Re:Long Covid Appears to Have Led to a Surge of Disabled in ...
by ghaff on Saturday April 15, 2023 @02:36PM
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Many people, most of whom I assume have never been to Asia, made up this narrative that people in Japan, for example, routinely wore masks day-to-day pre-pandemic. That simply isn't true and I could show you any number of photographs. Yes, it wasn't unheard of when people were sick but the idea that the average Japanese commuter was wearing a mask in 2019 is simply untrue.
Re:Long Covid Appears to Have Led to a Surge of Disabled in ...
by semicolon_storm on Saturday April 15, 2023 @03:13PM
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Complete strawman, I never claimed everybody in Japan wore masks daily and that's an argument I've never even seen made. I live in an area with a dominate Asian culture and have visited numerous eastern asian countries.
Re:Long Covid Appears to Have Led to a Surge of Disabled in ...
by semicolon_storm on Saturday April 15, 2023 @03:17PM
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1. You believe Covid no longer exists?
2. It's not, you just don't want to accept it.
3. Would it surprise you to hear that people are still wearing face masks for that same reason? Your "magic invincibility cloak" is a strawman argument that nobody has ever made.
2. The asthma analogy is irrelevant.
3. Societies in east Asia wear masks when they're sick; to prevent the spread of illness. Somewhere along the way this narrative has changed to it being a magic invincibility cloak and credited to Asian society, which it never was.