RE: Does trying to live healthy make sense considering an imminent bird flu outbreak?
August 19, 2021 at 2:20 pm
(August 19, 2021 at 1:54 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:(August 18, 2021 at 4:10 pm)Spongebob Wrote: I happen to know for a fact that this is a much studied subject and the results are inconclusive at best.
You realize the same is true for masks, if not even more so, right?
I'm not sure what your point is here. If it's to point at the mask mandate and say look, there's inconclusive evidence that they work, then consider this. What does a mask cost? How much ACTUAL inconvenience is wearing a mask? The answer to both of those is pretty low, which means even if mask wearing reduces community spread by a relatively small amount, it's a reasonable thing to do.
Look, I work in industry. I wear a hard had to work when I'm in a production facility. 99% of the time I'm no where near anything that could actually fall on me or knock me in the head, but I'm required to wear it for that tiny fraction of time where something might actually knock me in the head. I see people mowing the side of the highway wearing them, where nothing can hit them on the head. It cost $10 and feels like a hat on my head. This is pretty much an exact comparison to masks except that masks are intended to help everyone, not just the wearer. So why not wear a mask?
And btw, moving the goal post is another logical fallacy.
Why is it so?
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