Bio-HAZMAT!
Posted on 05/10/2021 8:29:22 PM PDT by lightman
There once was a time when leftists at least pretended to care about the environment. Remember the brouhaha over how plastic straws were going to destroy the planet and we had to replace them with those crappy paper straws that literally melt in your mouth? You know, for the sea turtles, or something?
Well, all that was sooo pre-COVID. Get with the program, covidiot! Now, it's hip, trendy, and oh-so-woke to mass-produce non-biodegradable plastic "disposable' face masks" that litter the landscape (and the seascape) because pencil-necked leftists in power have decided that trying to stop the spread of a highly contagious respiratory virus that both can't be stopped and isn't nearly as deadly as advertised is more important than saving the planet. Great Pacific Garbage Patch and innocent seals be damned.
From National Geographic:
"A year ago, the idea that disposable face masks, gloves, and wipes could become global environmental pollutants was not a pressing concern. Personal protective equipment, PPE for short, was seen as essential for preventing the spread of COVID-19. No one imagined just how much of it would be needed, for so long. Then production exploded—and now the litter is inescapable.
In the time since, scientists have built a library of more than 40 studies that document the use and disposal of PPE and model what that looks like on a global scale. Numbers not known then tell the tale now.
Globally, 65 billion gloves are used every month. The tally for face masks is nearly twice that—129 billion a month. That translates into 3 million face masks used per minute.
A separate study reports that 3.4 billion face masks or face shields are discarded every day. Asia is projected to throw away 1.8 billion face masks daily, the highest quantity of any continent globally. China, with the world’s largest population (1.4 billion) discards nearly 702 million face masks daily.
All may be called disposable, because they’re cheap enough to be used once and then thrown away. But here’s the hitch: They don’t actually go away."
Thankfully, more outlets are speaking out.
Sure, anti-litter campaigns can't hurt:
Or better yet, since litterbugs will always litter, maybe we should just stop mass-producing the damned things altogether and reserve them for what they were doing for decades in the medical profession: stopping spit from flying into open wounds.
It's not so much that leftists aren't keen on using environmental issues as a tool for control. It's just that their neuroticism far outweighs their 'concern' for the earth. Pit the fate of the planet against hypochondriac leftists who believe that possibly, maybe, conceivably, they can lower their odds of catching a virus with a 99.7+% survival rate, and our galactic home will lose out every single time.
Even worse, this chart shows non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) yield no significant impact on mortality due to COVID-19, so apparently all of it was and is for naught. Now, who's going to tell THAT to the baby seals?
Bio-HAZMAT!
They are laying in the streets here
Are they bio-degradable ?
The mask manipulators are strangely silent on this phenomenon.
If we got lucky, the Karens are still wearing them.
This is where the liberals do a short circuit in their brains.
Is that what happens when the maskurbators cum to this conclusion?
Started noticing this months ago. I go to WallyMart on occasion and began making a game out of count the masks in the parking lot walking back to my car. Found 37 one day.
If masks were truly effective in catching China-cooties they would be treated as hazmat and collected in red biohazard bags.
This is baffling to me me, for where I live, I have seen no discarded masks anywhere. Must be a big city thing. Are people just standing by the seashore throwing them in the ocean?
it greatly reduces the equation
states banned plastic bags in stores such as grocery stores, because they were ending up al over the place- but now they demand that people wear masks which also end up all over the place-
When I take a walk I usually see one or two discarded face masks. I see people walking outside wearing masks. Joggers too. Though joggers and runners have wised up in the last few months. I don’t see as many masked up.
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No Jab for Me – And Here Are 35 Reasons Why
By Gary G. Kohls, MD
Global Research
May 8, 2021
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/05/gary-g-kohls/no-jab-for-me-and-here-are-35-reasons-why/
One more thing China is guilty of re earth’s environmental pollution
The fact that the now contaminated masks are just tossed in the trash, or even worse IMHO, the cloth ones people shove in their pockets or purse.
Not just masks, but grocery stores that once used to have loose muffins, bagels, etc. to buy are packing one muffin/bagel/etc in a plastic clam shell container.
I over heard a Karen wearing a mask, shield and gloves whining about all the excess waste. People like you are the reason they still have to do all this garbage.
I recently saw a few hikers wearing two masks and disposable gloves. Is the tree gonna give you Rona if you touch it?
And are the enviro extremists worried that marine life will catch the virus from all of those masks?
Probably after the vax jabs.
The Karans need to get a grip and tighten dem diapers.
Really tight!
Big-govt doesn’t solve problems, they only make bigger ones. The people are, and always have been the problem solvers, so big-govt for some reason tries to control them. The bigger the govt gets the more they interfere with people solving their own problems. Too bad liberals can never grasp this simple truth.
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