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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (233644)	4/20/2022 12:09:51 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362468

>> Common sense science from Bloomberg this morning, not a fringe source.: Yeah, that's where you go wrong. The Cargo Cult thought their common sense was "science". It isn't. It is particularly true of the influence of physics on nano-scale particles, in which cases things don't always behave in the manner our common sense might tell us. This is why, as I previously pointed out, you have to measure not obscure nonsense like the size of the grid in a particular mask material vs. the particle size, but instead, you have to measure the effectiveness of the mask in preventing the transfer of disease. These fools illustrating the blowing of smoke through masks, or other nonsense -- like that spewed by the CDC a year ago -- just doesn't cut it. The post I made last night on the study of use or non-use of surgical masks was an excellent approach to the problem of determining whether masks were useful. That article shot down entirely the claim that doctors wear surgical masks because it somehow prevents the transfer of covid or anything else. Other than spitting into the surgical opening, it doesn't really prevent anything at all.