Is anyone else super uncomfortable with the mandatory mask rules going around?

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[–]avena_sativa_3 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (10 children)

Masks are the only way we're going to be able to open up the economy fully before there's a vaccine.

[–]StBlops2cel_is_Lord 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

open up the economy

It already WAS open, it never should have been shut down.

[–]avena_sativa_3 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

If common sense prevailed and everyone would have worn masks from the beginning yes, any kind of shutdown wouldn't have been necessary.

[–]Bl_nk 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Everyone will get it eventually, the risk will never be zero, the consequences of the lockdown are worse than the virus itself.

[–]noice 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I would say it was common sense that people listened to the leaders who at the beginning said not to wear masks, and that they weren't effective anyway. The orders then were to stay home, a.k.a. shut down the economy.

[–]Turn0ffy0urmind 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

But the economy never shut down. Restaurants and bars closed but there were millions of people going to walmart and every other big box store every day. It seems the criteria for being labeled essential is being a multi billion dollar corporation.

[–]noice 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ok, cripple the economy then. I do agree about the oddity surrounding what was deemed essential vs non-essential.

[–]Turn0ffy0urmind 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The economy is already crippled people just haven't noticed yet. There were only 2 viable options at the start of the pandemic, shut everything down and have the national guard deliver food to drive through locations or go about business as normal and let the virus run its course. Neither is ideal but if we had a complete lockdown for 6 weeks we would have beat covid, the economy is fucked either way.

[–]avena_sativa_3 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, they're all criminally negligent imo. In Canada our ones were calling their citizens racist for bringing up concerns about people travelling back from Wuhan being a potential risk.

[–]StBlops2cel_is_Lord 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Masks are useless. The shutdown was completely hysterical and unnecessary. Get back under your bed now, thanks.

[–]Youdundeeditnah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Are masks really common sense though? Take a look at these studies, every single one concludes masks are ineffective at controlling the spread of viruses:

2009: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1921600

2010: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/epidemiology-and-infection/article/face-masks-to-prevent-transmission-of-influenza-virus-a-systematic- review/64D368496EBDE0AFCC6639CCC9D8BC05

2012: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1750-2659.2011.00307.x

2015: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577

2016: https://www.cmaj.ca/content/188/8/567

2017: https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/65/11/1934/4068747

2019: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2749214

2020: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jebm.12381

2020: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article