Maggie's Farm

"Masks can be very effective in some situations, but not in others."

Weasel words. You can see this lie coming a mile off. Either they work, which means it prevents the transmission of the disease or it doesn't. Would a health care professional in Africa treating ebola patients "just use a paper or cloth mask??? Of course not! Why? Because they do not prevent the transmission of communicable diseases.

So why does our government and other governments want to mandate masks? Why wouldn't they take some positive steps to save lives in a pandemic and avoid things like masks and lockdowns??? The answer is simple; control! If they control you they get power over you. That is why before the politics fully took over the convenient covid pandemic crisis they were telling you what all health care professionals knew which is mask don't work (again working means absolute protection from contracting the disease). Masks, lockdowns 6 feet of separation and all the mandates are political not medical.

In 1st world Western countries with decent health care we have a lot of people, older people, people with serious health problems, etc. who were sitting ducks for covid. In most of the 3rd world the vast majority of the population is younger and healthy and they could generally contract covid and survive it. Masks weren't going to protect them. Isolation or six feet of separation wasn't going to protect them. They were weak in in the end stages of their life and covid was too much for them. But covid was like a gift from god for the left. It was a crisis and had to be exploited and it was. Now, the exploiters, have to keep telling you that those things they used to exploit you were for your own good. Partly to keep you from seeing through the past scam and also because they are getting ready to use it again.

Don't trust them, they lied, they caused death and serious injuries with full knowledge of what they were doing and they intend to do it again. It saddens me to realize our government/the Democrats have become the enemy within and they have just begun destroying the country it will get worse.

Not a good comparison. It would be more appropriate if you used an example of seat belts that weren't attached. But that is what you must do when you have a losing hand but your job is to spread lies about it.

On the package that manufacturer packages their medical masks in it says not effective against viruses.

But I wish it did work. Wouldn't that be great. You could just put on a mask and never get sick. But alas that is pure bullshit brought to you by an oppressive government. And then they hire fools like you to post your crap online to scare the Kulaks. Obey or else. All your freedoms belong to me!

"Your reasoning doesn't become sound even if your conclusion is correct. (It's not.)"

Clearly you didn't take science or math in school. A seat belt is not a mask (talk about fallacious reasoning).

When you have covid and you exhale, cough or sneeze you expel millions of virus. If your mask (at best) prevented 8% of that virus from becoming airborne that leaves a mere millions of times more virus released into the air than is needed to infect someone. That means that a mask doesn't work, cannot work and scientists and politicians know it doesn't work. There is a known and accepted standard for the desired and necessary reduction in pathogens to make something (air, water, food) safe and that standard is 99.9999% reduction in those pathogens. At best a cloth or paper face mask reduces pathogens by 8%. That means it allows 92% of those pathogens to become airborne. Again; that means it does NOT work.

It cannot work, we have always known it cannot work BUT what masking does is confuse the uninformed (like yourself) and coalesces around the belief that the government is doing something. AND masks become a visual and constant reinforcement of the fear and your need to support the politicians who are protecting you and the proof of that is they are making other people wear masks in your presence. It is PERFECT for controlling the hoi polloi but useless for controlling disease.

You either don't get it or are comfortable lying in the face of the facts.

Either it works, which means you don't contract or transmit the disease or it does not. There is no second place. You cannot proudly proclaim masks are good and acknowledge that people who wear masks still get or transmit the disease while wearing them. At best, the mask catches 8% of the virus and allows 92% to pass. This is not good no matter how much lipstick you put on it.

Knowing this and knowing that the government little Eichmans knew it too tells you that it is all politics and not about preventing the transmission of the virus. Which in turn also explains why you are being told to defend it. It is a powerful control mechanism for the state almost as powerful as the Burka. That is why the Democrats are trying to bring it back before this November. Mandates is an excellent example of misuse of power and an effective way to divide the people. It's like a national HOA run by Karens with unlimited power.

Surgical masks and KN95 are totally different BUT neither is prescribed for level 4 diseases. Why?!? Because even those will not protect you from infection.

BUT also they must be sealed to your face AND disposed of as medical bio-hazard AND if you touch them they must be replaced immediately with a fresh mask. So, seriously, are you just deflecting here or do you really think the general population can abide by all those requirements.

NO! We were talking about the cloth or paper masks that the government made us all wear in preparation to making us all wear Burkas. Those masks DO NOT WORK. You can cite who ever you like it won't change the fact that those masks will not prevent infection. Not 8%, not any % they simply do not work.

"In other words, you grant that your opinions are impervious to evidence."

Citations are asked for on the internet for two reasons. To stifle opinions and to be used to trash the citation. Your citations are simply you practicing a fantasy that is you find someone who agrees with you and you cite them therefore you must be right.

I'm not going to do your homework for you. If you actually researched this issue then you would indeed know that there is considerable research that support the simple and logical conclusion that masks (cloth and paper) do not prevent the transmission of disease; not a little and not at all. You can cite whoever you like and common sense proves you wrong.

"wearing masks in public places where there is sufficient ventilation and enough room to maintain social distance can significantly reduce the probability of infection."

Which is exactly the mandated situation we had during the pandemic and a million or so died and 200 million got covid. So, what, exactly do you mean by " reduce the probability of infection"?

If masks worked there would have been no pandemic.