Is anyone round here going to follow Fauci's advice and take the GOGGLES route?

"Nope. Barely wear a mask.

—Sane, sensible, healthy"

More like narcissistic, reckless, and a troll.

No, sounds nutty. Air is gonna circulate all over you no matter what.

Of course it is, r4, but it won’t go directly in your eyes if someone sneezes, coughs or just breathes heavy.

While I don’t wear goggles, per se, I have a pair of safety glasses from work that look like a regular pair of sunglasses I wear.

Even a simple pair of glasses or sunglasses would work. They don’t have to be goggles. Fauci is not the only one saying this either.

R4, the whole point is nothing is foolproof, but you do anything and everything to minimize your risk.

You probably won’t get HIV from fucking bareback, but you take precautions to minimize the risk.

[quote]More like narcissistic, reckless, and a troll.

Another histrionic queen heard from.

I wore them in the early stages of covid but I let down my guard. They're going back on

Like that’s happened to me, R5. I don’t mean recently-I mean throughout the entire history of my life to date, my eyes have yet to receive the spittle of another in any significant way other than the infinitesimal amounts carried through the air since the birth of humans and time immemorial.

Maybe YOU’LL do “anything and everything,” R6. Some of us aren’t too terribly afraid. Whatever makes you feel better, though.

I ordered a few face shields this am, still about $4 ea on amazon.

Unfortunately, we'll never know how many wear face shields, mask (and in some cases TWO masks) and gloves, and ended up infected anyway.

[quote] I ordered a few face shields this am

A few? How man faces do you have?

Does this face shield make me look fat? Oh wow, thanks for the honesty. Good thing I brought two others!

[quote] for 'perfect' protection

Why does he choose to use terms such as that? There is probably added protection with goggles but perfect protection makes him sound like just another loon, which is not at all helpful.

I have no idea whether I will start wearing goggles or not yet, at first I couldn't see myself wearing a mask and now I wear one religiously.

Time to admit that the people we used to mock as archaic and primitive probably knew better than we do. May as well just go all in on this.

Like R5 I have some safety glasses that I wear in higher-risk situations (shopping, doctor visits), but for just walking the dog I assume that my sunglasses are good enough.

Outside? Nope. I think a mask is sufficient. Inside a box or grocery store? Most definitely. People are STILL too lax for me to trust them with my health and I have little enough time left as it is.

I had my annual wellness examine last week and now that I think of it my doctor was wearing goggles. I wear contacts and I had heard it was recommended that people who wear contacts stop because of possible infection by insertion and removal of the contacts.

[quote]Outside? Nope. I think a mask is sufficient. Inside a box or grocery store? Most definitely. People are STILL too lax for me to trust them with my health and I have little enough time left as it is. —oldlez

How old is you, gurl?

Oh please no.

Sometimes I wonder if this isn’t a test of our willingness to conform. It’s like the hijab that Muslim women are totally NOT forced to wear. It’s their choice, nobody is holding a gun to their head. And it’s for their own protection, and the protection of the men around them, so they don’t get tempted to rape. It’s an outward symbol of their virtue, and those who don’t wear it are scorned by holy and nobody cares what happens to them because they were asking for it. If they’d just wear the covering, they’d be safe.

To an extent, yes. I wear a mask in public for safety but it also says, stand back. The goggles clearly give that effect too.

Your paranoia about conformity is insane though

I've been wearing an N95 mask, goggles and a face shield since this all started. A maskless man walked past me in the grocery store last month and sneered, "idiot" as he gawked at my attire. You know something? I don't care.

One thing I’ve learned during this - we have no idea how this spreads exactly. I got it despite wearing a mask, keeping 6 feet apart and minimizing going to public places. After months of 99% lockdown, I went to a Home Depot and restaurant pickup when things reopened. I was in a place where infections were exploding - which became evident a week later. I got it despite mask. This thing seems way more contagious than regular flu.

Is R2/7 posting from February 23rd?

[quote]Your paranoia about conformity is insane though

Unquestioned acquiescence to increasingly extreme directives, especially about a still-unknown virus, is very concerning.

