GaryCrow wrote: “Masks are, at best, only marginally effective in the fight against the virus. I’m not going to say they don’t help, but they don’t help a whole lot.”
Mask, social distancing, etc., remind me of the scrap metal drives during WWII. It was later admitted that the drives produce a minimal amount of useable metal but they did raise morale by providing a way for people to believe they were contributing to the war effort.
People hate not being in control. Those virus protocols, ie, masks, etc., provide several useful purposes. First, they give people the sense that they have some control over the virus. Those protocols also allow some to claim the moral high ground, ie, ‘I care about you so I wear a mask.’.
Another useful purpose is that provide similar benefits to the politicians that mandate the masks. They also allow politicians to shift the blame for new case, ie, ‘You wouldn’t be sick if you’d done what I told you to do.’.
Other than that, those protocols are not all that effective. Handwashing would save more lives.
Has the governor been arrested along with the 22 other people he was having dinner with at our expense?
He was spreading the virus. Oh wait none have been infected because the virus is not even like the flu. They are rolling in the numbers of deaths from ALL causes to make the number bigger.