I thought everyone knew that limited plexiglass barriers and stickers on the floor did nothing.
I do remember arguing with people on the internet that most of the studies about masks were flawed because they tended to include people who didn’t wear them properly in the “mask-wearing” category. Personally, I went with higher-spec masks like KF94, and they’re likely to be something I use regularly during flu season commutes.
The outrage about the vaccines were fascinating though. The goalposts kept getting moved when the conspiracy theories were wrong. I remember people saying that after a year, everyone who took the vaccines will have dropped dead…lmao
The spittle can contain things that cause the spread of disease, which (as you said) masks help with. And masks with higher specs block smaller particles. So if everyone’s wearing properly-fitted good quality masks in a room, there’s far fewer particles being ejected into the air of that room than if nobody were wearing any masks.
Regarding vaccines, the definitions of things change all the time as technology progresses, so even if it were true that the definition changed, it doesn’t concern me. mRNA vaccines were being researched well before the covid vaccines, but there wasn’t a big push until the pandemic. Without the big push, it can be hard to get funding and such…which can be common in science.
I did the same. Covid was the year where the official flu disappeared as a reason for deaths, and everything became covid deaths.
Also if you died for any reason and was found to have covid inside, it was classified as a covid death anyway.
So I saw them drive up the statistics enormously to ridiculous levels. People here on Lemmy don’t agree though and gets upset about this point of view.
To them covid was a global killer, very dangerous, just like the media and the government said. But when I look at statistics, I hardly see any deaths in people younger than 50. This is official statistics for my country at least.
But yeah, the US has/had so many incredibly unhealthy people so of course they got hit hard. Italy also for the same reasons.
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I thought everyone knew that limited plexiglass barriers and stickers on the floor did nothing.
I do remember arguing with people on the internet that most of the studies about masks were flawed because they tended to include people who didn’t wear them properly in the “mask-wearing” category. Personally, I went with higher-spec masks like KF94, and they’re likely to be something I use regularly during flu season commutes.
The outrage about the vaccines were fascinating though. The goalposts kept getting moved when the conspiracy theories were wrong. I remember people saying that after a year, everyone who took the vaccines will have dropped dead…lmao
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The spittle can contain things that cause the spread of disease, which (as you said) masks help with. And masks with higher specs block smaller particles. So if everyone’s wearing properly-fitted good quality masks in a room, there’s far fewer particles being ejected into the air of that room than if nobody were wearing any masks.
Regarding vaccines, the definitions of things change all the time as technology progresses, so even if it were true that the definition changed, it doesn’t concern me. mRNA vaccines were being researched well before the covid vaccines, but there wasn’t a big push until the pandemic. Without the big push, it can be hard to get funding and such…which can be common in science.
I did the same. Covid was the year where the official flu disappeared as a reason for deaths, and everything became covid deaths.
Also if you died for any reason and was found to have covid inside, it was classified as a covid death anyway.
So I saw them drive up the statistics enormously to ridiculous levels. People here on Lemmy don’t agree though and gets upset about this point of view.
To them covid was a global killer, very dangerous, just like the media and the government said. But when I look at statistics, I hardly see any deaths in people younger than 50. This is official statistics for my country at least.
But yeah, the US has/had so many incredibly unhealthy people so of course they got hit hard. Italy also for the same reasons.