I totally agree, Richard. You're in a enclosed public building with a lot of other people around. And you're doing it to make others feel more comfortable. But why does that make someone "comfortable"? Are they living in fear? Because in the past 12+ months of the two-week lockdown, we were told the world was coming to an end? And they believed it?
Now what about the person alone in their car with the windows up...and wearing a mask? Does it make any sense? Or is it virtue signaling? The "science" certainly doesn't support wearing a mask.
We are thinking human beings...supposedly. We do things because there's a reason for doing so. Maybe it is a reflexive action, like stepping back onto the curb when a bus is about to run us over. We see the danger, and we move out of the way. We go to school and get training so we can get a better job (hopefully), but we make a conscious decision for doing so. Why do we wear a mask? The science doesn't support it. Unless it is a N95 mask, it is worthless. In fact, it probably falls into the category we were told initially not to wear, because it broke the vapor particles into smaller particles which stayed airborne longer.
So I think it is one thing to wear a mask in a crowded situation. Asians have been doing so for years. I doubt it helps unless you get a much higher rated mask than the general populace has. And I doubt it helps if you wear it under your nose, like many people do that I see.
But they are probably mouth-breathers, so they are still doing the right thing.
Over the past what...15 months of the two-week lockdown, I've done a lot of observing and thinking. I started out on the side of being very vigilant regarding the lockdowns, wearing a mask, etc. Then I noticed some things. Here's one for instance. The masks that we are supposed to wear when required...do they do anything to filter out smoke from the forest fires? No. If they are worth anything at all in the fight against COVID, they should...but they don't. They are worthless against the large smoke particles from forest fires floating in the air. How effective will they be against COVID virus particles that are thousands of times smaller? Nill. Nada. Zilch. So why are you wearing them...especially when you don't have to?
I'm not a fan of the statistics I see anywhere. CNN, CDC, Fauci, the White House...99% of the media -- they all have an agenda they are pushing and it has nothing to do with keeping you safe. Do you think it is a coincidence that the CDC said the testing cycles were too high and giving false positives...the afternoon of Biden's inauguration? They knew that for months. They have an agenda.
So as I said, I look around me and observe. A friend is very overweight. I'm not sure he ties his own shoe laces. He's a diabetic. He's out of shape. He's in his late 60's. He got COVID...and it was like a bad cold. Another friend on the opposite side of the spectrum, got COVID. He works at Microsoft. Fit. Young. It was like a cold for him. As many of you know, I teach the Bible at a drug/alcohol rehab house. Two of the guys got COVID, and I sat with them at a table where we were elbow to elbow for over an hour...and I didn't get COVID. At church, we have a "Senior Saints" group. There's probably 120+ old people in there. We haven't worn masks for months...and we haven't been getting COVID. Our church services transitioned to making masks optional a month or so ago. We get about a thousand at each service. We're singing and packed into the room tight. We're not getting COVID.
There's no statistics there to manipulate. Just observations from the past six months.
But if I look at the news media, the sky is falling and we must tell the king!
Definitely.
Just as individuals should have the right to choose not to wear a mask if it makes them feel more comfortable.