Masks are useless - now it’s official

Dear ms Musselman

First of surgial masks do nothing about the spread of aerosols. they may redirect direct airflow but those aerosol remain hovering in the air for hours and have to be considered main risk factor.

second you seem very unaware about the psychological consequences and basically the reason for demanding masks. there is a reason why it is a deman from politics not scientists.

-for once, its a remainder, thats positive on a first glance to stop our automatic behaviour. but it comes with a high price, steady putting fear into people.
-its a dehumanzier, you shall not have contact with other human beeings, so you make soetity faceless, dehuman.
-were highly depending on reading faces to predict others behaviour. not beeing able to subconciencely make is hostile and defensive.
-forming group identity. just like sports trickots, or colors of gangs, flags, or market armlets
it lets others know to be in their club, to stop thinking individual but act as a group
-to monitor others specially no mask wearer
-split people into 2 sides, so they are more busy in fighting and monitoring each other than asking about the politics behind
-as a placebo cause we have no valid measure against infection, even tough our threatment got a lot better

the results on psychology (specially kids) growing up now in that society and long term implications of that year long fearmongering will be to be evalutaed in years to come. but its defently a high risk play for little benefit as nothing we would do prevent infections

flatten the curve seems not be nessesary, only one country in the west had real issues in their healthcare system, also the virus is weakening the threatment gets better.

flatten the curve has on the other hand some serious devastating sideeffects.
lets assume we cannot vaccinate efectivly, we highly risk loosing herd immunity after a few months and drag the hole thing out over a much longer lifespawn, risking multiple infections each person whcih in turn will result in much larger fatality rates.

let alone from economic and implicit fatalaty rates or reduced lifespan because of economic issues and living situations in lock and semi lock downs.

from a medical perspektive masks are in almost every way counter productive other than redirect airflow a little bit and prevent droplets which are questionable to be really a source for infections

By nonane from Other on 22 Oct 2020, 22:34