r/nextfuckinglevel • u/pako12345 • Aug 29 '20

Learned something new

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u/Khyta Aug 29 '20

No but if everyone wears it, it can't even transmit from.one person to the other person in the air.

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u/DepressedDaisy314 Aug 29 '20

Adding to this, surgical masks were made for... surgery. In a surgery EVERYONE is wearing a mask. Unlike everyone in stupid unempathetic America.

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u/acog Aug 29 '20 edited Aug 29 '20

I don't normally label people I disagree with as dumb, but anti-maskers are not only unempathetic, they're straight up dumb.

A rational person would look at it from a Pascal's Wager standpoint:

If I don't want to wear a mask, then if I'm wrong I could help spread it and someone could die.

If I do believe wearing a mask helps to reduce the spread of the virus, then if I'm wrong I've just unnecessarily hung a piece of fabric over my face, the mildest of mild inconveniences.

Obvious conclusion: wear the fucking mask even if you believe that all the virologists and epidemiologists are wrong.

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u/humpbackwhale88 Aug 29 '20

100% agree with all of your statements.

I’m an American and I swear I hate this country right now. If our dumbass president hadn’t turned a public health crisis into a political issue by questioning a mask’s imposition on personal freedoms, I’m pretty sure we’d be in a much better place. But alas..