I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything, just trying to take good care of the most important people in my life, my family, not yours, or anybody else's, now I sure hope you & everybody else takes simple safety precautions, that would help make taking care of my family easier, I don't think asking people to SD, & wear a mask is too much to ask, what are the alternative(s)?.
I hate masks too, I have quite a variety I rotate on a daily basis, yesterday I had a company issue white one on, a co worker said it looked like a diaper, I said "thanks for reminding me" I also keep a cloth scarf type mask handy around my neck to pull up when needed, cause the latest rules in our offices that I'm in charge of says, masks are required when near another person, we had a special safety meeting Mon to explain the new rules that the boss said we must inforce, or somebody could loose their job, it was determined that since people move around in the office alot, & you will be near another person in an instant, that unless your the only one in the office, you must wear a mask, so if I'm by myself which is often the case, & someone walks in, I can quickly cover my nose & mouth. I also wear ear plugs when working around anything noisy, except music.
People complain about NOAA weather forecasting, even claiming somebody should get fired when the forecast is off, but it's all computers these days, even the voice on your VHF radio is a computer, so who you gonna fire?, + we all have the choice of predicting the weather ourselves, cause we all have access to the same data, that's what I do, being a life long weather geek, I watch weather everyday at the local level, all the way up to the world level, & on the net, & make my own personnel call(s) as go or no go, never blaming anybody else for my decision(s), others would rather complain, & blame, what ever happened to taking personnel responsibility for ones own actions? same with news, it's available all over at the local level, all the way up to the world level, it's on the net as well, & we all have access to the same news, yet some want to pick & choose what news they want, I call that fantasy news, cause why settle for the news you have, when you can make believe the news you want? news is news.