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Originally Posted by mopek1
Cases are supposed to go up as we open. The virus is here to stay but we act like it's supposed to go away after lockdown which is not how it works. There is nothing wrong with cases going up, it's about what we can handle. We either get infected now at manageable levels, or stay locked down and keep numbers low, ruin the economy only to get infected anyway at a later time.
Masks do offer some protection. Doctors wear them because they are exposed to a huge viral load and so they need it more than anyone else. Even still, the nursing home down the street had 20 nurses wearing full gear and changing it every hour and all still got infected. Most were asymptomatic. All of the residents got infected too and most were asymptomatic. The point is that the virus will get us all with most of us not getting sick, front line workers manage the levels which is why it;s important for them to wear masks.
This isn't about masks or no masks,. That's just isolating one factor from a whole. We are going about this all wrong.
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Again, this is NOT the flu! All your comparisons - made solely to make you feel better and reduce your own anxiety - are meaningless. Yes people die from the flu but we have vaccines for the flu so MORE people do not die. Corona? No vaccine (yet). No natural immunity (as many have with the flu). No, this is different and much, much more dangerous.
80,000 flu deaths in a year? How about more than 120,000
in three months??? NO it's not the flu. And crunching numbers trying to figure out the odds of YOU catching it is where people are fucking up. We had a chance in the USA to crush this virus, as many other countries have done, but nope. We idiotic Americans continue to debate whether wearing a mask is good, right, healthy, etc while our Covid-19 cases skyrocket and yet people like yourself continue to debunk the science. Amazing.