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[–]Site_rly_sux 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

This is a terminology gap. You're using the wrong words.

A mask is supposed to slow down the aerosolisation of particles from your mouth and nose. It blocks particles which are OUTBOUND.

A respirator is supposed to block airborne particles from coming INBOUND to enter your mouth and nose.

Here's a page from the CDC which helps explain the difference between a mask (outbound) and respirator (inbound).

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/types-of-masks.html

The studies which you found show that masks are not great respirators.

That's fine. They're not supposed to be. Respirators are expensive and can't let anything bad through. Masks can be a cheap bit of cloth and still work to keep the air around you clean.

The purpose of masks is to keep the R0 number down and the science confirms the intuitive logic that they work

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-11934-x

So when you say - "If you are wearing masks, to be clear; you are a stupid liberal piece of shit."

What you should say is - "you are either a stupid liberal, or someone who is under the weather and sensibly wants to move around in public without causing greater risks to everyone else"

And, when we are experiencing a pandemic which has many, many non-symptomatic case, any person who doesn't even feel under the weather might sensibly wear a mask to reduce risk. For example if you are near the elderly, infirm, children, immunocompromised, etc, then even if you don't feel sick but there's a pandemic on - it can still be risk-reducing and sensible to wear a mask.

[–][deleted] 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

No, what I mean is that masks don’t do shit. These studies are bull shit. And you are being lied to, and or are the liar.

Wearing masks increases transmission.

Any kind of pseudo intelligent conversation you are pretending to have, is you being a disingenuous asshole.

[–]Site_rly_sux 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Okay sorry. I thought (incorrectly) that you believed in science and reality.

I see now that you can only engage with studies which validate the conclusions you already held .

You are into the kind of science, where you decide that masks don't work, and then set out to find proof of the conclusion.

I thought you engaged with the shared reality of discovery and logical positivism, but clearly your head is up your ass, and only studies which prove your pre-existing fake notions can exist in your world, so whatever, my mistake

[–]Megatron95 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Your mistake is thinking you have enough credibility to sway the opinions of the established users. Whether you're right or wrong, no one cares. Your smelly, gaslighting rhetoric can be picked up from miles away. It's funny how our so-called health ''experts'' were discouraging mask-wearing at the beginning and then did a complete 180 after a few months. Same for the ever-changing MSM narrative modelled to fit the agenda of the day. Thankfully, people are paying attention and it doesn't take a brain surgeon to assess that people's trust in corporate and state media is at an all time low. BTW, your less than objective stance reveals a propensity for confirmation bias as well.

[–]Site_rly_sux 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

sway the opinions of the established users

That's so funny and cringe. Do you have a neckbeard and a fedora, by any chance?

your less than objective stance reveals a propensity for confirmation bias as well.

Sure, go ahead and point out where you think I'm wrong, and I'll have a normal discussion about it with you, unlike douchebag OP.

how our so-called health ''experts'' were discouraging mask-wearing at the beginning and then did a complete 180 after a few months.

You're literally misremembering. Go and check because you're wrong about this. I understand that it's part of your extended fantasy universe but I'm not going to partake in make believe with you. That straight up didn't happen.

Here's the truth which you're lying about

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/science/face-mask-guidelines-timeline.html

[–]Megatron95 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Citing the New York Times? What a loser! Everyone knows you're a lying pro-establishment shill. I'm definitely not misremembering anything. Orwell's Ministry of Truth was a blueprint for the way current mainstream media outlets operate. I'm done here. You're a contemptible media parroting POS and a mindless consensus-creating drone. Now go wank your three inch erection and cry yourself to climax.

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

Lol come back if you find a single thing wrong in their timeline.

It should be really easy. It should be really, really easy for you to find just a single thing wrong with it, given you're so confident

[–]Site_rly_sux 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

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