Actually, yes. It's easy to overlook one election among the last 10 (of course, I never do anything like that. Never. Really. For sure. I don't know why you htink I'm overcompensting.). This was blatant science denial and misinformation. We might often disagree, and sometimes I think you're posting tactically instead of informationally, but it's rarely outright misinformation IMHO.
I didn't fake the statistics. I can also robustly support my contention that anything other than an N95 mask doesn't do much. Being that there are no mandates on the certification of masks being used during pandemic spikes like there are on nearly every other mandated safety item (seat belts, baby car seats, motorcycle helmets, etc) it is easy to argue that effectiveness of the safety measure isn't the point.
They haven't so far. The delta variant first started infecting people 8 months ago and now make up something like 70% of new cases and in 8 months here the death rate has only gone down. Delta is more transmissible but it isn't statistically more deadly. With the delta variant, vaccinated people are catching a cold and getting over the cold. It sucks greatly if you're unvaccinated, and doubly so if you have comorbidities, so everyone should get vaccinated but for the vaccinated this isn't a health crisis. Requiring fully vaccinated people to wear unregulated cloth masks isn't about saving anyone's life.
There are over 330 million people in the US and a lot die every day. Per the CDC over 1,900 people died per day from accidents. More people right now are dying daily from Alzheimer's than SARS-CoV-2. I'm not saying it isn't a big deal and I don't understand why some are so resistant to getting vaccinated but I also am rolling my eyes pretty hard at government reinstituting mask mandates for vaccinated people.
Ouch, thanks for making yourself look ignorant!
They haven't so far. The delta variant first started infecting people 8 months ago and now make up something like 70% of new cases and in 8 months here the death rate has only gone down. Delta is more transmissible but it isn't statistically more deadly. With the delta variant, vaccinated people are catching a cold and getting over the cold. It sucks greatly if you're unvaccinated, and doubly so if you have comorbidities, so everyone should get vaccinated but for the vaccinated this isn't a health crisis. Requiring fully vaccinated people to wear unregulated cloth masks isn't about saving anyone's life.
There are over 330 million people in the US and a lot die every day. Per the CDC over 1,900 people died per day from accidents. More people right now are dying daily from Alzheimer's than SARS-CoV-2. I'm not saying it isn't a big deal and I don't understand why some are so resistant to getting vaccinated but I also am rolling my eyes pretty hard at government reinstituting mask mandates for vaccinated people.
Wearing a mask does nothing? Flu and cold season sure was almost non existent last year for some strange reason.This has nothing to do with following the science. The new mask mandates are authoritarianism for the sake of authoritarianism. Deaths from SARS-CoV-2 are at their lowest point since the pandemic began.
Everyone should get vaccinated but wearing a cloth mask does nothing but outwardly signal compliance to authority. So long as people are willing to wear them the government never has to give up emergency powers.
The data out of the UK showed the death per 10m population going up from 1.3 to 2.1. That is technically "going up", but it is nothing as compared to the "going up" that we observed when the emergency powers were first given to the government.
Yes you can, but you have to be very careful when posting to YouTube because those vape-smoke tests show how poorly non-N95 masks perform and get classified as against their terms of service. The smoke tests also show how Plexiglas dividers do nothing. Here is only example of one that has remained up. Remember that if you can see smoke then you are releasing virus.
