Fact check doesn't like ivermectin
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I got this email today, and it covers the ivermectin story. This is a bit bizarre because the discussion about it ended at the beginning of the year when all the states gave up and Covid was pushed to the side.
Why bring up a losing argument and act as if you won?
Because establishing the principle that little people do not get to disobey the state is very important for them?
There still exists a vanishingly small number of people who are still in it to win (lose) it, and appreciate these "owns." I was exiting a building the other day with a group of people, and I actually saw a person driving, alone, with a mask on. I literally have not seen a mask in months, not even in grocery stores, which seem to be the remaining locus for peoples' groundless anxiety.
Naturally, I raised my arm, pointed at this lunatic, and said "Holy mackerel, look at that!" to the group. The two eyeballs in the car darted over to take in my pointed finger, then quickly darted back to front, and the car rolled on from the stop sign it had been stopped at. This is really the only reasonable way to treat these situations, and should have been the universal response from the beginning.
I saw 150 people wearing the mask yesterday. It's somewhere between 10 and 25% of all people you see outside.
Beg pardon for the necessary correction: It might be between 10 and 25% of all people you see outside. I live in Northern Florida. I go months at a time without seeing a single mask, even downtown in the center of the City. It's actually kind of startling to see one. "Oh, right--this shit's still going on?" is what one thinks upon encountering a mask in North Florida.
Yes, that 'you' meant people in this part of the California coast. It's pointless to even say anything. Good thing I'm not here for the people.
In St. Petersburg, there are still too many wearing masks outdoors and indoors, though I estimate maybe 1% or less of the population wears them.
It's either criminals wanting to conceal their faces from CCTV cameras and cops or hypochondriacs shitting themselves with irrational fear.
Are...are you serious? Someone's in a car by themselves driving around with this thing strapped to their kisser, and your concern is whether it's the thing that does jack shit, or the thing that does diddly squat?
I doubt most people with "N95" masks have real N95 masks. Most I see are the folding cone types that don't looks like they seal well to the face and are unverified and manufactured in China to no real standards. I have a box of 3M verified N95 masks for woodworking and they are bad enough wearing for a few minutes while sanding; I don't think anyone would wear them all day no matter what the perceived risk was.
Lets not pretend that N95 masks stop airborne viruses.
viruses are as small as air molecules so if you can still breath with a mask you also breath in viruses. it might stop you from catching bacteria but that's not what covid was
never admit you were wrong