https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2020/06/23/county-officials-say-face-masks-are-exempt-for-some-as-long-as-theyre-not-white-n2571189

The Left makes them less than and not equal, just outrageous.

https://youtu.be/9bC4BH5E4Ys

Howard Stern informs everyone, the every day people of America that “Trump despises you”. And Stern expects that to divide Trumps supporters? Who cares Howard? I have made this point many times: Do you need to love the surgeon that specializes in the urgent surgery that you need? Or do you need him to love you? I know I do not. I could care less about who Trump likes or does not like, me being among them.

Sterns attempt at dividing is childish and unsophisticated, and IMO is just a desperate attempt at becoming relevant and in the medias eye. Stern and people like him are the problem here. No one cares if Trump likes them, Trump was hired to do a job and he is doing that job he was hired to do.

Stern and the rest of those desperate Democrats / Liberals / supporters of Leftist agendas on the View reveal themselves every day for exactly what they are, desperate to be relevant and childish media talking heads that have become the enemy of the American people. Petty.

Trump does not personally like you America, and so what? The media has become so transparent in their desperation. All is being revealed, let the sun shine in.

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https://www.foxnews.com/science/coronavirus-asymptomatic-spread-rare-who

The only logical reason (apart from surgeries etc) for wearing masks was the notion that it is to protect others from you if you were a carrier but asymptomatic. This article seems to debunk that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vT9BV8-0TA
[9:59]
Your chances of being infected by others:
If you are wearing a mask 3%
If you are not wearing a mask 17%

Lancet, Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to
prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and
COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis
1st June, COVID-19 Systematic Urgent Review Group Effort (SURGE)

Details of the study at the link.

see also
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.17.20069567v3.full.pdf

https://www.survivalring.org/classics/efficiency%20of%20wet%20towels%20and%20handkerchiefs%20to%20block%20out%20chemical%20agents.pdf

Clearly a good quality mask must provide low leakage around the edges, which is why a firm cup shaped mask with deformable metal nose strip is particularly effective.

Gary Brown: See this post: I will NOT wear a mask. In it I cite legal requirements imposed in Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Maryland. And I wrote this on May 6, three weeks ago. Since then none of these states have relaxed their requirements, and Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, DC, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming have all imposed requirements that demand mask use.

Most limit the demand to just employees of some businesses, but a healthy number demand that everyone wear them. See this link.

Not if we end up like Aurora in Asimov’s “The Robots of Dawn.” They were so absurdly germaphobic that they took social distancing to an extreme. Hmm. Much like we have been required to do today.

I may have put a mask on to satisfy the ophthalmologist, but will shake hands with those I trust!

Just like 2 million Americans dead in 3 years due to Corona virus, and the majority of most all of your assertions and conclusions. Oink.

Very good Andrew W.

Now we just have to find out exactly what it is that IS going on here.

The strange the better, right?

These are POSSIBILITIES:
He has a grudge against the owner of the business.
He has mental issues that were triggered by the riots.
He’s a Democrat with some strange agenda.
He’s a Republican with some strange agenda.
He’s just a moron that likes breaking windows.
He’s a university professor conducting a science experiment.

I’m sure you can add to that short list.

Even you can see that there is something other than a protest that is going on here. No?

Conspiracy?

You would make one hell of a Democrat if you lived here in America, woooosh.

Nothing is as it seems.

That’s the only conclusion you can make on the evidence available.

I’m getting tired of reading kooky conspiracy theory.

A cop breaking windows to start a riot? CIA? FBI? ANTIFA?

Looks something like that:

https://youtu.be/eTfwoB_8J0M

Obviously this guy is out of place in the Minneapolis protests, he is without doubt white behind his mask, he has attempted to disguise himself all dressed in black and is also concealed by an umbrella, and he is carrying a hammer and is very purposefully breaking windows in a commercial business across the street from a police station.

The guy videoing asks if he is a cop? Something more going on here than just protestors.

Nothing is as it seems.

That’s fine and far more honest than hiding behind “science”. Many people who disfavor wearing a mask or taking any steps to prevent the spread of the virus are not coming to their position out of rational thought but because they want to make a statement. There is a bit of projection when they accuse others of virtue signaling over wearing a mask.

People are becoming so ideologically entrenched that they are closing themselves off to making good decisions. Persistence is a virtue. Stubbornness can be a character defect.

I think it is fine to be irrational. Humans are irrational beings. It is only by being self aware, and accepting, of this that we are able to sort through the distortions and make good decisions.

When I consider wearing a mask, I look at the context*. There is a low chance that I will contact a sick person but certain situations put me in a place where there are high volumes of people from all over town or where I will be in contact with vulnerable populations. It is important to remember than in some contexts, you will be exposing yourself to populations that are vulnerable. Aren’t these the people we are supposed to look out for? I am fairly certain that I have read here that everyone should go about their normal business but that we should look out for the vulnerable.

This is why doctor offices want people to wear masks. It isn’t necessarily about you. It is about protecting the vulnerable so that they can see a doctor.

A person might be totally healthy but how is anyone else to know that? A person might also think they are totally healthy, but really aren’t and again, no one else can know.

I urge people who are making statements to think about the context they are making statements in. Going to the store is different than being around a bunch of people with weakened immune systems.

Go read the comments over at instapundit and tell me which side of the debate appear more rational and thought out. https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/376887/#respond

*It is totally possible to look at the context and determine that wearing a mask isn’t needed but that won’t be the case in all situations.

However, if you deal with the petit dictator bureaucrats mandated to enforce the order, you get a very different interpretation than a reasonable layman would come up with.

Massachusetts, however, has a very different directive, stating that anyone not in their own home without a mask on is subject to a $300 fine.

There are certain municipalities in MA which have gone far beyond even that, making the fine up to $1000.

There is no executive order that I am aware of that blanket mandates the wearing of masks if you are not within your own home.

There are others as well.

If you can’t offer 2 or more examples of where our leaders or “anyone” are demanding we all wear masks, all the time , in all situations blindly, you are setting up a straw man. Additionally, there is a difference between private and personal actors demanding you do something to do business with them than the government forcing them. Your freedom is always limited by other people’s freedom or rights. I’m in favor of situational mask wearing based on relative risk and that is really the only approach that makes sense. I don’t wear a mask outdoors, for example. I don’t wear a mask in my home, or in my car. Everything else is up for grabs based on requirements and my judgement.

I’ve spent plenty of time in MOPP gear. The difference between MOPP and the silliness that the fascists are forcing on society with masks is that MOPP is well designed for a specific threat (chemical weapons use on the battlefield in a threat environment with stated first use policies, and I’ll forgive the designers of the M-17 ask for the cheek filters that take 10 minutes to change…) while NONE of the masks used are designed for the intended use, they all restrict breathing, and there are no studies that actually support their use.

Asians started wearing masks when the particulate pollution in their cities became so bad you couldn’t breathe without them. They’re also fashion/ cultural signalling in certain societies.

The only use for Masks in the United States is a tool to control ,signal virtue, and engage the sheep to think they’re doing something.

I have spend more than 24 hours in MOPP4 before and rather enjoyed it. Other people go nuts. It takes all types. Some of us are more comfortable in PPE and some of us find it mentally, physically, socially, and even spiritually / philosophically taxing.