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Originally Posted by oldtimes
This is nothing but your opinion. There is absolutely no proof that wearing masks from the beginning would have changed anything. Half the people who wear masks use ineffective masks or do not wear them properly. You may think you know everything but you don't and your snarky replies just show your ignorance.
From the people in the balcony, who are tired of hearing it.
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Wow, and people think I've been a bit harsh
Over the last year, OBB has generally made some very good posts with reasonable thought processes. On this one issue, however, she has decided to worship at the altar in the Church of the Holy Mask. She, and likeminded individuals believe that if everyone wore a mask, all the time, from day 1, there would be no pandemic. Simply not true, pandemics are difficult to get rid of. It took almost 200 years to eradicate smallpox from the face of the Earth from Jenner's original cowpox vaccine. And smallpox was relatively easy since the virus had no animal reservoirs
Some of the always mask proponents believe they are acting out of pure altruism to protect others---well, OK, thank you. Others think the mask is protecting the wearer, which is a minimal to zero factor, one earlier post claimed this was the opinion of a lifelong nurse. The truth is that there are times when a mask is appropriate and times when it is useless, and it certainly is not the answer to the pandemic. Social distancing does more than a mask hands down. And even though surface to human transmission has not been documented to any degree, I'm sure there are still those that are wiping down their groceries with bleach (YUK)