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
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.