Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

[knapplc]

If you're in the Big Ten footprint, wear a mask.

[ScarletRevival]

7 hours ago, knapplc said:

If you're in the Big Ten footprint, wear a mask.

Omaha and Lincoln have been wearing masks for awhile now, and rates are still increasing.

 

Apparently masks aren't the panacea they're made out to be.

[knapplc]

6 hours ago, ScarletRevival said:

Omaha and Lincoln have been wearing masks for awhile now, and rates are still increasing.

 

Apparently masks aren't the panacea they're made out to be.

 

Not everyone wears them.

[Husker NoNo]

7 hours ago, ScarletRevival said:

Omaha and Lincoln have been wearing masks for awhile now, and rates are still increasing.

 

Apparently masks aren't the panacea they're made out to be.

[Toe]

8 hours ago, ScarletRevival said:

Omaha and Lincoln have been wearing masks for awhile now, and rates are still increasing.

 

Apparently masks aren't the panacea they're made out to be.

 

Or maybe no one at all claimed that they're a panacea, ever.

 

Please, just stop with the black and white thinking. This stuff doesn't have to be 100% perfect to be a major improvement.

[Rochelobe]

42 minutes ago, Toe said:

 

Or maybe no one at all claimed that they're a panacea, ever.

 

Please, just stop with the black and white thinking. This stuff doesn't have to be 100% perfect to be a major improvement.

I've often wondered if people that make such simplistic arguments against masking apply it elsewhere to other things:

 

1.  "Nebraska only got 1 yard rushing on the last play, so running plays are not the answer." or the related "Nebraska threw an incomplete pass, so passing plays are not the answer."

2.  "We still have car accidents where people wearing seat belts die, so seat belts are 'no panacea'."

3.  "A guy choked to death on a piece of broccoli, so eating vegetables is not a good idea."

[ScarletRevival]

Nm

[ScarletRevival]

3 hours ago, knapplc said:

 

Not everyone wears them.

 

[GBRFAN]

18 minutes ago, Rochelobe said:

I've often wondered if people that make such simplistic arguments against masking apply it elsewhere to other things:

 

1.  "Nebraska only got 1 yard rushing on the last play, so running plays are not the answer." or the related "Nebraska threw an incomplete pass, so passing plays are not the answer."

2.  "We still have car accidents where people wearing seat belts die, so seat belts are 'no panacea'."

3.  "A guy choked to death on a piece of broccoli, so eating vegetables is not a good idea."

I have also wondered where people that believe everything that they are told get in life.

[Cdog923]

12 minutes ago, GBRFAN said:

I have also wondered where people that believe everything that they are told get in life.

 

It depends; is the advice coming from someone's random uncle on FB, or from the world's leading immunologist? 

[ScarletRevival]

10 minutes ago, Cdog923 said:

 

or from the world's leading immunologist? 

 

Who are you referring to?

[Cdog923]

3 minutes ago, ScarletRevival said:

 

Who are you referring to?

 

The one who has been impeded from doing his job for the past 10 months. 

[commando]

1 hour ago, ScarletRevival said:

 

Who are you referring to?

my guess is he is not referring to don the con

[ScarletRevival]

1 hour ago, Cdog923 said:

 

The one who has been impeded from doing his job for the past 10 months. 

 

That's pretty vague, do you have an actual name of this person?

[Guy Chamberlin]

23 hours ago, ScarletRevival said:

 

That's pretty vague, do you have an actual name of this person?

 

Not black and white. Not one person. 

 

Pretty much all available evidence from professionals with no axe to grind suggests mask wearing can reduce coronavirus infections by 75%.  That 25% will still kill people, but if the conversation is about opening the economy and moving things forward, it starts with mask wearing. Or more to the point, not treating masks like a badge of political resistance. 

 

Also, almost every spike in positive tests is linked to large gatherings of folks not wearing masks. 

 

So it's not black and white, but it's still pretty simple.