I was at a theme park yesterday and got harassed because my wife and I were wearing masks while waiting in line for rides. I have a kidney transplant and my wife had cancer in 2016 so we’re both immunocompromised. Just whose fun are we ruining?
People who identify with bullies
There was a little town next to where i work, and every year they have a “funny” theme. That year it was global warming, and they set up some mannequins that wore winter clothing, but also scuba gear. They were alse wearing masks, because it was middle of covid.
Even if i was just driving by or just stopped shortly there, i saw on multiple occasions how people ripped the masks of the mannequins angrily and threw it on the ground. Masks somehow are very offensive to people.
God. I still think had Trump just said, “Listen to Dr. Fauci” and printed up a billion “Trump 2020” masks, he would have been elected again in a landslide. And we probably would have had far fewer dead people, too.
Edit to clarify: I don’t like him at all. He’s an idiot, an asshole, a racist, and a bunch of other things. I’m just saying he had an easy path to reelection but his ego couldn’t handle it.
Masks somehow are very offensive to people.
Somewhere deep down they know that they were wrong and that those death numbers are partly on them. Many of them knew people who died and are likely the potential connection in the chain that killed them.
Rather than realize they were wrong and try to make up for it they turn incredibly hateful towards it in extreme denial. If they admit masks work then they admit they killed their friends and family for nothing
It’s amazing how the people who are expressing their freedom not to wear a mask get really offended by people who express their freedom by wearing a mask.
It’s starting to make me think it’s not about freedom…
Similar story with my wife. She had cancer and should not catch something as serious as Covid. So, everytime we are among a lot of people, ecpecially in places with bad ventilation, we wear masks.
I haven’t kept count how many times we were talked to about that. The amount of conspiracy mythics among them was rather high. And not always were people polite.
This is really idiotic. As if even other diseases, which required such precautions, haven’t existed before. Too many stupid people around.
Antifa did nothing wrong.
I live in Canada. Maybe it’s different in the small towns, but I’ve only had one person bitch at me for masking and that’s because he has a brain injury largely. I can’t imagine what the US is like.
Yeah, taking precautions to protect your health and the health of other does sound like anti-freedom. Is it still legal to wash your hands in the USA, or are they cracking down on that too? It’s surprising that kind of stuff was allowed to continue for so long.
Only thing that is approved is full spectrum light bulb up the ass, and Lysol shots with a Clorox chaser.
If you can’t afford Clorox, store-brand bleach is fine.
Classic Antifa/leftist/woke propaganda trying to destroy America. Corporations are people, especially the ones that donate/have financial ties to politicians
I would appreciate the warning to absolutely not eat in that restaurant.
Exactly. I’m fine with avoiding it forever.
This is what happens when you don’t club fascist idiots with baseball bats whenever you see them. Now tell me about how we have to protect their “free speech”.
How would you know who the fascist is unless their free speech is protected?
Notice “free speech” is in scare quotes. The previous comment isn’t suggesting that free speech should not be protected. But rather they referring to the fact that many fascists claim that to criticize them, or to refuse to promote their views is to stifle their free speech.
The same way my ilk once dealt with organized scabs, torture out of the first few and them shootup thei meating place.
Meating place sounds like some kind of porno
Autocorrect is clearly a whore so thats pretty accurate.
Why would you want to know who the fascists are? If you do then that means you gave them power. In the US fascists not only have free speech protections, they have greater free speech rights than anyone on the left. They were given- through federal legislation- the power to control all media outlets. Fascists will never allow leftists to have a platform. Centrists will never allow it either. There is no practical reason at all for the left to defend free speech for Nazis, yet they continue to do so.
To cancel them, obviously. Nobody who’s a fascist should have a job
I’d question the food handling practices of such a place
Stop posting shit without visible dates…
Or at least the source https://x.com/AmmahStarr/status/1804608613916328334 June 22, 2024
Probably a repost account. They do that crap on purpose.
I don’t use Twitter and this is what I have access to.
The post by Lucky Tran is from Bluesky and is right here.
https://bsky.app/profile/luckytran.bsky.social/post/3kvkfhxmmuu2u
Can’t wait for bird flu. Shit’s gonna be wild.
Yes! It’s cooking between cows and farm hands.
Little bit of pig and it’s all over.
By the time the deniers realize that it’s actually a threat… Well, those progressive policies might actually become law.
I can’t even imagine being so insecure that I am threatened by someone else wearing a medical mask.
FORCING people to wear MASKS is ANTIFREEDOM!
-Republicans trying to make Divorce and Contraception and Gay Sex and Interracial Marriage and Women’s Healthcare and Kid’s Healthcare Illegal.
