by DANIEL HOROWITZ
Masks are so effective that they work even when they don’t. You see, most non-pharmaceutical interventions are either effective or ineffective against this virus and can be judged based on the results. But when it comes to the unassailable majestic masks, they work so well that even when they don’t work, they create more need to wear them, precisely because they don’t work and there is still more work to be done. Confused?
In nearly every state and certainly every major city, we have seen the most dramatic social change of our lifetime with people walking around like mummies and bandits. It’s unmistakable. Even violent criminals are complying with the mask mandate while committing crimes. I have not seen a single human being indoors in any store or institution in my state of Maryland without a mask since April. According to Carnegie Mellon’s survey, there is 97% compliance statewide, yet it has not slowed the fall wave of coronavirus spread one iota.
In Maryland, not wearing a mask is punishable by up to a year of jail time and up to a $5000 fine. And yet so many people are willing to risk a year in jail and thousands of dollars to not wear a mask.
Because non-compliance is the only reason cases go up, right? pic.twitter.com/lE6zxUPGNe
— IM (@ianmSC) December 8, 2020
This is true of most places, according to surveys done on mask compliance. On June 24, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak said, “When at least 80% of a population adopts universal masking, it results in a substantial reduction of infection.” What are the results with 93% compliance statewide and 95% in Las Vegas?
When Nevada’s Governor mandated masks, he said that “when at least 80% of a population adopts universal masking, it results in a substantial reduction in infection”
Carnegie Mellon estimates over 94% in NV are wearing masks and yet cases are up ~540% since the mandate
Whoops! pic.twitter.com/LdC12oOiwo
— IM (@ianmSC) November 27, 2020
During the Sept. 29 presidential debate, Joe Biden said, “If we just wear a mask, we can save half those numbers. Just a mask.” To that end, he plans to implement a 100-day mask mandate. But, this has already been going on for longer than 100 days, and cases exploded rather than dropping by half.
One would expect that seven months later, we would no longer need to speculate about efficacy, calculate intangible projection models, or blow particles through a simulator or mannequins in a lab. We could just look at the actual real-life results we are supposedly trying to affect.
The problem with such an overview is that it would reveal that masks have failed to stop the spread one iota. By the very admission of those most fervently supporting lockdown policies, this fall has brought about the most widespread transmission of the virus to date. In fact, they are so frantic that in places like California, they are pushing new ideas … such as lockdowns and masks.
Or at least condition the handouts to governors ending lockdowns https://t.co/uwo9xiNZhH https://t.co/LIsdQuSwTF
— Daniel Horowitz (@RMConservative) December 8, 2020
Well, actually, they are not such new ideas. Indeed, they have been wearing masks for over 150 days and have never fully come out of the original lockdown. Yet after cases have been relatively low there for months, they are now skyrocketing. The masks have been caught red-handed, just like in the Czech Republic and every other place that had a good result until they didn’t!
The spread is so strong in Los Angeles County that it now has nearly twice as many cases per capita as Florida.
LA County, despite being less than half the population of Florida, a strict mask mandate and extensive closures, has reported 38,489 cases in the first five days of December
Florida has reported ~49,000 w/double the population, no mask mandate & few to no restrictions
Whoops
— IM (@ianmSC) December 7, 2020
Cases in California are up 168% in only ~3 weeks since they closed indoor dining for over 99% of the state
So strange how this didn’t work pic.twitter.com/Z2QW9WbMZg
— IM (@ianmSC) December 7, 2020
Florida already had a stronger wave in the summer, so there was more immune resistance among the population to the heavy fall wave of the virus. Whereas precisely because California had relatively few cases until recently, it is getting hit with a rapid transmission. But that is the broader point. This is all about regional seasonality and built-up immunity – 100% natural phenomena. The “virus is gonna virus” regardless of what we do. We can throw cloths on our faces as medieval superstitious sacraments to the gods of the masks, but that won’t change the fact that the virus has its own natural trajectory.
The sophomoric and ephemeral COVID observations contrasting different states and countries are getting old. The media jumps on a specific area for having a lot of cases … until that area no longer does. The media lauds an area for having few cases … until that area gets slammed. Numerous states and countries went months without problems, despite limited non-pharmaceutical interventions, such as mask-wearing. Yet nobody used that fact against the mask cult. Then when it finally spread, the transmission is blamed on not wearing masks. Conversely, all the places that were wearing masks and did well initially were touted as displays of mask magic. Then, when the cases began to soar and they clamored for lockdowns and mask mandates, they suddenly forget those places already had mandates in place.
