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(08-25-2020 10:22 PM)MickMack Wrote:  

(08-25-2020 10:12 PM)bearcats23 Wrote:  Simple question from me...should we wear masks and social distance as a society every flu season? If your answer to that question is no but you believe we should social distance and wear masks now during covid then I genuinely want to understand your thought process.

I've had many coffee appointments and outdoor drinks with friends and business contacts. Had lunch out with the family on Sunday. Attended an outdoor wedding earlier this month. In all of those instances I wore a mask when appropriate and did my best to space out as best I can. Is this really that hard? I'm not so brittle that wearing a mask and taking reasonable precautions crumbles my existence. Hope it gets better for you.

You didn't answer my question. I'm trying to determine why we don't bother social distancing and wearing masks during flu season while tens of thousands of Americans die but we do for COVID. Apparently 30k - 80k annual deaths is no biggie.

If a business or place I'm going to requests that I wear a mask I will put one on, I'm not one of those guys that storms in without one to try and prove a point, I will wear one.

The point I'm making is the media and liberal politicians are blowing it up to be more dangerous than it is for political gain, and the statistics are simply not backing up the hype. If you don't believe this is happening then you need to get your head out of the sand. There's a huge double standard since we know the flu is deadly, in fact it's more deadly for children than COVID, yet we never legislate social distancing and wearing masks during flu season. Just trying to understand if it becomes an issue once you cross over a certain number of deaths, and if so how many have to die before we change our behavior.

It's definitely not crumbling my existence, quite the opposite. Back in May when we started seeing real data and learning that the 3-6% mortality rate that the media pumped looked more like 0.2 - 0.6% I went back to life as normal.