Why are LEO laughing on an elevator a threat while screaming rioters are not?
Perhaps the reason a lot of people are no longer donning masks is because they believe the experts have either been wrong or have been lying about COVID-19 from the start.
The experts told us:
COVID-19 would kill two million Americans.
The infection mortality rate was 3.4%.
COVID-19 doesn't discriminate against age.
It's still dangerous to send students to school.
Asymptomatic carriers are killing Granny.
Hospitals would be overwhelmed.
We'd need tens of thousands of ventilators.
Up to 80% of the population would need to be infected to reach herd-immunity.
Lock-downs were the only way to stop the spread of the virus.
The reproduction rate was slowed by lock-downs.
Wearing a mask won't protect you.
Wear a mask to protect yourself.
Wear a mask to protect others.
The list goes on and on ....
True. Rioters are definitely a threat.
As for most of that list.... covid-19 is still here. Some of those predictions can still come true.
Let's see if there's another wave of rioting and looting. And thus, more mass infections. At this point, the virus will likely stick around at least as long as the last one did, about 100 years back. While I don't think we'll hit 2M dead, would not be surprised if the final tally was at least somewhat close to that.
They were right about it not discriminating against age. It did at first. So did the Spanish Flu about 100 years ago. Then it stopped discriminating. Same thing has happened with covid-19. I've mentioned this before. Young, physically fit 16 year-old girl with no immune issues, developed a very slight cough. Then she was gone. She was one of the first after all the cases of the very elderly or very young got infected.
There are still carriers out there who show little or no symptoms of infection. Sending children back to school would still pose a huge risk to them.
Carriers who show little or no signs of infection are out there. When whole nursing homes are being infected, the most likely cause is due to an infected individual coming to work who did so because they felt fine and thought they weren't infected. Or, a family member of one of the residents visiting. Again, because they thought they weren't infected.
Yes, hospitals were overwhelmed. At least the ones in the major cities. Our governor here in NY converted the Jacob Javitts Convention Center into a make-shift hospital. (He did a horrendously awful job of it, but he did it.) He started to convert the tennis courts in Flushing Queens into another make-shift hospital, and there were talks with the Catholic church to convert one of the larger churches in the city to yet another hospital.
Yes, we need those ventilators. There is still a massively HUGE shortage of them in big cities.
Herd immunity.... A very early prediction that didn't take into account that folks infected with the virus who beat it, can easily get re-infected!
Only one nation has so far declared itself infection free.... New Zealand. How did they achieve this? Extremely strict lock-down rules which
ironically the average citizen actually obeyed for 2 weeks straight. Lock-downs clearly work, the problem is people (usually) don't. They have to go out, they feel cooped up. So that's what they do. They go out. Then they say lock-downs don't work. It's like saying cats always land on their feet. So you get a few knuckleheads who toss them off of a high-rise roof and then say,
"Nope! That's a myth."
Mask ~ I will never forgive the doctors who early on spread that disgusting myth. That wearing a mask will not protect you. They did that because they didn't want the general public to panic, buy up N95 masks and hoard them. So they figured they'd lie and say the masks won't help. Thinking that if people don't buy up N95s to wear, then there will be enough to go around to hospital workers. Including themselves. Clearly not taking into account that there would be Pandemic Profiteers who would buy up massive amounts of N95s early on to sell to people at obscene mark-ups. I started wearing masks when an independent scientist found that the two best ways to slow the spread of the virus (though not entirely eliminate it) was mask wearing, and washing one's hands often with hot soapy water for at least 20 seconds. Slow it down long enough, the faster it'll burn itself out.
If everyone wears a mask, yes; you're protecting others. Ironically, my mask protects you from my germs. And yours protects me from your germs. When I exhale, my germs are traveling through the air towards you while we are conversing. And vice-versa. That doesn't happen if I'm wearing a mask, and you are too. Unless your mask has an exhalation valve on it. In which case, get the Hell away from me. No mask, don't even walk up to me. Under such circumstances,
then your mask gives you some protection as well.
In my old neighborhood, we used to have a lot of Asian immigrants who walked around wearing surgical masks. I didn't understand why. I then learned that they did so not because they didn't want to breath in germs from other people around them. They did it so as not to spread their germs to others. That's why the mask I wear protects you from my germs. The one you wear protects me from yours.
