Covid-19 in OKC (coronavirus)

[Pete]

Yet one more reason not to shop at Walmart.

[Ronnie Jackson]

Yet one more reason not to shop at Walmart.

Meh. It’s so cheap tho.
I’ll just wear my Ventilated N95.
Will be Cool-De-La.

[d-usa]

Meh. It’s so cheap tho.
I’ll just wear my Ventilated N95.
Will be Cool-De-La.

The Target Tax is worth it...

[jonny d]

Walmart is REQUIRING masks staring on Monday, the 20th...no need to keep bashing them. There will also be employees at the front of the store to keep those without masks out, or give them masks, most likely.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/busin...sks/index.html

[TheTravellers]

Yet one more reason not to shop at Walmart.

Yep, we quit shopping there long ago. Ended up buying a few things at their Neighborhood Market that nobody else carried - Manwich Bold, a few frozen things, but not even gonna do that anymore.

[TheTravellers]

Walmart is REQUIRING masks staring on Monday, the 20th...no need to keep bashing them. There will also be employees at the front of the store to keep those without masks out, or give them masks, most likely.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/busin...sks/index.html

But they clearly are *not* keeping those without masks out of the store:

https://www.okctalk.com/showthread.p...94#post1130294

Maybe it'll change on Monday and they actually *will* stop people from going inside, who knows...

[d-usa]

Yep, we quit shopping there long ago. Ended up buying a few things at their Neighborhood Market that nobody else carried - Manwich Bold, a few frozen things, but not even gonna do that anymore.

I do go to a neighborhood market fairly often, it has that Walmart brand but without the Walmart feel, if that makes sense.

[HangryHippo]

I do go to a neighborhood market fairly often, it has that Walmart brand but without the Walmart feel, if that makes sense.

Same here. I can't remember the last time I went in a Walmart Supercenter, but I go to WMNM regularly.

[jonny d]

But they clearly are *not* keeping those without masks out of the store:

https://www.okctalk.com/showthread.p...94#post1130294

Maybe it'll change on Monday and they actually *will* stop people from going inside, who knows...

I still wonder about the quote he put at the end. No one actually says stuff like that, not even in Oklahoma. I won't say it didn't happen, but it doesn't seem real. And I think it will keep people from going. I like to think that a company making such a huge public statement about it would prefer not to lose some goodwill.

[GoOKC1991]

I still wonder about the quote he put at the end. No one actually says stuff like that, not even in Oklahoma. I won't say it didn't happen, but it doesn't seem real. And I think it will keep people from going. I like to think that a company making such a huge public statement about it would prefer not to lose some goodwill.

It absolutely did happen. I heard it. If you don’t want to believe it, that’s fine.

In this world of “Karen’s” and whatever you call the male version of them, people will say anything.

[PoliSciGuy]

Meanwhile, the Trump admin is hindering testing, tracing and isolating programs. I honestly don’t know how this is defensible

https://apple.news/AgDjbzkpyQCq6FVO-p9uFkA

[kukblue1]

Walmart pick up though is outstanding and trust me i'm not pro Walmart. In fact they pissed me off that from 2013-2018 i never stepped foot in a Walmart. However no other places around here do car side pick up. Target might. Crest will Deliver but the fees are not really worth it when I can just go to Walmart tell them I'm there they load the trunk and off I go. First of April is the first time I ever did car side pick up and first time I ever brought grocery at walmart. I LOVE IT. I do kind of miss going around and looking at things however I can do that online too It's so easy and saves me a lot of time.

[TheTravellers]

I do go to a neighborhood market fairly often, it has that Walmart brand but without the Walmart feel, if that makes sense.

Yeah, it does, and the one on 23rd isn't *too* bad (the one in Edmond on 2nd is crazy busy and big, might as well be a real Wal-mart), but Homeland, Sprouts, and Uptown serve our needs well enough that we don't really need to go to them...

[TheTravellers]

Meanwhile, the Trump admin is hindering testing, tracing and isolating programs. I honestly don’t know how this is defensible

https://apple.news/AgDjbzkpyQCq6FVO-p9uFkA

*None* of what that idiot's admin has done during this pandemic has been defensible, this is just #547 on that list.

[emtefury]

Meh. It’s so cheap tho.
I’ll just wear my Ventilated N95.
Will be Cool-De-La.

Did you know some N95 masks only have a one way filter? Some only filter air coming in and provide no filtering for exiting air.

[emtefury]

I have been observing mask wearers and quite the comedy, so public service announcement.

If you didn’t know when you have your mask on as soon as you touch the front of it, you just infected your hand and then anything your hand touches. If you leave the store and take it off, put it in your pocket it or touch any part of the front, you just infected everything the front of the mask touched. If you go home and take your make off and put it on a table or counter, you just infected that area.