It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to realize that masks and lockdowns are not driving this ship. The areas that do worse later on are precisely the ones that fared better before. For reasons that are still unknown in some cases, it is simply their time to spread, but once their turns came, the fact that they had less built-up immunity made the subsequent spread even worse.
N95. The only way to be sure.
Numerical Comparisons
Why are all healthcare professionals wearing masks if masks don’t reduce the likelihood of transmission? Are anti-maskers somehow smarter and better informed about viral transmission than epidemiologists, doctors, and nurses who spend their time studying communicable diseases and dealing with them on the front line?
@Greg: Double down on stupid, No nurse ever came into my hospital room with a mask on, they wear them during surgery and dont touch them ie contaminate them with their hands like you see everyone doing in public as they pull the ill fitting things back over their noses. Hospitals have more nasty infectous super bugs than anywhere.
Estimated 157,500 SSI infections in U.S. per year
In American hospitals alone, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that HAIs account for an estimated 1.7 million infections and 99,000 associated deaths each year.
How are those for front line numbers?
Grandma Kitt has cleaned boo boos and put on many a band aid and zero infections so far.
Were you in a hospital during a pandemic? Have you ever seen the routine protocol required of hospital staff and visitors in connection with a patient who is seriously immune compromised?
Masks all-around and hand sanitization are always part of the routine for everyone who enters the room. If that’s not so, the patient is in the wrong hospital.
@Greg: Have you personally questioned them on airborne viruses? Why do the numbers go up exponentially after mask mandates and were dropping before that?
“Follow the science”. I think they mean “live in fear and oppression”. NOTHING indicates masks are effective or necessary, but Obiden wants to MANDATE everyone wear them or 100,000 people will DIE. So, is he a liar or just an idiot?
@Greg:
If masks are so effective, why not give prisoners masks instead of letting them out of jail to commit more crimes?
Gee, I don’t know. Why don’t we compare the data that shows the absolute effectiveness of masks and compare it to the data that shows masks are ineffective? Ohhh…. that’s right. There IS no data showing masks are effective.
My liberal mask-Nazi brother-in-law has been observed not wearing a mask when he plays pool. Like most liberals, following the “rules” is all for show and an exhibition of “wokeness”. None actually believe in them.
@kitt, #5:
That isn’t actually what the graphs show.
Mask mandates have generally been put into place on the rising slopes of the peaks, as a response to observed rapid increases. The reason the rise continues following that is because the beneficial effects of widespread mask use are not instantaneous. Although a high-level viral exposure can result in detectable infection within days, full-blown infection may not be apparent for a week or two. Consequently, after a mandate is in place it could be a week or two before the rising rate of infections begins to drop off and you’re over the peak onto a declining slope.
We should be wearing masks in public and social distancing until the vaccination process is well underway. These are simple, common sense measures that can reduce the rate of spread. I’ve been around a hospitalized, immune compromised patient who was undergoing chemotherapy. At times the immune crashes lasted from a few days to a week. The doctor and nurses explained the need for masks and hand sanitizing in detail. Once understood, it all seemed obvious.
With respect to the COVID-19 virus, we all might as well be immune compromised. It’s a virus from another species that humans have little or no natural immunity to.
@Deplorable Me:
How many people can one infected idiot infect?
Masks offer some degree of protection against idiots, which are apparently just about everywhere.
December 9, 2020 – ‘Indiana is on fire’: Holcomb announces new limits, directs hospitals to suspend non-emergency procedures
That today from Indiana’s Governor Eric Holcomb, a decidedly conservative republican. Mask and social distancing mandates are in effect.
@Greg the covidiot: WHAT DO THE GRAPHS SHOW?
https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/29/these-12-graphs-show-mask-mandates-do-nothing-to-stop-covid/
@kitt, #10:
How can it be logically asserted from a graph that masks are totally ineffective at reducing the level of viral transmission? What the graphs don’t show—and cannot show—is what would have happened without mask mandates. The graphs can prove nothing with regard to that question, one way or the other, because you only have one set of data. There’s no with vs. without mask comparison involved.