People like R25 are the reason this will never be over. We could have knocked this shit out in 3 weeks, but these Karen/ Kevin types keep pontificating, rather than get their shit together. Imagine if blacks started pulling this bullshit. They'd be immediately rounded up and dropped off in arena style jails to rot, no questions asked.

i thought a "karen" was the type that would be calling the cops on R25 for non-compliance.

you people need to get your racist-misogynist labels straight.

Someone recently learned the word histrionics I see.

Must be that new Word of the Day calendar coming in handy.

It’s just the Asshole of Death still trying to kill as many of us as she can

I don’t have to worry about no stinking goggles I wear eyeglasses and a mask!

Hilarious how some are compelled to equate taking precautions with being afraid and a conformist.

They're so original they refuse to conform even to reality. They make their own reality! Like Herman Cain did.

I have to go to Florida a week from Monday for 3 days( work)...I plan on wearing mask, gloves, and goggles for the flight in both directions!

No, it's enough to sanitize my eyeglasses before and after outings, when I wash my hands and don and doff gloves.

R25 raises a valid point though. The more I read about pandemics history and contagion patterns from immunology professors and Bill Bryson's book [italic]A Short History of Nearly Everything[/italic], and from Infectious Diseases professors the false sense of security and invulnerability some directives seem to give simple superstitious people, the more I suspect these mandates are more to instill confidence of citizens to gather in retail stores and eating establishments to keep the economy going.

If we had a decent President there would have been a federally-funded, comprehensive face mask invented and distributed to Americans. Washable, reusable...

No. Too much and never enough.

Face mask and alcohol are sufficient, and just don't bark in each other's face, and also gargle with salt water/chlorhexidine for 1 minute three times a day.

[quote]No, it's enough to sanitize my eyeglasses before and after outings

It's really not if it's spread via aerosols, as many scientists believe.

But thank you for making me realize I have to sanitize my glasses. (D'oh!) What do you use that doesn't damage or fog up the glass?

Watch this video that shows aerosol droplets expelled without a mask compared to various types of masks. Yuck. After seeing this, I’d cover my eyes if I had to be in close proximity to people, even those with cloth masks on.

A Data Lounge type, sans face mask and under goggles, bracing his nervous disposition to brave the elements and venture out of doors for the first time since April in search of a new stockpile of Lysol wipes from every Wal_Mart within 100 miles of his house.

A computer model of the Diamond Princess cruise-ship outbreak found that the virus spread most readily in microscopic droplets light enough to linger in the air.

A research team based at Harvard and the Illinois Institute of Technology found that the virus spread most readily in microscopic droplets that were light enough to float in the air, for several minutes or much longer.

The new findings, if confirmed, would have major implications for making indoor spaces safer and choosing among a panoply of personal protective gear.

Epidemiologist discusses the findings of the Diamond Princess study:

Yeah, I wear the mask and use hand sanitizer religiously, practice careful social distancing, etc. I don’t go where people gather, except for groceries, the whole nine yards. And I believe in the collective good, etc.

But I feel like we are being pushed a little further and inching toward something not very nice. Let me be very clear: I am following all the health guidelines. But I’m also seeing a lot of mob mentality and it makes me uneasy.

I bet if Bill DeBlasio introduced a new snitch line NOW, people wouldn’t make fun of it this time. They’d be falling all over themselves to report their neighbors for wearing insufficient-gauge Tyvek body coverings.

I'm not wearing glasses AND goggles, so glasses will have to do. I wear a mask whenever I leave the house, and I keep hand sanitizer in the car. I'm careful about where I go a nd how many people are there, like you R43. I'm a likely candidate for falling over dead if I catch this thing, so I'd like to avoid it if at all possible.

How does the new study at R41 square with the findings about the Korean apartment building where many workers at a call center in one part of the building got covid, but very few people elsewhere in the building, even though they were using the same elevators, hallways, and other common spaces?

Keys. Wallet. Phone. Mask. Ski goggles. Latex gloves. Purell. Wipes.

