I live in Texas and am surprised by the people upset about this. A lot of businesses will probably still require masks. Honestly the main problem is that they have scared people for so long with the hysteria that now they think masks save them from everything.
Of course there are people saying “but he isn’t following the science!”
Honestly If you can’t see that the virus will spread regardless of lockdowns or masks. If you are high risk take further precautions
I love how when people talk about that we're not following the science they aren't following the science about how somebody without any symptoms can't spread the illness. the main reason all of us are wearing masks is because we thought a symptomatic spreading was a thing which has been proved by that article in nature that it can't happen. Out of 10 million people they studied only 300 were asymptomatic carriers and not a single one of them actually spread the illness.
That's the science
My dad said that when you scare people and treat this like some zombie apocalypse then of course you will have people terrified once mandates are lifted. Media is responsible for the fear mongering. At least partly responsible
I have also started to believe there is some Sunk Cost ideas going into it. These people did what they were told, saw their lives ruined, their usual hangouts and business going bust, and then their cities destroyed. Meanwhile, states like Texas and Florida didnt lockdown nearly as hard, their local lives are still largely intact, and now they are saying "We are done and going back to normal."
So they rage and scream because they have to believe that they ruined their lives for SOMETHING, otherwise they will have ruined their lives for nothing and its their own faults. And that is unacceptable to them.
See also every childless, hideous, over 40 feminist harpy.
And the media will never be held responsible for any hysteria they caused.
*Whistles the Punisher theme"
Entirely. They had to make it political to accomplish a goal and it went entirely as planned.
I automatically discount the opinion of anyone who hasn't read a single primary-source peer-reviewed publication on the topic. That allows you to ignore the 9999 out of 10,000 people who are basing their opinions on some retarded journalism or poly sci major's popular media report based on second-hand summaries of the primary literature on this.
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That's for sure. I've read several. I really should have been archiving these things, I may have to go back and do that some time. I know the one I read most recently actually seemed to imply that cloth masks actually increase the infection rate.
But they latch on to something like "however this may not be an issue with cloth masks of a different construction" and yank that out of the entire thing. When in reality it's there just for clarity sake, because that's what type things are made clear in a real scientific paper.
I think when I would argue, I was provided with the infographic about two people pissing on each other more than anything and they never provide a scientific paper, but instead at best a journalist's story on a scientific paper.