>>6151>A virus that does *NOTHING*Although it's rarer than those who have symptoms, people have died of it while being asymptomatic you dumb nigger. That has nothing to do with whether or not masks mitigate the spread of the disease.
>>6155The Hong Kong flu killed 4 million at most yes, that number isn't conclusive though. Most sources I'm finding on the matter are saying 1-4 million over a year and a half, we've already reached 1 million and projections say that it could get as bad as 4 million at the worst. Also the spread of the Hong Kong flu wasn't person to person so of course they didn't wear masks. In addition the death rate was .5%
couldn't find more specific data because I'm tired right now, covid's death rate is 2% in most of the world. The Hong Kong flu was more infectious and less deadly, whereas here there are specific things we can do to mitigate the spread of the virus. I'm not aware of any steps that they could have taken back then that would yield similar results, perhaps they could put a mask on all the animals? You tell me. What a retarded view, to treat two different viruses like they're the same because they were both pandemics. The way people react to different diseases in different times varies, go figure. Hell, it sound to me like you think the best reaction is the herd immunity route. Tell me, did that work out for the countries that went that route?
But again, I'm not arguing that it's a moral imperative to wear masks 24/7, nor am I arguing that it was necessary for everything to shut down in burgerstan or anywhere else. If we didn't have a bunch of retards here in 56% land who don't even wash their hands and a dumbfuck administration that does nothing but whine about the media then the shutdown wouldn't have been remotely necessary here. I'm only arguing that masks are effective, stay on topic you slimy jew. Give me reason to believe that wearing a mask doesn't make you less likely to spread covid.
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