Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "The Return of Mask Mandates" video.

  1. So millions of people with no symptoms have to wear them anyway. You do understand your riding the sled down the slippery slope, right? If a mild respiratory disease is reinstating masks, why would masks ever be removed? Just wear them forever due to colds and flu.
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  2.  @chrisb4009  You're trying to force a distinction between the issues. You can't do that. It's not how it works. You can't pick and choose. You get the bad with the good. Do they work? Inconclusive at best. Mask mandates do not typically have a rating requirement and people either use reusable cloth masks or use disposable surgical masks incorrectly. Spread does not correlate to introduction of mask mandates or compliancy rates so even if you bring up studies that say they work (and ignore the ones that say it doesn't) it's impossible to see those studies translated to actual results in the real world. So in the end, the definition of "working" is compromised by the intended use-case. Regarding your second point, you're trying to dodge your own premises. By your own account, the mask is only effective at suppressing spread from symptomatic cases, and even then a cough or a sneeze will create a positive pressure area that will push the mask away from one's face unless they're using a higher grade of PPE, which almost nobody does. Forcing asymptomatic people to be wearing a mask that only works against symptoms they don't have is the equivalent of of forcing everyone to wear a diaper even when they don't have diarrhea. The incubation period? Your own argument is that masks reduce spread in the post-incubation phase. We started with masks and now we have police using live rounds against protesters in the Netherlands. Do not come here and talk about small impositions. They all stack on top of one another. Asymptomatic spread is not a driver of cases. We've known this for about a year. Can you please stop pretending it's March 2020? It's really tiring.
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  3.  @chrisb4009  Okay. How are the macro studies standing up to something called "reality"? Because cases evidently do not respect mandates or compliance rates. What elephant in the room? Why would governments do things that make no sense? There's thousands of years of history where you would need to ask that question. Governments making bad decisions and doubling down on them? Must be a day that ends with "y".
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  4.  @vincentlamb3436  People would have a choice if more people were willing to make it.
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