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Face mask effectiveness: What science knows now
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Yeah but a guy on YouTube said they don’t work and he said “trust me” so what now?
"you can still smell farts"
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At the same time, you have the people claiming they immediately turn blue and pass out within seconds of putting a mask on.
Millions of people in this country apparently have problems keeping two thoughts in their head at the same time.
To these people, COVID is simultaneously not as bad as the flu, a Chinese hoax, something to be fought with ivermectin, a liberal hoax, something so infectious it can get through even the best fitted filtration mask, fought by going to the gym, fought by getting more sunlight, overblown in death count, etc etc.
Masks are the same. They're simultaneously stifling and damaging to your health because they disallow O2 ingress or whatever and you can't use them because you have some private health condition, and they're completely ineffective at keeping out COVID somehow.
My diagnosis is that they're brain wormed from the maga mind virus, and probably got some damage from COVID too.
Who probably also think that they are physically superior to others, while in reality have admitted to being pretty fucking pathetic if they can't handle a mask for a few minutes let alone hours.
I'm not even worried about covid anymore but continue to mask in busy places in the fall/winter because it's nice not being congested half the season, and it's easy. And the fact that my mask doesn't perfectly filter out virus particles is even better because my immune system still gets some exposure to do some local updates with.