I’m not against masks per se, but I am very curious as to when (or if) the experts will commit to saying that there is a point where masks are no longer necessary for the general public. Tell me when the science says a football stadium filled with 60,000 fans can be “safe” in their eyes and how much mask action gets us there.
I’d bet that the difference between everyone wearing a mask, locking everyone down and waiting until a vaccine is fielded widely, and nobody wearing a mask and developing herd immunity is negligible, both in time and in total number of people who succumb to the Rona.
The horse has left the barn when it comes to everyone wearing a mask. Enough people won’t do it that everyone else doing it won’t make a difference in the propagation of the disease. There are “unclean” populations and “clean” populations, and the comingling of them will keep causing further infections in an unregulated manner until herd immunity is achieved or they stop comingling. The CDC should know this, they have the scientists with the big brains on epidemiology after all. They should know how human behavior accounts for disease spreading. They should be smart enough to come up with a plan to get us through this reality, rather than pleading for everyone to wear a mask.
Once they say the stadium is safe from the rona, they’ll say it’s unsafe due to the flu or whatever other bug they tell you to fear.