I didn't take it because of several reasons, primarily because of one man: Carl Denninger at market-ticker.org. Some of the in depth posts he did before COVID first hit here made me doubt everything that the authorities said about COVID, and having already been given an "experimental" vaccine in the military (Anthrax) I wanted nothing to do with this new one.
As a retiree the DoD couldn't make me get it, either, so I noped out of it. I knew the mask mandate was crap, too, due to the NBC training I've had, so I didnt wear a mask at all, either.
Scott wasn't exposed to any of that, of course, so he was still reliant on institutional sources of knowledge, and it bit him big time.
Even normies should have been able to see the massive flip between "stop panic buying masks they don't do anything" to "wear masks all the time everywhere". Or the big PSAs about masks not stopping smoke - when smoke particles are much larger an airborne virus.
Just so you know, air filters have a weird dip there they work for particles much smaller than the filter size and larger, but ones closer to the filter size aren't caught. The large particles get physically caught whereas the small ones get stuck in eddies (analogous to getting stuck under a dam).
Although to effectively catch small particles the air needs to pass over it many times, so your house air filter can catch them, but a mask won't catch many.
And a paper mask doesn't seal at all, so it does virtually nothing. The purpose of those is to keep stuff from getting in your mouth, and block your own sneezes, while you do delicate work. For example in surgery, you don't want blood getting in your mouth. They don't do anything to airborne particulates.
I didn't take it because of several reasons, primarily because of one man: Carl Denninger at market-ticker.org. Some of the in depth posts he did before COVID first hit here made me doubt everything that the authorities said about COVID, and having already been given an "experimental" vaccine in the military (Anthrax) I wanted nothing to do with this new one.
As a retiree the DoD couldn't make me get it, either, so I noped out of it. I knew the mask mandate was crap, too, due to the NBC training I've had, so I didnt wear a mask at all, either.
Scott wasn't exposed to any of that, of course, so he was still reliant on institutional sources of knowledge, and it bit him big time.
Even normies should have been able to see the massive flip between "stop panic buying masks they don't do anything" to "wear masks all the time everywhere". Or the big PSAs about masks not stopping smoke - when smoke particles are much larger an airborne virus.
Just so you know, air filters have a weird dip there they work for particles much smaller than the filter size and larger, but ones closer to the filter size aren't caught. The large particles get physically caught whereas the small ones get stuck in eddies (analogous to getting stuck under a dam).
Although to effectively catch small particles the air needs to pass over it many times, so your house air filter can catch them, but a mask won't catch many.
And a paper mask doesn't seal at all, so it does virtually nothing. The purpose of those is to keep stuff from getting in your mouth, and block your own sneezes, while you do delicate work. For example in surgery, you don't want blood getting in your mouth. They don't do anything to airborne particulates.