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Does Wearing a Mask Mean You Are Smarter Than Those Who Don’t?
cnsnews.com ^ | 6/29/2020 | Baily Duran

Posted on 06/29/2020 12:48:58 PM PDT by rktman

As face masks become a societal norm, many people are speaking out against those who are choosing not to wear them, and some critics say that wearing a mask may determine how smart you are.

John Lundin, a self-described environmental activist and author, recently tweeted, “A mask is not a political statement. It’s an IQ test.” His tweet was met with many comments of support.

A recent Gallup/Knight Foundation poll that asked, “In the past 7 days, how often did you wear a mask or cloth face covering outside your home?” showed that 30% of high school graduates, 41% of college graduates and 46% of postgraduates always wear masks.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: mask; maskdown; maskup
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To: rktman

Let me offer two videos that address oxygen levels of folks wearing masks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA9gpF1RNOw&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D76j-vbLsf0&feature=emb_logo

For folks with breathing problems, masks just make the problem worse.


81 posted on 06/29/2020 1:29:47 PM PDT by upchuck (D.Horowitz: America did not invent slavery, America ended it. Preserve the American way of life.)
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To: rktman
Is this the next phase?

82 posted on 06/29/2020 1:31:17 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Right_in_Virginia

So was the senior that cried in the corner of the elevator wearing a mask and if she was why all the shame


83 posted on 06/29/2020 1:32:00 PM PDT by Rj Snows (Some years back Sacramento area used to be the capital of tomatoes)
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To: rktman

84 posted on 06/29/2020 1:33:08 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: Salamander

(4) Mail in voter fraud.


85 posted on 06/29/2020 1:33:45 PM PDT by entropy12 (covid-19 separates the fearful from the freedom loving! If I am not afraid, no one should be.)
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To: rktman

86 posted on 06/29/2020 1:34:10 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: rktman

No. There are multiple reasons to wear a mask, or not.

No one knows the reasons why a person is wearing, or not wearing one.


87 posted on 06/29/2020 1:34:20 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Yaelle
Would you care to explain what you are "protecting yourself" from, wearing a mask, alone in your car?

Personally, surprised your car can move with that much Smug on board. Air shocks?

88 posted on 06/29/2020 1:34:36 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: SubVet72

I only wore a mask twice at visits to our local VA clinic here in sunny SW Florida. I was in and out in just a few minutes — which was fine with me, because I found the mask restricted my breathing.

For all the rumblings about mandatory masks, I noticed that relatively few people wore them this week at church. I hope that’s a good sign.


89 posted on 06/29/2020 1:35:14 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: rktman
30% of high school graduates, 41% of college graduates and 46% of postgraduates always wear masks.

Wearing a mask for the social sake of wearing a mask is status seeking. The left are traditionally snobs allowing themselves a sense of superiority because they have a post graduate degree in arcane languages or bronze age art history or something equally marketable.

Wearing a mask because you are a risk to others is imperative.

Wearing a mask because you feel you will be exposed to a risk is survival.

These two factors are deeply rooted in common sense independent of formal educational level.

90 posted on 06/29/2020 1:35:30 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: jonascord

Not me, I was being sarcastic


91 posted on 06/29/2020 1:35:35 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: rktman

If so then there are e a lot of incredibly stupid young people.


92 posted on 06/29/2020 1:35:59 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Salamander

That is SO Mad Max.
Wish I had one!
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Get one:
https://www.amazon.com/Masks-Metal-Mesh-Protective-Gear/s?rh=n%3A3395271%2Cp_n_feature_keywords_browse-bin%3A4138052011


93 posted on 06/29/2020 1:36:01 PM PDT by JCL3 (As Richard Feynman might have said, this is reality taking precedence over public relations.)
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To: 1Old Pro

Interestingly, even before Herr Hogan “allowed” it, the gun shops were already Free Zones.

When we went to get another, there were so many people in there I felt like I was inside a pinball machine and all of the people were maskless.


94 posted on 06/29/2020 1:36:30 PM PDT by Salamander (Flying Colours....)
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To: rktman
Wearing a mask is pure virtue signaling. It also means you are a far left liberal and probably stupid to boot.
Plus you are liable to pass out from lack of oxygen if you put it on and go jogging.
95 posted on 06/29/2020 1:37:34 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: rktman
Well...voting for ILLary meant that you were smarter than those who voted for Trump so *of course* those who wear masks are smarter!
96 posted on 06/29/2020 1:37:43 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: LydiaLong

Just as good as a mask.

I still believe covid-19 spreads by touch 95%, airborne 5% in public places.

How many people cough or sneeze near you in grocery stores? It is rare. But an infected person touches so many items in a store, like picking several avocado’s checking them and finally placing one in their cart. And the cart handle, and boxes on shelves, and rest room door, flush handle...etc etc. Virus cells are shed through their sweaty hand and then you pick them up on your hand. But you are pretty safe until you scratch your eyes or nose or touch your mouth.

One reason 4 times bigger population of India crammed into a landmass 1/3 size of USA has fewer infections/million people than USA is the Indian greeting is not hand shake. It is Namaste. Indians are touch averse.


97 posted on 06/29/2020 1:40:56 PM PDT by entropy12 (covid-19 separates the fearful from the freedom loving! If I am not afraid, no one should be.)
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To: LydiaLong

I think the idea is stops droplets spreading so far (think trying to blow away some dust with a mask versus without).

The down side is you may end up breathing back some of virus you just exhaled (assuming you have the virus).

I think for crowded situations (such as packed subway cars) they may be of some value in slowing transmission.


98 posted on 06/29/2020 1:43:54 PM PDT by evilC
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To: Salamander

“I feel like I’m awake in some madman’s fever dream.”

That’s why I avoid any place where people wear them. It’s like walking around with zombies, and I can’t understand what anyone says.


99 posted on 06/29/2020 1:44:37 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Just sit in your house until the food stops coming and then starve. You'll be safe.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Masks are USELESS...............PERIOD!!!!!!!!

OSHA SAYS MASKS DON’T WORK — AND VIOLATE OSHA OXYGEN LEVELS

https://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/osha-says-masks-dont-work-and-violate-osha-oxygen-levels2?utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter%3A%20OSHA%20SAYS%20MASKS%20DON%27T%20WORK%20—%20AND%20Violate%20OSHA%20Oxygen%20Levels%20%28RuZ25q%29&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Daily%20Newsletter&_ke=eyJrbF9lbWFpbCI6ICJrYXRiYW1idUBob3RtYWlsLmNvbSIsICJrbF9jb21wYW55X2lkIjogIksydlhBeSJ9


100 posted on 06/29/2020 1:45:55 PM PDT by afchief
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