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View Poll Results: How much longer will you wear a mask
I'll wear a mask for the rest of my life. 12 5.33%
I'll wear a mask until there is a vaccine and I get the vaccine. 33 14.67%
I'll wear a mask for as long as the "experts" and "science" tell me to wear a mask. 77 34.22%
I will wear a mask if required by a business or the government, but only until the end of the year. 26 11.56%
I will wear a mask if required by a business or the government, but only for another year. 16 7.11%
I will not wear a mask any more. 11 4.89%
I don't wear a mask now and don't care what the government or a private business says. 36 16.00%
Other/Not sure (please explain) 14 6.22%
Voters: 225. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 10-21-2020, 07:09 PM
 
Location: Somewhere gray and damp, close to the West Coast
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Creationism then?

What does that have to do with masks?
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Old 10-21-2020, 07:10 PM
 
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Well, it's not quite as cut and dry as you're saying. Keep in mind one political party, yours, has been consistently undermining public confidence in a vaccine in order to further its political agenda.
Nope. Weve said we will listen to the scientists. Your party is the one who has been demanding we get one out before the election for political reasons. What nonsense.

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The Democrats are the new anti-vaxxers and they are doing it with no regard or care as to how many people DIE because of what they're doing.
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seriously do you believe this nonsense? Bwahahahahha.
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Old 10-21-2020, 07:10 PM
 
Location: Houston
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Because there are those of us who do not belong to the Religion of Scientism, or the Worship of The White Coated Gods, aka "experts".

Yes, the idiots.
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Old 10-21-2020, 07:10 PM
 
Location: New York Area
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I don't believe the masks protect me. I will wear a mask as long as the law requires and/or as long as masks seem necessary to reassure the frightened to come out of hiding.
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Old 10-21-2020, 07:10 PM
 
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Hopefully Darwin might do us the favor of taking care of folks who have "had enough".

That means they are tired of living anyway, right?
You do know that wearing a mask does not protect you from getting this or any other virus. Right?
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Old 10-21-2020, 07:13 PM
 
Location: moved
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Hopefully Darwin might do us the favor of taking care of folks who have "had enough "

That means they are tired of living anyway, right?
Speaking personally, the answers are, respectively, "Perhaps", and "essentially yes".

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Why are the words expert and science in quotes? Is the implication that there are no such things and all claims to scientific and expertise are pretense?
I can't speak for the person to whom you responded, but pretense is operative once we pass from scientific observation to the making of ethical or policy decisions.

It's simple physics, that kinetic energy increases with the square of the velocity magnitude, and that the same reaction-time of a person traveling in a vehicle, means more distance traveled, linearly with increasing speed. That's the science. No pretense there. But to then assert, that for scientific reasons we ought to lower highway speed limits, in the interest of safety - now that is utter pretense.
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Old 10-21-2020, 07:13 PM
 
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You do know that wearing a mask does not protect you from getting this or any other virus. Right?
Actually thats not true. You know that....right? Studies say it helps protect you a little-I cant recall the exact number, but its around 20% or so.

But it protects others far more.

And if both people are wearing one its even more effective.
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Old 10-21-2020, 07:14 PM
 
Location: Boston, MA
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You do know that wearing a mask does not protect you from getting this or any other virus. Right?
Says who?
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Old 10-21-2020, 07:15 PM
 
Location: Houston
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You do know that wearing a mask does not protect you from getting this or any other virus. Right?
Actually, it depends on the mask. Most masks though are primarily for source control. They primarily protect those who encounter the mask wearer. Those who don't wear masks when the virus is prevalent are basically selfish jackasses.
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Old 10-21-2020, 07:16 PM
 
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I don't believe the masks protect me. I will wear a mask as long as the law requires and/or as long as masks seem necessary to reassure the frightened to come out of hiding.

I will wear one only to keep from causing the good merchants in my town to be fined when some stupid SJW moron calls the so-called governor's tattle line set up to make law enforcers out of merchants.
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