Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Coronachan has Changed Me as a Consoomer" video.

  1.  @bibekgautam512  "But I certainly do listen to experts" - Which experts? Experts can have biases. Experts can be put under pressure. You mean you listened to a talking head on TV. But if you take the time to read the literature you'll see that cloth masks are only effective - about 60 percent - when made from multiple layers and multiple types of fabric to combine mechanical and electrostatic filtering, and nobody wears those because they're hot and restrict breathing. Surgical masks are disposable, and most people are reusing them. Surgical masks need to be replaced due to humidity, nobody's switching masks after wearing them for hours. Nobody's using masks like PPE, and incorrectly worn PPE gives the wearer a false sense of security. People are touching the masks. And most of all, the masks are meant to stop droplets when everyone's worrying about aerosol transmission. Any unsealed area will just allow aerosols to jet out of your mask. "And experts largely agree on the usefulness of the masks." - No, they don't. They told you they didn't work when this whole thing started. "And what you said about exhaling - that's such a slippery slope of an argument." - It's not a slippery slope. How is it a slippery slope when we've already seen people brutalized by state agents over masks? If you claim my breath is dangerous right now even though I am healthy, you have no moral standing to say your breath is no longer dangerous a year from now. There's no slippery slope, only consistency. Since we're criticizing fallacies, you might want to stop using arguments from authority and shut up about experts.
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  2.  @keveinkevin4422  you're missing the point, semiconductor fabs are billion-dollar facilities that require centralization. Buying from ebay doesn't negate the fact that there's only like 3-4 RAM OEMs and everything else is rebranded.
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  3. Because the "global pandemic" doesn't care that you're wearing an unsealed mask. It's not a preventive measure, it's a talisman and it "works" by making people feel safer. And also, when this pandemic stops, you and everyone else will not stop exhaling dangerous pathogens. So if we consider exhaling to be an aggression upon others that justify cops beating the shit out of you in public for refusing to wear a mask, you better not stop wearing it for the rest of your life.
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  4.  @bibekgautam512  "wearing a mask - completely sealed or otherwise - will reduce the risk of you getting exposed" - But the issue is being presented as the mask protecting not you, but others. If you don't wear the mask you're killing grandma. It's nobody's business if I'm exposing myself or not, so the issue has been switched around to make me responsible for exposing others even if they're wearing a mask. "whether government should make masks mandatory(which I sense that you're trying to argue about) is a different discussion altogether" - It isn't because if the "preventive" measures are not enforceable under law, there's no humiliation going on. "I'm not from the US" - Me neither. "But humiliation wouldn't be at the top of things I'd feel at such a scenario." - I mean, considering that the worst has passed and a massive amount of deaths happened because of sheer incompetence (or malice, if you want to wear the tin foil hat) allowing the virus to spread to nursing homes and killing tens of thousands of elderly per country, I do sit back and look at how governments shut down the economy, destroyed businesses and jobs and now we have to wear silly shit on our faces for god knows how long over something that was entirely avoidable but also not as serious as advertised. So I start to worry about shit that's gonna affect me more than the coof. Such as the move to cashless.
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  5.  @yoshikhurazi1769  Okay, you're not entirely incorrect, the issue is that we've focused on asymptomatic spread (which in general makes sense, because you can quarantine the visibly sick) and the mechanism for asymptomatic spread bypasses the masks entirely. On the general public and masks, surgical masks are good, even homemade cloth masks are good and in some studies have outperformed surgical masks. N95 masks are generally the best performers but also the least practical. The issue is, surgical and cloth masks stop droplets. Against aerosolized viral particles, they do nothing. Even the cloth mask studies that found that multilayer, multimaterial cloth masks were performing acceptably against aerosols did the testing by wrapping the cloth sample over a tube and warned that their methodology doesn't measure the effectiveness of a real mask with unsealed surfaces. The issue isn't the general public and the masks they wear, it's the fact that we're so focused on asymptomatic spread that we're essentially declaring normal animal exhaling to be a biological hazard. The "credible" people are just telling people to wash their hands and wear a mask. Don't say what constitutes a mask and you don't lose your credibility.
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  6.  @johnjackson9767  based and tedpilled
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  7. Yeah, capitalism is shit for giving people a choice, in fact we should shoot the local farmer in the head for being a kulak.
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