One thing we ALL agree on, either publicly or privately, is these masks are bullshit and do NOTHING!
So was I wearing them at work for no reason?
Nope, masks DO work! Please do not tell people anything else. It's just not a 100% protection, but what is a 100% protection?
Do you understand that people who think the mask protects them are running around in cloth masks taking unessesary risks and getting sick? Probably sicker than they would have gotten without one?
I see people in the check out with that cloth shit on their face grabbing their nose area to twiddle or adjust. Just jamming that influenza or covid or psuedomonius right up in their mucus membranes.
We have an abnormal and emotional reliance on the masks. Yeah theyll mitigate the infection if everyone is doing it right and some research(that could still end up false) suggest it can lessen the viral load you get exposed to but if you are sitting on an airplane with a cloth mask on....you are gonna get sick with something.
Sure, people are using the masks in the wrong way and by that are actually infecting themself. And the people thinking masks protect them against everything are equally stupid.
That's why your government should take care of telling people HOW to use the masks. Just handing out masks is not sufficient, but at least it's a start. Then you continue with information HOW to use the mask
That's why our government should provide objective information and suggest it, but otherwise stay out of our business.
The first thing they should do is provide proper information. Agreed!
My opinion is that they should also make wearing masks mandatory. It's a threath to the society. Seatbelts are mandatory too, not wearing those hardly harms others. When you're not wearing masks you harm a lot of people.
Your whole last paragraph is showing what I meant when I said that people have developed an unhealthy focus on the masks. They are not nearly helpful enough to say we need them made mandatory and to say it's a "threat to society" or "harms a lot of people" if someone isnt wearing it.
Q......that's political histrionics. And a false sense of security.
The masks are not at all comparable to seatbelts. Think about what a seat belt protects you from. Seabelts dont mitigate injuries.....they stop you from flying through the windshield of your car and becoming pulp on the side of the road.
It's a false equivalence to compare the seatbelt protecting you in an accident with how a mask works to mitigate infection. Like on both levels.....regarding protection and state laws. It's not at all the same, Q.
Yanno.....its gotta be fear making people so passionate about these masks. I've watched people claim that nurses should check patients social media and if the patient was opposing masks or questioning the narrative that they should be denied medical attention.....which is insanely fucked up.
I would argue it's our attitude that's doing a lot of harm to people.