The US is a funny country. It does not behave like a highly advanced and highly literate society.
That’s because it’s not. America is a brain dead billionaire, a struggling wage slave, and a fascist in a trench coat.
The doctor should have rambled about facial recognition
Idk, she’s black?
The covid junk was 4 years ago.
Just so you’re aware, friend… Lemmy is auto-translating all your posts for all other users - This is what we see wherever you post:
“I was kicked in the head by a horse 4 years ago”
Hoping you get the help you need, bud. Sure, you shouldn’t have been playing with that horse’s bunghole, but you didn’t deserve all this.
This is brilliant hah!
That’s some idiotic shit. You really need to see a doctor for your mental health delusions.
Maybe the real delusion is all the diseases that can cause a compromised immune system we met along the way.
You already told us you were kicked in the head by a horse four years ago. Why do you keep telling us?
LoL. I’d say the same but then you’ve probably already seen your naturalpath for a prescribed regimen of essential oils and healing crystals
Dear walking smallpox blanket
Get fukken ratio’d
Then get that horseshoe shaped indent in your forehead checked out. Concussions are no joke!
So does it brother you when other people wear masks? If so, why?
I don’t want people forcing me to wear a mask when covid was a problem 4 years ago.
Who is forcing you to wear a mask in this scenario?
The 10 to 15 morons repeatedly melting down on my comments here.
You’ve been replied to by two people. Are you seeing ghosts? Are they in the room with you right now?
Hi, “moron” checking in. Downvoting your comments because they are pointless. Despite what one thinks about the covid situation, other infectious diseases exist outside of covid. In addition, nobody is forcing you to wear a mask by simply wearing their own masks.
Your comments deserve the downvotes due to the sheer stupidity, so there’s no point in trying to attack the people giving them to you.
I wouldn’t describe five people calling you out for being an idiot as ten to fifteen people repeatedly melting down, but idiots do tend to have issues with numbers and reality.
Edit: I took a quick look at your post history to see if you’re just a troll and I figured it out from this comment:
It’s relieving to let out diarrhea. Constipation is painful and takes forever to get rid of.
You’re just letting your mental diarrhea out for the relief! Thank God, I was worried how anyone that stupid would make it through life.
Both my wife and I are immunocompromised (kidney transplant and cancer). We wear a mask because getting sick really sucks and it’s not just COVID. We’re glad most people got used to the idea of seeing others in masks because here in the US it wasn’t a common thing like it is in Japan. I never expected others to continue wearing them but we get harassed often for wearing ours. It’s so frustrating now that I simply yell “she has cancer” whenever someone confronts us. Some go as far as to tell us to “stay home” then if we’re so scared. We’re just trying to live too and sometimes that means us wearing a mask when we’re out.
No one’s forcing you to wear a mask, you dumb shit. This post is how a person was denied entrance to a restaurant because they were wearing a mask. That’s completely different.
I don’t want people forcing me to wear a mask when covid was a problem 4 years ago
Im sorry to tell you and all conservasuckers this fact, respiratory viruses are on the rise in the last few decades, the next global pandemic which may be worse than covid, is probably going to happen less than 10 years from now. How yall gonna freak out when that one comes chum?
As everyone knows, covid is the only infectious disease facemasks can reduce the spread of. Before covid masks were just decorative.
covid is the only infectious disease facemasks can reduce the spread of
And as usual the conservamorons are like “mAsK WaSnT 100% eFfEcTiVe!!!” In their backwards universe if something is only 85% effective, its the same as it being 0% effective.
Just because I’m curious: I have chronic sarcoidosis in both lungs, and lifelong asthma. I’ve by some miracle survived 4 years, but at the cost of almost all the stamina I used to have. COVID still circulates around the daycares, youth clubs and workplaces here and I have children.
I don’t have an option to not wear a mask when I leave the room I’ve spent these 4 years in. Does that bother you?
Be honest and tell us you don’t give a shit about the people around you.
Edit: Not surprised at your lack of an answer.
Dad! come now, I told you 15 minutes ago it was time for bed.
yeah, you know how infectious diseases completely stop infecting people after one outbreak. swine flu was 50 years ago, and famously never came back.
Does anybody actually know what the restaurant’s policy is on masks and why they have it in the first place or are people just assuming things to rage over?
What reason could there possibly be to ban masks other than anti-science COVID denial.
I’d be afraid of this restaurant’s sanitary practices at this point. Do they believe in soap or is that also a hoax?
Well, I mean before COVID plenty of places banned wearing anything that obscured your face. Like if you walked into a bank wearing a ski mask, you’re probably gonna have a bad time.
