You would think so, but then they have statistics showing that minorities are at a much higher risk of infection and death. It’s almost like the virus can’t make up it’s mind who to kill.
Maybe the virus is working for antifa?
Fwiw, the BLM march my fiance attended with a reported 60k people had nearly 100% of participants wearing masks.
Based on how politicized POTUS has made mask wearing I would guess that trump rallies have minimal mask wearing. That might help explain, in part, the apparent difference in infection rates.
That would make sense, but from what I saw there were other BLM protests/riots where a lot of people weren’t wearing masks. Antifa on the other hand almost always wear masks, so maybe that explains their apparent immunity.
LOL. Scarily accurate for me…
Damn straight, and proud of it!
We are absolutely not at peak yet. Looking at the growth curve it has almost resumed exponential spread. Barring a vaccine or outstanding treatment pathway it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better, even if that is only the economic outlook.
Re: treatment, there’s some interesting indication that glutathione can help, and that one factor in severe illness from covid is glutathione depletion (open question as to whether it is “chicken or egg”).
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The real question is what has a higher percentage of males, the T Nation PWI forum, or a Rush concert? Sorry last comment related to Rush.
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The thing I’m wondering now that masks are mandatory here, why bother with socialist distancing? The whole point was that respiratory droplets don’t stay in the air for more than 2 metres, but if everyone is wearing a mask then there are no respiratory droplets. And if the virus is airborne as some claim, then the 2m rule won’t do anything anyway.
Allows aerosolized virus to disperse. Harder to spread if the virus isn’t as concentrated. Also will limit the amount of people in a given area, which limits the likelihood of an infected person in that area.
The little things add up, and if they are easy to do, why wouldn’t you?
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This is my opinion on mask wearing. I am a bit disheartened that I seem to be in the minority on this, in a sorta liberal state. I only have seen 3 other individuals at the gym wearing them. If we have to close down again because people choose not to wear masks, I’ll be a bit pissed.
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People seem to think it’s an All or Nothing deal. But really, even wearing a mask part time will help. Wear it when stretching or warming up, take it off in a corner to catch your breath after a working set then slap it back on. It’s not ideal, but again, the little percentages add up.
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I do that. Yesterday was deadlift day for me. Also about 100F in the gym. I took it off for my sets, and about a minute after to catch my breath, then back on.
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So the place I live in is very conservative and I’m often one of a few people who ever have masks on. Confederate flag hats and t shirts but rarely masks. But I’m 35 minutes away from a place that is far more liberal and it’s rare to see people there without masks on.
Yeah to me it’s very simple stuff. Just try to keep a distance if you can and pop the mask on in public. We could argue about how much this helps, but it seems logical(and what the CDC recommends) to do so.
And yet some act like standing a bit away from people and putting on a mask are Herculean efforts and it’s impossible for them to accomplish.
Yeah but if the virus is aerosolized then they would have to clear the air in stores before letting more people in. Also almost nobody here has the virus anymore, highly unlikely even one person with it would enter a store much less 2 people.
There is an argument for limiting the number of people in a building, but the 2m rule makes little sense if everyone has a mask on.
Yeah, when you are breathing hard and producing more respiratory droplets and aerosolized virus. The way I see it, either wear a mask or don’t, taking it off for stuff like that will eliminate any potential benefit. It’s like putting on a condom after you already finished.
If the concentration of virus in the air is lower due to social distancing, it is less likely to infect someone. If one dude rips ass in a store that (probably) won’t smell as strong as two dudes ripping ass. Same concept.
Let’s use the condom example. Are you more likely to become a dad by wearing a condom 50% of the times you have sex or 0% of the time? Wearing a mask part time is the equivalent of giving yourself a low sperm count to prevent pregnancy.
The point is that in most of Ontario there are either very few cases or none at all. You won’t have two people infected with the virus going into one store. Most of the 40-something cases in Ottawa (maybe less by now) are nursing home residents, they aren’t going into any stores.
Even the mainstream media here is publishing articles saying the same thing about it being pointless to make masks mandatory now:
Not if you don’t wear the condom when you are cumming.
I don’t think it’s that simple. If you wear a mask all over the grocery store but lift it up for a few seconds for whatever reason I believe that vastly lowers the risk of infection as opposed to never wearing the mask while you walk the entire store.
I think (kinda know) that restricting ones breathing induces panic in a vast majority of people. It’s really ones tolerance or response to breathing restriction that determines whether or not someone wears one.
And that’s from using P100 respirators in an enclosed acid/gaseous welding environment that is guaranteed to cause respiratory damage. But people still refuse.
There is also the political/philosophical bend to it, but I think it hinges primarily on the breathing restriction response.
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I’m sure good reasons exist for some people not wearing masks that may have the type of responses you mentioned. But I think a LOT of people aren’t wearing one for the political reason more than that.
I don’t like the breathing restriction and extra heat from wearing it in the hot gym. I’ll take wearing it in the gym, over not wearing it in my basement exercising any day if those turn out to be the options.
I’m not arguing about your very valid point regarding the low infection rates in your province currently. That’s great news and I hope it keeps up (down?)!
You should really rethink through the other stuff about masks and social distancing though.