“Why do you wear a mask?” Asks my coworker earnestly. “You know it’s over… right?” He refers to the virus that needlessly claims the lives of about 1,000 Americans a week. He has fallen for the propaganda that the pandemic is a thing of the past.
The CDC warns that “respiratory” illnesses like the Flu and COVID-19 are ravaging through the United States—both airborne and highly contagious, yet masking is listed as an additional prevention strategy instead of a core one, with “treatment” and “staying home and prevent spread” occupying its rightful place. Similar erroneous messages riddle the site and obfuscate the true danger of COVID-19.
Respiratory is in quotes because the flu IS a respiratory illness, but COVID is more than that; COVID damages nearly every organ in the body including the heart and the brain, and it is well documented that COVID has similar effects on the immune system as HIV to the point where trials are being held to see if HIV medication is effective in treating Long COVID, a condition caused by repeated COVID infections. I know you might express incredulity to this because surely, this would be enough to declare a state of emergency?
At what point do we accept that maybe the government cares more about profit than people (see the CDC reducing isolation time from 10 days to 5 even though the infection time never changed because flight attendants calling off work made Delta lose money)? And, it’s no secret that quarantine caused an economic downturn, sparking the big push for “normalcy”.
The result is most of the public is, for lack of a better word, raw dogging a deadly, heart attack causing, and brain damage inducing virus due to being uninformed, causing C19 to constantly mutate and generate different strains, rendering vaccines less effective. Vaccines will not end this; They do not stop transmissions. Masks do.
Wearing a well-fitted mask, no matter what kind, lowers your chances of contracting COVID-19, along with your chances of unknowingly spreading it. This information is on the website, however they emphasize masking if you’re contagious or immune compromised, when a focus should be placed on daily masking even if you’re asymptomatic because that is how 59% of COVID-19 infections are spread.
Let’s get rid of this thing once and for all.
