Wrong. Utterly false, and easily provable. Masks haven't stopped anything in countries with near 100% mask adherence. Welcome to the 4th wave, where masks will finally work even though they didn't the other 3 times!!!
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Masks don't work? I've been around people with covid and never got it. The problem is it doesn't work unless everyone wears one. WTH do you think doctors and nurses have been doing forever now? they wear masks. It works. Even when my city was under a mask mandate nobody wanted to wear one and only 50% of the people did, now none are, and cases are at an all-time high last time I checked.
They didn't work because not everyone listened and it only takes one good outbreak in a community for the virus to spread. People don't typically wear masks in their homes in front of family members and close friends. Obviously mask mandates don't equal no covid, but it definitely helps. Once the mask mandate where I live was lifted, covid hit us hard.
Sure, the media highlights cases where people die, even when it's something rare like a younger, healthier person. But, the difference between
that media is that they're simply highlighting the risks, and numbers don't lie, hundreds of thousands have died. People do need to take it seriously. People don't need to be scared of a vaccine or think wearing a mask is pointless. That doesn't help anyone.
Honestly, I HATE that the government would ever have to tell us to wear masks. If health officials say it's what we need to do, then we should just do it. No government should have to tell its people to do the right thing. But I guess we also need a government and law to tell us not to kill or steal cause it isn't a perfect world. It isn't the biggest deal. I work 50/50 inside and outside in the heat, I lift heavy shyt all day at work and sweat non-stop. I still wear a mask when I'm inside - yet some of the people I know who only work inside refuse to wear one cause "it's too hot - I can't breathe" - pansies.
I think your family is right. My entire family got COVID and nobody got more than the sniffles.
“When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. "
2 Chronicles 7:13-14
I'm sincerely happy for you guys, as that's awesome. I just wish it was the same for everyone.
In a city near me a 7 year old boy died from covid not long ago, he had no underlying health issues. It makes me feel good knowing I won't be responsible for that, and any decent person should feel that way, that's why we wear masks. At my job with probably 40 co-workers, me and one other guy are the only ones who wear masks. An older guy was out for a month and said it was the worst sickness he ever had... people are always sick and out right now but most of us are younger.. I worry about the older folks who might not make it. Guess that's the difference between being a leader or a follower though.. masks aren't cool, I get it.
For me... I now live in a small town and if something serious happened to my baby I would have to take him to a hospital hours away from where I live as my local one is at capacity. That means I'll have to miss work days and lose money on top of everything else.
It's ignorant or narcissistic to think religion will make things better for you - how many of the people who have died were Christian? I bet it's a huge chunk of them.
