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To Mask or Not To Mask
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| July 23, 2020
| Emmett Tyrrell
Posted on 07/23/2020 6:57:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
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posted on
07/23/2020 6:57:37 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
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posted on
07/23/2020 6:58:50 AM PDT
by
entropy12
(covid-19 separates the fearful from the freedom loving! If I am not afraid, no one should be.)
To: Kaslin
Which brings me to the nub of the matter. Redfield has convinced me that if I wear a mask, we can beat this plague. If we just lock down for two weeks, we can beat this plague...
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posted on
07/23/2020 7:01:23 AM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
To: Kaslin; Mom MD
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posted on
07/23/2020 7:04:16 AM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
(If 100% of us contracted this Covid Virus only 99.997% would be left to tell our story.)
To: Kaslin
If you are in busy, crowded places and you wear a mask and you fail to frequently wash your hands with warm soapy water then you are wasting your time.
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posted on
07/23/2020 7:04:35 AM PDT
by
budj
(Combat vet, 2nd of three generations.)
To: Kaslin
I hope that he and the pulchritudinous Dr. Deborah Birx will take note of this column. I have changed my tune. I have been won over by the advocates of masks. It was Redfield and his argument in the JAMA that convinced me. He believes the pandemic can be brought under control in four to eight weeks, if "we could get everybody to wear a mask right now." In a signed editorial, he said there is "ample evidence" that masks assist in reducing transmission of the virus. Think of it! We could limit this horrible plague to a few weeks -- if we all worked together. There is also "ample evidence" from past peer reviewed studies that masks do nothing to prevent virus transmission. That past evidence also identifies that masks can cause significant harm to the individual under certain circumstances.
Three months ago the refrain was "two weeks to flatten the curve". Then "thirty days to slow the spread". Now "four to eight weeks to bring the pandemic under control".
At what point does it end?
I'm sure the author is well intentioned, but I cannot find it in myself to trust the "experts" who have been on every imaginable side of every imaginable issue with regard to this weaponized flu. Your mileage may vary.
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posted on
07/23/2020 7:06:43 AM PDT
by
MortMan
(Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
To: Kaslin
I saw some Brand New State of the Art Screening to help keep flies and mosquitos out of your Homes while still allowing fresh air in. It offers at least 10 times the protection against insects that masks offer against a Virus.
Virus/Viron= .1 Micron
Mask filters out up to 20 microns at best
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posted on
07/23/2020 7:06:59 AM PDT
by
eyeamok
To: eyeamok
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posted on
07/23/2020 7:08:33 AM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
(If 100% of us contracted this Covid Virus only 99.997% would be left to tell our story.)
To: Kaslin
If we were masks we will overcome the plague. Will we? The virus does not disappear. When the mask come off the spread restarts. Every Corona virus we have ever experienced is still out there. The only way this virus stops is the old fashioned way of mass immunity. That only stops the massive spread, the virus still remains and will continue to afflict people every year.
No mask. If you are vulnerable you should isolate yourself until everyone else is exposed. Then you will be safe...mostly.
A vaccine? For many people side effects from a vaccine will be more of a problem than exposure.
No mask
To: MayflowerMadam
i cannot take credit it was posted by someone else as its own thread this am
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posted on
07/23/2020 7:08:54 AM PDT
by
Mom MD
To: MortMan
The science on this is as clear as mud, the data as uncertain as ever.
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posted on
07/23/2020 7:08:59 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
(#openupstateny)
To: Kaslin
“the pulchritudinous Dr. Deborah Birx”
If that word means what I think it means after three years of Latin ... Birx is NOT. Dried up old prune.
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posted on
07/23/2020 7:09:53 AM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
(If 100% of us contracted this Covid Virus only 99.997% would be left to tell our story.)
To: Kaslin
So let me get this straight...we need to STOP herd immunity?
No more flattering the curve and letting the virus run its course like EVERY OTHER VIRUS.
Ok...Hmm...that goes against everything I have ever heard about herd immunity
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posted on
07/23/2020 7:10:12 AM PDT
by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
To: Kaslin
I vote that it's a free country. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who actually wants to spend their rest of their life terrified of everything is perfectly free to do so, and I won't try to stop them.
But I'm not terrified, and I won't be intimidated into believing that I should be, because I know that it's a bunch of politically motivated BS.
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posted on
07/23/2020 7:12:36 AM PDT
by
jpl
("You are fake news.")
To: MortMan
It ends with President Biden. I am a Spectator fan but this article was disappointing.
After 8 weeks off mask the masks come off and the spread restarts In time to be roaring on Election Day
No mask. Let it spread. We have better treatments and plenty of hospital capacity. Time to be done with the virus and Democrats.
To: entropy12
What do you do with that contaminated snot rag when you take it off your face?
If COVID is such a serious disease then why are you not using a fresh mask every 20 minute per manufacturers recommendation and using a receptacle to dispose of those contaminated masks?
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posted on
07/23/2020 7:13:45 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Arm Up! They Have!)
To: Kaslin
Every day I wear clothing, shoes, and a hat to protect the outside of my body. When the situation calls for it, I wear a mask to protect the insides. Pretty simple approach to staying healthy and comfortable.
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posted on
07/23/2020 7:13:48 AM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Follow your Inner Trump)
To: Kaslin
I wrote in this column about what I saw as a looming conflict between those who advocate wearing masks to protect themselves from the Wuhan virus [ . . . ] and those carefree Americanos who think that they might take their chances and go about their business maskless.
He is assuming his conclusion as a fact. Masks offer little protection. I am far from a carefree Americano. The fact is that everyone living his life is "taking his chances". Secular sacaramentals have been presented as magic talismans for a modern age.
Tyrell is old enough to consider Dr. Birx pulchritudinous rather than "well-preserved". If he doesn't want to take his chances, which might be rational in his case, he might consider staying home, and take deliveries, also taking walks in the sunshine for vitamin D. I for one will not take the word of one of many conflicting authorities who contradict themselves over time as well as each other "If we just ..." and then posits doing something that won't happen (everyone wearing the right kind of masks in the right manner all the time), only to change the rules after we prostrate ourselves again for 6-8 weeks.
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posted on
07/23/2020 7:15:05 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: Kaslin
The Training Burka is a diaper on your face, full of pathogens....It needs to be changed often.
It’s also a big waste of masks. Just stay away from each other if you’re skeered.
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posted on
07/23/2020 7:15:09 AM PDT
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month".)
To: Mr. Jeeves
“If we just lock down for two weeks, we can beat this plague...”
A couple days ago Liz Wheeler on “Tipping Point” showed an article by the CDC that people are more likely to get WuFlu when they’re at home. I found the article the next day via Google; today it’s ... ta da ... GONE!
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posted on
07/23/2020 7:15:25 AM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
(If 100% of us contracted this Covid Virus only 99.997% would be left to tell our story.)
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