Yeah. It also makes people feel better when they don't practice social distancing with a mask vs without a mask, though most masks are completely useless, and completely useless if properly social distancing and practicing good hygiene.
Why can't we rally around something worth while? Why does it have to be a useless fashion trend?
This is what pisses me off.
There's a study from years ago that basically concluded N95 is really helpful. Surgical masks are decent. Anything else is basically the exact same as not existing (3% prevention rate compared to 100% success with N95; surgical masks were 80%). 3% is close enough to margins of error that it's basically useless. And this was for infected or direct caretaker transmission, not for general public wearing.
So in other words, it might help as much as using a string as a seat belt might help you. Might as well not even bother.
Well, N95 is actually useful. No one is wearing N95s to Walmart.
I was wondering why you had upvotes.
And then I upvoted you.
Agreed. I really dislike evangelical end times theology.
I'm Catholic, and we read the book as if we are his target audience - Christians living under Emperor Nero. Theres so much symbolism everywhere, its amazing. I think the most amazing part is the realization where we are already living the 1000 years (e.g. very long time) under Christ's rule. Otherwise, his deal on the cross was useless.
The idea that there's another coming of Christ to establish another 1000 years of his rule is pretty weird IMHO. It contradicts everything He has already done. How many times is Jesus gonna come down? I thought the 2nd coming, whatever that may be, was suppose to be His last. The end of time and the world.
And then there's the whole rapture thing.
Sorry, I know I'm going to get all the downvotes, but evangelical end time theology is straight up bonkers. They really try to make it more complicated than it needs to be.
Not even near rational feelings. It's completely irrational feelings.
Testing is rather pointless because it doesn't really change the diagnosis or the treatment.
My fiance tested negative for the flu and they still treated her like she had the flu.
To be fair, the 6 feet distance might be useless (I use might because truly, if there's anything I learned, no one knows shit). If it truly is airborne, then 27 feet might be required. And other people shouldn't enter in someone else's sneeze bubble for quite some time indoors:
The few remaining females in China must've died from this wu flu.
Amazing what people try to force upon others using cops.
Oh, I totally agree with you that the mask wearing is a complete placebo. CDC basically said that it might (e.g. probably won't) stop it.
It makes people feel better about the situation, sometimes. I have nothing against other people wearing them if thats what they want to, but they shouldn't expect me to wear one.
Costco didn't care when everyone was shoulder to shoulder 2 months ago for TP hoarding. No social distancing. No masks. No disinfectant.
They don't care about people. They care about optics and PR stunts. If they cared, they wouldn't have had stores full to the brim of shoppers during the height of the scare.
As a member, I'm seriously considering not renewing on the fall because of their handling of this. They should've made masks required 2 months ago, not now. It's pointless to do it now that the weather is getting warmer the and virus will naturally have a harder time to spread.
I agree with this. We should've been wearing masks months ago (if you wanted to, that is) with 'the flu that wasn't a flu but seemed like a flu' that caused this flu season to be pretty bad (obviously, it was probably COVID, but whatever). But now that we're entering May, with all numbers looking better for almost all hotspots, now it's time to wear masks.
Not 2 months ago when we were seeing spikes and people were shoulder to shoulder in the stores because the media created a panic over TP....
The company forcing this now is just being stupid. I don't even think it's political. I think they think it's good PR.
What's wrong with Walmart?
Because it doesn't follow the most logical reading of John's writings?
John was speaking to his audience that was living at the time. While it speaks truths in a poetic sense, its rather foolish to believe he was writing about microchips in peoples arms.
There's a lot of reasons to not want that without having to believe that John was talking about that instead of trying to calm Christians around him.
Well, that passage was probably talking about Emperor Nero a day the coins that beared his image had the official Roman Currency.
Even though we may find a similar modern case, and we can comfort from John's poetry, in the same way we can rely on all of God's scriptures, it isn't a prediction of the future.
Well, most biblical scholars agree that the beast is Emperor Nero, as his name has a numerical value in Hebrew of 666. The mark of the beast would logically be the coins of the Roman Empire, which would have the image of Nero on it.
You needed Roman currency to buy or sell in the Empire.
Most of revelation is poetic of the current state of Christianity at the time, regarding the horrific persecutions of Christians by Nero and the Romans. Of course, that doesn't mean it doesn't have meaning to us today, but I wouldn't try to use it to predict the future.
However, there will always be an equivalent of a Nero and his mark. But it can't stand up against God in the end.
Almost everyone on redacted preached you had to tip 25%. Any comment against that (e.g. lower tip for bad service) got tons of downvotes.
Too many people are trying to make a living off of carrying food from the kitchen to the table. That job is worth very few dollars, and most of the food is already overpriced on top of that.
As much as I hate dishes, I very much prefer eating in and giving 0%.
What's a room tax? Never heard of it...
Having only sales tax means you don't get taxed for saving money. Income tax penalizes you for trying to earn more.
Yeah. Actually your right. The Blaze sucks. I didn't very much like Glenn Beck after he left Fox. He went a little too...weird....for me.
Because a sick person laying in bed is not going to wear a mask? So when I walked into the room, I covered my face/nose and sanitized my hands and anything I touched since that room was nothing but germs.
And I didn't get sick.
I don't disagree with you. But since Costco is membership based, and they make 70% of their revenue from selling memberships, threatening to cancel your membership can be seen as a big deal. I haven't gone down that road yet with them.
Or Hitler to Hitler