Originally Posted by
Gloriousprofits
This highlights the two different realities the American public lives in right now. I would argue that the evidence overwhelmingly supports that mask use slows down transmission rates. How have we gotten to a place where we can coexist in two completely different realities. In all seriousness, with all due respect, I ask what are your sources of information?
I will offer mine.
Local daily newspaper, BBC, WSJ, NPR and PBS Newshour.
Let me answer that, and if you want to look through my postings you will find they are generally supportive of mask use, accepting that mask use will probably not STOP inhaling of viral particles, but by decreasing the inoculum will likely - as has been demonstrated with other airborne viruses - at least decrease the severity of a case if someone does contract it.
we lost it as a society when those sources - even the ones you give - let their editorializing flow over into what was supposed to be information. Case in point:
We had a shortage of n95 masks that was going to be imperiling our most at risk medical personnel. Did we - truthfully - say that we were short on masks and we need to save them for the people most at risk and that everybody else would have to Improvise until we coukd gin up production? H€|| no, the CDC LIED and said masks weren’t necessary except for medical personnel and might even be harmful.
There is little credibility left in the old authority figures.