Some perhaps overdue musing

If I encounter someone at a store, and neither of us has COVID-19 (remember that?  It’s why you see so many people wearing masks, and why two of your favorite restaurants went out of business), then the chance of me getting COVID-19 is the same as the risk of them transmitting brain cancer, Marburg Virus, an inability to jump, musical talent, or a knack for sarcasm: Zero.  Zero with masks, still zero without masks.

And it appears to be the case that only symptomatic people transmit this, and then only until they develop antibodies, which takes approximately ten days for most.

Think about it: how would an asymptomatic person transmit it?  The virus is in their blood and lungs.  One of the two has to be transferred between the two of you.

In theory, they could pick their nose, pick some up, put it on an surface, which you then touch, and which you then internalize by picking your nose without washing your hands.  Nose to nose transmission via a surface.

But 1) the virus does not seem to last long on most surfaces; and 2) this circumstance only happens if both of you pick your noses without washing your hands.  Keep your hands out of your eyes and nose, and wash them after every interaction with potentially contaminated surfaces, and you are good.

But the asypmtomatic person cannot get to you through the air whether you are wearing a mask or not.  I think everyone with any sense would agree with this.  And as I say, it appears asymptomatic people may not be contagious at all, so zero risk.

So the only people in any given grocery store it makes ANY sense to worry about are those coughing and sneezing LIKE THEY ARE SICK.  If those people stay home–and most seem to be doing that, if there even remain any noteworthy number of people who have this thing in this country–then the masks on all sides do nothing.

And this is over and above the New England Journal of Medicine’s claim that to get this thing you really need to be in a confined space, like a bedroom, for at least five minutes and perhaps up to thirty minutes, with someone who is coughing and sneezing up the virus.  None of that is relevant in any business, or any store, if no one is coughing and sneezing.

And I would finally note that the debates over mask wearing really assume at least N95 masks being worn properly, i.e. the nose not visible, and a snug fit around the nose and mouth.  If I can see your nose, or you are wearing a bandana, then the whole things is symbolic show.  Nothing more.  It is completely fucking useless, on all accounts.  It’s useless if you don’t encounter anyone who is sick, and still useless if you do.

This same logic is available to all. 

I will wonder aloud again how deep the desire goes on the part of the Globalists/Deep State to injure all of us psychologically through these rituals which have no honest scientific purpose.

The best possible spin on all this is that it is stupid.  The obvious alternative is that it is malicious and wicked.