And God forbid they wear a mask.
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The way our government is set up to work is with 3 co-equal branches of government with a system of checks and balances. Laws are created by the legislative branch, signed into law by the executive branch, and determined to be consistent with the US Constitution by the legislative branch.
1) The study you linked to stated, "By assuming that the respiratory droplets are mixed uniformly through an indoor space,... ", which is not the result from face masks, which concentrate droplets away from the person you are talking to.The study is at the link below and it was a pretty big deal when it was published. It caused my local school district to trash more than $100k worth of Plexiglas dividers because it was determined they hindered air exchanges per hour.
A guideline to limit indoor airborne transmission of COVID-19
Airborne transmission arises through the inhalation of aerosol droplets exhaled by an infected person and is now thought to be the primary transmission route of COVID-19. By assuming that the respiratory droplets are mixed uniformly through an indoor space, we derive a simple safety guideline...www.pnas.org
As someone working directly with doctors and researchers at Washington University, let me be clear on this: every single one of them that has spoken on this thinks the CDC is, if anything, under-reacting. Mutations have already happened, and every possible infection (even of the vaccinated) can cause more of them. The science is firmly, totally, and completely on the side of being more cautious regarding mask wearing, not less.
I agree the executive branch has too much power overall, and I agree it needs to be trimmed back. However, covid19 is not the hill to (literally) die upon. Fight against the FCC, the IRS, the EPA, military adventurism, NSA data collection, SEC market regulation, Federal Reserve monetary policy, etc., and even when I don't agree in particular, I'll agree with the general notion of less executive power. Covid19 is the wrong battlefield.
The question I was asking is what does the government get out of me wearing a mask?The way our government is set up to work is with 3 co-equal branches of government with a system of checks and balances. Laws are created by the legislative branch, signed into law by the executive branch, and determined to be consistent with the US Constitution by the legislative branch.
What legislator proposed this law? Which legislators voted to pass it? When did the President sign it? The separation of powers with checks and balances aren’t there to protect the government. They are to protect the people from government. You will likely have to follow these CDC mask mandate guidelines even if it is never debated in your state legislature. The emergency is being used to sidestep checks on power.
There was an emergency. The statistics show there isn’t one now. There is no justification for the government refusing to give up emergency powers. With this mask mandate for the vaccinated that is completely unsupported by science, government is daring us to say something. I’m saying something. IDGAF if this is in our best interests. The government can either pass a law the regular way or GTFO of my business. This new way of dictating restrictions into existence is not what we signed up for.
Emergency powers. If fully vaccinated people are willing to accept the government's order to wear masks due to the emergency then those people are willing to accept the continued use of emergency powers by their government.
Since it's not a problem today, it won't be a problem in two months or two years? What's your level of certainty, and how many lives are you willing to risk on it?
