We are failing with masks... that is a fact. How we would do without them is a guess. I think people would keep their distance. and the high risk would be protecting themselves better.
Restaurants and bars only require a mask on entry. I was @ 2 bars on Friday where people weren’t wearing masks indoors after they sat down.
This is a higher grade of stupidity than you normally provide here. You're upping your game. I've never said I don't wear a mask where it is required. I go to Publix or to Home Depot or to Walmart (I lie, I never go to Walmart) and I wear a mask. It is required. Shutting down a small hardware store because of COVID, yet keeping Lowes open, that I have a problem with. Requiring me to wear a mask to walk 10 feet from the door in a pub to the booth, but then I can take off the mask is jack-assery. Do masks effectively reduce transmission of viruses? Sure. Is that effectiveness above a negligible amount? I seriously doubt it. The guy with the "Tampa Bay Bucs" bandana around his mouth in Publix isn't protecting himself or others no matter what brand of horseshit you want to try to pass on me.
Thanks, man. I just wish some folks who disagreed were open to debating it. The moment they find out I feel that way, its instantly heresy and the shrieking of COVID DENIER!!!1! drowns out all conversation.
that may be the case in San Diego since the court ruling last week... but... then that is a brand new exception to the rule is it not? Or... you tell me... maybe its different for you.. do you see people without masks at costco or home depot or shopping. I work from home lately but when I go into offices I see masks. (mostly trading for that matter.) What do you see?
You have no idea "how bad California would be without a face mask mandate". Absolutely no idea. You can hypothesize all day long about it, but it is unprovable without a time machine. All I know is that NY, NJ, CA, and a whole host of states with mask mandates and partial lockdowns are doing worse than Florida with no mask mandate state-wide, and no lock downs AT ALL.
No, it’s Masks everywhere. Do they work, who knows? I see some even wearing masks while walking on the beach. I got the COVID 2 weeks before Thanksgiving and was sick for 2 weeks with bad flu symptoms. Probably contacted it at a small party or bar. 3 other people got it and another 10 didn’t. It’s all a crap shoot and the data is sketchy to make any concrete assumptions.
They don’t work. Lockdowns are totally destructive in every sense. Financially, morally, scientifically, medically.