Posted on 11/20/2020 7:05:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Cowardice is contagious. But so is courage. When I don’t wear one, I see others doing it, too. Secret grins exchange. The New Resistance. I’m in.
I think I stated I didn’t want to catch “anything”. I have not had the flu in 25 or 30 years but upper respiratory fairly frequently. We take D3, K2, Quercitin, Tumeric, Super B, and C everyday.
I think the masks and staying 6 ft away from people in stores is helpful.
“I can’t figure out why they would push something that disabled facial recognition.”
So crime can increase, at a time when coos get defunded. “Destabilization” is Step 2 towards a Communist takeover of a country. After Demoralization.
“The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, did not contradict growing evidence that masks can prevent transmission of the virus from wearer to others. “
This has always been the point of wearing a mask. It’s why surgeons wear one while operating. Why is that so hard for people to understand?”
Surgeons wear one to prevent mouth bacteria from falling into an open wound. Nothing else. And studies show this doesn’t reduce infections in patients post-surgery anyway. Plenty no longer do it unless pushed to by patients or fear of lawsuits.
Google it.
⢠There are ZERO clinical trials that show that masks can prevent transmission of the virus from wearer to others.
⢠This is the first and only randomized clinical trial we have on mask against COVID-19 in community settings, but its findings of ineffectiveness are fully expected in light of all the other RCTs we have on other respiratory viruses.
⢠No matter what this or any study concludes, it will mean nothing to the mask cultists who are in a full-blown, hair-on-fire, dig my beliefs frenzy. Likley explained by the “Sunk cost fallacy”. They are possessed religious fanatics and nothing will shake them from their desperation to control something about this virus. If these are the findings from a covering such as a surgical mask, imagine how inept cotton masks are.
⢠Nothing short of a hazmat suit or N95 will protect them from their greatest fear....getting a virus that has a 99.7% survival rate.
⢠Can anyone answer this question: how do masks reduce transmission one way, but not the other? Is there some sort of one-way valve stitched into the fabric?
This is an argument that neither side can win. If a true believer gets sick wearing a mask, they will blame all the people who aren’t as careful as them. If a sceptic gets sick wearing a mask at a mandated store or workplace, they will claim that the mask did not make any difference. Because I work in the semiconductor industry where we always wear masks in the cleanroom, I know this for a fact- masks work to prevent the spit of ordinary conversation from penetrating to your mouth. However, no mask will prevent something as small as a virus from being inhaled and still allow you to breathe.
I just bought an iPhone 12, my first with facial recognition. It never dawned on my moving away from an old iPhone 6 with fingerprint recognition to facial recognition would be a disaster in this mask era. Now I’m having to enter my PIN code all the time!
Ah, the small annoyances of modern life.
What a novel concept.......
Same here.
Just to the store and it goes on at the last possible minute and comes off the second I step outside the door.
I don’t even pull it out of my pocket until I’m at least 20 feet inside the store and it’s off before I get to the door.
If required I wear it going to the restaurant table but never when leaving. The worst they can do is kick me out.
I know right? Too bad our mothers did not know this and teach us as children to cover our mouths when we cough.
Do you disagree with this?
“The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, did not contradict growing evidence that masks can prevent transmission of the virus from wearer to others. “
If you’re susceptible to upper respiratory infections, do you really think it’s a good idea to wear a petri dish right over your face and nose?
Do you disagree with this?
“The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, did not contradict growing evidence that masks can prevent transmission of the virus from wearer to others. “
Additional information could have been gathered by the Copenhagen study. 1) To what degree was social distancing being practiced. 2) While slightly fewer (but not statistically significant) people wearing masks got sick, how severe was the degree of illness reached by the people in each group. If one was inhaling fewer viruses, then the body’s zinc would have a better chance to fight the virus and the body would not progress to severe symptoms. Since seafood is probably a common food in Sweden, I wonder what the body zinc levels are in that population. Elsewhere I have seen that one third of the Earth’s population is zinc deficient. Null and void, please be sure you are getting a lot of zinc, and if not HCQ, then Quercetin which you can get at health food stores. Also, perhaps Resviratrol.
I’ve got quercitin, zinc, vitamins C & D, NAC and beta carotene.
“Do you disagree with this?”
“The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, did not contradict growing evidence that masks can prevent transmission of the virus from wearer to others. “
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The study did not examine whether a mask would prevent a sick person from transmitting the virus to healthy people. It did not address it at all. So in that sense, it did not contradict, yes.
But that is 100% Straw Man Argument. “The study of bird migration did not contradict other studies showing alligators eat dogs.” Similar logic.
Or, as Rumsfield was fond of saying, “The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” Do you disagree with that statement?
My point is, you are nitpicking my illustration. My original post was to poo-poo the entire study because the point of wearing a mask has always been to protect others, not yourself.
i disagree with part of it. There is not growing evidence the masks prevent transmission to others. the rest is correct as the results did not reach statistical significance it did not prove or contradict anything although it is one more piece of evidence that masks fail to make a statistically significant difference in anything
That little wire in the masks is an RFID “chip”!!!
Just kidding, I think.
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