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If I don't have COVID, and I don't, because I've been locked down, socialist distancing, etc., for over 2 MONTHS, then I don't need to be forced to wear a mask. I have nothing to "spread", and since the mask does nothing to protect me from catching COVID from someone else, there is no reason for me to wear one.

Masks don't work, socialist distancing doesn't work, destroying the economy in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID doesn't work. If it did, we would have been done with this a long time ago. But instead, we're promised socialist distancing and gimp masks in perpetuity, since a "second wave" will hit if we dare to stop doing any of this nonsense.

Wear your mask, stay home, do whatever makes you feel like you're "making a difference", and like "we're in this (alone) together."

The problem is that this is all being used as the basis to control people and dictate to them what they can do, where they can go, who they can see, how close they can get (to friends, family, etc.). It is totalitarian b.s. My rights don't end where your fear begins.

[Wonder Warthog]

"I have nothing to "spread", and since the mask does nothing to protect me from catching COVID from someone else, there is no reason for me to wear one."

Wearing a mask decreases the possibility of inhaling respirable microdroplets by 96%...this is a scientific FACT. The problem is that neither you nor I know if there is an asymptomatic carrier around if we are in a group in an enclosed area (retail store?). If said asymptomatic carrier also has a mask on, it decreases the possibility that he will "give off" respirable microdroplets by 99%..another scientific FACT. Wearing a mask is simply the intelligent thing to do.

I simply don't understand why there is this visceral actual HATRED of the idea of wearing a mask for short periods of time, can you explain that??