Sweden tried this Brother and it didn't work x)

It prolongs the inevitability of the getting it, sure, but enough people have severe enough reactions that places run out of hospital and morgue space

As the hospitals run out of space, they have to cancel other treatments or turn people away that would otherwise be able to receive care for non covid19 issues

If El Paso has good mask compliance, they wouldn't be stacking bodies in trucks

If Idaho had good mask compliance, they wouldn't be turning people away from the hospitals

Did someone or something give you the impression that the goal was to stop people from getting covid19 altogether? Or is it something else - like the hospitals are trying to trick us, or the morgue is in kahoots with some scheme?

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Thank you for replying! It's good to get a perspective I hadn't even considered: the idea that there's no harm in the rate of spread

Without the mask, that vape would be shooting straightforward several feet. The mask keeps it around his head. Looks about the same as what's shown in the videos from the main post

Yes, I have a huge vape 😂

The masks he's demonstrating appear to do exactly what is expected and demonstrates why it helps stop the spread, most of the material expelled stays around the human expelling it and is given more time to dry before interacting with other humans. Literally, the benefit of the mask is to not shoot bodily fluids on to other humans. The videos in root post and this one show exactly that benefit

Do you think a lot of people were under the assumption that the mask somehow filtered all the outgoing air and cleaned it of virus? That would definitely explain some of the stuff I see

In other countries (especially east asia), it's considered polite to wear a mask when you have the common cold.  That way, you're spreading less of whatever crud you picked up with the people around you. For densely populated areas like Tokyo or Shanghai, this is actually a really important thing for reducing the spread of whatever crud is going around!

What I find especially fascinating is how this is becoming a government mandate instead of a "don't be a dick" campaign. You would think that people would be more concerned with how they look to others, especially in the era of social media.  Look at r/publicfreakout. They've had a field day with the Karens flipping shit over mask policies.  Nobody in their right mind ever wants to be featured on there.  It's a mark of ridicule, a point of derision, to be feature there.  If you show up on there, you're an idiot and:

https://i.imgur.com/UuwsDTI.gif

I would think a campaign to not be ridiculed for being obtuse would work better for ensuring compliance and convincing others to consider the lives of those around them.

It is interesting how it became a hot button issue. Presumably, some of it is the "DON"T  TELL ME WHAT TO DO!" knee-jerk reaction that hopefully everybody has 😅

That's a good point that I don't think had come up in this thread. If we only mask when we feel sick, the spread doesn't really slow down much

Thank you for your consideration of others! It isn't always easy to care, but it really makes the world a much nicer place

Preach!

This is like one of those things I mentioned where the data ~~does~~doesn't back up the claim. I clicked through the link, read the source... and they say there isn't a lot of data and controlled experiments were limited (not done on a whole town or country or whatever)

They conclude the mask section with:
> In theory, transmission should be reduced the most if both infected members and other contacts wear masks, but compliance in uninfected close contacts could be a problem (12,34). Proper use of face masks is essential because improper use might increase the risk for transmission (39). Thus, education on the proper use and disposal of used face masks, including hand hygiene, is also needed

How someone can read that and reach the conclusion that masks don't help reduce the rate of infection is strange to me. It is misinformation with a link to real information... and the real information doesn't back the claim. I see a lot of this going around twitter. I assume most people just aren't clicking through to review the sources