The only way to not infect anything with your mask is when taking off is to immediately throw away or put in a virus proof bag to then throw away the mask.

If you are taking off your mask between errands, you just infected everything the front of the mask is touching.

If a store employee touches the front of their mask and then touches an item at check out, they just infected that item that you will then touch infecting you.

[PoliSciGuy]

I have been observing mask wearers and quite the comedy, so public service announcement.

If you didn’t know when you have your mask on as soon as you touch the front of it, you just infected your hand and then anything your hand touches. If you leave the store and take it off, put it in your pocket it or touch any part of the front, you just infected everything the front of the mask touched. If you go home and take your make off and put it on a table or counter, you just infected that area.

Given your history of comparing this to the flu, you’ll have to understand the skepticism of some members of this board when it comes to your general knowledge about this thing.

The only way to not infect anything with your mask is when taking off is to immediately throw away or put in a virus proof bag to then throw away the mask.

If you are taking off your mask between errands, you just infected everything the front of the mask is touching.

If a store employee touches the front of their mask and then touches an item at check out, they just infected that item that you will then touch infecting you.

You're going to need to cite some peer reviewed studies for these claims, because these fly in the face of existing studies on the topic. Contamination via surfaces is not how the vast majority of these cases spread. See updated CDC guidance:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019...d-spreads.html

If you follow what has been said from the outset, to wash your hands before touching your face, you significantly lower the odds of getting a meaningful viral dose.

Given your history of comparing this thing to the flu, you’ll have to forgive some of us on this board of being skeptical of your general knowledge on these matters.

[d-usa]

He has no interest in discussion or even reading responses.

He does a drive-by troll post of disproven bull**** every few days, and then leaves.

[d-usa]

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[mkjeeves]

and yet, where people wear masks, infection rates decline.

[TheTravellers]

You're going to need to cite some peer reviewed studies for these claims, because these fly in the face of existing studies on the topic. Contamination via surfaces is not how the vast majority of these cases spread. See updated CDC guidance:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019...d-spreads.html

If you follow what has been said from the outset, to wash your hands before touching your face, you significantly lower the odds of getting a meaningful viral dose.

Given your history of comparing this thing to the flu, you’ll have to forgive some of us on this board of being skeptical of your general knowledge on these matters.

To be fair, what emtefury said was a concern at the beginning of this, and was one of *my* concerns (do the pros of wearing a mask outweigh the cons of people not wearing them correctly and/or screwing with them constantly?). But now, as you said, they've found that surface contact isn't nearly as contagion-prone as they thought, so the current thinking is actually "Masks won't protect you completely, but even with the disadvantages, they're still better than nothing and do a decent job of decreasing transmission".

[kukblue1]

No love for Oklahoma on CNN tonight Texas 10,000 cases in Texas but also has a population of 29 million people Oklahoma have 1,000 cases but only a population of 4 million so I think we are actually worse shape than Texas. SMH

[mkjeeves]

Again...the primary reason to wear a mask is to keep you from blowing infected droplets out where they can infect others, so if you aren't a healthcare worker, and your mask is infected enough that you could spread the infection by touch, the infection probably came from you. If not, you were probably way too close to someone else who was infected and/or were not wearing a mask. Wear a mask and distance.

That said, yeah, you should mind how you touch everything, how you might spread covid by touch to yourself and to others. If someone else touches their self infected mask and then a surface you are going to touch, you have a better chance of stopping the transmission by minding all of that. A lot better then trying to dodge airborne droplets.

[emtefury]

You're going to need to cite some peer reviewed studies for these claims, because these fly in the face of existing studies on the topic. Contamination via surfaces is not how the vast majority of these cases spread. See updated CDC guidance:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019...d-spreads.html

If you follow what has been said from the outset, to wash your hands before touching your face, you significantly lower the odds of getting a meaningful viral dose.

Given your history of comparing this thing to the flu, you’ll have to forgive some of us on this board of being skeptical of your general knowledge on these matters.

D-USA I don’t troll on here. I post my opinions and facts I know and research. An opinion contrary to yours or a fact that you don’t like is not trolling. I don’t have time to check everyone post and possible responses to my posts, so I check the forum every few days to see what is going on and respond if I have time.

About touching a mask and being infected. From what everyone on here is saying, the mask prevents fluids and droplets from infecting a person. The fluid or droplet is what contains the virus. When someone touches the fluid droplet with their hand (that was on their mask), then their hand is now infected. If that hand then goes into your eye nose or mouth, you now have the possibility of infecting yourself.

I don’t need to read or site a peer reviewed article for something that is common sense.

[David]

Went by OnCue today, full mask compliance for everyone I saw. "Unenforceable" quickly becomes 99% voluntary compliance once you set the rules. Only the small number of "muh freedom" types are going to make a big point about it, and they will hopefully be few enough that the mandate mostly accomplishes what it needs to.