Interesting thought-experiment on mask wearing – when considered as a way for contagious folks to limit the spread. **
(When I say “mask wearing” I am referring to masks…but also to social distancing, handwashing, avoiding crowds, and generally not being stupid. I shall call all of it “ wearing a mask.”)
About 1,000,000 people (USA) are walking around contagious right now.*
- If you test positive for COVID tomorrow – it means all your previous mask wearing was for nothing.
- If you test positive for anti-bodies tomorrow – it means all but 2 weeks of your previous mask wearing was for nothing.
- If you go til next spring and never test positive for antibodies – then, no matter what happens, more than 95% of all your mask wearing will always be for nothing.
- Despite points 1 thru 3 – all the spread is from folks NOT wearing a mask.
- If just half of the contagious non-mask-wearers would wear a mask, covid would be gone in two weeks. (That's about 150,000 people...somewhere...)
If you feel COVID is overblown – your constant complaining about it has had zero results. Not one nation, anywhere has responded by declaring COVID a hoax, and eradicated. Nope. I’m beginning to think you might be wrong – and there might be a deadly virus afoot. Your duplicate and triplicate posts have done exactly nothing to sway the “perpetrators” of this hoax. I think you should try a NEW strategy – and it is GUARANTEED to prove things, once and for all, one way or the other. If it’s a hoax – you win! And we’ll all know!
Here’s what you do: Wear a mask, and social-distance, and avoid crowds, and wash your hands – for 14 days – resolutely. If ALL of you nay-sayers do this – and there is NO CHANGE in data – then I will agree with you – someone’s cooking the books. Wouldn’t two weeks of wearing a mask be easier for you than 4 months of typing the same old-same old, hoping that the “proof” will appear? It CAN appear, you have the power to make it appear – nope, not by complaining, but by simply avoiding other people for two weeks. Than all your dreams will come true, and COVID will be proven a hoax, What do you have to lose? If anyone questions your dignity, or your “sheeplike” behavior = just tell them you’re doing an experiment to prove your point. There is zero downside to this for anyone. And plenty of potential upside for everyone.
*With 1000 USA deaths a day – and 18 days til death average – and 14 days til “healing” average for 85% of people – and guessing half of folks don’t know they have it – and a portion of those that DO know they have it
are in a hospital or otherwise self-isolated – and using the CDC guess at 0.65% death rate – it means 1000/0.65 = 150K new infections every day, * 14 days = 2M simultaneous sick people / 2 (half know it and are out of the game) = about 1 million people.
Sure, maybe it’s 500K , or maybe it’s 2 million – huge swings – tiny difference in the overall point.
**I’m aware it may provide some preventative protection as well. It’s a thought-experiment.
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