Anti Mask Demonstrators

[rumrocks]

There's definitely a lot of conflicting information bombarding people about this virus.

This article from the US Library of Medicine explains aerosols and droplets sizes regarding virus transmission.

You can get bogged down quickly with eye glze, but #5 tries to explain masks and efficiency against covid-19.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7293495/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7293495/

My take from this is,
-surgical masks restrict virus transmission from the wearer to others.
-N95 masks restrict the wearer from inhaling the virus from others.

this may be one of the reasons why the infection rate in some Asian countries is lower, if everyone wears a mask, its filtered twice, exhaling and inhaling.

[farmaholic]

This debate reminds me of the "seat belt" dilemma. Not that you wearing a seat belt has alot of bearing on people's safety in other vehicles, but it can mean alot to the safety of other passengers in the same vehicle, and even more safety to yourself.

Everyone knows the masks aren't 100% effective, but if you choose to wear one to help mitigate your risk.... go for it.

If you are required to wear one in certain stores or public transit but refuse.... don't go there.

Who's "rights" are greater? Those who want to be protected from others or those who believe they pose no risk to others?

If you have people in your lives that Covid would likely kill, would you not take some precautions? Are some people that selfish to think that their perceived invincibility gives them the right put other people at risk. Sounds like the mentality of someone who chooses to drive drunk.

Herd immunity or effective vaccine, until then any measures taken are only prolonging the inevitable, but that isn't a license to be careless. Would some people be happier if there was a 10% death rate of Covid infected people.....that would make any measures taken seem so much more worth it.

This too shall pass, but until then.....

[farmaholic]

Gag me with a spoon !

Table or teaspoon?

[malleefarmer]

Table or teaspoon?

Forgotten who was the resident spooning expert

[farmaholic]

Forgotten who was the resident spooning expert

Blaithin

[farmaholic]

Go ahead sit in your basement and self isolate with a mask on !

Not necessary.

I'm on the record of stating I'm sick of it already and would like to get to some semblance of normalcy.

[farmaholic]

9 months since Wuhan ground zero.

7 months in Canada.

Doubt death rate will ever go parabolic.

Would less social media, media coverage or government intervention meant higher infection rates resulting in higher death rates? Probably but only for the most susceptible...... whether something or nothing had been done.....in hindsight.

[farmaholic]

But lets leave galen weston's stores open !

Well, food is kinda a necessity.

According to bigwheel, so is ass wipe.

Had to keep the liquor stores open too so parents could cope being around their kids 24/7.

[rumrocks]

Sophie Trudeau was 0ne of the first to test positive after a we conference !

Her hubby gives we almost a billion !

shut the schools down and social isolate it's a Scamdemic !

**** off lefties I ain't wearing a mask !

I can understand Ottawa didn't have the maturity to handle this, too slow closing airports, then over compensating by closing the economy, but I can't understand Trump dropping the ball on the slow airport closure.

[farmaholic]

Reports of some small niche businesses in Regina closing because of the affects of the lock down.
Any business that operates hand to mouth must be very susceptible to financial trouble, probably more susceptible than people are to the actual virus. Too bad for those business casualties to a fairly benign virus(benign to most people's
health anyway).

In hindsight I bet the Gov wished they'd taken less stringent measures.

[jazz]

In hindsight I bet the Gov wished they'd taken less stringent measures.

If ran some small business instead of the charity I do own, I would totally look at grabbing all the CERB I could then filing for bankruptcy and go sit in the Okanagan.

Restaurants are only 30% capacity. Even nobody in food courts anymore.

Canada is done. We will never ever climb out of this. We are going to have chronic everything after this one.

[agstar77]

You are welcome to all the vaccine you want agstarr. I expect you to be first in line.

Do BLM and antifa get beds?

I won't get a vaccine if Trump endorses it. I will buy you a bottle of bleach . I hear you can inject it.