Mini-Throughput: Masks, Redux
I don’t like masks but the hysteria over them seems fantastically out of proportion. I’m also not sure that we need to bring back mask mandates under the present circumstances.
I don’t like masks but the hysteria over them seems fantastically out of proportion. I’m also not sure that we need to bring back mask mandates under the present circumstances.
Lots of evidence that the people telling you masks are useless either have an agenda or don’t know what they’re talking about. Or both.
Disease and pandemics used to be the norm. And, contra the historical revisionists, we often imposed restrictions like masks to control them.
They have been doing this garbage for almost a year now: cherry-picking single weak studies that support their point and ignoring the massive swaths of studies that dispute them.
The NFL swung the fine hammer at coaches and teams for not abiding by the mandatory mask rules Sunday, and more will be coming.
The rules were developed because they work, not because I think they ought to work or because I read somewhere that they should work.
Bad things coming for American education, the mask slips on mask wearing, and the ending of that Frederick Douglass speech everyone was sharing this weekend.
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I went to the grocery store. It was everything I had dreamed of and more.