Whitmer Accuses Trump

[Aegon]

Yes, this may become endemic or predictably cyclical like influenza. I don't generally wear a mask outside of work during flu season. I keep clean hands, stay home when I'm sick, and on the occasion I feel the urge to  cough or sneeze--I do it inside my shirt. Looks weird and may seem gross, but it contains my droplets much better than doing in my hand and proceeding to touch everything.

If only there were some sort of covering that is proven to work better than a shirt or your hand, right?

If you want to wear a mask most every minute of every day of your life---go for it. I would wager that would probably be a detriment to your overall health, but if this one particular virus with a >99.7% recovery rate is the sum of all fucking fears to you, I'm not gonna try and stop you.

But I'm not going to play along.

Oh this is good. I'd love to hear what you think happens when you wear a mask that could possibly be detrimental to one's health. The world's surgeons must all be in a truly dire state for wearing masks so frequently.

It's also absurd of you to focus on the fatality rate alone as means of not taking it seriously. What could happen if you contract coronavirus and survive?

Frequent neurologic manifestations and encephalopathy‐associated morbidity in Covid‐19 patients

Almost one-third of the patients hospitalized with COVID-19 developed encephalopathy – a degeneration of brain function – according to a study by Northwestern Medicine in Chicago.

Although judging by your posts in this thread, it is possible you may already have some form of encephalopathy. How about multi-organ failure instead?

COVID‐19 acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)

Perhaps you're looking to destroy your lungs, both in the short-term and for the remainder of your life?

The lasting misery of coronavirus long-haulers
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Of course to look at the recovery rate for the nation or the world and use that a basis of what your personal odds are of dying from it is silly. If you don't see why then think really hard. Don't hurt yourself, though.

But ultimately your perspective is... depressing, more than it is aggravating. It's depressing because you don't value the lives of others. You don't take your potential status as a carrier of this virus seriously. As someone with a suppressed immune system, I fully expect to lose my transplanted kidney or die if I get the virus. I rely on everyone else to take the precautions to get it under control so that I don't contract it. But that hasn't happened. This country has handled this pandemic very poorly, and it's in part due to attitudes like yours. Maybe brush up on critical thinking skills so YouTube videos don't shape your worldview? This is something I'm taking very personally. I see coronavirus misinformation as a literal harbinger of death - the more people believe it, the more will contract it, the more will die.

210,000 dead in the US, and over one million internationally, is nothing to scoff at. They're all unique individuals just like you. Thanks.