“anxiety alleviation.”
That’s exactly how I’ve treated it. Not my own anxiety, but that of the Nervous Nellys that I may encounter over the course of a day. It’s not a big bother, and it helps keep them from unraveling in front of me.
When I went to my doctor a couple of weeks ago, he told me you’re not going to catch this outside. It’s not in the air, it’s not in the water, it’s not in the sand, sunlight will kill it; this is an indoor disease.
Considering that, it could be argued that the lock down helps transmission.
I have abandoned all COVID measures, and I do not intend to return to them, but if any business requests that I wear a mask, such as my dentist has, I will do so. Furthermore, I will not shame anyone for wearing a mask, excluding Joe Biden, nor will I shame anyone for not wearing a mask. Enough of this nonsense.
Remind any jerks complaining that you are not wearing a mask about this sentence from the New England Journal of Medicine. The Mask Mandate is about social control, not medicine.
“The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal.”
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I doubt you’ll find many in the health world who would claim they prevent someone from getting it - the rationale they use for masks is that it helps prevent a spreader from passing it on. i.e. it’s not about protecting the wearer from getting the virus, according to them.
NEJM should tell this to all the non-healthcare companies that mandate mask-wearing.
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I don’t know about indoors/outdoors but there are verifiable cases of transmission on public transit from passengers coughing or sneezing with no face to face interaction. Why bother to cover nose or mouth at all if masks offer no definite protection ?
So they make you wear a mask just so they feel better.
I’m sitting in a doctor’s office right now wearing a mask THEY insisted I wear (I have my own).
This is control freakism.i detest karens.
So, in other words, all these lines OUTSIDE stores are absolutely the wrong thing to be doing. Inside the store during normal times you briefly pass people and never stand next to any one person for more than a few seconds (except maybe in the checkout line).
Outside the store waiting to get in you are in SUSTAINED contact with the same persons in front and behind you for 10 to 20 minutes.
Will anybody tell the brain-dead health authorities that they are forcing people to do exactly the wrong thing?
I posted a version of this the other day to play with the mask fascists. If you want to borrow some of my insults, let me know.
If masks don’t offer protection then doctors and nurses shouldn’t wear them. Next time you go in for surgery, demand no masks anywhere in the OR.
