The logic of masks...

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[–]DoubleReverse 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (30 children)

I'm sorry that being sanitary and wearing a piece of cloth on your face are so upsetting to you, but the alternative is millions and millions of real, actual deaths.

[–]StillLessons 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (29 children)

If that were true, there would have been millions and millions of real, actual deaths before people started wearing masks.

You believe masks are a miracle block to this virus. I don't see the numbers that remotely support that supposition. We do in fact have some relative control cases in our current moment. Sweden stayed out of the "mandate" business. People use their own judgment to what precautions to take. Where's the mass slaughter? Looks kind of comparable to the rest of us to my eye.

Edit to add: This is also not a partisan issue. The claim you make above about "millions and millions" is similar to the rhetoric from both sides of the aisle. The left says we must keep enforcing this social climate to prevent millions and millions of deaths. But the right is no better. Trump says well, now we're okay, but the lockdowns he contributed to prevented millions and millions of deaths. Both sides are wrong. This bug has never shown itself to be that lethal. It kills predominantly the old and the sick. There are a lot of pathogens that do this. Covid has merely joined a family of bugs which we have called throughout history "illness".

[–]DoubleReverse 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (28 children)

Ok but you still can't come in my store without a mask because I don't want you killing my customers, even if they are old or sick

[–]Zahn 3 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 5 fun -  (27 children)

Then your customers will patronize a business that's not run by an hysterical, hand wringing, moral busy body that embraces fear and hyperbole instead of science and common sense.

[–]DoubleReverse 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (26 children)

Says the guy who denies the advice of health professionals and calls it societal suicide to wear a mask to save lives

[–]Zahn 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (25 children)

I'm sorry your false narrative is collapsing and you are having to face the sobering reality that you were perhaps "mistaken" when you failed to do your diligent research to arrive at a truthful summation of events months ago. Time to "man up", stop projecting and be the bigger person by admitting you took an incorrect stance.

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” -- CS Lewis

[–]DoubleReverse 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (24 children)

What about my stance do you think is incorrect?

[–]Zahn 5 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 5 fun -  (23 children)

The Covid scare is vastly blown out of proportion. Non N95 masks are ineffective at reducing the spread of anything.

[–]DoubleReverse 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (22 children)

The Covid scare is vastly blown out of proportion.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Confirmed Cases: 30639812

Death Toll: 954880

Non N95 masks are ineffective at reducing the spread of anything.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-mask/art-20485449

"Cloth face coverings are most likely to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus when they are widely used by people in public settings. And countries that required face masks, testing, isolation and social distancing early in the pandemic have successfully slowed the spread of the virus."

In conclusion, you're full of shit and acting like a child.

[–]Againstniggerfemales 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Hoax

[–]Zahn 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (19 children)

Friend I've had this conversation hundreds of times, and wing nut extremists like you lose every time.

Find more honest ways of promoting your premise by refraining from Appeal To Authority Fallacies. Wearing a lab coat does not magically make someone correct:

By using an appeal to authority, the argument is relying upon testimony, not facts. A testimony is not an argument and it is not a fact.

Learn to not only research, and reveal sources of sources, but also all of the fine print. Consider practising critical thinking.

Someone with critical thinking skills can: Understand the links between ideas.

Determine the importance and relevance of arguments and ideas.

Recognise, build and appraise arguments.

Identify inconsistencies and errors in reasoning.

Approach problems in a consistent and systematic way.

Reflect on the justification of their own assumptions, beliefs and values.

In the meantime congratulate yourself for your obsession with pathological virtue signalling while you harass your patrons.

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

You're relying on the rigged numbers from the people who rigged the whole mess.