This is one of those years I wish we were getting an overseas assignment...Miami seems like another country but alas.Never been more ready to move out of country. Just need to find a way to make it happen. Grass is always greener though right?
“OMG marxist leftist freedom-crushing deep-state conspiracy overreach of tyrannical government out of control!!!”Analyzing the data and listening to the experts...Kudos to all three levels of government for making fact based decisions.
It does seem that way. I hope we're at least able to retain 120-240V, 50-60Hz. The thought of all of our gear sitting powerless - SILENT! - is just too depressing.Yeah there was seriously whacky stuff being spouted. Mankind is doomed.
Well, here we go again: This organization is a complete outlier amongst medical professionals. Please don't listen to this advice. Or at the very least, investigate the weird and strange things this organization supports for yourself.Hmmm....two threads nuked, but lets restart the argument. The third time is sure to be the charm.
Even handed and well sourced mask analysis:
https://aapsonline.org/mask-facts/
Everything at that link is factual and sourced, and the science 100% solid. You can get the same information elsewhere if you prefer, but facts don't change.Well, here we go again: This organization is a complete outlier amongst medical professionals. Please don't listen to this advice. Or at the very least, investigate the weird and strange things this organization supports for yourself.
For everyone else reading this, here is a good summary of this small group:Everything at that link is factual and sourced, and the science 100% solid. You can get the same information elsewhere if you prefer, but facts don't change.
You keep attacking the organization that collated the data, andFor everyone else reading this, here is a good summary of this small group:
"The publication's archives present a kind of alternate-universe scientific world, in which abortion causes breast cancer and vaccines cause autism, but HIV does not cause AIDS. Cutting carbon emissions represents a grave threat to global health (because environmental regulation would make people poorer and, consequently, sicker) ... The organization opposes some of the most accepted practices in health care, including mandatory vaccine regulations. Peer review, a long-standing hospital practice that helps doctors learn from and prevent errors, is viewed as the source of great injustice by AAPS, which fights attempts to micromanage doctors with such bureaucratic nuisances as medical evidence about what works and what doesn't. Computers, too, are an ominous threat. The organization has resisted the use of electronic medical records—which, naturally, represents an attempt by the government to acquire masses of private information about American citizens. (AAPS' executive director claims to keep all her patient notes in longhand.)"
Their recommendations are in direct conflict with the American Medical Association, the American Nurses Association and the American Hospital Association. Everyone can look at those and decided for themselves.
I thought that was well understood. Masks offer partial protection to the wearer, but are very effective at preventing the wearer from infecting others. That's still a very good reason to wear them, no? I honestly don't see how you could describe a state governor mandating their use as 'unethical or down-right evil.' Can you explain?Masks are not shields, ask any surgeon you know. Don't know any? Okay, well then just trust the past 50-60 years of modern medicinal practices in an Op Room. The surgeons are not wearing the mask to prevent themselves from contracting the patients virus/infection, they are protecting their patient from any idle illness that the surgical staff may have...
This this this this this this this. I live in Costa Rica and we stupidly blew up our numbers after we crushed covid. Finally masks are mandatory for the entire country and hopefully we will be rewarded with falling numbers in the next 30 days. Humans for the most part do really seem to act like the idiots we see in the disaster films.Worth repeating... Masks and social distancing works... Proven in other countries like S. Korea, Japan, Germany, etc. The mask is not about people trying to control you. They are not trying to control you by telling you literally not to spit at each other. Vaccines are not going to implant chips on you... The phone you are holding already holds so much information about you and you have a number attached to you for life. Worry about that separately.
The people in power want to open up the businesses because it will look good this upcoming election. But if we don't start controlling this pandemic, instead of a broken economy, will have more dead people AND probably a worse economy.
Here's an easy to understand guideline that kindergarden kid can comprehend. View attachment 70130
Yeesh. You don't need a study to understand that a mask drastically stops spit and snot from flying all over. The fact this is a debate is insanity and a core reason why the USA is such a disaster today.Wait a minute, jclemensfi's cut 'n past was from Mother Jones! Mother Jones is the absolute last source on the entire planet I would trust for unbiased, factual info.
Right. So symptomatic people should wear a mask? No, actually they should stay home. That's what the article I linked states. There is no evidence for asymptomatic spread.Yeesh. You don't need a study to understand that a mask drastically stops spit and snot from flying all over. The fact this is a debate is insanity and a core reason why the USA is such a disaster today.
Asymptomatic people who account for roughly 50% of the spread don't spit when they talk or in general? Wear a mask people. Save our world.Right. So symptomatic people should wear a mask? No, actually they should stay home. That's what the article I linked states. There is no evidence for asymptomatic spread.
Source?Asymptomatic people who account for roughly 50% of the spread don't spit when they talk or in general?