From Twitter:
Staten Islanders with masks drive out non-mask wearing person in grocery store. #Coronavirus pic.twitter.com/iPQwk7lD9y
— Mac (@GoodPoliticGuy) May 25, 2020
If you wonder how lynch mobs or pogroms form or how something like Kristallnacht was able to happen, this is it.
A bunch of people were driven by the powers that be (politicians and the media) to hysterical fear and ganged up on and verbally assaulted an innocent person for not wearing a mask.
The effectiveness of homemade cloth masks is still dubious. Data seems to indicate that in close proximity, where the mask is able to catch large droplets of expectorated sputum a cloth mask is better than nothing. Cloth masks are much less effective in stopping the aerosolized virus which is much finer than the mesh of the fibers.
If you are near someone who is coughing, a DIY mask might decrease the viral load you are exposed to. Just walking around outside, a mask is little to no help.
Masks are most effective when sick people with a cough are wearing them. Again, cloth masks are only good at catching large droplets. If you are not expectorating droplets and your mask isn’t so fine that it it makes breathing difficult (if you’eve ever worn a properly fitting chemical respirator or have gone through MOPP training, you know what I’m talking about) that mask isn’t stopping you from exhaling virus.
But the science of masks doesn’t matter to these people. They have been told that wearing a mask is a moral duty and someone not wearing a mask is a grandma killer. The heretic was driven out.
The internet was quick to pile on the victim of the mob.
Finally. The anti-maskers have been bullies & spreaders of the virus. Those of us wearing masks should not put up with them. They are wrong
— JaguarPower (@power_jaguar) May 25, 2020
The people with the masks are 100% correct in this situation.
— Kevin Alan (The Geek) (@ffootballgeek) May 25, 2020
HEROES
— DorianGrey (@DorianGrey101) May 25, 2020
Good for them !!.??
— juanita gorman 3 (@3_gorman) May 26, 2020
This one is the most revealing:
I can't wait till we do this to ALL conservatives, except instead of grocery stores we are chasing them out of society https://t.co/2OyOme778q
— Mr Dyspeptic (@katzenbrau) May 25, 2020
See, it’s not about protecting people’s health. It’s that wearing a mask and wanting the lockdown to continue has become a political virtue for some and everyone who disagrees for any reason is the enemy to be utterly destroyed.
I promise you, this will get worse.
Twitter is a septic tank. Material drawn from it is just what you’d expect from a septic tank.
[…] For all their righteous indignation about keeping themselves “healthy” by attacking Mask… they missed something important: […]
If masks work, it doesn’t matter if anyone else wears one. If they don’t, then it doesn’t matter if you wear one.
That depends. If masks protect the wearer, what you say is correct. If masks protect people other than the wearer (from the wearer) — which is what is generally claimed — then insisting on compliance makes some sense.
Only if the wearer has the virus.
I particularly like those hand crocheted masks, hot, itchy, and ineffective (even for large droplets), the CV theater trifecta.
*I* want a Governor Whitmer mask.
And, her EO requires “face covering”.
BTW, ref “mask only protects others…”: I clearly recall from hosp in-service training as an RN, masks etc utilization for respiratory (droplet/aerosol ) isolation.
So, imo, mask no/mask yes/ masks everywhere for everyone reflect poorly on tptb. My differential is Stoopid vs malignant vs enjoying the Laurel/Hardy swings as the magic 8 ball reveals our next Public! Health! Initiative!.
Love this one:
“I can’t wait till we do this to ALL conservatives, except instead of grocery stores we are chasing them out of society”
Funny how this idiot assumes anyone choosing not to wear a mask must be a conservative. Sure is a good thing those on the left are so open minded, tolerant, and bias-free.
“Dr Ossian Sweet! Paging Dr. Ossian Sweet! Phone your office!”
Might be considerably more exciting, attempting to chase me/mine out of society (as manifested by our house), than Karen might want.