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Dec 3, 2021, 2:11 pm
#1876
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AND - the biggest factor that gets people twisted out of shape is the mask mandate. If airplanes are supposedly so safe, get rid of that mandate. (we have our shots and wear masks with a fight)
Dec 3, 2021, 4:11 pm
#1878
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Anybody notice how many of these "incidents" start before the plane even leaves the ground?
Dec 3, 2021, 6:50 pm
#1879
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The mask mandate was just extended through mid-March.
Dec 4, 2021, 2:55 am
#1880
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Dec 4, 2021, 7:21 am
#1881
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Dec 5, 2021, 4:56 am
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The simulations and studies are mostly from 2020. None obviously, Delta-specific. "Experimental aerosol dispersion" has countless factors.
Dec 8, 2021, 7:45 am
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There's a mountain of circumstantial evidence that masks are effective to at least some degree. Since there are no costs or side effects of wearing a mask, I don't need the scientific rigors of a drug trial to accept that wearing a mask in a crowded indoor setting is a reasonable risk mitigation technique.
Dec 8, 2021, 9:22 am
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Dec 9, 2021, 12:53 am
#1887
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There's a mountain of circumstantial evidence that masks are effective to at least some degree. Since there are no costs or side effects of wearing a mask, I don't need the scientific rigors of a drug trial to accept that wearing a mask in a crowded indoor setting is a reasonable risk mitigation technique.
Dec 11, 2021, 12:35 am
#1888
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There's a mountain of circumstantial evidence that masks actually spread bacteria and illnesses because nobody uses them properly and they require you to touch your face frequently. There are unknown harms to childhood development. Nearly all are made in Chinese sweatshops and discarded masks are polluting waterways. It's silly to pretend that there are no ill effects, or that circumstantial evidence that they might work in a lab setting justifies them at this point.
Dec 11, 2021, 3:33 am
#1889
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They should be used in appropriate contexts and not overused, much like masks should be used only when appropriate in surgical procedures to protect against blood and other bodily fluids (where they work) rather than on everyone, everywhere (where they don't).
Dec 12, 2021, 9:40 pm
#1890
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That's why an antibiotic mandate would be stupid, as is a mask mandate. What actually works is the vaccine.