Wearing a mask is like wearing a mesh condom to prevent pregnancy.
It only takes ONE viron to infect someone. Recall that the nature of “illness” is the after-effects of viral reproduction using the energy of your body. So just as one sperm can create a baby, one viron can cause COVID-19.
And these things are a tenth or less the size of any mesh, even of a good mask.
The video I posted a couple days ago remains worth the watch. Masks were really created to deal with Tuberculosis, and they work well with that illness, since most of the infection does pass out in large drops, typically from coughing, I believe. But they don’t work with smallpox, which killed more people in the 20th century than all our wars put together. And they don’t work with the flu, which has killed tens of thousands of Americans yearly for a century or more.
Surgical masks are designed to prevent contagious body fluids from flying into the mouth or nose of the surgeon or assistant, and to prevent them, in turn, from inadvertently spitting or sneezing on the patient.
This whole thing is madness.
Every week–in some cases every day–for the past 12 years or so, there has been news of some most recent failure of courage of our government, of the people we appoint to protect us. When does this end? Is moral courage a thing of the past? Will they have exhibits of people like Gandhi and Frank Serpico as examples of unacceptable rebelliousness and failure to conform? Will brownnosing become the acme of virtue?
I continue to be puzzled and disheartened every day. But I’m used to it.