hobbyistinomaha,
Well I've never seen any evidence the masks being used are effective, especially since most people don't remove properly. Cases keep going up, and more people wear masks. Studies on masks and virus before March of this year show no benefit as the virus is smaller than the mask are designed to stop. All the studies that say they are effective are claiming spread by droplets. But it sure appears that it is spreading more than just on droplets.
Originally Posted by farmstud60
I’ve never seen any evidence of a lot of things that are true.
I wear a mask for a a simple reason. I must go a lot of places for my job, even in this environment. It’s true we don’t know for sure how many ways this shit is spread. I could get it and not know it for 14 days just walking through a parking lot as far as we know. I can still be spreading it without knowing I have it. So by wearing a mask the chances of me spreading go down. Even if that is only 10% less that is good enough to keep one out ten people I encounter from getting it. I believe it is much more effective than that. I wear it to do what I can to stop the spread while still earning a living.
What if someone you cared about caught this, suffered greatly, got put on a ventilator and you had to watch on a video feed as they died gasping for their last breath of life, and tracing and testing lead back to you being the one they caught it from? God forbid that happens to you.
Wearing a mask may not be 100% effecting, but short of never leaving the house, it is the least I can do for the ones I love and the ones I don’t know.
Very few of us are in a position to get tested daily, or get flown by helicopter across the street to the best medical center in the world if we get this. I choose to do what I can. I choose to believe the vast majority of medical professionals and not those trying to appease a certain voting group. It’s not a political thing.
If you don’t agree I hope I never have to be in the same places you have been.