If masks are safe

[Comeonman]

@vambo said:

If masks are safe, why are they holding a virtual convention?

If masks are safe, why are they pushing mail in voting?

Because they don’t guarantee someone not getting infected. 
Don’t go somewhere you don’t have to go (convention, large party etc.) if you don’t want to risk infection. If you have to go somewhere (grocery store) wear a mask to help reduce the chance of infecting someone else (as others should do for you). They say that two people wearing masks, even cloth, greatly reduces the chance of infection. I wear one for the sake of others and hope they do the same for me. 

Or this could be the greatest government conspiracy of all time?
 

[Vambo]

@comeonman said:

Because they don’t guarantee someone not getting infected. 

Don’t go somewhere you don’t have to go (convention, large party etc.) if you don’t want to risk infection. If you have to go somewhere (grocery store) wear a mask to help reduce the chance of infecting someone else (as others should do for you). They say that two people wearing masks, even cloth, greatly reduces the chance of infection. I wear one for the sake of others and hope they do the same for me. 

Or this could be the greatest government conspiracy of all time?
 

So masks are not safe.

If masks are safe, why are they pushing mail in voting?

[Comeonman]

@vambo said:

So masks are not safe.

If masks are safe, why are they pushing mail in voting?

LOL. No, masks are not 100% “safe”. Masks greatly reduce the chance of spreading the disease. I would encourage everyone to wear one while standing in line to vote. 

[Vambo]

@comeonman said:

LOL. No, masks are not 100% “safe”. Masks greatly reduce the chance of spreading the decease. I would encourage everyone to wear one while standing in line to vote. 

So are they like 40% safe?

[Comeonman]

@vambo said:

So are they like 40% safe?

I’ve read around 80-90% effective (safe) if both people in contact are wearing one

[MLD Woody]

@comeonman said:

I’ve read around 80-90% effective (safe) if both people in contact are wearing one

Good luck with this man...

[calfoxwc]

woodpecker wears his mask - and it isn't safe...for anybody.

[Westside Steve]

@comeonman said:

LOL. No, masks are not 100% “safe”. Masks greatly reduce the chance of spreading the disease. I would encourage everyone to wear one while standing in line to vote. 

Probably but a lot of this boils down to the fact that both sides left and right grew up with a healthy distrust of government. And there are still vestiges of the good old American dislike of being told what to do. Conversely there's that other group of people who think that victimhood makes them special. Munchausen? Hypochondria? On the other side of contrarianism? Pick your poison and then pick your political party.

WSS

[Vambo]

@vambo said:

So are they like 40% safe?

@comeonman said:

I’ve read around 80-90% effective (safe) if both people in contact are wearing one

So it would be each are ~ 40% times 2 which gives you your 80%...interesting.

[Comeonman]

@vambo said:

So it would be each are ~ 40% times 2 which gives you your 80%...interesting.

Science.....

[Vambo]

@comeonman said:

Science.....

[Comeonman]

^^^ that’s what I was hoping for