There is a very large space between “it does nothing” and “it prevents transmission 100%”—you can at least entertain this possibility, right?
(I agree, the shutting down of business and schools has been very harmful and totally unjustifiable!)
The mask, properly worn by an infected person, is somewhat effective at limiting the spread of infectious agents be behaving as a ‘spit guard’. The virus travels in aerosolized water droplets and those droplets are of various sizes that can be stopped by a mask with some quantifiable degree of efficiency correlated with droplet size. What I have provided is the crux of the very plausible mechanistic way masks should reduce the transmission of infectious agents. The takeaway is this: masks are expected to be more effective at reducing spread of infectious agents when an infected person wears one. (In Japan, and other East Asian nations, it has been customary to wear a mask when you have a cold/flu as a courtesy long before the China virus). The masks might confer some benefit to the healthy wearer in terms of reduced susceptibility to acquiring flu etc. I must reveal, to my knowledge, the scientific literature is mixed here but one should seek this information themselves.
Part of the reason why the scientific literature is mixed and some prominent recent studies showed no positive effect with mask wearing on the population scale (see recent Danish study) is this: The efficacy of the mask depends heavily on proper usage
Also, importantly, there various drawbacks and health risks associated with mask usage, it isn’t completely the benign, and children and even teens should absolutely not be wearing them. Famous recent German study revealed the harmful effects mask wearing has on children. Masks usage also increases the risk for pneumonia and, due to increased CO2 consumption by wearer, has a cascade of negative effects to the body and mind.
So yeah, like most things in life it is mixed. If you are generally healthy, asymptomatic, you probably shouldn’t be wearing a mask. If you are an unhealthy and immuno compromised person you should probably limit your mask usage and try to practice good hygiene instead and limit your contacts and avoid anyone sick. If you are an otherwise healthy person who is symptomatic you should wear a mask while sick and limit your social contacting.
News flash: a stagnant populations is totally normal and OK, populations normally go through periods of growth, stagnation or even moderate decline—it is OK. It is only because of the various financial ponzi schemes a growing population is needed and the lack Theron is used as pretext for replacement migration which is very much driving by politics and even ethnic hatred.
As far as I am concerned, those FBI, DOJ etc. officials following these orders are no different than law enforcement officials acting on the behest of other thug rulers of history whether it be Stasi East Germany, NKVD of Stalinist Russia, Saddam’s thugs etc and thus have surrendered any legitimacy and must face the consequence of themselves being the terrorists and enforcement arm of despots and tyrants.
Defend your life and liberty from them as you would against any common street thug or mafia tough guy.
Forgot:
WW1: Lusitania cruise ship was in fact smuggling arms and a legitimate military target, the allies knowingly used civilians as human shields to smuggle weapons. German embassy in US even took newspaper ads warning people to not take the ship. Dive crews have confirmed all of this. Imagine, if the US didn’t enter WW1 then WW2 likely would have never occurred. Things would be so different.
Iraq and WMD’s: everyone knows this one
Nope, if we had a sane immigration policy that shit would be only happening in their sandbox. We bomb them and then import them. We could easily mind our own fucking business, save our boys and treasure. It really is that simple. They cannot cross a fucking ocean unless we bring them here. You sound like a neocon or one duped by them.
Token bullshit. Conservatives have been losing the culture war for a solid two generations. Results speak for themselves: conservatism is a failed political movement. Same situation in Europe, conservatives are totally cucked. Only nationalists will look out for the interests of the people as opposed to some abstraction of “the nation” that is divorced from blood and soil.
Forgot to add: if you are still watching sports ball you are a fool and likely fair weather friend, an unreliable cheerleader, because you have shown yourself not even able to sacrifice the most trivial from your life.
Exactly as former KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov said about demoralized people.