The argument that favors their use is factual and logical:
The virus can, in fact, be carried by moisture droplets that humans emit with every exhalation or when they speak, and emit in much larger quantity anytime they cough or sneeze;
The fibers of a simple paper filter medical mask or even a cotton mask will capture some of these droplets that an infected person emits, and some that a non-infected person might inhale;
Whether an infected person’s increasing viral count outpaces their immune system’s capability to respond to it, hold it in check, and successfully eliminate it likely depends to some extent upon their initial viral dose. It may make all the difference whether geometric replication beings with an initial dose of 10 viruses or a thousand. That could come down to whether a few moisture droplets wind up caught by a mask fiber rather than being inhaled.
So, what does logic tell you? Is some protection better than no protection?
@Greg: I dont know
@kitt, #5:
Take you idiot arguments elsewhere and wear goggles with your mask.
Sweden tried to leave life as normal as possible, hoping a natural “herd immunity,” to take hold.
Sweden just this month gave up on their so-called Swedish experiment.
They locked down because they lost so many older people and people with comorbidities, they THOUGHT masks and limits on gatherings might make a difference.
Herd immunity never happened in Sweden, and it won’t happen here before immunizations become common.
As to non-N95 masks, I have personally witnessed a majority of non-medical people who wear them do things they should not, things that allow infection.
People hang their used masks in the rear view mirror for the next time they need a mask.
That’s no good.
People touch their faces and masks, bringing germs (maybe viruses) inside their masks.
People, even Joe Biden on video, take off their masks when they cough!
The main thing a non-N95 mask can do is protect OTHERS from you, but if take it off when you sneeze or cough, they can become infected.
Still Utah requires masks to enter any business or public building.
When made our masks I made 20 of them.
Each is two layers of fabric thick, 600 count pillowcase linen.
There’s a pocket between the layers for adding an extra layer of anti-viral wipe inside.
After each wearing every mask gets a HOT water wash and a hot dry.
(Like fabric diapers of the old days.)
Altho covid positive tests are rising in Utah, we are fine.
One other thing, we take personal responsibility to keep away from people, especially when they are using their masks wrong.
That probably protects us better than wearing a mask.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9036195/Pennsylvania-governor-says-hes-tested-positive-COVID-19.html
This Dem gov, Tom Wolf, had done EVERYTHING he ordered others to do.
But, like Juan Williams, he got covid anyway.
Who knows?
Maybe this will mug him into reality that masks can’t stop this.
And, if he gets well soon, as I hope he does, maybe he will realize destroying the economy to try to avoid covid is a bad trade off.
Congressional testimony
Early use of Ivermectin cures
Ivermectin an effective prophylactic
Safe not experimental franken RNA drug with death as a possible side effect
For 20 bucks 8 tablets
Ivermectin
Ivermectin
Generic Name: ivermectin (oral) (EYE ver MEK tin)
Brand Name: Stromectol
Update: Can Ivermectin be used to treat COVID-19?
Medically reviewed by Philip Thornton, DipPharm. Last updated on Apr 8, 2020.
What is ivermectin?
Ivermectin is an anti-parasite medication.
Ivermectin is used to treat infections in the body that are caused by certain parasites.
Ivermectin is currently being investigated as a treatment for coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which is the virus that causes COVID-19. The trials so far have shown ivermectin reduces the number of cell-associated viral DNA by 99.8 % in 24 hours. Further studies are needed to determine the effectiveness of this medicine in humans with COVID-19.
Frontline doctors have already done the live trials
@Greg:
But why, when mask mandates have been in place for months, do the spikes occur, as in Europe? Because they are so effective?
And you have proof of that… where?
Why do you assume the spikes wouldn’t be far worse without masks? Nobody ever said they would make the virus go away, only that they would significantly reduce the rate of transmission. Biden’s team have been affected to a far lesser degree than Trump’s associates. Do you think taking masks and social distancing seriously might have had something to do with that?
December 9, 2020 – U.S. Hits Highest 1-Day Death Toll From Coronavirus With 3,054
@Greg: Highly disturbing that a front lines lung specialists congressional testimony from Dec 8th has been taken down by You tube
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Then the this video breaks Toobs rules, maybe Rumble or another better service has it.
The efficacy of these RNA frankenvaccines is not 100 % Fauchi says we may still have to wear masks afterwards, why are the silicon Valley oligarchs blocking information on possible highly effective treatments if you test positive, treatments that could save lives and citizens thousands in hospital bills?
