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Originally Posted by davem4616
we wear masks whenever we go out and about, period...even though science clearly tells us that the virus is able to freely pass through any mask
we just don't want to put up with the judgmental stares from the self-righteous if either of us dared to step out in public without a mask
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I do the same. I would not even contemplate trying to have a logical conversation about what people really think a non N95 really does for them, or actually for others. But it's just not worth an actual scientific discussion. Many would not have the background for that, and I personally think there is real value in having people have some feeling of being in charge of this. I personally know from career experience, that this feeling of helplessness is as destructive as the virus. People can't do anything about factors such as over weight, heart problems, diabetes, and compromised immune systems... that is a helpless feeling. The mask, even a cute piece of cotton material from Jo Ann's, can allow the person to feel some measure of control, and that helps more than many realize. I do think someday, in the far future, our great grand children will read about this, and how people "back then" put pieces of cloth material, even cut them from sheets and blankets and coffee filters, put elastic on them to put around their ears, and believed they were protecting themselves and others; in much the same way WE read about how in the middle ages, people stuffed rags, paper, anything they could find under the space between door and floor, and around windows, to keep the plague from entering their homes in a mist in the air. Also, how the doctors, the learned people of the day, "let blood" drained a "safe" amount from people to let out the killer virus and bacteria, only they did not even know those terms. But against masks, refuse to put on one on, no, I comply, I don't argue, or try to convince anyone. I kind of view it like using a tissue for a cold, we ALL KNOW that the person at the next table or desk or chair, is only being "polite", that the air is FILLED with cold virus that did not go into that little porous tissue, but it "could have caught a bit of it" and most of all we "feel" light it might have. If people did not feel they were doing something to be in control, many would never leave their homes. Our entire economy really would collapse then ! As the old joke goes, farmer in Indiana was seen in his fields throwing out some kind of purple powder that was actually flour that had been colored. When other asked him what he had, what he was doing, and WHY, he replied: deep purple dyed flour, keep the lions away from the crops. LIONS the startled people asked, LIONS ? Lions have never been seen here in the Midwest for decades. centuries, maybe NEVER. Yep, pretty darn EFFECTIVE isn't it ! ! We need to smile these days, even at ourselves !