Anything that helps? Like cratering the economy, shutting schools down with immense learning loss that impacted disadvantaged students most, massive deficit spending to devalue currency in a stagflationary spiral, and destroying the fertility rate with a baby bust to a degree we don’t yet grasp? Are you asking why we don’t do that every year so that we can have a mild flu season? It is a possibility I suppose but I’m not a fan of any of that. I’d prefer we didn’t do that and had a regular flu season, but I also get the flu vaccine every year and it works pretty well for me.
No, that’s not what I meant when I said “what’s wrong with using anything that helps?”. I asked you if you thought wearing masks and social helped tamp down the seasonal flu? And the reason I asked, is because I get the overall impression, from your posts in this thread(although I’m sure I have not read every one of your comments), that you feel masks are fairly useless, except for N95 and K95( speaking of which, since my N95 leaks to some extent, I’d like to know where one goes to get it “fit tested”) masks. My point was, why would I not use every “weapon” available in my arsenal? Vaccination is number one. But why would I not continue to use masks and socially distance?
My personal arsenal, in other words. I said nothing about cratering the economy, or anything else you mentioned. You seem to just assume I was recommending every single extreme reaction in the book. Not sure why you would just assume that, when I only mentioned social distancing and masks. I guess I should have been clearer. Under the theory that every little bit helps.
I don’t care if wearing a simple surgical masks improved my protection by half a percent. Every little bit helps, Dr. Jha proposed an approach that he thought would allow a mask-free environment. I posted his thoughts here yesterday. I don’t know if he is correct or not, but I’ve come to respect his opinions. In the meantime, if masks help at all, they are not a hardship in the least, I’ll wear them till my last breath, I don’t care. If they help at all, they help. I’ll use them. Every little bit helps.
I stopped going to the spa for the daily exercise I need to control chronic conditions. I’ll walk the neighborhood now, and not the treadmill at the spa. I’d rather use the spa, especially in 100 degree heat index, or 20 below wind chill, but I only went back for less than a month before Delta made me decide the spa is not going to help at all, and I want every little bit of help I can get. So, no spa once more, and maybe for good. I don’t know.
I don’t know. I guess I was just thinking the masks probably helped with the flu, and social distancing must have helped with the flu, and I imagine both do help with Covid. That’s all, all the rest you mentioned I’ve given no thought to at all.
Masks, well I always thought wearing a mask was part of a “all for one, one for all” approach. That’s how I interpreted wearing them, when first recommended. Which I always thought was a socially responsible approach. A “we’re all in this together” approach. I’m big on exercising social responsibility. Mostly because I live in a society. And because I don’t think the world revolves around me, and only me.