Senator Johnson is requesting Fauchi look at the data again. Johnson has the ear of the President.
Fauchi should be on trail for crimes against humanity.
Along with the tech oligarchs
@Greg:
1. They are mandated by their employer and the health department.
2. They are usually N95s, which is totally different than cloth coverings.
I support masks, but the truth is a N95 or higher grade mask is what will protect you. The efficacy of cloth coverings, that’s still debatable.
NOBODY EVER SAID “SIGNIFICANTLY” AND WAS TALKING FROM AN EDUCATED OR SCIENTIFIC POSITION. Cloth coverings do not significantly reduce transmission, but the understanding is they might do something, so let’s wear them.
If Democrats believed they worked, why is it only Democrat being caught on camera not wearing them?
@Greg:
Why do you assume they would? I can base my assumption on the testing that has been done that shows no real reduction in infections between mask wearing and non-mask wearing groups. What do you have to back up YOUR assumption other than “we must obey the State”?
Um, BIDEN did. He said wear masks for 100 days and, POOF!, it’s gone. Funny, you leftists think it is “patriotic” to wear a mask, but it’s OK to stomp and burn a US flag or kneel during the National Anthem. By the way, BOTH prevent infections to the exact same degree.
Thanks to a history of lying about COVID deaths, that needs to be verified.
@kitt: Because the left uses crisis, tragedy, death and fear as political weapons, so they meter the information that affects the power of their weapons.
@Greg:
So what?
@Greg:
Yes. Biden lives in a basement and his “team” doesn’t exist.
Biden has been caught on camera not wearing or using his mask properly, being too close as well.
Trump? Never.
Using masks as some kind of Nazi propaganda is just cowardice.
The Biden-Virus has been horrible, but luckily the Trump-Vaccine is the cure.
It’s funny how both Covid-19 and Joe Biden were both “made in China”, eh?
@Deplorable Me:
There have been no tests that actually demonstrate masks to be ineffective. There has only been a much-cited Danish study that was seriously flawed, and a CDC study that has been misrepresented.
I recall claims that studies demonstrated the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in preventing and treating COVID-19 illness. This was totally bogus. It’s useless against COVID-19.
We just broke the our daily COVID-19 death record again. 3,054 Americans died yesterday—more than died on 9/11, or from the attack on Pearl Harbor.
@Greg: Well, yes there have been. HCQ has also been proven effective. Basically, you trust in the liberal media and they lie to you on a regular basis. How do you feel about finding out that your party is thoroughly infiltrated by the CCP?
I’ll begin believing those inflated figures as soon as they are confirmed to be credible. How many died of heart disease and cancer yesterday? How many die in car accidents? Zero… again?
Dec 9th it is 3,124, Greg.
BUT, these are NOT all “covid” deaths.
These are deaths like George Floyd’s, where he died of an OVERDOSE while he also was positive for covid, as well as also arrested, resisted and got his neck sat on.
Co-morbidities are enough to kill most of the people who (also) get covid.
The figure 94% has been bandied about when it comes to deaths WITH, but not FROM covid.
https://nypost.com/2020/08/31/94-of-americans-who-died-from-covid-19-had-contributing-conditions/
Perhaps adding covid to the mix of heart disease, or out-of-control diabetes, or even other lung infections helped death come a bit sooner, but it was coming for almost all of the people who died WITH covid.
Hospitals getting paid some kind of bonus for each covid death did a lot to get “covid” added to many Death Certificates.
@Greg:
Incorrect. The strange suppression of using pre-purposed drugs for Covid-19 is curious, and borderline murderous.
HDCL and other drugs have worked very well as prophylaxes. My suspicion is that corporate greed got involved, as drug makers wanted to have their own patented drugs and vaccines to offer, the competition calmly dismissed by the MSM media machine touting “science” when they know nothing of the sort.
You’re funny. I’m surprised you went all in on that lie. HDCL has been shown empirically and scientifically to be useful with Covid.
Just give me accurate information and let me decide for myself. Sheesh. I outgrew the need to obey a babysitter many years ago.
@Petercat: Accurate information is the LAST thing the liberal media wants you to have.
Yeah, right.
