Real Data: Face masks dramatically reduce COVID transmission

putty wrote:

The people are coming into the hospitals WITH COVID not because of COVID. Please learn the difference. Omicron is not very dangerous and we will all be exposed. Take care of your body, don't be a fat a$$, take your vitamin D and zinc often (especially if you are in northern cloudy states or you are a POC). Last but not least, stop watching the news and being concerned with COVID unless you have 4+ comorbidities or are elderly.

This doesn't matter. Who do you think is in the hospital? elderly and sick people. If someone comes in with a broken leg, and they have Covid, they're now a risk to every patient in the hospital.

Stop being such a selfish prock and think about literally anybody else but yourself.

Golrk wrote:

OMG!!! wrote:

One person died from the flu. One person died from a car accident. One person died from heart disease. Do you think that humans don’t die?

We're approaching 1 million Americans from Covid.. but of course you probably don't believe the statistics so there's no reasoning with people like you. I have 6 friends who have passed from Covid myself, so i know how impactful Covid has been. Also, our hospitals are filling again with Covid patients. Are you implying that this is all a show and they're really not sick with Covid?

What part of 99%+ survival rate do you not understand? Do you have an education beyond elementary school?

Hardloper wrote:

Grow up. Do you think you'll never get Omicron, or any virus ever again? Sorry if you were convinced you'll never get Omicron.

Of course not. But when I do, I'm less likely to get really isck, because I've been vacicnated.

I'm less likely to get it today, because I wear a mask.

My kids are less likely to get sick from it at school, because they're vaccinated.

And i do all of this because I listen to the development of science, instead of message board warriors.

Because you have to be a complete and total idiot to think the spread of a virulent disease is based on random distribution.

Well duh. All you have to do is take a face mask, squirt some water through it and compare to no mask. Masks help reduce transmission. But we’re reducing the transmission of something that doesn’t kill anyone who doesn’t have 4 comorbidities (per CDC director). So it doesn’t really matter if you wear a mask unless you’re extremely unhealthy and/or already dying.

OMG!!! wrote:

Golrk wrote:

We're approaching 1 million Americans from Covid.. but of course you probably don't believe the statistics so there's no reasoning with people like you. I have 6 friends who have passed from Covid myself, so i know how impactful Covid has been. Also, our hospitals are filling again with Covid patients. Are you implying that this is all a show and they're really not sick with Covid?

What part of 99%+ survival rate do you not understand? Do you have an education beyond elementary school?

I dare you to rephrase that thusly:

"What part of 'I don't care if up to 1% of people with Covid die' do you not understand? "

Because that's what you just said.

I don't trust these 'studies' as some say that masks are effective and others say that they provide insignificant protection. The people behind these studies have agendas and bias.

What I do trust is actual real data, indisputable data. The largest sample size in the world (unlike these tiny studies). Before Omicron England scrapped their mask mandate, Scotland did not. Guess which of the two countries had the highest percentage of covid cases during this time?

fell in love with a clown at a clown show wrote:

Hardloper wrote:

Grow up. Do you think you'll never get Omicron, or any virus ever again? Sorry if you were convinced you'll never get Omicron.

Of course not. But when I do, I'm less likely to get really isck, because I've been vacicnated.

I'm less likely to get it today, because I wear a mask.

My kids are less likely to get sick from it at school, because they're vaccinated.

And i do all of this because I listen to the development of science, instead of message board warriors.

Because you have to be a complete and total idiot to think the spread of a virulent disease is based on random distribution.

Absolutely untrue. A healthy person without a bunch of serious co morbidities is LESS likely to get seriously ill if they get this crap. This is why the UK data shows the majority of people dying are now vaccinated.

fell in love with a clown at a clown show wrote:

Not Real Data wrote:

None of those things are reducing the spread. Omicron is everywhere and everyone either has gotten it already (knowingly or not) or will get it. Prolonging the whole process only creates more time for more mutations to emerge that are evasive and problematic. Try accepting reality, do your best to stay healthy and move on.

your desparation to deny the effectiveness of doing absolutely anything to help society get through this pandemic is pathetic.

You just defined antimaskers and antivaxxers, great job.

The ONLY people at risk are

A: people with a bunch of comorbidities and

B: people who are vaccinated

Whatever a right winger or antivaxxer says, just understand it as the opposite. Proven to be a pretty good rule of thumb in the last year. It’s also saved a lot of lives!

fell in love with a clown at a clown show wrote:

Hardloper wrote:

Grow up. Do you think you'll never get Omicron, or any virus ever again? Sorry if you were convinced you'll never get Omicron.

