Will you take the vaccine ?

[Ninurta]

My mask is a military gas mask. I was told I couldn't wear it, because it has exhaust valves. So it went like this:

Me: "Of course it has exhaust valves. If it didn't, the breath from my exhalation would blow it off my face, break the seal, and the covid would get in and kill me deader that the two brain cells you have left."

Dumbass: "But the masks aren't to keep you from catching it, they're to keep you from giving the virus to others."

Me again: "Aiight pinhead. Stay with me here a minute. Stop talking, and start thinking. Just a little bit. It's probably gonna hurt at first, but you'll get used to it if you stick with it - that thinking thing, I mean. Now, if this mask stays sealed, and the filters in it filter out all the particulates and such, and if the exhaust valves keep me from blowing it off my face and breaking that seal, then the covid can't get in, and so I can't catch it. If I don't catch it, how in the hell am I supposed to be distributing it through my exhaust valves? If it ain't IN me, how does it manage to get OUT of me, where it ain't to begin with? Think on that just a second - and I'll know if you start thinking, 'cause I'll be able to see the blood coming out of your ears, dumbass."

Dumbass again: * no response, Just blinking owl eyes *

I don't wear a mask for the most part, as I am exempt from them by executive order of the Governor. Some places, it's just less hassle to mask up than it is to produce the executive order and wait for them to read it. I avoid them when I can, and mask up on the few times I can't. In addition to my exemption, in this state it is illegal to wear a mask while carrying a gun, and has been since the says of the bank robbers, for obvious reasons.

And I carry a gun nearly everywhere, so no masking for me.

And then a non-thinking dumbass occasionally comes along.

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