Did or do the masks really do any good?
It was found out that it was not transmitted by touching after all.
Was the freaking out so bad worth it or did we freak out over nothing?
Millions died, therefore yes, there was much to fear.
Surgical masks work which is the reason why doctors wear them.
"Surgical masks work which is the reason why doctors wear them."
Hmmmm.....
Good point if those health care workers who were around Covid patients all day and they wore the same ubiquitous blue ones that were available to us and it kept them from getting Covid then it would show they worked.
Though they had stronger ones and there were a number of HCWs who got Covid and died.
The N95s are the best.
Do the regular blue ones work?
I dunno.
I'm asking because I really am unsure of how effective those are.
Medical staff were in very close contact for long hours with multiple patients while doing risky things like putting them on respirators, etc.. They were exposed to a very high virus load. Not the same situation for regular folks. Medical masks, aka surgical, are high quality, but not the safest for covid. N95s are the best and safer with goggles, but too uncomfortable for long hours and I believe initially there was a shortage of both. Even N95s are up to 95% effective - not 100%.
Most regular folks wore a low quality cloth mask or face mask. I wear a high quality surgical mask with a 3 rating approved by the CDC. My family has remained covid-free by wearing a quality mask, social distancing, washing hands and having a normal vitamin D level. More recently, up-to-date vaccines.
That long covid sounds hellish so no thanks. Better safe than sorry 😷
"did we freak out over nothing?"
Yes.
There was nothing to freak out about and everybody over-reacting. Very few people died worldwide compared to the world population. All the people that died were the most delicate and sensitive individuals. Darwinism: Survival of the Fittest.
shareHindsight is 20/20.
Just at the time we didn't know how contagious it was and if any of us got it if we would live or die.
Maybe the media overplayed or exaggerated it making it seem like as if it was always going to be a death sentence if you got it.
I still carry a grudge at my nearby grocery co-op which overreacted way more than other stores with stricter rules in place and with their staff for giving me shit about it.
They were the worst shopping experience out of all the stores I went to.
Though I am getting even with them in a certain way because those fuckers still owe me.
yes. and here's why.
"It WAS found out..."
WAS as in past tense. AFTER the fact. People are thinking hindsight will/has changed the past. Fact WAS, nobody knew enough at the time.
Now, everyone seems to know everything about everything.... every poster is an internet virologist, every science guy is now wrong, everyone pointing fingers back at it saying, "SEE?? I knew everything with zero knowledge, zero training, and everyone else is wrong." This is a horribly dangerous position.
This could have been a human ender.
Nobody knew.
At the very very very start of this, I told everyone I know to think using their own brain. Their own common sense. not fucking tictok videos, nor facebook rants, or youtube videos....
use your own common sense
do mask works? try this (again, free, easy, common sense)
put a little water in your mouth, put mask on, put face 1 foot from mirror and go, "PFFFFFFF!". observe how wet mirror gets or doesn't get.
take mask off, little water in mouth, face 1 foot from mirror go "PFFFFFF!" observe mirror for wetness.
simple, common sense.
are masks 100%? nobody EVER said they were. no, of course not. common sense.
Covid was a first test, sorting out who is smart and who isn't. When resources are too short for humanity, we now know how to eliminate the selfish, dumb, wasteful side of humanity. Thanks to ticktok, facebook, and fear mongering.
Part II: The Cleansing, will take out nearly all the stupids from social media and society.
......If *I* can think of that, smarter people already have.
I lost two friends and two relatives to covid, but it was the first variant. The fear was justified. Hell, China was literally welding the apartment doors shut of people who were identified with Covid. They were are ground zero and knew how deadly the virus was in 2019.
Even though I got the vaccinations and one booster, most likely they weren't necessary as the later mutated strains were far less deadly and the current strains are now (fortunately) like the seasonal flu.
I think only the morbidly obese and very old are susceptible to covid, but then, the obese and elderly are susceptible to seasonal flu as well.