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New study from the University of Louisville finds that masks don't work, wearing them more than 4 hours a day is harmful, and they hinder social learning of children (townhall.com)
posted 5 years ago by xleb2 5 years ago by xleb2 +96 / -0
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– deleted 43 points 5 years ago +43 / -0
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– Kweebecker 31 points 5 years ago +31 / -0

Bold of you to assume any of it is clawed back. They'll just ignore this.

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– Hullohoomans 22 points 5 years ago +22 / -0

There was a lot more than just common sense backing this up. Decades of well-done, exhaustive, replicated research found masks were totally useless for containing viruses in acute environments, prolonged mask usage hinders the cardiopulmonary system, and children need to see faces and touch each other in order for their brains to properly develop.

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– rantanon9145 22 points 5 years ago +22 / -0

Artificially limiting your oxygen supply is harmful

No shit, Sherlock

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– SophiesBoyfriend 8 points 5 years ago +8 / -0

Does a mask significantly limit your supply of oxygen?

For a healthy person at rest - your lung is only doing 5% of what it is capable of.

It would obviously take some extra work to breath around the mask.

But it also takes some extra work to breathe when you are walking or talking.

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– cartoonericroberts 11 points 5 years ago +11 / -0

Unless I'm missing it there isn't anything in the paper or the article about oxygen. The paper mentions facial alkalinization and indirect increase in dehydration. Limiting oxygen seems unlikely, CO2 build up however is a different story (and harder to actually measure).

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– SupremeReader 4 points 5 years ago +4 / -0

Papers, studies, articles, books like this are your weapon you should use against the system to convince normal people through "science!', instead of dismissing it with your smug retarded fucking attitude.

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– The_Gay_Deceiver 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

Yeah because being nice and polite to these people who we know thrive on our complacence and decency has worked wonders.

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– The_Gay_Deceiver 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

Yeah fuck this four hour shit. Anyone who isn't participating in the collective insanity has the awareness to acknowledge that it's literally harder to breath with it on.

Maybe four hours is how long it takes for there to be quantifiable damage done to your fucking brain, but the mild suffocation happens the second it covers your airways.

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– Gizortnik 16 points 5 years ago +16 / -0

Luckily that whole 'vaccines or masks' ultimatum appears to have severely backfired.

Judging by my local community, apparently 50% of the population was vaccinated this week.

Same thing with the based Chinese Food place I go to.

"Fuck you health department! You vax, no mask! Kung-pow chicken five dorrah! Obama from Kenya! "

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– TheModernDaVinci 3 points 5 years ago +3 / -0

I think my favorite ones I have been seeing are stores and restaurants with with signs always saying something to the effect of "The rules say you can be maskless if you are vaccinated. In unrelated news, asking for your status is a HIPPA violation, and no employee will inquire."

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– Gizortnik 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

Yeah, no shit. I literally told him that in the conversation we had.

Unless you're paying for my medical bills, or are actually preforming medical care on me, you don't need to know my medical history. I'm not telling my employer either. Why? My employer isn't paying for my health insurance.

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– Hyponoeo 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

I live in I think one of two counties in my state that still has the mask mandate. My county a week ago had a meeting to remove it or not, said "no, people may lie about their vaccination so keep it going." [Actually just found out... turns out the mask mandate in my county was finally let to expire about 50 minutes ago]

So, this last week almost NO businesses have listened to the county mandate in town [I live in the one left wing town in the state pretty much, only county that votes democrat every year, rest of the state votes republican]. People just heard "HEY BIDEN SAID NO MASKS!" and have been living by that. I think people are just fed up with the masks anyway. But yeah, my county has been super strict over it, but you would think everyone magically got vaccinated like 2 days ago the way they act now :P

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– Gizortnik 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

My county a week ago had a meeting to remove it or not, said "no, people may lie about their vaccination so keep it going."

Local elections dawg.

I think people are just fed up with the masks anyway. But yeah, my county has been super strict over it, but you would think everyone magically got vaccinated like 2 days ago the way they act now :P

Yes, this is the Civil Disobedience that will always triumph.

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– MargarineMongoose 9 points 5 years ago +9 / -0

Welcome to Shit We Knew a Year Ago, episode 12.

