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13402182, You believe that a top Dr. with 50+years experience *didn't* know...
Posted by flipnile, Tue Sep-01-20 05:13 PM
How virus, bacteria and other infectious diseases are spread?

>They didn't recommends mask back then because 1)They didn't
>*know* that's how it spread and

Do hospital workers buy masks at Home Depot and Lowes? Otherwise, how would regular people deplete hospital stocks?

>2)They wanted to make sure the
>hospital workers had enough masks.

>They never said "Wearing a mask is wrong and stupid and gives
>you the disease so never never ever ever never wear a mask!!"

>Turns out the learnt some new shit and change the
>recommendations.
>
>Trumps guidance was "It'll disappear in the summer."
>
>And why are we wearing a mask and waiting for the vaccine??
>
>1)Because masks have been shown to help.
>
>2)It's wait for the vaccine or hope that herd immunity would
>work. (Also giving the disease to ^ billion people on the
>planet would lead to at LEAST 10 millions deaths (1% death
>rate.)
>
>What's you idea then? Please tell us how you'd handle it. (And
>if you change your mind we're DAMN SURE going to call you a
>flip flopper.)

The same way we handle most other diseases with a very low death rate... let it go.

Also, I'd recommend a better diet, exercise, not smoking and other things to improve one's natural health (something that I don't see from the .gov at all)

>
>Or did you just want to question the motives of everyone and
>then have us say "Wow bro, you are totally right. Where can I
>like and subscribe??"

Nah, I don't really care about validation. I'm only seeking to engage in discussion with open-minded rather than prove points on the Internet.

>(Even after the vaccine it'll keep spreading for some time -
>stopping wearing masks and social distancing will ramp down -
>not go away over night.)
>
>As for overwhelming the system, just wait until school starts
>before the vaccine. We'll be overwhelmed soon.

Same way the months of protests over the summer have overwhelmed us?