A lot of people are bitching about their rights these days, but you never hear them talking about their responsibilities. If you live in a society, you have responsibilities toward the other members of your society. If you don't think so, then you ought to go live in a shack deep in the woods somewhere. With coronavirus running rampant around the world, you need to take actions to ensure others' safety. You might have Covid-19 but not know it, and then you could give it to someone else. When you wear a mask, it's as much to protect others as to protect yourself. A mask or any kind of face covering helps prevent droplets from your breaths, coughs, etc, from spreading as much as they would otherwise. So any time you're out in public, if you care about your fellow humans, WEAR A MASK!!
I agree. If you are in fear of your life, please move to a shack in the woods. The rest of us are not wearing a mask. Thanks.
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Almost zero evidence at all, that wearing a mask will reduce the spread of Corona.
It doesn't protect you or others. Just more left-wing freak out nonsense.
But by all means, give up all your rights, and go live in a shack in the woods. Maybe build an underground bunkers, and start stocking canned beets, and shotgun shells.
What evidence do you have that wearing a mask won't reduce the spread of Covid-19? Please cite your sources. There's good evidence that wearing a mask will at least reduce the chances that you might transfer an infection to someone else. Masks aren't a perfect solution, but they're definitely better than doing nothing.
Can face masks protect against the coronavirus?
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Honestly, unless you block at a minimum 75% of covid, you are effectively breathing open air. That's how contagious this virus is.
Have a mere 33% reduction is nothing.
Cloth masks, do not form an air tight seal.
By the way.... Even if it did, the fact is people are not wearing them correctly.
Even if we pretended (falsely) that masks were in fact effective... the reality is people simply are not wearing them correctly anyway. And I mean everyone. I see people with their nose exposed... which is effectively not wearing a mask at all.
Go to the store... you'll see people absolutely everywhere not wearing their mask correctly.
But here's the reality... even if they put the mask on right..... and even if you found the magic cloth that blocked 75% or more of Covid.........
Again... go look at people wearing masks at the store.... if you can see any space between the cloth and the skin.... zero protection.
Cloth is not skin tight. If air can go around the cloth.... then it is providing zero protection to you, and to everyone else.
Go look at at surgical masks.
You see that band at the top? That's so you can bend it to fit skin tight around the nose. You see that roll around the edge? Again, to fit skin tight around the edge.
Do you see that on a cloth mask you see in public? No.
See all those spaces between the mask and skin? That is ZERO protection. That lady is not protected from getting covid, and you are not protected from getting it from her. Zero protection.
And that's nearly all the masks you see in public.
These masks are nothing but adult pacifiers for the public, so they can pretend they are doing something.