Facediapers

[ProZak]

Can't believe that some folks are still wearing them, didn't work for the scamdemic, aren't doing any good now!

[Stella]

Are you saying that masks don't protect from breathing in the covid germ or...
we shouldn't care about catching covid?

[ProZak]

I'm saying that they do little to nothing to help prevent the spread, kinda like the vaccines and "social distancing."

[Stella]

What is your source for this? Every disease prevention agency in every country did and still do, vouch for masking as a disease control measure.

[ProZak]

Let's look at common sense for a moment, first we were told by Fauci that masks were useless for this, then they were mandated. They would prevent you from breathing in the particles, then no, they would only prevent the breathing out of them. Cloth masks were good, not good enough. One mask is good, wearing two are better. Wear them in restaurants, but take them off when you are seated...seriously, this is science?

https://youtu.be/XZ1n_woWVkQ?si=nj5koH0_52ltJo4w

[anawim]

I wore one when I had a cold just to make others feel better. I didn't do it for any real effect, just so I could go to the store and not have anyone think that I was typhoid Mary.

[gherkin]

ProZak! Nice to see you back.

[ProZak]

ProZak! Nice to see you back.

Good to be back, but I didn't go anywhere, the entire board disappeared!

[gherkin]

ProZak! Nice to see you back.

Good to be back, but I didn't go anywhere, the entire board disappeared!

I blame Fr. Kenobi.

[gherkin]

I had to wear a mask at work for something like a whole year. They required the shot, too, though I put in for the religious exemption and they gave it with no problem. I had to spit into a test tube once a week for awhile. Eventually I just quit doing it and they never said anything.

The mask thing was ridiculous, but I decided it wasn't a hill I was going to die on.

[gherkin]

Let's not even get started on all the compelling science behind the 6 foot rule!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[ProZak]

So you didn't have to stick a q-tip up your nose half way into your brain?

[ProZak]

So you didn't have to stick a q-tip up your nose half way into your brain?

Has to love those Romper Room footprints everywhere!

[ProZak]

We should never forget what they did to us nor let them off the hook come election day!

https://youtu.be/uVqS0kb5waY?si=B4eZoa9Vq30IYQIb

[gherkin]

So you didn't have to stick a q-tip up your nose half way into your brain?

I think if they'd tried to require that I would have declined.

[ProZak]

[ProZak]

As a self employed landscaper, I did not have to go along with much of anything, never got the jab, didn't stay home, no social distancing, only wore the facediaper when mandated. Have no idea if I ever got Covid, never got tested.

[Doom]

What is your source for this? Every disease prevention agency in every country did and still do, vouch for masking as a disease control measure.

There have been literally dozens of studies in the last 4 years proving it. Where have you been and why don't you know about it? It was on the front page of the New York Times over a year ago.

And, the consensus pre-COVID was that masks are useless which is why the original advice was not to bother, it was only when it became clear that mask mandates were a useful way for government to control people that it changed. Masks were a convenient way for the government to determine who believed in the official narrative and those who didn't. And then they employed public shaming and social pressure to try to force compliance. "If you don't wear a mask you're going to kill grandma" was a common refrain, which I found hilarious because all my grandparents died before I graduated high school. I can't kill the dead.

Even today if you actually bother to read the government advice on masks it admits that they aren't effective at stopping the spread of disease, they just argue that 'barely effective" protection is better than no protection. The mask mandates ended not because anyone determined that COVID was no longer a problem but because people, not just in the United States but worldwide, started to refuse to comply. And when the mandates were lifted, people were ecstatic, there are viral videos of people tearing off their masks and celebrating when they first heard the news.

[Doom]

Let's look at common sense for a moment, first we were told by Fauci that masks were useless for this, then they were mandated. They would prevent you from breathing in the particles, then no, they would only prevent the breathing out of them. Cloth masks were good, not good enough. One mask is good, wearing two are better. Wear them in restaurants, but take them off when you are seated...seriously, this is science?

https://youtu.be/XZ1n_woWVkQ?si=nj5koH0_52ltJo4w

And not just masks, but social distancing is nonsense as well. Fauci has actually admitted that the "six-foot" rule is something he made up one day off the top of his head and that there is no research to support it, except for a science experiment done by a middle school student. But it makes no sense, how can a respiratory virus be stopped midair because the next person is 6 feet away? By the power of magic?

[Stella]

What is your source for this? Every disease prevention agency in every country did and still do, vouch for masking as a disease control measure.

There have been literally dozens of studies in the last 4 years proving it. Where have you been and why don't you know about it? It was on the front page of the New York Times over a year ago.

And, the consensus pre-COVID was that masks are useless which is why the original advice was not to bother, it was only when it became clear that mask mandates were a useful way for government to control people that it changed. Masks were a convenient way for the government to determine who believed in the official narrative and those who didn't. And then they employed public shaming and social pressure to try to force compliance. "If you don't wear a mask you're going to kill grandma" was a common refrain, which I found hilarious because all my grandparents died before I graduated high school. I can't kill the dead/

Even today if you actually bother to read the government advice on masks it admits that they aren't effective at stopping the spread of disease, they just argue that 'barely effective" protection is better than no protection. The mask mandates ended not because anyone determined that COVID was no longer a problem but because people, not just in the United States but worldwide, started to refuse to comply. And when the mandates were lifted, people were ecstatic, there are viral videos of people tearing off their masks and celebrating when they first heard the news.

Where have I been? Just where I am now. Just last November the relevant agencies were advising going back to masking for another wave of covid.

An infectious disease expert has urged Australians to wear masks as a new Covid wave prompts two states to consider reintroducing the unpopular measure.

This week, two Adelaide hospitals made masks mandatory in clinical areas, while Queensland doctors are urging the state government to mandate masks in hospitals and on public transport.

It comes as 6550 cases were reported across the country on October 24, prompting some health professionals to declare an eighth Covid wave.

Infectious diseases physician Paul Griffin said while he didn’t think it was time for mask mandates, he did recommend people “strongly consider” wearing a mask.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/breaki ... a2c21e0bb4

The numbers will probably seem quote low for someone from a country with 300 million people but for Australians with a small population, it's quite a lot.

Masks obviously aren't infallible but they are a measure that along with other measures, help stem the spread especially among the vulnerable. If masks had been an invention for the Covid pandemic, that'd be a case of unproven science, but masking has been around for hundreds of years. It's as basic common sense as handwashing now.