They outsourced their thinking to "the experts." There was an article in late 2020 that I got linked to often when I said masks only worked at best a couple of percent saying if there was a national mask mandate it would prevent 200,000 cases. I would then point out that number was calculated from the 2% reduction figure that they were arguing against and point to the link to the study in the article and where in the study the 2% was mentioned and they would immediately flip to "we have to do something." It was both funny and depressing because despite them getting okie dokied super hard it didn't change a single mind.
They outsourced their thinking to "the experts." There was an article in late 2020 that I got linked to often when I said masks only worked at best a couple of percent saying if there was a national mask mandate it would prevent 200,000 cases. I would then point out that number was calculated from the 2% reduction figure that they were arguing against and point to the link to the study in the article and where in the study the 2% was mentioned and they would immediately flip to "we have to do something." It was both funny and depressing because despite them getting okie dokied super hard it didn't change a single mind.