Posted on 07/23/2020 6:57:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
I can’t believe Emmett Tyrell is this stupid. If he hasn’t lost faith in the nitwits who lead our government bureaucracies by now, he may as well skip the mask and just tie a plastic bag around his head.
If wearing masks slows the virus, then it slows spread just like herd immunity (while also slowing the acheivement of herd immunity). If masks do nothing, then they don't slow the achievement of herd immunity and may speed it up. Either way, masks don't hurt even if they are not helpful.
Pure propaganda. You will NEVER, EVER have a bare naked viral particle floating around. EVERY particle that is generated in airborne form by the human body starts out as an aqueous saline droplet far larger than 0.1 micron. Even if all water evaporates, the particle is still a salt/organic solid, again far larger than 0.1 micron.
Covering your nose and mouth when you sneeze/cough is as effective as wearing a mask.
Is this author prone to sarcasm? Because that is sure how I am reading this.
Forty years of respect crushed in one moment. You mask proponents are the worst scurge to ever hit this earth. Thank God you won’t win.
“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.”
Terrific and good for you except masks don’t work.
I notice the author does not define what research and the CDC director considers a mask. Just any old face covering? I doubt it.
“...looming conflict between those who advocate wearing masks to protect themselves from the Wuhan virus”
To protect themselves? Only the N95 can marginally do that. The surgical masks on down to hankies can only marginally protect others from the wearers. Is that so effen difficult to understand? Apparently it is.
Yes, maybe even more so since a sneeze can easily blow past a flimsy mask or even blow the mask off. But people who are speaking produce droplets like sneezing or coughing, although fewer. Masks catch some of those droplets.
Also I would point out that sneezing and coughing in public is probably not a good thing these days and those folks should probably stay home that day.
Show me the data. There is also ample evidence from peer reviewed studies that masks "do" work.
The mask is fundamentally different: The mask doesn't protect YOU, it supposedly protects others FROM YOU.
If it only protected you, then the only person you are potentially hurting is yourself by not wearing it. But one has to wear it to "protect" other. That is the insidious nature of the mask mandates.
“There is also ample evidence from peer reviewed studies that masks “do” work.”
We don’t need to guess. We can look at states that have put masks requirements in place...and watch as their cases continue to climb for weeks. The incubation time for the virus is 5 days, with most well under 10 days. If wearing masks in public was very effective in cutting transmission, cases would start to fall significantly in 10 days.
DOES NOT HAPPEN.
This isn’t guess work. We’ve tried it in places like California. On 18 June, masks were required statewide. What has followed? “Records have been shattered in recent days....”
https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/
Cases per day are DOUBLE what they were when the masks became mandatory. With a state sample size of 40 million! I think we KNOW how effective masks are. Just look at California!
https://www.kcra.com/article/coronavirus-map-graphs-cases-deaths-curve-california-july20/33367606#
I never wore one till the governor started threatening business licenses if they allowed maskless into their business. Being in a very rural area with a great local farmers market 2 miles away that is very heavily used, and has a horrible number of “Karens” that I can only assume come from town ten miles away. I wear one (but way under my nose so I can breathe) just to try and keep them from closing this great mom-n-pop store. These idiots are going to businesses, taking phone pictures and sending them to the head ‘Karen’ governor. Four restaurants got licenses yanked because of these busybodies.
Do what you want. I do what I want. It is called freedom...and has inherent risks.
‘Which brings me to the nub of the matter. Redfield has convinced me that if I wear a mask, we can beat this plague.’
jeez, when you’ve lost Emmet Tyrell...
"...So, in your opinion, no one should wear a mask because some don't do so properly??..."
I Wonder, Warthog, how you ever got that opinion from what I wrote.
BTW, solutions can be better or worse. More optimum is nonsense, as in more best.
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