Quote (Thor123422 @ 23 Feb 2021 07:55)
Interestingly they've been still doing regular flu tests in hospitals.
The flu has a much lower spread rate than Covid and is transmitted the same way.
Turns out when you take precautions against Covid, to nobody's surprise, you also reduce the flu spread by the same factor. Cutting Covid's wild spread rate in half keeps it above 1, which means it continues to propagate, but the flu has a typical spread rate of between 1 and 2, so when you cut that in half it basically stops existing.
Honestly we should probably just keep masks as a normal part of our society from now on. They're super low cost relative to the benefit, the benefit being stopping basically all respiratory illnesses including future pandemics before they even get started.
If masks are government mandated, given the bacterial and viral buildup in cloth masks and the particulate buildup in said masks from detergents, it should be disposables. Since it's government mandated, government needs to be required to provide the masks to everyone under such requirement.
Or, how about instead, we simply say you're ignorant, and preventing people from contracting mild viruses and illnesses prevents their immune system from development, and makes them more susceptible to potentially lethal illnesses, and you just suck at logic.
No, masks should not be a part of daily life. All of life is risk. If you don't feel yourself capable of handling that risk, go live in a hard plastic bubble. That's your choice, right, and freedom.