Of course not. But when I do, I'm less likely to get really isck, because I've been vacicnated.

I'm less likely to get it today, because I wear a mask.

My kids are less likely to get sick from it at school, because they're vaccinated.

And i do all of this because I listen to the development of science, instead of message board warriors.

Because you have to be a complete and total idiot to think the spread of a virulent disease is based on random distribution.

Are you gonna keep wearing a mask even after you get it and recover?

Noyankee wrote:

The ONLY people at risk are

A: people with a bunch of comorbidities and

B: people who are vaccinated

A. So millions and millions of Americans?

B. LOL, silly antivaxxer

Noyankee wrote:

Absolutely untrue. A healthy person without a bunch of serious co morbidities is LESS likely to get seriously ill if they get this crap. This is why the UK data shows the majority of people dying are now vaccinated.

The majority of people dying are vaccinated because the majority of people are vaccinated.

the proportion of vaccinated people dying is extremely small.

but congratulations on learning about comorbidities. They've been the cause of death of people with cancer, heart disease, diabetes, pneumonia, and every other disease known to man, for centuries. I suppose the health care system has been wasting its time forever.

It's not if you're going to get Covid, it's when. And it may be a yearly illness, like getting the flu each each year.

Stoppit Smith I wrote:

real data wrote:

In study, unmasked groups showed triple the transmission rates:

https://www.denverpost.com/2022/01/12/where-how-catch-covid-risk/

No freaking kidding!

For almost 2 years ..since early March, i was wearing some sort of mask anywhere I went if I would be speaking or dealing with someone.

22 months later..no freaking covid.

No flu.

No cold.

And I work with kids

Absolutely the masks work..and they have worked.

I dare anyone to have a BETTER narrative, because at this rate i am liable to punch any irresponsible adult who coughs and won't mask up.

And anyone who tells me to live with covid, bring it...nobody in any branch of my family has gotten covid.

Step carefully.

I have not worn a mask a single time.

I shake hands, deal with people, stores, restaurants, etc.

I have not had a single sniffle.

My sample size of one means nothing. Neither does yours. I’m simply responding utilizing your logic. Have a nice day.

There have been so many studies on this topic, just google it. Do they work, maybe, maybe not. I am vaxxed and I have to wear one at work. Still got Covid twice. Both times it was very mild. I think personally it is inconclusive.

Hardloper wrote:

fell in love with a clown at a clown show wrote:

Of course not. But when I do, I'm less likely to get really isck, because I've been vacicnated.

I'm less likely to get it today, because I wear a mask.

My kids are less likely to get sick from it at school, because they're vaccinated.

And i do all of this because I listen to the development of science, instead of message board warriors.

Because you have to be a complete and total idiot to think the spread of a virulent disease is based on random distribution.

Are you gonna keep wearing a mask even after you get it and recover?

If i'm still at risk of getting it again and passing it onto someone else?

Yes, as long as it's in a crisis stage.

i ubderstand this is all very scary, and some people's coping mechanism is to hide under the blanket and pretend nothing is wrong. it's a natural reaction. It's on great display on this board.

OMG!!! wrote:

Not Real Data wrote:

I wear a mask everywhere I am supposed to. I respect people's worries in my community in all ways. That does not change the fact the masks are ineffective and detrimental to the healthy development of children. It seems you choose to harm children for no reason. Your belief in fallacies is doing nothing except extending the length of this pandemic, something that could have ended 18 months ago

We certainly believe that you are a fearful, servile little man that likes to do what his overlords tell him to do.

Dude, are you an idiot? I am saying, despite wearing them out of respect, they do not work, the study psoted here is a BS model, and I personally think the enforcement of any rules to "protect" people has done nothing but extend the length of the pandemic, a pandemic that would have ended in the summer of 2020 if we had just done nothing. Calm yourself down if you can't understand what people are saying.

fell in love with a clown at a clown show wrote:

OMG!!! wrote:

What part of 99%+ survival rate do you not understand? Do you have an education beyond elementary school?

I dare you to rephrase that thusly:

"What part of 'I don't care if up to 1% of people with Covid die' do you not understand? "

Because that's what you just said.

I’m an adult, not a child. I understand that people die from many things. Living on earth has risk. Covid is a very low risk from a factual and statistical standpoint. Overreacting is not caring.