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Re:An analysis of studies pertaining to masks from 1978 to 2023 by s1artibartfast on Friday May 24, 2024 @06:11PM (#40470916)
Eating ice cream is an analogy for wearing a mask, not the virus.

It is something that isn't a big deal, and that I would normally enjoy doing. I guess you didnt get it

Re:An analysis of studies pertaining to masks from 1978 to 2023 by ok_dad on Friday May 24, 2024 @07:53PM (#40471502)
Fair enough, everyone can’t agree on everything or communicate with each other effectively. I am particular about masks because I know several close family members who could only go out during covid when people regularly masked, and when masking wasn’t mandatory again, they couldn’t go out for a while until they came out with some new drugs after a year or so. I am fine with no masking today, but it broke my brain that roughly a quarter of people in other places of the country from here were so livid and angry because they had to be somewhat uncomfortable so that immunocompromized people could have safely shopped for necessities. Not only that, but the aforementioned fact that in places where masking was prevalent there was a decreased death rate.
Re:An analysis of studies pertaining to masks from 1978 to 2023 by s1artibartfast on Friday May 24, 2024 @08:24PM (#40471671)
That's not what it was about for them at all. Wearing a mask is a minor, even trivial thing.