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They love that story don't they. Alright guys, you win. Only 139,999 people have died from COVID-19. Throw away those masks.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-scientists-uncover-sars-cov-specific-cell-immunity.html realistically if a vaccine is just impossible everybody is just going to wear masks in public indefinitely and we're going to have to work on shoring up our ICU capacity. And hope for a breakthrough antiviral. A study on primates seemed to show that a second exposure caused mild symptoms but also an increase in a certain protein (e: antibodies specific to a certain protein) that fights infection: https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/07/14/study-in-primates-finds-acquired-immunity-prevents-covid-19-reinfections/

I bet that HIV-denialist antivax lobbying group he posted a few pages back has a good explanation for it.

tHiS Is aLl bEiNg dRiVeN By pOlItIcS yeah I think the Orange Man is a bad President and has done a bad job. I don't have a particularly high opinion of his most vocal supporters either. Call your therapist.

Look at those 140,000 people who died just to make the President look bad

Man it's just depressing going back and reading the first few pages of this topic. Dudes we really, really need you to stop making predictions

If those posters get run off we might miss out on some more "If you don't uncritically accept my assertions then you're a dumb cowardly sheep who only believes what the MSM says" posts though.

If somebody's posting straight up misleading, dishonest trash from a highly biased ideologically driven source (yeah go ahead and get your "like cnn lol" yuk yuks in) and won't entertain counter arguments or can't have their mind changed I can't blame somebody for getting irritated with them.

The guy that's been spamming this thread can't even bother to vet his own damn sources. Yeah great excellent you found an antivaxx HIV-denialist conservative medical lobbying group that agrees with you.

Your own source says that droplets are large enough to be stopped by the masks, so if the viral particulates are in the droplet... the particulates are stopped/slowed as well. The whole point of the masks isn't really to protect on the inhale, though wearers benefit from a layer blocking touching of the face, it's to disrupt the exhalations of the wearer. Also, of course other methods like regular hand-washing are crucial. This whole line of thinking is silly. There is no harm in wearing one and given the rate of infection in the US masks can also cause people to just be generally more aware. From your the NEJM article quoted on your link: That website he posted is a conservative think tank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Physicians_and_Surgeons e: lmao alright then. Glad we got the real facts on the mask debate from these fuging people.

Sounds like another phenomenon that's pretty much exclusive to the USA

Oh noooooo, please don't

The never-ending quest to feel smart and special enters a new week

When I go back to my job I'm going to be expected to wear a mask all day every day as will all of my coworkers and clients. Guess I'm going to die. e: masks do a really good job stopping the travel of droplets (one of the primary transmission methods of viruses) and a less efficient but still good job on aerosols (important because it's now thought COVID 19 is airborne). No poo a cloth mask can't filter microscopic virus particles but that's irrelevant because the transmission method is what's important.

Uh it was written on the rear windshield of a car, wake up you sheep

I'm not in healthcare but I've seen it brought up that, because our healthcare system is privatized and for-profit, its inventory strategy is similar to what you'd see in a modern grocery store or retail environment. A just-in-time system where you have exactly as much stuff as you need to sell/use right now and no more, because stuff sitting around not being sold/used = taking up space = throwing money away. Especially if it can expire. That's why there was such a mad scramble for PPE in the early days of the pandemic. That and the mammoth ignorance of the current administration who set out to destroy anything associated with the previous President, like his pandemic response apparatus. It'll make a lot more sense if you think of it like this: we treat healthcare like any other consumer product in America. Healthcare is potato chips and stereo equipment. This is insane and ludicrous for a variety of reasons, but that's where we are.

I've run into that dude in the Tinderbox He's one of those "Trump is taking down the global pedo cabal" people

American Carnage was a promise, not an admonishment

Looks like we need to start calling them Freedom Fries again

Holy crap, Arizona reported 117 deaths yesterday which is a record for the state by like 30 https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/arizona/ If that's not an upward adjustment based on new data or something like that then that's not good at all

All fake, here's a YouTube video.

Oh no whatever you do please don't articulate your point, just post a video by some guy. But dude it says TURN UP VOLUME! TRUTH INCOMING... right at the start

I'm a doctor in Florida and everything in that post is wrong. There, I've made a statement with the exact same amount of proof and sourcing as some white text on a black background.

Yes sounds good person on a brand new account who I'm sure has never been on this site before

If somebody is running a fever, has a cough, or has been notified that they've been around somebody who had/has COVID-19 they're probably getting tested if they have the ability to. That's how contact tracing is supposed to work, and it's a recipe for high test numbers/low-ish positives. There was somebody who was ID'd as testing positive for it in one of the buildings at my job and I bet everybody who came in contact with that person going back a month went out and got a brain tickler. That's potentially a few dozen tests being performed because of one positive case. I wouldn't necessarily break it down to a binary proposition of hypochondriacs vs. tests being faulty.