Study finds mask mandates have no substantial effect on slowing COVID-19 spread | Blaze Media
With students finally headed back to school for the fall, debate is raging nationwide over whether K-12 children should be required to wear face masks to reduce the spread of COVID-19. But a peer-reviewed study suggests that mask use and requirements during the pandemic had no substantial impact...www.theblaze.com
I’ll pass on reading it and just assume it concludes that masks prevent infection from Covid even though they have not.Another view:
It is a meta-analysis of multiple studies, and here is the summary:I’ll pass on reading it and just assume it concludes that masks prevent infection from Covid even though they have not.
The important thing is for mask wearers feel virtuous and superior to anti-maskers
(formerly known as people minding there own business and living their lives).
Awesome, I hope you are sporting a mask proudly and feeling a sense of accomplishment.It is a meta-analysis of multiple studies, and here is the summary:
"The preponderance of evidence indicates that mask wearing reduces transmissibility per contact by reducing transmission of infected respiratory particles in both laboratory and clinical contexts. Public mask wearing is most effective at reducing spread of the virus when compliance is high."
Why are you so bothered by a piece of cloth that you woke up a thread from August just to post this?How are all the maskophiles doing? Still proudly sporting those face diapers? Do you have tan lines to prove your devotion?
Have any of you fallen from grace, abandoned your faith? Be honest, you're anonymous here.
August, wow, that was eons ago. I guess my curiosity has only increased over all that time.Why are you so bothered by a piece of cloth that you woke up a thread from August just to post this?
When did a piece of cloth terrify you so much that it left you obviously emotionally scarred?August, wow, that was eons ago. I guess my curiosity has only increased over all that time.
Gave up your faith I presume? Do you remember your first death defying mask-less venture into the post COVID world? Did you go cold turkey or wean yourself slowly from three masks, then two, one....?
When did you decide to completely disregard the well being of others, especially the highly vulnerable immune-compromised among us?
Since when is acting on facts and describing same childish? I feel sorry for those poor misguided souls I see in the store walking around with their furtive, fearful looks and their downcast and mask-covered faces. Yes, they ARE being emotionally scarred. This is not how human beings are supposed to be living. I try to give each and every one of them a bright sunny unmasked and close-proximity smiling face as I possibly have time and energy for. I do it for humanity. I do it for the country. I do it for the individual. I do it for myself. I'm sorry, but you're totally out of line.I don’t care if you wear a mask or not but coming on here to crow about it is childish.
Sounds to me like you do it for the drama.Since when is acting on facts and describing same childish? I feel sorry for those poor misguided souls I see in the store walking around with their furtive, fearful looks and their downcast and mask-covered faces. Yes, they ARE being emotionally scarred. This is not how human beings are supposed to be living. I try to give each and every one of them a bright sunny unmasked and close-proximity smiling face as I possibly have time and energy for. I do it for humanity. I do it for the country. I do it for the individual. I do it for myself. I'm sorry, but you're totally out of line.
I LOVE hot sauce!!What would you do if one of them gave you a big dose of hot sauce for trying to infect them?
I would take your position a lot more seriously if you had a history of also being opposed to mandates like being forced to wear shirts, shoes, and underwear in public. What’s the difference?I LOVE hot sauce!!
If they removed their mask and engaged me as one human being to another I wouldn't give a rip if they were sniffling, sneezing, coughing or whatever. Saving humanity and saving America is more important that saving any one individual human or any one individual American, to be quite frank and brutal. When did it become unfashionable, not to mention unethical, to not be willing to sacrifice your life for your country? Or for humanity? There is always going to be risk. If an individual isn't willing to risk something, then the only sure thing is losing everything.
There are no such mandates.I would take your position a lot more seriously if you had a history of also being opposed to mandates like being forced to wear shirts, shoes, and underwear in public. What’s the difference?
It's being used as such. It's not the mask, it how it's being used to divide the people of the countryA cloth mask is not a serious threat to American democracy. That’s ludicrous.
And in the end analysis, if the presence of a scrap of cloth on one's face is no big deal, then its absence is no big deal, either.A cloth mask is not a serious threat to American democracy. That’s ludicrous.
Apply that logic to a parachute.And in the end analysis, if the presence of a scrap of cloth on one's face is no big deal, then its absence is no big deal, either.
Nice metaphor, but not applicable.Apply that logic to a parachute.
What we need to do is stay calm, anticipate that third parties will register and post seditious material to justify shutting this site down, and REPORT THEM IMMEDIATELY.
Again, I know it feels like the Republic is lost. It may be. But for now, on this site, please for the love of God stay calm, speak rationally, and hope for .... better judgement from our leaders in the future.
The coming days and weeks (likely after the 20th) will be easier, but for now we need to be on the best possible behavior. Please. :)