I haven't been able to find Purell Wipes in months.

I wear a mask if I'm around other people. If I'm walking the dog outside, or running, I don't. Unless this spikes considerably more than it is now, I'll probably forego the goggles.

[quote]I haven't been able to find Purell Wipes in months.

I'm convinced this is how 40% of DL lives, shut-in, wearing double masks, goggle's under a face shield, double wrapped in latex gloves up to the shoulder blades, living on canned beans and fallout shelter cuisine, ordering all necessities for delivery to a decontamination chamber, and leaving the house only in search of Purell Wipes.

I wear glasses, so no to goggles.

R49, I just want a pack of wipes to keep in the car ... geez.

I draw the line at goggles. I don't go anywhere (indoors) anyway. Groceries are delivered, everything else can be done online. If I absolutely needed to go buy something, it would be early AM when I know the stores are empty. In and out in 15-20 minutes max.

If I had to take a long flight, maybe I'd consider it. But I don't plan to fly for a good while. There just comes a point where I would be willing to risk a very small viral load rather than live in total paranoia. I mean, 6 months of this has already been exhausting. I do everything possible to keep my immune system in good shape and I don't have any high risk folks around me. But I certainly understand those who are high risk, and/or forced to deal with the public regularly, taking stronger measures.

I'm all ready!

Here we go. Another goalpost moved. Another maidens auntie brigade to squawk that we’re Trumpers if we don’t want to wear goggles now, because Fauci does.

It's been obvious to anyone with a brain right from the start that you need eye protection as well as nose and mouth. I don't know why this is even an issue now, all of a sudden.

[quote] But I feel like we are being pushed a little further and inching toward something not very nice. Let me be very clear: I am following all the health guidelines. But I’m also seeing a lot of mob mentality and it makes me uneasy.

WTF? There are clips of Deplorables pulling guns and attacking people who ask them to put on mask, but the ones who ask to put on masks are the troubling mob that make you uneasy?

[quote] goggle's under a face shield,

Goggle’s what though?

[quote]WTF? There are clips of Deplorables pulling guns and attacking people who ask them to put on mask, but the ones who ask to put on masks are the troubling mob that make you uneasy?

You don't think it's possible that both sides make him feel uneasy, for different reasons?

Feeling uneasy=threaten deadly force?

I won't wear goggles, but I have ordered a full face plastic shield I will wear along with my mask.

I've seen people wearing masks in their cars and on bicycles.

R38, when you come back home, bring your glasses into the shower with you and wash them with Dawn liquid soap in the shower. Wash the earpieces and the whole frame with Dawn as well as the lenses.

I’ve been washing my glasses with Dawn for years, because it doesn’t damage the anti-scratch coating and it’s a degreaser. Dry them with an eyeglass cloth. Don’t scrub them dry, just give them one light pass to get the water off the lenses. Don’t leave your glasses in the shower, or you could get mineral deposit spots from the shower water on the lenses.

Also, don’t use Dawn with any of the perfumed scents, just use plain blue Dawn.

R63, people give me crap for recommending “original blue Dawn”, but the brand now has 50 different micro biotic antistatic bubbly bullshit versions.

I should wear goggles for my bus commute - it’s a slack-jawed grunter people who blow their noses into their own hair.

R56 is another problem. The bullying of people who are on the same side as you, but not as virtuous. They lead the mobs.

*sigh*

Fauci told Anderson Cooper last night that he never said everybody should wear goggles. He was asked a question about whether a person in a specific circumstance should wear them and he basically said, "Go ahed and wear them if they make you feel safer."

But Repugs gotta lie. About everything.

[quote]Fauci told Anderson Cooper last night that he never said everybody should wear goggles. He was asked a question about whether a person in a specific circumstance should wear them and he basically said, "Go ahed and wear them if they make you feel safer."

No, that is not what he said the first time.

What part of "YOU SHOULD USE IT" ...and "you should use it if you can" don't you understand?

Why don't you click on this link and hear what he ACTUALLY SAID in the video.

