Because we’re attempting to slow the transmission rate to reducing the risk of it reaching those who would suffer permanent injury or death from catching it until we can wrap up work on safe and effective vaccines and deploy them.
Wearing a mask while indoors in public places and maintaining >6 feet of distance between individuals from different households is a reasonable way to reduce the risk of transmission and slow the disease’s progress through the population. Shutdowns and lockdowns are completely unreasonable given the relative risk. It all ends once we have enough people inoculated, which is why President Trump has spent months pushing to streamline the process to get safe and effective vaccines into the hands of the American people.
Trust the president. He knows what he’s doing. And he’s about to turn this whole COVID mess right on top of the Democrats right before the election.
‘Wearing a mask while indoors in public places and maintaining >6 feet of distance between individuals from different households is a reasonable way to reduce the risk of transmission...’
is it your belief that unmasked people passing each other in a public place without stopping are going to pass infection between them...? based merely on normal, non exaggerated inhalations from the nostrils...?
if so, then why does the covid test require a thrust into the nasal passage to capture enough material to formulate a diagnosis? for that matter, if this is such a virulent pathogen, why do we need to be tested to determine whether we have it nor not...?
I thought we were slowing the transmission rate so as not to overwhelm the system. You know, fifteen days to flatten the curve? Six months ago?
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It's to keep our medical facilities from being overwhelmed by the number of victims!!!