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For reference Miami-Dade county has about 2.7 million people and reported almost 3000 new cases yesterday. Using a city as dense as Hong Kong and saying that it's proof that masks don't help because they recorded a "spike" of 145 cases makes the exact opposite point you think it does. According to Wikipedia: 100,000 people per square kilometer and you're busting a nut and throwing a parade for your big brain over 145 new cases in a day. It's also entirely possible that they're experiencing their second wave now, which is something that everyone said was going to happen anyway. We're still rolling along in wave 1 here.

I mean let's use your own logic here. If masks don't work then every other country on earth where mask-wearing is already embedded in the culture and considered a normal behavior should be doing just as bad or worse than us, yet they aren't.

145 new cases in a city of 7.5 million people would barely even register as background noise in the US. That article just illustrates how much more seriously a place like Hong Kong is taking this than we are here in Trumpland. HK is one of the most densely populated cities on the planet and it's impossible to prevent all transmission in a place like that no matter what you do. Nobody said that masks are magic, nobody said that they stop 100% of infections, quit making poo up and projecting. You're the only one spinning here. Why are you so damn triggered by a piece of cloth.

"Cloth masks can't stop viral particles" is the "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" of the 2020s

Nah Texas controls the textbook industry in this country, that won't happen. If you crack open a history textbook in 2030 the chapter on the COVID-19 outbreak of 2020 will have a picture of Trump and Pence wearing masks and a blurb about how the Republican-controlled Senate passed relief legislation and the Republican President signed it.

lol yeah I know, it wasn't a response to what you posted

I meant "you" in the abstract, not you specifically. I didn't phrase it well.

I'm over people smelling their own farts because they had the courage to say that both sides are the same and they want a medal or something. Yeah that's great, you're very smart.

Yeah that's great. If you're arguing that masks are useless and vaccines are poison then I think you're a fuging idiot. If that makes me closeminded then fug it I don't care.

oh wow oh goodness somebody thinks Trump is a bad President and is doing a bad job Clearly they couldn't have arrived at such a conclusion independently and must have been brainwashed

That was my conspiracy theory of choice in the mid-2000s. Forced RFID chipping. One of those companies even had Tommy Thompson, former Wisconsin governor and HHS secretary, as a spokesperson. Now there's no reason to do that. Everybody has a smart phone and Congress is actively trying to end encryption.

*looks at Portland* Yeah a COVID-19 "nanny state" is what keeps me up at night

Man those people are pretty violent looking. Should probably mobilize federal troops and start stuffing them into unmarked vans.

The last time I watched cable news by choice was probably five or six years ago. I got exposed to a couple hours of Fox News last year and I don't understand how anyone can watch that poo. It's like the entire presentation is intended to grate on your nerves. All the other networks have copied that format too.

Why is CNN talking so much about the biggest news story on the entire planet right now. Can somebody explain, I don't understand.

It's to waste your time. I mean the guy wrote a long, detailed response to what's basically one question. Now get thousands of people all over the internet doing the same thing over and over again all day every day. The level of effort necessary is completely disproportionate.

This is a mental illness

Jesus Christ, quit trying to run damage control for our dogshit President and his amateur hour administration by blubbering about Obama. It's not convincing.

Yeah, class dismissed. Go load up on some more talking points and hit us back.

How skewed do you think the stats are exactly. Gotta be at least half of those deaths are falsely attributed to COVID, right? 140,000 dead. It doesn't make a damn if 100, 1000, or even 10,000 of those deaths were falsely attributed to COVID because that's still a big fuging number. It's real, it's killing people, and you can't bullshit your way out of it because the numbers are just too big. We're past that point.

They love that story don't they. Alright guys, you win. Only 139,999 people have died from COVID-19. Throw away those masks.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-scientists-uncover-sars-cov-specific-cell-immunity.html realistically if a vaccine is just impossible everybody is just going to wear masks in public indefinitely and we're going to have to work on shoring up our ICU capacity. And hope for a breakthrough antiviral. A study on primates seemed to show that a second exposure caused mild symptoms but also an increase in a certain protein (e: antibodies specific to a certain protein) that fights infection: https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/07/14/study-in-primates-finds-acquired-immunity-prevents-covid-19-reinfections/

I bet that HIV-denialist antivax lobbying group he posted a few pages back has a good explanation for it.

tHiS Is aLl bEiNg dRiVeN By pOlItIcS yeah I think the Orange Man is a bad President and has done a bad job. I don't have a particularly high opinion of his most vocal supporters either. Call your therapist.