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Should we all still be required to wear a mask?

Actually

Posted 7:55 pm, 05/23/2024

It's a sincere question, would you like to see a new mask mandate?

Add your valued opinion

Is the question confusing you?

hillbilly666

Posted 7:40 pm, 05/23/2024

I don't get this post. What point are you trying to make?

Actually

Posted 7:28 pm, 05/23/2024

Oh oh....underdog went there

Actually

Posted 7:27 pm, 05/23/2024

I can't help you with statistical analysis, it's in the link if you knew how to interpret statistics


Do you not think that millions refused to mask up? In your uneducated opinion. I'm not asking you for a link

Did millions refuse to wear a mask or did 95% of the country mask up all the time?

underdog2

Posted 7:27 pm, 05/23/2024

No one wore a n95 mask.

antithesis

Posted 7:21 pm, 05/23/2024

Millions refused to wear a mask. We all know some right here in Wilkes. I am one. I never ever wore one


Help me out, I don't see this in your link. I searched for "million" and "000" and didn't see this data.

Can you copy the quote?

I'm not being sarcastic, I really don't see it...

antithesis

Posted 7:17 pm, 05/23/2024

Sure... if the person that had had COVID had been wearing an appropriate mask, the odds of the other person getting COVID dropped to 17%. If both parties were wearing a mask, the odds were nearly 0%.

If neither were wearing a mask, the odds of transmission were nearly 100%.

Actually

Posted 7:14 pm, 05/23/2024

Here you go.


Millions refused to wear a mask. We all know some right here in Wilkes. I am one. I never ever wore one

Actually

Posted 7:10 pm, 05/23/2024

"We all know that 1.2 million Americans died from COVID, and they all were infected by someone not wearing a mask."


Antithesis, do you have a source for your claim that all who died from COVID was infected by a perff at on not wearing a mask?

Are you lying again?

antithesis

Posted 7:06 pm, 05/23/2024

But Anti, not everyone obeyed the masking requirements. Millions refused to wear them.


Do you have a source for this number? I heard people whine and cry, but when a store said it was a requirement they always put one on... and just grumbled the whole time.

But beyond masks, people also social distanced and used a ton of hand sanitizer. Masks were one of the biggest helpers, but not the only one.

antithesis

Posted 6:59 pm, 05/23/2024

I don't think that there was ever a county wide mandate, but both Towns implemented them...


At the time, Wilkes had gone from 383 cases of COVID to 8,725 cases in 2 weeks... and 142 deaths.

Actually

Posted 6:56 pm, 05/23/2024

antithesis (view profile)

Posted 6:52 pm, 05/23/2024

The actual wording is...

Estimates are not available for the 2020-2021 flu season due to minimal influenza activity.

There were only 1,675 cases reported, though, which is about 1/16,716 of what is usually reported.

Flu deaths are usually about 1 in 1,400 cases, so the estimated deaths in that period would have been 0 or 1.
But Anti, not everyone obeyed the masking requirements. Millions refused to wear them.

So can you please explain why we had no flu deaths if many people still refused to wear a mask?

antithesis

Posted 6:52 pm, 05/23/2024

The actual wording is...

Estimates are not available for the 2020-2021 flu season due to minimal influenza activity.

There were only 1,675 cases reported, though, which is about 1/16,716 of what is usually reported.

Flu deaths are usually about 1 in 1,400 cases, so the estimated deaths in that period would have been 0 or 1.

Actually

Posted 6:52 pm, 05/23/2024

What kind of mask rules would you suggest Antithesis?

Actually

Posted 6:45 pm, 05/23/2024

Wow! Not a single flu death in all of America in 2020-2021


Amazing

I'm sure that's true

Actually

Posted 6:44 pm, 05/23/2024

Who else thinks we all need to wear a dust mask or if you don't, you are a murderer?

antithesis

Posted 6:44 pm, 05/23/2024

Flu Deaths in the US Per Year

2018-19 - 27,000
2019-20 - 25,000
2020-21 - 0
2021-22 - 4,900
2022-23 - 21,000


We all know that 1.2 million Americans died from COVID, and they all were infected by someone not wearing a mask.

How many lives have to be saved in order for you to drop your vanity and wear a mask?

Or said in another way... how many people are you willing to kill for the sake of your vanity?

Actually

Posted 6:42 pm, 05/23/2024

There are two honest people not afraid to support bringing back mask mandates.


1Giddess and Antithesis.

1goddess

Posted 6:42 pm, 05/23/2024

and nevermind the high possibility of ya'll be spreading some kind of disease!!!!

1goddess

Posted 6:41 pm, 05/23/2024

I say yes, absolutely yes...most you folks don't know how to brush your teeth, clean your dentures or scrub your gums...and ya stink!!!


So yes to the mask!!!!

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