It’s a restaurant anyway… You gonna eat with a mask on? The ban is kinda unnecessary because it would resolve itself once the mask wearer has their food.
Actually it turns out I was right, you people did not bother to verify anything about this story and you’re just assuming stuff to rage over.
The restaurant in the picture is the La Tapenade Mediterranean cafe. This is a real restaurant in the O’Hare airport. This restaurant is a chain that is owned by a company called HMSHost, which a subsidiary of the big Swiss company Dufry. If you go to their website and look up their policies, you’ll notice that there is zero mention of masks ANYWHERE. Here is their website, you can verify it yourself:
I thought that my search was flawed, so I tried to look up articles reporting this story but I couldn’t find anything. The one and only source to this story is that Tweet. Which means that it’s very likely that this story is a hoax made up by some Twitter rando who wanted rage bait.
Which makes sense because it is highly unlikely for a big corporation running a company that runs chain restaurants in international airports to have a policy against masks, especially when the airport in question is in Chicago, which is one of the most liberal cities in America. You simply fell for the bait without questioning it.
Let’s hold up on the self-congratulations a second.
There’s a very long way between a multinational corporation’s published policy and the practice at street-level, even if yesterday is the only report (so far). Is this a franchise? What authority does the store have contractually, or in practice? Is the policy enforced? Is there a history of enforcement? Was this a rogue employee, maybe a recent hire, with a political motivation?
Did you check the original thread https://x.com/AmmahStarr/status/1804608613916328334 for the context of the discussion? Did you check the account for a history of “rage-bait” before dismissing this woman’s experience?
Skepticism is important, but caping for corps is seldom necessary. They pay people for that.
There’s a very long way between a multinational corporation’s published policy and the practice at street-level, even if yesterday is the only report (so far). Is this a franchise? What authority does the store have contractually, or in practice? Is the policy enforced? Is there a history of enforcement? Was this a rogue employee, maybe a recent hire, with a political motivation?
This just further proves my point though, you didn’t actually verify anything. Not only do we not know any of this for certain because the source didn’t provide anything, but people here haven’t even bothered to check the authenticity of the story.
The O’Hare website lists the restaurants at the airport and provides their website. The website provided for this restaurant is the HMSHost website. On there, they have a tab that lists their brands, and when you click on this cafe, it lists it’s locations. This suggests that the company directly operates their venues. However, their Wikipedia page says that company does manage franchises, but no source was provided for this claim. Based on the available evidence, it’s best to assume that the restaurant is directly run by the company. If that’s the case then their policies on their website are the ones that apply to the restaurants, and they don’t appear to have any sort of ban on masks.
In the thread you linked, this person claims that an employee demanded that she takes off her mask. She later in the thread mentioned to another user that the employee said repeatedly that “it’s the policy”. However, I haven’t been able to find such policies anywhere. If you can find then I would greatly appreciate a source. She provides no further details or context. Based on the available information, there are possibilities:
- There’s actually a mask ban somewhere in the restaurants policies, but that seems unlikely
- There’s a rogue employee with an agenda, but I also find this unlikely considering how this is resturant in an international airport in a very liberal city
- This story is simply made up
I personally think is most likely to be the case. That doesn’t mean that 1 and 2 can’t happen or didn’t, I’m just pointing out that the probability of this story being true is rather low unless we’re presented with concrete evidence that prove otherwise.
Did you check the original thread https://x.com/AmmahStarr/status/1804608613916328334 for the context of the discussion? Did you check the account for a history of “rage-bait” before dismissing this woman’s experience?
Did you follow your own advice? Because her account does indeed have a very long history rage bait type content and her thread provides little substance. She claims it happened but didn’t provide any details besides two very vague remarks about an employee and a picture of the resturant. This all could’ve happened, but the only thing we have is her word and based on her account history, her word is not that credible.
Skepticism is important, but caping for corps is seldom necessary. They pay people for that.
Raging over stories that have a high likelyhood of being false just because you hate corporations isn’t a virtue. Criticism still needs to be based on something real in order for it to be valid.
Criticism still needs to be based on something real in order for it to be valid.
And yet, in the end, yours only amounts to what you consider “likely”.
Could be that they’re worried that the people who got through security and had their luggage and bodies checked for weapons and identity confirmed may rob the place if they wear a mask
Actually after doing some research on this story, there’s a very good chance that it is fake.
Facebook is not a source m8
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Does anybody actually know what the restaurant’s policy is on masks
Yes, the owner of that restaurant is a conservadpshit moron. Thats the policy.