Saturday, May 22, 2021

To mask or not to mask?

The country is facing a lot of serious problems, a surge of illegal immigrants on the southern border, corona virus, China, North Korea, pipeline shutdowns and gas lines, multi trillion dollar spending bills, and more.  So we are spending time, political capital, and TV airtime talking about masks. 

   All the masks really do is keep your sneeze or cough from spraying a cloud of tiny droplets into the air.  If you are infected with Corona virus, the sneeze of cough will spread it to others.  If you have been vaccinated you cannot spread it.  The vaccines are 99.9% effective according to numbers published on TV.  So wearing a mask after you have been vaccinated doesn’t do a thing.  However not everybody believes that and they feel better if everyone wears a mask.  So I wear a mask just to make a lot of people feel safer.   

   We really ought to stop yakking about masks and get on with the serious business.

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