this shit? You don't get to tell me what my own positions are because it's then easier for you to strawmen them. I said I am neutral in regards to wearing a mask, nothing more and nothing less.

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

Masks are for faggots and chicken littles. Its just the coof. Who cares anymore?

Mass hysteria about people who would have died from something else given their health and comorbidities.

Die seething in your weak fluid filled lungs

 

[Stoneheart]

Right, but posting support for slave owners and saying slavery was a good thing would probably make you a racist.

so everyone not full of soy is reeacist?
the only problem with slavery was that they didnt castrate their slaves...
stop your human rights Bullshittery, thats only for whiteys, decolonies your morals, faggot...

If someone supports anti-maskers, likes all their posts and admits to only wearing a mask because they need to in order to go to the store because the store mandates it, then yeah, they're an anti-masker. I call a spade a spade.

mask only work if you wear them for a short time and put them in a bag in a safe way after use. running around with them outside is bad.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Do you believe that masks alone possess this magic virus-stopping property you seem to ascribe to them, because, again:

They do a pretty good job at slowing the spread. It's proven science at this point. Stating otherwise is just plain ignorant

What the fuck is this shit? You don't get to tell me what my own positions are because it's then easier for you to strawmen them. I said I am neutral in regards to wearing a mask, nothing more and nothing less.

Is that why you always seem to take the side of the anti-mask people? At least own your position, coward

Honest question here. Regular flu seasons kill tens of thousands of Americans per year. Healthy people go to the store, catch the flu, then pass it to their vulnerable relatives. Did you wear a mask during previous flu seasons to slow that process?

No, but covid has also been shown to be far more serious than the regular flu. It's killed 5-10 times as many people as the regular flu did. This is not "just the flu bro!"

 

[and 3 others]

No, but covid has also been shown to be far more serious than the regular flu. It's killed 5-10 times as many people as the regular flu did. This is not "just the flu bro!"

30k people dead in the 2018-2019 season is still 30k people dead. If wearing a mask is literally effortless and without cost, then why weren't you doing it already? Are you less of a chad than you've been leading us to believe, or are you just another sociopath?

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

30k people dead in the 2018-2019 season is still 30k people dead. If wearing a mask is literally effortless and without cost, then why weren't you doing it already? Are you less of a chad than you've been leading us to believe, or are you just another sociopath?

30k dead is a lot, but 150k (and rising) dead is a lot worse. The flu is also not contagious until at most 1 day before symptoms start, while covid is contagious up to a week before symptoms start. It's a total false equivalency.