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To: old curmudgeon

[If masks are not effective when the wearers are 20 ft. apart, they are truly worthless.]


That’s like saying since locks can’t prevent home invaders from breaking down your door, they’re truly worthless. Or that since tanks can’t prevent all RPG’s from penetrating the hull, tank armor is truly worthless. Masks improve your odds and lower the dose. Are you bullet-proof, in viral terms? No. But I think of masks in the way that tankers thought of improvised, hillbilly armor that improved their odds without making them invulnerable. Every advantage is worth seeking out when the threat is an early grave and the prize is staying alive.

Are they an annoyance? Absolutely. I don’t like seat belts either. But the thought of flying through my windshield in the event of a serious collision means I always click it.


44 posted on 12/10/2020 8:33:38 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Yours is a great example of the faulty logic that has put us where we are.

The best logical conclusion from this test, if we are going to accept the test as sound, is that all air conditioners should take in fresh air constantly so as to introduce only uncontaminated air into a building.

Also all central air conditioners should be modified so as to self disinfect.

Expensive, but certainly less costly than shutting down our economy.

Also how to manage air flow in public buildings would be a reasonable endeavor.


57 posted on 12/10/2020 9:55:30 AM PST by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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To: Zhang Fei

You can wear your mask if you choose, but my body, my choice. I choose to protect myself in other ways.


58 posted on 12/10/2020 9:55:54 AM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: Zhang Fei

By the way, I don’t have locks to keep people out of my house.

The locks are there so as to require effort on the part of bad guys who wish to get in. That effort results in noise. Noise wakes my dog. Dog wakes me. Bad guy regrets picking my house, but only for a few seconds. That is all he has left.

In the event I am not home, the effort leaves evidence, sets off alarm, notifies the sheriff, etc.

If your mask has an alarm that notifies you that you are under attack, I highly recommend you wear it.

Mine does not.

I know...I am mean, but I just could not resist.


65 posted on 12/10/2020 10:24:15 AM PST by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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