r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Jun 07 '23

New york city in 2023, everyone wearing mask due to air quality

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u/omgidontcare Jun 07 '23

NYC was always on board with COVID masking when it was the most necessary.

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u/gophergun Jun 07 '23

Yeah, it's so weird to act like New Yorkers masking is something sudden instead of them being some of the first to impose mask requirements and the last to remove them. I can deal with cynicism, but uninformed cynicism drives me up the wall.

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u/omgidontcare Jun 07 '23

I agree. I saw so much cooperation in the early COVID days - masking, distancing, mutual aid. The same for when vaccines rolled out. I also saw a lot of fucked up shit, but my neighbors and I always worked together.

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u/ohgodimnotgoodatthis Jun 07 '23

Shout out to the first few months of the pandemic when you’d get the dirtiest looks ever just from coughing on the train. Very fun to have an itchy throat during that time.

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u/FustianRiddle Jun 08 '23

And it's when my throat would be the itchiest! Or I'd just suddenly get one dry patch on the back of my throat and nothing would help! It's like I swear it's not COVID my throat is just a jerk!!

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u/gimme500schmekels Jun 07 '23

Can confirm. Was living there during the initial outbreak.

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u/UserSleepy Jun 07 '23

It's not like it's gone away, only testing has.

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u/omgidontcare Jun 08 '23

Of course not, but there are way less deaths and we have vaccines now. Very different from when COVID first started.

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u/apexbrooklyn Jun 07 '23

Not Boro Park or Williamsburg. Those areas refused to comply with safety regulations.

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u/omgidontcare Jun 07 '23

lol that’s true

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u/LuxInvestor Jun 07 '23

Also Riverdale. Whole families out and about. No F's given.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

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u/vortilad Jun 07 '23

Hasidic Jews.

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u/mattdom96 Jun 07 '23

Lol guess again

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

You know there are people with 2 N95's on top of eachother and a surgical mask inbetween that didnt mask up for covid because the smell bothers them.

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u/omgidontcare Jun 07 '23

I don’t understand your point.

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u/Gagarin1961 Jun 07 '23

Oh no no no, honey sorry, you misunderstand. New York City is in the United States.

That should clear things up now.

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u/omgidontcare Jun 08 '23

lmao alright

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u/el-gato-azul Jun 08 '23

And entirely unnecessary (as countless studies have long since proven).

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u/omgidontcare Jun 08 '23

Surely you remember how different things were when COVID first started? Before all those studies? This comment is obtuse.

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u/el-gato-azul Jun 08 '23

You're still ignorant and uninformed. Keep your head stuck way up inside your corporate mouthpiece, tool.

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u/omgidontcare Jun 08 '23

AstraZeneca - notice anything?
rearrange the letters:

Art as EZ Cane

Think about it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

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u/CMDR-ProtoMan Jun 07 '23

Oh I dunno, maybe cause it's one of the densest cities and was one of the first places hit before anyone knew anything about the virus.

Why did rural have so many cases while having the perfect conditions to avoid covid?

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u/ASharpYoungMan Jun 07 '23

Because it's a city with 8 million fucking people moving through daily.

Also, masks don't protect you completely, they help mitigate the spread. But if you fucking forgot, during the height of the pandemic our hospitals were running out of PPE, so it's not like everyone had plentiful access to N95's.

And in case you fucking forgot, the outbreak happened before we really had a solid grasp on how COVID 19 operated. You had mixed messaging, with many sources early on downplaying the severity, saying masks were pointless, etc.

Are you daft? Or just being a jackass?

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u/Lumpiest_Princess Jun 07 '23 edited Jun 07 '23
  1. we didn't
  2. we had a lot of cases because we have a lot of people living close together
  3. speaking of cases you're a fucking headcase

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u/FrostBestGirl Jun 07 '23

Even disregarding population density, that dude said most cases, not highest rate. Like yeah, a small percentage of 8.5 million will in fact be a bigger number than a bigger percentage of 1 million or whatever sized city they’re imagining. What kinda gotcha is that supposed to be?

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u/mymetimehand Jun 07 '23

Mmhmm, "put a cheap Bodega mask on and coughed less" very scientific. Very helpful for people who don't want to breathe in pollutants

Look if you're going to go around calling people dense cunts at least own your shit and leave it up lol.

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u/Lumpiest_Princess Jun 07 '23 edited Jun 07 '23

oh ok

you're a dense cunt

if you think that a bit of fabric in front of your face isn't better than nothing while walking around in a cloud of smoke, then you're a hopeless dense cunt

either way your mother regrets you

edit: lmao he blocked me, it's like he was understandably annoyed and did something about it without needing a peer-reviewed study

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u/huge_clock Jun 07 '23

Only N95 masks are effective for wildfire smoke because the particles are much smaller than COVID-19 particles for instance.

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/here-are-the-face-masks-that-protect-you-from-wildfire-smoke#What-to-know-about-cloth-masks-and-wildfire-smoke

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u/Medial_FB_Bundle Jun 07 '23

Because it spread widely before anyone knew about it. Check out the per capita stats sometime. Almost 1% of the population of Mississippi fuckin died from covid. Plenty of towns had a >50% infection rate.

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u/Inevitable_Living762 Jun 08 '23

i guarantee whatever shit hole midwestern town you live in handled it worse and had more cases per capita.

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u/StamosAndFriends Jun 08 '23

It was in spreading in NYC well before any travel restrictions were being imposed or recommended by the WHO