Facemask - the new norm and fassion

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: I have not contracted covid yet and I'm 100 percent convinced that if I didn't wear a mask I would have. Or at the very least would be much more likely to have. For those who refuse to wear one all I can say is I guess you like to live dangerously.

Niche, openly evangelical Christian conservative, confirmation bias nonsense ^ it might be easy to believe if you're living in delusional tunnel vision land with no grasp on reality. But yeah, just go ahead and conveniently ignore all the overwhelming evidence over the last several decades that masks do in fact work for Karens four facebook posts listed above. Like you just have to go out of your way to be dumb enough to fully embrace and accept any of those articles as the truth. As far as i'm concerned, you bang two rocks together in your free time and communicate in "unga bungas" and dissonant grunting noises rather than English. Get that sh*t outta here

Cboi Sandlin wrote: AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: I have not contracted covid yet and I'm 100 percent convinced that if I didn't wear a mask I would have. Or at the very least would be much more likely to have. For those who refuse to wear one all I can say is I guess you like to live dangerously. Live dangerously? Dude, the death rate is .6%. It isnt some "deadly pandemic" like the media likes to call it, it isnt much worse than the flu. That .6% of people, the ones who are dying, are all of the people who are either super old or have a serious disease like cancer. And you know what, all of those people can go get the vaccine now. Old people and those who are at risk are all eligible to get the vaccine, so there is zero reason for anybody to be afraid of COVID, because the only people who can get it now are the young people who are at zero risk. Now that, is science.

Cboi Sandlin wrote: The Dark Elf wrote: Cboi Sandlin wrote: progaardvark wrote: Cboi Sandlin wrote: Masks don’t work and it is pointless to wear them. Glad we don’t have to here in Texas though. I will say that for when I was at school (as they still force us to wear them XD) I had s mask that said “I’m being forced to wear this by the government”, but I unfortunately lost that mask 🤣😢 Care to enlighten us on how they don't work? Or do you just not know how to wear one correctly? The science says otherwise. Okay, here is some evidence: https://wethepeopleconvention.org/articles/here-is-the-science-proving-masks-do-not-work https://www.rcreader.com/commentary/masks-dont-work-covid-a-review-of-science-relevant-to-covide-19-social-policy https://www.aier.org/article/the-cdcs-mask-mandate-study-debunked/ https://www.afa.net/the-stand/culture/2020/09/it-is-scientifically-impossible-for-masks-to-work/ Judging by the sites you referenced, I assume you have to wear a tinfoil helmet to capture the correct frequency.  You see, when I research the medical efficacy of an item, I go to actual medical and university sites...because...scientific research: Like the prestigious Mayo Clinic.... https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-mask/art-20485449 Or The University of California, San Francisco.... https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-about-masks-heres-science-behind-how-face-masks-prevent Or world-renowned Johns Hopkins.... https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/coronavirus-face-masks-what-you-need-to-know Or the equally renowned MIT.... https://medical.mit.edu/covid-19-updates/2020/07/do-cloth-masks-work Or how about the National Academy of Sciences.... https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118 Or the American Medical Association.... https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/clear-your-patients-confusion-about-which-masks-work-best Or the British Medical Journal.... https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n432 Of course, I could add the FDA, CDC, WHO and nearly every other medical organization in the world. But my list would drag on for several pages, and you aren't required to wear a tinfoil hat. Ok so those show that masks can block sneezes, but that doesnt matter because most people just block their sneezes with their arm. The fact is, though masks can block most of the particles from talking and stuff, enough of those particles can get through to spread the disease. The COVID particles are too small to be filtered out by a mask

Edited by progaardvark - March 29 2021 at 16:53

Atavachron wrote: Now we all know how Bane feels. Masks don't help stop viruses ?   Then why is the flu & cold rate so low this season ?

siLLy puPPy wrote: Atavachron wrote: Now we all know how Bane feels. Masks don't help stop viruses ?   Then why is the flu & cold rate so low this season ? Because they have all been rediagnosed as covid. Flus, colds and covid are all coranaviruses. The PCR test which is being used to test doesn't work. Dr Kary Mullis, inventor of the PCR test has stated publicly numerous times that the PCR test was not designed to diagnose infectious diseases. How they are diagnosing COVID is by simply extracting RNA fragments and then using a computer program to fill in the remaining info. There are hundreds of scientists who have called this all out as a scam in how it's being sold to the public. After taking in hundreds of hours of lectures, debates, discussions and whistleblower testimonies, i have to say that the lack of consensus amongst scientists should cause one to question the official narrative at the very least. For many who haven't learned the intricacies of biology and the money-driven madness of consensus science and what gets funded, you will not understand why many of us are distrustful of the establishment which has a history of fraud.

nick_h_nz wrote: Flu viruses are not coronaviruses. Some cold viruses are coronaviruses, but not all, and the most common colds are not coronaviruses. The idea that flu cases are low because they have been rediagnosed as coronavirus is completely disingenuous, and easily refuted by looking at countries where there have been low cases of Covid-19. It’s an easy trap to fall into, and I can understand why people do, but it’s false. The reason flu cases are down is because people are wearing masks and social distancing, etc. It is not because flu is being mis-diagnosed as COVID-19. If you don’t believe me, then look at NZ which has had the one of the best responses to COVID-19, one of the lowest death rates from it - AND hardly any flu cases compared to a normal year. In the UK, I have seen people make the same assumption (misdiagnosis), because the UK has a huge amount of COVID-19 cases, but very few flu cases. It is easy to see, therefore, why some people assume this is because flu cases are being misdiagnosed as COVID-19. BUT If that were the case, then you would not expect to see the same extreme decrease in flu cases in NZ, where they aren’t likely to be misdiagnosed as COVID-19, simply because there’s not much of it in NZ. Basically, you can take any country in the world, and regardless of whether they have a lot or only very few COVID-19 cases, there is a notable reduction in flu cases. Also, before anyone wants to call me out, my own medical credentials (or lack thereof) are irrelevant, and I’m not the one in the hospitals that has to determine whether a patient is suffering from flu or COVID-19. And I’m quite happy to believe that the doctors know what they are diagnosing. Basically, in countries with both large amounts of COVID-19, and in countries with low amounts of COVID-19, there has been the same reduction in flu cases. This simply wouldn’t happen if flu were being misdiagnosed as COVID-19 on a grand scale. You’re free to call BS if you like. I’m not trying to change your mind - just stating reported facts. What you choose to do with them is up to you. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Re Cboi Sandlin "Okay, so tell me, if masks work at all, then when the mask mandate here in Texas was lifted, you would have expected the COVID cases to skyrocket, but that didn't happen, the cases are actually going down."

The trouble with this statement is that you are assuming that all Texans quit wearing masks, which of course is not true. Most Texans who care about keeping those around them safe are still wearing masks. I used to live in Texas and still have lots of family and friends there who tell me what is going on.
Sure there are some rednecks, sociopaths and other dimwits not wearing masks, but also a lot of educated types who are.

^ I didn't say you were a sociopath, show me where I said that.