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Originally Posted by Soothsayer
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Are some of you really so utterly selfish that you're willing to selectively ignore this and potentially endanger the lives of others?
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Approximately 300,000 people in the US have died "of" COVID. Most of them are octogenarians with multiple comorbidities, and the official numbers are that they have some 5-10 years of life left at most. 300,000 * 10 * 365 / 300,000,000 =
3.65. In other words, if all of the COVID deaths were distributed evenly we would have each lost under 4 days of life, and probably more like 2.
Now, are you seriously claiming that someone who would prefer to see the smile on a friend's face while eating at a nice restaurant over living four more days can only be a selfish, morally reprehensible, anti-citizen?
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Originally Posted by Soothsayer
Go ahead - cherry-pick the articles that support your point of view
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The AAPS page quotes some 30 articles if I am eyeballing it correctly. Please remember that the scientific consensus up till about 8 months ago was that masks don't work. Fauci is literally on record as stating that the average person should not wear a mask and that asymptomatic people are never the primary drivers of an epidemic.
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Originally Posted by Soothsayer
do what the overall academic consensus tells you to do. I'm willing to bet that most of you have no credentials and no expertise on the subject.
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I have a PhD in Computer Science. I've seen how the academic sausage is made. Peer reviewed papers are more interesting than random internet pages . . . but not by much. Mostly they just reflect the interests of their corporate donors, and those are not always aligned with the truth . . .