"Both sides" argument = Trump / Deplorable

Only one side puts everybody else in danger (spoiler alert: The ones not wearing a mask and think they can own the Libs by spreading Covid).

It's become a political thing in America - them and us...leading to "liberals" shouting in people's faces, with a mask on of course.

These are not liberals shouting

I have glasses, so I don't wear goggles. I do have a pair, though, so I guess I'm ready if necessary. I don't have a face shield and I'm hoping I don't need one.

Other than my own home, I wear a mask everywhere if inside. I wear one outside if there's people around, but if I'm outside walking with nobody around me, I don't wear one, but I do keep one in my pocket if needed.

[quote] These are not liberals shouting

Those are not even humans shouting.

If it's at the stage that we need to wear goggles to prevent spread we're all basically fucked, luckily it isn't as deadly as Ebola, Marburg or Hantavirus

Anyone who questions anything is painted as a Boris or a Trumper.

How about Antifa? Can I be Antifa? Their outfits are cooler.

Chorona can indeed infect you through your eyes, so you may want to wear a face-shield of goggles depending on your situation. It's not crazy, and it's not anything new. It's something we've known for months.

Infect me with your corona, I want to be tainted with your germs, my hunky adonis!!!!

I wear a face shield, and today I went to the market and there was a woman behind me in line intermittently coughing small coughs behind me. Face shields don’t cover the back.

So now I’m going to have to get goggles. *Sigh*

Maybe a helmut, R78

Yep. Additionally, I’m buying a hard hat, knee and elbow pads, ear plugs, a male cup, and hopefully a shield if I can get my hands on one.

If you told me 5 years ago I’d be typing that I’d tell you that you were a fucking lunatic yet here we are.

This is Amerikkka.

R80, I have a medical condition that makes me very high risk. I’m not doing it for the hell of it. In the last month, I’ve had three medical emergencies and I’m waiting to have surgery. Two of the emergencies were totally unrelated to the surgery, just weird coincidences. I’ve had a really bad month.

If I get Corona, no surgery for additional weeks, which will make my condition a lot worse than it has to be and it will probably be an emergency. I’m just gritting my teeth until the surgery.

There are some people who have legitimate medical issues, you know. If you see someone in the store with a face shield, there’s a reason.

[quote] there was a woman behind me in line intermittently coughing small coughs behind me. Face shields don’t cover the back. So now I’m going to have to get goggles.

You have eyes in the back of your head? Are you my mom?

[quote] there was a woman behind me in line intermittently coughing small coughs behind me.

What would be really weird is if she was coughing small coughs in front of you while she was behind you.

If you can smell my weed/resin bowl, you are too close. Weed helps social distancing and from a distance god is watching us but I still get annoyed with Bette Midler at times.

Is there a full bodysuit, maybe like a Hazmat, that one can wear? Seems like when it gets cooler that would be the best bet.

Of course there is, r85.

Have you not seen in the beginning where the doctors and nurses were saying they didn’t have enough of them?

If you're going to the grocery store and you're in an area where people wear masks, then maybe no goggles are needed. But if you live in a place where masks are not required and not commonly worn, there will be more Covid-19 floating in the air. The number of hospitalizations in those areas prove that. In those areas, whenever you go out, wear a mask and goggles.

But if you are going on a train, or a plane, or a subway, or other crowded places, then wear the fucking goggles. It is OBVIOUSLY safer. The virus is airborne. It enters your body through mucusal surfaces, i.e., the inside of your mouth, your nose, and your eyes.

Don't be stupid about this. Protect yourselves. You want to be around to struggle through the coming Depression, don't you?

Anybody found a good source of googles?

Go to any hardware store and they'll have all sorts of goggles.

Here you go, R85. Jude Law has you covered, so to speak.

Well, R88... eBay has over 263,000 listings for "goggles."

You might try there.

When the first Coronavirus freak out thread here started I got a box of N95s, goggles, face shields and disposable ear covers. The only thing I haven't done is the goggles and ear covers but I'm glad I have them