Do people who claim that mask wearing and vaccinations are personal choices aware of how ridiculous those statements are?

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

First of all as for masks, the pores are too small to prevent people from inhaling the viral particles BUT the turbulence the mask causes when you exhale decreases the probability of spreading it so by not wearing a mask, you aren't jeopardizing you're health, you're jeopardizing the health of others.

And you say the same kind of shit with vaccinations. They say that if you're worried about getting the virus you should get vaccinated but don't push you're views on others. Except the more people the virus infects, the more opportunities it has to evolve into new strains that the vaccine will be less effective against. And that's not some weird hypothetical either, currently 93% of the new COVID cases in the US are of the delta variant and while vaccinated people are 15 times less likely to contract the alpha variant than but 8 times less likely to contract the delta variant.

Wanna talk about violating bodily autonomy, spreading pathogens to others and letting your flesh being a breeding ground for new strains of viruses is a far more severe violation of bodily autonomy than either mask or vaccine mandates.

And for anyone who's going to talk shit about the rise of authoritarianism in this country, suspension of personal liberties in the face of natural disasters isn't a slippery slope, under normal circumstances a governor ordering a city evacuated would seem far but if a Hurricane was coming in you wouldn't call that tyrannical. When wanna be dictators use a boogeyman to reconcile power, said boogeyman isn't a force of nature; it's either a foreign country (like China) or a subversive faction (like BLM & Antifa) which they use to expand state power.

That said, downplaying the severity of natural disasters (and limiting collective actions against it) has a LONG history of being used to expand private power at the expense of individual liberties.

[NYCQuestions1976]

N95 masks help curtail the spread of the larger droplets of Covid, but don't do anything when it comes to blocking tiny aerosol particulates, which can also contain Covid. The N95 is a NIOSH/OSHA rating, not a medical rating. That means an N95 mask will block 95% of vapors and particulates larger than 0.3 microns per cubic centimeter. Covid can be airborne in vapor and particulates smaller than 0.3 microns. That means an N95 masks will block 0% of the vapors and particulates smaller than 0.3 microns. So wearing an N95 mask does help to a certain extent, but the messaging and information has been very vague. We really should all be wearing masks like this:

Half mask, will travel.

Anybody need an abatement?

Would you buy a pre-owned car from this guy?

This is a half-face respirator with Magenta-Black HEPA filters that block at least 99.97% of all vapors and particulates larger than 0.3 microns. I use this mask on abatement jobs, and you need to be clean shaven so the silicone in the mask makes a proper fit with your face (it's been a while since I've been on an abatement job, hence the beard). You can find these masks and cartridges on the North and Honeywell websites.

[NYCQuestions1976]

Thanks for Most Superb. 👍

[normalice]

They know. Their only intention is to make people mad. It's like when they were kids the only way to get attention from their parents was when they made them mad, only now no one will spank them for it,

[karaspara]

Why ask when you have clearly got all the answers you are interested in?

[Snakeyes7]

I don't care all that much about mask mandates because they are tolerable but I hope it won't be there forever but I think it's highly likely that it will.

Vaccination is definitely a personal choice as the vaccine can compromise some people's immune system and their doctors will not recommend it. If there are no medical exemptions, like NYC does, then you are creating a group of second class citizens and some might argue its an act of eugenics.

[CantGetItUp]

Still pushing the baseless claim that masks reduce spread smh. I shouldn’t have to suffer the consequences of dumbass liberal voters which is far more damaging to this country than this virus. Unfortunately I have to deal with it so I guess living with maskless and unvaccinated people is something you’re gonna have to live with.

[BlacklightShade]

Still spreading the disproven conspiracy theory that masks don't prevent the spread of disease.

[CantGetItUp]

They don’t watch the vape videos

[BlacklightShade]

Covid doesn't transmit through vape smoke. It transmits through moisture from your face.

[CantGetItUp]

OMG just watch the vape mask experiment. https://youtu.be/hJpS_jajub0

[NYCQuestions1976]

The argument isn't as simple as "mask/no mask".

N95 masks help curtail the spread of the larger droplets of Covid, but don't do anything when it comes to blocking tiny aerosol particulates, which can also contain Covid. The N95 is a NIOSH/OSHA rating, not a medical rating. That means an N95 mask will block 95% of vapors and particulates larger than 0.3 microns per cubic centimeter. Covid can be airborne in vapor and particulates smaller than 0.3 microns. That means an N95 masks will block 0% of the vapors and particulates smaller than 0.3 microns. So wearing an N95 mask does help to a certain extent, but the messaging and information has been very vague. We really should all be wearing masks like this:

https://ibb.co/L5RrjwF
https://ibb.co/hBVtkhc

This is a half-face respirator with Magenta-Black HEPA filters that block at least 99.97% of all vapors and particulates larger than 0.3 microns. I use this mask on abatement jobs, and you need to be clean shaven so the silicone in the mask makes a proper fit with your face. You can find these masks and cartridges on the North and Honeywell websites.

Hope all these details help. 👍