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Originally Posted by Gulfcoast
Well, Covid is not airborne ebola and if it were you wouldn't have to remind people to stay at home and away from crowds. You wouldn't have parents around the country begging for the schools to reopen. You probably wouldn't get medical attention unless your life literally depended on it. Too dangerous.
And you certainly wouldn't need to have some old guy like Fauci scolding people not to go to Super Bowl parties tonight. Don't compare a Cat 5 hurricane to a tropical storm. Yes, it's possible for people to die or get hurt regardless of the force of the storm but people are going to naturally react a whole lot differently with a Cat 5 vs some blustery winds and rain.
If all of these precautions were enough to virtually eradicate the flu, then one would think that Covid would have gone away, too. But, nope. The Covid numbers only change dramatically when the numbers are manipulated by the people counting them.
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Sure let's play the analogy game. We'll use your hurricane.
People who know a hurricane is coming, don't all march out into the town square, without their raincoats, cell phones uncharged or left abandoned in their cars, and proceed to dance the night away in the middle of the storm.
What do people who know a hurricane is coming do?
They make sure they have enough supplies, get more if they don't have enough. They bring the supplies home, and they stay put out of the rain until either the storm is over, or until the weatherman says it was a false alarm. The weatherman doesn't know in advance that it will be a false alarm. He doesn't know that, until after someone has already predicted the storm is coming.
Now compare to Dr. Fauci and masks:
Dr. Fauci learned the storm was coming. At that time, he knew that masks were at a premium, and knew the priority needed to be with the people taking care of everyone else. It was also unknown at the time, the severity of the contagion, because it wasn't yet an actual pandemic. So he said "hey folks - don't buy those N95 masks, you don't need to mask up."
Of course people didn't bother to listen to him, and bought out entire stores' worth of masks, toilet paper, paper towels, sanitizers, rubbing alcohol, leaving people who actually NEEDED that stuff for their weekly use (including people who use catheters, who need rubbing alcohol every day), with nothing.
Then, Dr. Fauci learned from the medical scientists and researchers, hey - masks are useful, and important, let's promote that to the public. Which - he did. He said "hey - that information that we TOLD you was incomplete at the time? Well it's complete now. Wear the masks."
He hasn't really stepped back from that. He still promotes mask wearing as one major method of risk reduction.
And for Dr. Fauci, that is what all of his recommendations are about. They are about reducing the risk of infection.
Masks reduce the risk of infection. From who? From everyone. From the community, from you, from your sister, from your bank teller, from the guy who fixes your golf cart.
If you get up close and personal with someone, you should be wearing a mask. If you refuse to wear a mask, then you need to keep your distance from society until the CDC can say with more certainty that it's over, OR until you change your mind and wear a mask.
But OBB, you say, I already had COVID-19. I'm immune now!
To which I respond, great. Congratulations. Put the mask on anyway. Why? Because it sets the example. It provides comfort to your fellow human being, who doesn't know you, and doesn't know you are immune. It is a small, very inexpensive thing for you to do, that is a minor inconvenience in the scheme of things. It is far less convenient for you to wear a mask, than it is to stop at a red light and wait 3 cycles of the light to change until you can take a left turn. You manage to do that without screaming for your rights, don't you? Well - then wear the damned mask.