Biden just rolled out some accurate information about what were facing over the next few months with COVID-19. Accurate means it’s truthful, not happy-talk political spin.
One truth is that we’re in for some very difficult stretches—worse than we’ve thus far seen. Millions of people didn’t listen, and he post-holiday travel surge is still a week or two off. 336 thousand have already died of COVID-19. That number is going to climb rapidly.
Another fact is that the vaccine roll-out is nowhere near as fast as we were told it would be. We were told that 20 million could be vaccinated by the end of the year. That has not happened. We’re well under 2 million total, and the daily rate is not climbing rapidly. The problem is that the current federal distribution plan goes no further than a hand-off of vaccine to the individual states, which then have primary responsibility for planning and overseeing further distribution within their borders. That’s not working so well. The pandemic is not a state-level problem. It’s a national crisis requiring a coordinated national response.
Masks and social distancing are essential. Not all mask are the same. Basic surgical masks provide some protection. The N95 variety meet established U.S. standards and are much better. Others, the KN95 variety, meet Chinese standards. The positive thing about the KN95 masks is that they’re readily available; the downside is that the Chinese standard allows for a wider range of filtering effectiveness. Some are much more effective than others.
If anyone is interested, here’s a link to a CDC page listing International Assessment Results of most available N95 and KN95 masks by manufacturer and model. You can click on OPEN ALL at the bottom of the page to see the entire list. What you want to look at are the Maximum and Minimum filtering efficiency numbers in the columns on the right.
@Greg: Did he happen to mention his connections and commitments to the CCP? Did he explain how he was going to “shut down the virus, not the economy” other than parroting a phony slogan, like his handler Obama used to do? How about explaining why he lied about Trump having a plan to distribute the vaccine, lied about if the vaccine would be effective, lied about Trump having a plan to combat the virus? How about he tells the truth about all the FRAUD his miserable, corrupt party employed to make it appear he won?
Yeah, that number will rise as quickly as they can add to it, like tallying Biden votes in Georgia. However, we may never know how many actually died OF COVID rather than merely WITH COVID. I read a story of a man in the hospital with COVID that was beaten to death in his hospital bed with an oxygen bottle by another patient because he wouldn’t stop praying. What do you bet he was a “COVID19 death”? Likewise with gun shots, auto accidents, heart attacks, cancer and anything else. Then, when that illegitimate pretender to the White House moves in, the numbers will suddenly and inexplicably begin to dwindle. It’s a Biden miracle!
That’s because Democrats and the FDA played games with getting the vaccine approved, letting people die rather than have the vaccine be distributed before the election (more of that “accurate information” we spoke about).
Based on what? The left wing desire to control everything about everyone’s lives? If it was so important, why are Democrats so often caught ignoring the rules?
@Deplorable Me: What thread was Greg getting his ass kicked on that made him dive to an old thread?
I see he needs to be told, OK Doomer what ever. Looking for the Thanksgiving numbers.
We find from the CDC the number of Covid only deaths is 20K.
Drs having zero treatment protocol putting people in nursing and rehabs account for more deaths lots more. Dr Death Fauchi supressing Ivermectin and HCQ testing, you know Fauchi who was also supressing Aids treatments 40 years ago. Yup Bidens gonna put Dr doomsayer in charge. 2 Big fat failures forever sucking tax dollars to live on.
Here’s a diagnosis: Your minds have been locked down by a political cult and you don’t even know it, because an inability to see the bars of the mental cage is a basic part of the programming.
Southern California’s ICU capacity has now been reduced to zero. They’re totally maxed out by critical COVID-19 patients. How do you explain such facts?
@Greg: How do you explain they have had strict shut downs and mask mandates yet have a surge? Oh, that’s right… without the Democrat government managing things, it would have been worse… right? Because you THINK so?
@Greg:
The governors super spreader dinner Party without masks and social distancing. Yup the governors fault all of it.
WUHAN, China, December 23, 2020 – A study of almost 10 million people in Wuhan, China, found that asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 did not occur at all, thus undermining the need for lockdowns, which are built on the premise of the virus being unwittingly spread by infectious, asymptomatic people.
Published in November in the scientific journal Nature Communications, the paper was compiled by 19 scientists, mainly from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, but also from scientific institutions across China as well as in the U.K. and Australia. It focused on the residents of Wuhan, ground zero for COVID-19, where 9,899,828 people took part in a screening program between May 14 and June 1, which provided clear results as to the possibility of any asymptomatic transmission of the virus.
