Virus tangent from political meme thread

Who said COVID was the deadliest virus in history?

It only killed as many as it did because so many of FF's fellow travellers have an IQ less than a dog's leavings.

I assume the bottom right is supposed to represent Covid 19. If so, whoever is creating the meme’s you seem to latch onto has no idea what tf s/he is talking about.

Why do you say that?

I’m not a Trumper no matter how many times you repeat it.

How to say "I don't actually understand the topics I'm commenting on" without actually saying it ...

Two questions:
1. Are cloth masks effective against coronavirus?
2- Did the CDC say they were and then when the pandemic was over and people were punished for saying they weren’t that’s when they finally told the truth and said they weren’t?

No, but the fact that you voted for Trump and can't tie your own shoes does.

@Asyncritus . Oh that was a rhetorical question.

Because covid-19 isn’t the deadliest virus in history.

Because it's clear that your tribe demands you be deliberately obtuse, let me explain why your meme is moronic.

Each type of protective equipment protects against something different. Firefighters wear gear that covers their eyes because smoke will get in their eyes and cause them to be unable to see. Painters do not, because paint fumes are a different type of hazard. A condom is effective at protecting you from STDs and roof shingles are effective at protecting your belongings from getting wet when it rains; each is completely useless in the opposite instance.

First, an important thing to note about how masking works, and in turn, how virus transmission is different from the other five things on your moronic meme. When the virus in question is spread largely through respiratory droplets, the biggest gain from wearing a mask is to protect other people, and therefore the greatest gains are realized when lots of people are doing it. This is because, even though virus particles are tiny, the respiratory droplets that carry them are larger, and can be trapped by a variety of masks.

Of course, doing something whose primary purpose is helping others is probably communist.

Finally, although dishonest people like you love to seize on headlines like this --



-- and completely ignore the last five words, cloth masks (which do not appear to be what's pictured in your meme anyway, so I don't know why you made the sudden pivot) can help, they just aren't as good as medical-grade PPE, just like nailing some Tyvek on top of your house isn't as good as installing a proper roof. But nailing some Tyvek on top of your house when a rainstorm is coming is still better than nothing at all.

The nihilist branch of the right wing seems to have this idea that "if a solution to a problem is not 100% effective and perfect in every way, we should do absolutely nothing instead." But that's, quite frankly, stupid.

To dipshit righties, the CDC may as well be the Politibro. Which is weird, because righties loooovve them some Russia.

The point is that the CDC knew all of this already. Fauci knew already that masks weren't as effective as they were making it out to be, but we got mask mandates anyways and people's livelihoods were at stake if they didn't comply with them. They thought they knew better than us and they didn't. You're fine with that though because you don't see it as fascistic behavior because orange man bad. Now we know covid isn't that deadly, children are less likely to contract and the people at the highest risk are the elderly. So they destroyed the economy and people's lives for nothing other than their infinite lust for power.

It's like he didn't even read what @tafkats wrote and jumped straight to his trusty talking points. Jesus.

Maybe if they were honest with us from the get go people wouldn't be so defiant, but they weren't and went full fashy on us instead.

No. Trumpers like yourself don't believe in science or the scientific method, or learning from one's mistakes (never mind admitting to them), or altering courses of action as new information comes to light. To paraphrase tafkats, everything the right finds slightly suspicious has to be 100 percent right from the start or it's not legitimate. It's dishonesty and it's lazy. Go peddle your 'Fauci is the boogeyman' bullshit on Joe Rogan's website or something.

"From the get-go," we didn't know what was going on yet. People were still washing their groceries when they got home from the store and quarantining their mail, because we didn't know if surface transmission was a thing. Turned out it wasn't. What you deride as "fashy" was an attempt to prevent the mass casualties (remember that some cities had to repurpose refrigerator trucks as morgues and hospitals were worse than overflowing) from getting even worse, at a time when we were both unprepared and uncertain what was going to work and what wasn't.

And selfish assholes made it worse.

I guess you have to be reminded of this, again.

https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-said...ctive-keeping-out-virus-email-reveals-1596703

Oh my god, somebody dealing with a brand-new pandemic was partially wrong about something in the early days of the crisis. Clearly, he should be executed by firing squad and we should never believe anything that any public health official says ever again!

Quick -- everybody stop washing your hands after you take a shit, and start eating raw chicken. It'll own the libs.

(He was right, incidentally, about the primary utility of masks being to prevent an infected wearer from spreading the infection.)

Where on the doll did Dr. Fauci touch these fucking Trumpers? Jesus, talk about derangement syndrome.

I'm not a Trumper.

First step is admitting it.

What a disingenuous way to give him a pass. He knew in February of 2020 that masks weren't that effective and no coronavirus wasn't completely new to him, he had dealt with bird flu prior to that and he knew that China was conducting gain of function research in Wuhan province.

For what seems like the thousandth time: Are you really that stupid, or are you just dishonest?

Study after study has shown that, yes, mask-wearing does make a difference in curtailing the spread of respiratory illnesses in a pandemic. You are trying to take a single comment, in a single situation, early in the crisis and generalize it in a completely inappropriate way.

If you ran a junkyard and had a car with a broken seatbelt, anybody with any common sense would tell you that it's fine to drive that car from one end of the junkyard to another without a seatbelt. Similarly, even though seatbelts have saved countless lives, there are still people who die in car crashes while wearing one. You are trying to generalize that into "seatbelts don't work and there's no reason to wear one in any situation, ever."

But your tribe dictates that Fauci = Bad, and that has to override all reason or logic.

FF's view of the beginning of the pandemic is half assed and ignorant leading to some very wrong conclusions. We cannot let thew CDC be regulated by a president anymore as their job is way to important to be politicized. FF ignores the reason fauci had to lie was Donald Trump put us in a position where we had lowered the number of decent masks we had in stock in the country. The previous level wasn't terribly great either.

Fauci should have been sacrificed on the media altar for the lies he had to tell in the beginning. Why he is still there for the right to continue to blame makes no sense. This is what a golden parachute or transfer to a civilian think tank is for. This is why you have a media frontman Dr. He made some lies up to cover for the idiocy of Trump and cheapness of the dems. We lump everything on him, have him resign, and we put a new person in who makes sure we have PPE stocked better. Then we put him someplace else, or let him retire out of view.

Instead we link his dishonesty with the present system. We all know the story changed over time, and most of it had to happen. This is basic psychology for the sheeple. They do not understand nuance and the progression of science. They do not understand they liued to us so we would not stampede out and buy up all masks when we had so few. That is what we ended up doing as a species. This way they could throw some easy to make cloth masks out there while we made the better ones we should have had to begin with.

Federal Fuckup ignores the reality we could have had good masks if it wasn't for his orange overlord. So we had to make do with lesser effective materials.

Bird flu (influenza) =/= coronavirus

Did you mis the part where he knew about the game of function research? You’re acting like this man hadn’t been in the field for 40-50 years.

Do you even know what "gain of function" research is?