Parts of this read like satire, but other parts make me think this person is really someone with low cognitive ability.<p>Masks are 100% useless. We've known this since 2013[^1]!<p>The entire reason masks exist as a thing is because of "asymptomatic spread," which came from flawed studies[^2]. The WHO even tried saying so waaaay back and then walked back their statements for political reasons[^3]. There is likely zero asymptomatic spread.<p>I agree the shoe thing is stupid and should go away (it's only in America. No other country will make you take off your shoes. Most people still do it out of habit) and the liquids thing is stupid and ridiculous as well.<p>Thank fucking god one judge in Florida had the fucking sense to realize how dumb this is and reverse policy. The article of this article, if this is serious, has problem identifying actual risks.<p>[^1]: Testing the Efficacy of Homemade Masks: WouldThey Protect in an Influenza Pandemic?. 2013. Davies. Thompson. Giri. et. al. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. 2013;7:413-418<p>[^2]: <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/paper-non-symptomatic-patient-transmitting-coronavirus-wrong" rel="nofollow">https://www.science.org/content/article/paper-non-symptomati...</a><p>[^3]: <a href="https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200609/who-clairifies-comments-on-asymptomatic-covid-spread" rel="nofollow">https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200609/who-clairifies-comm...</a>
Unless you argue that all of the effluent-testing for Covid fragments is BS, there's a whole lot of asymptotic spread. Or a whole lots "nowhere near bad enough to be really noticeable or in hospital". This time, when the effluent spiked in Canada there wasn't a 5-10-day following spike in the hospitals and particularly not in the EU.<p>Two friends, older, got Covid in the last few weeks and had a rough 5+ day go of it. Nothing life threatening, just worst-flu-ever kind of bad. I would have thought that if lots of people were having similar weeks, the news would have noticed it and talked about it ad infinitum.