These results are not without precedent. In June, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, shed doubt upon asymptomatic transmission. Speaking at a press conference, Van Kerkhove explained, “From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual.”
I know where I can get my hands on ivermectin with no prescription Just 2 doses will knock it back. Every doctor in So Cal should have license pulled for not trying HCQ early and letting those hospitals get over run. Or all those people are getting ill from human shit and pollution, damaged lungs from wildfire smoke?
@kitt, #36:
People who get COVID-19 illness can only get it by being in contact with those who are already showing symptoms of the illness?
To me this makes no sense. I think if it were so, we wouldn’t have seen such rapid spread.
@Greg:Does the greatest spikes happening where the harshest restrictions are maintained make sense to you?
@Deplorable Me, #35:
A large percentage of the population ignored or even actively resisted masks and social distancing. How much worse might things have been if no one at all had worn masks or avoided crowded places? That we don’t know.
You’re essentially comparing the known current situation with an unknown possibility. It’s like doing a comparison study with no control group. There’s nothing to compare with.
With an infectious disease, I think it’s safe to assume that people who take no or fewer precautions are a lot more likely to get sick. Restrictions have good results only to the extent that they’re complied with.
@Greg: It was a scientific study, of course it doesnt make sense to you.
Trying to shield myself with a mask from an air borne virus doesnt make sense to me.
humans that have no way to support them selves will cut corners in many things like eat cheaper less nutritious foods that affects the immune system. Why plagues broke out after the little ice age in Europe and wiped out 75–200 million people, they did interesting things with skulls and bones back then a regular decorating trend.
@kitt:
Europe’s black death resulted from infected fleas. People probably would have resisted mandated flea collars.
@Greg: The scientists at the time blamed and had killed off the cats, looks like they had their Dr Fauchis too. Do you carry a pocket full of posies?
Bronze Age people suffered from the plague, they probably got it from airborne droplets, contaminated food, or the transmission of bodily fluids, rather than from fleas that infested rodents, as did Europeans during the Black Death and other pandemics.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/10/bronze-age-plague-wasnt-spread-fleas.
Malnutrition and stress wreaks havok on that conspiracy theory thingee the immune system.
December 29, 2020 – Congressman-elect Luke Letlow, 41, dies from coronavirus complications; ‘we’re all in disbelief’
Congressman Letlow was only 41 years old, with no underlying conditions. He leaves behind his wife and two young children.
He’s one of our 337 thousand lives lost. Nothing about COVID-19 can be taken for granted. Everything we can do to reduce the spread should be done.
@Greg: Ya RIP Letlow . No one want to spread it of catch the virus. There are those that are done with the total bullshit. No one will take away your face rag, no one will drag you from your lysol castle.
Kids need schools, people have to earn a living Just want to see a movie or concert go to the park camping you know normal stuff.
Sitting in a perfectly sanitized box watching television aint living, guess what humans have a life span none of us are getting out alive, your choice how you want to exist, let me have my choice how I want to exist even if I expose myself to a germ I have .003% chance of dying from. You can even have my vxx cause I wont use it anyway.
@Greg:
Oh? HOW large? How many complied with the oppressive rules and how many didn’t? You sound like Cuomo, blaming everyone else for HIS failures. Why is the surge so much smaller in Florida?
Yes we do. Areas where the economy is still relatively open, there is no surge like in NY or California.
Wait… isn’t that what YOU are doing, claiming it would be worse if these petty dictators were not getting off on shutting down people’s lives? Why, yes. It is.
It is significant that while Democrats all support harsh restrictions (though they themselves will not abide by them) yet NOT A SINGLE ONE condemned the riots, looting and massive demonstrations carried out by the left. Hell, most would not even admit they happened. How does that compute? You yourself have claimed that riots don’t spread the virus, but apparently, 6 people sitting in a restaurant is a “super spreader” event. In short, your entire belief system is bullshit.
@Greg: Since you don’ t know why, ask a few medical staff persons why they wear them and what they think about them. Many medical people are anti-mask away from work, and masks aren’t worn at work because masks will stop a virus from infecting a staffer or a patient.
But we have a vaccine now so soon the dreaded Virus won’t be a worry.
Just like the flu vaccine wiped out the flu.