We need to end mask requirements and open society up

When covid-19 first started spreading, there was mass confusion and conclusions based on minimal information.

When a patient asks his/her doctor, "How do I lose weight?" and the doctor answers, "Eat less, exercise more. Eat the right healthy foods," it's not a satisfactory answer to many. Too many variables, too many changes.

The truth that most scientists are talking about now is that social-distancing, frequent and thorough hand-washing and [i]wearing a mask [/i] are not only important weapons against the virus. they are, at this moment, the [b]only[/b] weapons against the virus.

Let's say each of those increases the likelihood you'll avoid getting covid-19 by 10%. Together, it's 30%. (I don't know what the actual percentages are - just an example).

Covid-19 is like a flu to some, to others like a really bad flu that takes weeks (or months) to recover from. They don't yet know about long-term effects on organs and health.

To some - to many, now - it's fatal, and those numbers are still increasing daily.

Not wearing a mask is like refusing to take any weapon at all when you're walking through a jungle inhabited by man-eating animals, because you don't have access to an elephant gun.

It's also like walking through a crowd firing random shots because you can't know immediately if you have it and you can't know who you are unwittingly infecting.

If you don't want to wear a mask for whatever reason, then don't. That's your choice. Just don't go anywhere you might infect someone else.

Those who don't want government making choices for them (and most of the time I'm one of them) do not appear to realize THEY are making choices for others by not doing what they can to minimize the spread of covid-19. You have a right to make your own choices, but you do not have a right to make mine.

Right now there is no silver bullet. There's only social-distancing, mask-wearing and hand-washing.

I do not understand why this is [b]SUCH[/b] a big deal for people with no issues that make masks dangerous for them.

It's not like you're donating an organ or a limb or even blood.

You're asked to wear a mask. Why is that so enraging?

2020 America is a country of over 300 million medical experts, all with different opinions.
I should know, I’m a medical expert myself. Lol

Ever find it odd that the only place in the world with a huge backlash against masks is the US?

Ever find it odd that the US has this incredible ecosystem of conservative media promoting anti-mask views?

Ever find it odd that [b]a hundred and fifty thousand[/b] Americans have died in five months?

I checked this out.
It's one of the longest blogs I've ever read, comes in two parts, and doesn't come to the main point until the nearly the end.
The research used as evidence on the efficacy of masks comes from only one source: CDC’s own journal Emerg Inf Dis, on masking in “Non-Healthcare Settings”, a May 2020 meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials,1946-2017: “Our systematic review found no significant effect of face masks on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza” https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26
Notice that this research is for the flu, not COVID-19, and the research date it uses ended in 2017, long before COVID-19 existed.

Since COVID-19 the rate of flu transmission has dropped to 5% of what it has been in previous years.

The writer of the blog mentions no studies of the effectiveness of reducing COVID transmission via the use of masks.

For up to date and accurate information consult:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31142-9/fulltext

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7219391/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7314683/


I can provide other from top epidemiology sites if needed.

The article is nothing more than a person revealing their conspiracy theories.

Yep but the mask bullies and fear mongering will continue.

Mask bullies will still be mask bullies

Fearmongering tactics. I. HATE. THAT. BULLSHIT.

Show me where deaths are declining...
from Worldometers.com

US daily deaths:


Global daily deaths:

I'm all for opening society up.

Wearing masks is the way to do that.

doctorwho29 really you have to be joking the united kingdom has has a resurgence in east lancashire and yorkshire is this not prove enough corona virus is far from finished

🤔....No Masks protect you from the SARS-Cov-2 virus. Even N95 are not rated to protect you for this virus.

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Many of us have been saying it for a while now.

You know that idea those guys had about storming area 51? They can't arrest us all of course the area 51 thing was stupid though...