Asclepias
Diamond Member
Just because some governor says they are locking down doesn't mean people aren't running around without masks. I'm sure you have heard the stories of warehouse parties in LA where the virus is out of control.So you think that surges after these events are just coincidences?Neither masking nor distancing is being carried out in Africa and Covid deaths there are in single figures in some countries.This virus isnt 100% lethal so there is no way it would use up its hosts too quickly. Masking and distancing just keeps it at bay until vaccines can be deployed.Funny thing is that my mom has been wearing a mask for about 5 years due to health reasons. She hasnt been sick in those same 5 years. Not even a cold.And 4,000 died from it just yesterday.
It's worse than ever
When combined with the comorbidity and rising flu season, is anyone surprised? Of the 4,000, how many died without a comorbidity or flu?
There is no flu season this year. The wearing of masks, hand washing, social distancing, and other measures being taken to shut down the covid pandemic are shutting down all manner of viral spreads including gastro-intestinal virus, colds, and the flu.
You seem to think that if I have an asthma attack and die, while having covid, my cause of death should be listed as "asthma". But the reality is that I don't have life threatening asthma attacks unless I have an underlying infection, like pneumonia, or a serious case of the flu. So while an asthma attack might kill me, I wouldn't be having that asthma attack if I didn't have covid. Similarly, if I have a survivable form of cancer and I get covid, it may be the cancer that kills me as a result of my getting covid on top of that otherwise surviveable form of cancer.
My question for you is why are you so committed to downplaying the virus and denying it's impact on the lives and the deaths of so many people. My only conclusion is you want the economic devastation that results from the costs of testing and treating the millions of Americans who continue to sicken and die from covid to continue.
Why do you want to pretend this isn't happening, Mr. 100 posts a day?
I hadn't had a cold in 5 years either, without wearing a mask.
But that does not mean masks can not be useful in preventing infection.
It is just that when everyone does it, that actually increases infection by preventing herd immunity from ending epidemics.
The way all epidemics have always ended, is that a greedy infection uses up too many potential local hosts too quickly, so then in 12 days when it HAS to move on to a new hosts, it can't find one, so then dies out.
So effectively masks conserve hosts, so that no matter how greedy a virus might be, it never runs out.
It never uses up all the local hosts, so then there is always enough new hosts without immunity, to prevent the virus from dying out.
Trying to stop a microscopic virus with a mask is like trying to stop the rain with a tennis racket.
It's everywhere. On money, door handles. The mask itself.
Of course. They have to be fed propaganda from the liberal mainstream though. They have to be led by the nose and they'll believe all lies.
Well then Trump's superspreaders were no doubt a public service.
Lol, super spreaders is another contrived scare tactic. Same as a muslim at every corner..... we need to shove the patriot act on you for your protection, russian boogeyment everywhere, covid waiting to attack you after 10 pm. All control elements.
I find it quite odd that one state masked and locked down has a surge while another that doesn't have total lockdowns and masking has no surge. Thats all.