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– deleted 6 points 5 years ago +6 / -0
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– Cyberguy64 5 points 5 years ago +5 / -0

Huh. And here I thought Louisville was a total cesspool of Lefty nonsense. Glad to see things aren't as dismal as I thought they were on the homefront.

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– PoleWatcher 3 points 5 years ago +3 / -0

If you have followed things, a human can transmit a droplet at a maximum distance of 6 feet. If your wearing a mask, then why still 6 feet? And if your 6 feet apart no mask should be needed, less if upwind.

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– Hyponoeo 3 points 5 years ago +3 / -0

Yeah it was always just pick and choose whatever random thing the politician decided.

Wasn't six feet just picked randomly too or something? No real reason for that particular number? I felt I heard that...

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– TheWestYearZero 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

"social" learning. It is like talking about the "social sciences" as a way to introduce the presupposition that human behavior is primarily a social rather than an innate, genetically determined biological activity.

Anyone who has children knows that they are born with their own little personalities and that - aside from drastic physical interventions - that little personality never changes. Society largely slides off them like water off a ducks's back. Because your personality is a genetic endowment.

":Social" learning in schools means nothing less than "globohomo bullying of little children". It is intended to make them afraid of expressing or living according to their true natures and their true racial culture.

Instead they get...

"Yes, white children you will accept being bullied by that disruptive black devil"...and so on.

Fuck their jewish torture of helpless children, their intimidation and cowing of little ones, their satanic "social learning".

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– Gizortnik 12 points 5 years ago +12 / -0

"social" learning. It is like talking about the "social sciences" as a way to introduce the presupposition that human behavior is primarily a social rather than an innate, genetically determined biological activity.

You literally don't know anything about children, do you?

Yes, children have to develop social skills in a social environment, and a major component of that is the ability to read facial expressions.

Social development is not a genetic activity, it's a social activity, that's how learning works. We can prove this because if you keep children in isolation, they develop no social skills... because it really is that alarmingly obvious.

There's also the fact that personality is also not solely genetically determined. If you want to claim genetic determinism for personality, why are you complaining about bullying. If personality and behavior are purely genetically determined, bullying will have exactly zero effect.

Except you know that pathological socialization actually does effect personality and social development, that's why you don't want it to happen.

Stop lying to yourself about how social skills work.

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– reidj 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

To add to this, I seem to recall reading that part of moral development depends of children having disputes and resolving them on their own.

Regarding personality, I think it was Personality: What Makes You The Way You Are by Daniel Nettle that claimed roughly 50% of personality is genetic.

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– Gizortnik 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

I'd probably argue the numbers, because I don't think that's a good explanation of how genetics would actually effect personality.

Like I've said elsewhere, genetics should give you an emotional range that you are capable of, and then environment will cultivate something within that range. Same why you might be predisposed to being tall, but lack of food, injury, and nutrition is going to have a major impact of where you fall in that range.

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– TheWestYearZero 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

We can prove this because if you keep children in isolation, they develop no social skills.

Of course, because the only alternative to the state's schools and their "social learning" is complete isolation.

Straw man alert.

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– Gizortnik 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

You made the terrible strawman, and now you are moving the goal posts.

Anyone who has children knows that they are born with their own little personalities and that - aside from drastic physical interventions - that little personality never changes. Society largely slides off them like water off a ducks's back. Because your personality is a genetic endowment.

By your own logic, social isolation should have almost no effect on their personality.

Well, it does. Your statement is wildly off base. You don't even need physical alterations to see personality changes.

I don't know if you are just very young, or very bitter, but personality changes massively over your life. You might be generally pre-disposed to some general trend or another, but your personality will swing as you age from all of the experiences you will have in your life.

Hell, I know people who's personality changed from diet. Social development is way more impactful than any of that.

Hell, this is an experiment that you can do with animals. Not that you really need one, because you'll see it all the time anyway. If you keep a horse in their stall for too long and they don't socialize you'll see significant behavioral changes, including increased aggression, defensiveness, fear, and violence.

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– SupremeReader 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

If anyone writes "no shit", I'm going to find a way to strangle you through the internet.

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– Hullohoomans 10 points 5 years ago +10 / -0

In other news, water is wet.

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– deleted 4 points 5 years ago +4 / -0
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– ChippingToe 6 points 5 years ago +6 / -0

No shit

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– SupremeReader 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

We very much do.

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– Streetshame 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

No shit

Dew it

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