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Masks are not meaningless; they're just not effective against COVID. The (quite important) meaning recently carried by masks is purely tribal. Failing to wear a mask marks someone as unwilling or unable to meet the dictates of the God of Mass Media.

We need some way to distinguish people like that in our society; there's no telling what they might do. They might not even be carrying their smartphones with them!

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Your statement is tribal and devoid of any facts. It is not mass media, it’s the medical community that has stated and proved the effectiveness of masks. They are not a cure or fool proof but they are quite effective at slowing or stopping transmission depending on the mask type.

> tribal and devoid of any facts.

Yes.

> proved the effectiveness of masks

The article is a pretty decent counter argument about mask mandates, which is why my statemnet was tribal, and whi can't help but see yours as the same.

I am SO curious how history will judge this entire farce. This will go down as the experiment of what happens when we actually listen to the crazy hollywood scientist that keeps preaching the end of the world and the outcome speaks for itself.

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