If the masks work...

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[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

It bugs me when people say "If people just wore masks for X amount of time there'd be no pandemic" because people do wear masks in my area and we still have a ton of covid cases.

It's a safety blanket. It feels better to be doing something, anything, even if it isn't effective. Still doesn't make it less annoying tho.

[–]FediNetizen 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Masks do help, though. They don't stop the spread, but they do reduce it. Social distancing reduces it further. In fact, if 100% of the population adhered to both, we could get the R value below 1.0 (meaning on average each existing case will led to less than one new case), and take care of this pandemic on our own, without vaccines.

But because we've got conspiracy-loving chuckleheads like the one that posted this meme, we'll never get to R<1. So if we want to put a stop to it, it's vaccines, spend years waiting for saturation, or go back to normal and let the virus rip through the population, kill millions, and create long-term issues for many millions more.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

You are frighteningly deep into that kool-aid.

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

science = kool-aid?

Consider the original meaning of the term:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid

A cult drank the stuff, not a group that is anything like most people (eg. most people believe in science)

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Science(!) is edit: a cult. People have made a cult out of "science"

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

SCIENTISM:

A blind faith dogma in the benevolence of "experts" and corporations making obscene profits from their allegedly safe but very secret and privatized so-called "science".

Authentic science is a transparent discovery and open verification process (not settled) of elimination based on a hypothesis. Since many factors may corrupt this process it must be openly verifiable to eliminate junk science from legitimate results.