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Inspire you

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Yeah ... wear your mask!



99.8% survival rate, yet cigarettes that kill far more people per year are still on the shelves ... hmm. :| Another renegade Rat-Lord from the Master pond of scum.

25-Sep-2020 13:19:46 - Last edited on 25-Sep-2020 13:22:07 by Inspire you

Joel
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@Inspire you,

We get where you stand on things. Thanks

Ultimately, you not wearing a mask could impact the health of another individual whether it be directly or indirectly and considering we do not have a vaccine yet the only way in which to safely keep this spread under some level of control is by wearing a mask & socially distancing.

If you not wearing a mask only impacted you and only put you at risk, then sure, do what you want, but that isn't the case and the reality is, your decision can and will put others around you at risk especially if you choose to continue regular daily activities like going to the store.

You can compare all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that around 1,000 Americans are dying a day, and hundreds of thousands more people and millions worldwide could and no doubt would die by us simply not doing anything and letting it spread unchecked. This is a collective problem, not an individual problem.

Please listen to your public health officials and the advice epidemiologists and those who study infectious diseases as a profession.
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25-Sep-2020 15:08:09

Tenebri
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putting others at risk, due to your selfishness, makes you a horrible person no matter what the survival rate. for one its not always about the survival rate. there are many negative effects of having covid, and surviving.

im surprised you can still post your dangerous way of thinking,


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25-Sep-2020 16:12:48 - Last edited on 25-Sep-2020 16:14:10 by Tenebri

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Inspire you said :


....99.8% survival rate....

So logically that leaves us with a death rate of 0.2 percent.

Now think how you'd feel if someone you loved was in that 0.2 percent and had died from catching Covid from someone who refused to wear a mask.

If somepone doesn't want to protect themselves, that's up to them but (as people have repeatedly pointed out) you have to consider other people. Not wearing one is selfish.
Refusing to wear a mask is basically saying "I'm ok and I don't care about anyone else"
Who's the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about?

25-Sep-2020 16:51:06 - Last edited on 25-Sep-2020 18:05:39 by Rooh

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Mrs Ana said :
I think this is interesting:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/face-masks-could-giving-people-covid-19-immunity-researchers/
The most interesting thing about that article is that an respected media outlet can publish something like that and have people blindly believe that is has some weight, when in fact, it is mishmash of unscientific speculation and post-hoc rationalisations with a scientistic spin on them, masquerading as something that is actually about science.
The Narnia books have as much real science in them and are more internally consistent to boot.

The comments are especially illuminating. It is dogma, not science.
This is what has caused all the controversy about something that should not be controversial.

If you want to know what poisoned the well to the point that some people think not wearing a mask is just as valid as wearing one, look no further than articles like this.
Such misleading nonsense serves to lower the signal to noise ratio to the point where 'experts have nothing of value to contribute' can be seen as a pragmatic point of view.
What is an expert anyway? The author of that article, who just shamelessly makes shit up?
Well, he got his opinion piece published, so I guess he is.

It should be titled "I just pulled some facts and diagrams out of my ass and am calling the resulting, stinking mess 'a scientific hypothesis'". Except that's no good for clicks.

I do wear a mask btw.

25-Sep-2020 18:41:57

FiFi LaFeles

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I read that article somewhere else a few days ago, also with incredulity.
I really don't understand why people write such unadulterated bollocks, although I do get why newspapers etc. print it.

I wear a mask in the hopes that I might help to avoid being in the unfortunate 0.2% or the "lucky" whatever percent who get it, don't die, but suffer ongoing and sometimes debilitating ailments. I'd also like to think that if I were to unwittingly go out in public having already contracted Covid a mask may help to prevent me from spreading it around to anyone else; potentially being the one who coughed death onto someone's parent or someone's child.
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25-Sep-2020 23:15:05

Inspire you

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Rooh said :

So logically that leaves us with a death rate of 0.2 percent.
Well it actually doesn't, since anyone at their point of death that is labelled to have Covid, is regarded as a Covid death.

There's case of people overdosing having Covid tacked onto their death.

Natural deaths, Covid is added. Organ failure, Covid.

It's far less than 0.2%.

And you check the statistics of what influenza normally accounts to each year, you'll likely see a much greater number die from that. Yet we haven't shut down entire economies for that. Another renegade Rat-Lord from the Master pond of scum.

26-Sep-2020 04:49:15

Inspire you

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FiFi LaFeles said :
someone's child.
Spare me the guilt trip, it was announced long ago that extra measures should be put in place for the vulnerable, ie; the young & elderly.

If that had been the case instead of putting everyone through this, I'm sure many more would be on board with your mask wearing.

Yet taking livelihoods away from those in the prime age for saving for their retirement is nothing more than stupidity. Another renegade Rat-Lord from the Master pond of scum.

26-Sep-2020 04:51:51

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