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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We can’t “live with” a virus that you can be reinfected by within weeks. The long term health costs of this are going to be astronomical. This is a mass disabling event, and doctors and epidemiologists are screaming it. [/quote]

You still have not articulated an alternative [/quote]

This ain’t it. We need indoor mask mandates until our HVAC systems and buildings are brought up to speed. That can happen; it just requires everyone turning away from hygiene theater and the pretense that vaccines alone have solved the problem.[/quote]

Either you’re being sarcastic or you don’t understand HVAC systems and building construction.[/quote]

Oh, no--I understand them well. It's going to take tons of money and investment, changes to building codes--it will be years.

In the meanwhile all public spaces should be required to monitor and make available in real time their CO2 levels as a proxy for rebreathed air fraction, so people at least have a fighting chance of making the "individual risk calculations" we're all encouraged to make. That's not crazy expensive and it's done in other countries; they just don't want to do it here because of what it's going to reveal about how bad the air is.

And in the meanwhile we need mask mandates in indoor spaces, for high-quality masks on which fit information is widely distributed.

[b]Do mask mandates "work"? Yes, it's completely clear that when mandates are in place, many many more people wear masks. If we upgraded those masks and made any effort at all at teaching people how to use them correctly, we'd be a lot closer to being able to "live with COVID"[/b].[/quote]

You can keep saying mandates work, but you don't have any evidence to back it up, neither high-quality studies nor real life data. Some countries (like Germany) had a "high-quality" mask mandate in some regions and there was no evidence that they fared any better than the regions that didn't.

Here is a good article that explains why mandates have not been shown to work while high-quality masks worn correctly can protect the individual while they are wearing it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/briefing/masks-mandates-us-covid.html

I know this situation is mind-boggling to many, but it is what the evidence has shown.[/quote]

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