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if masks work so well, why didn't they work? how did omicron get around the world in like two weeks flat when everyone was wearing masks on planes? at what point does covid making an utter mockery of our mitigation efforts start to dent your faith in them?

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Why not one week? Masks aren't perfect, and they don't make sense in every context but a plane IMHO is actually reasonable.

Not every context is the same.

I'm willing to acknowledge that the data is not great, but I think the action is more or less "plausible" and IMHO the suffering is small.

Yes, the suffering is small. But so is the payoff. My contention is that the people who statistically got seriously sick by the time Omicron became a thing in the US were the ones that decided to not get a vaccinated. I feel not an ounce of pity for them.

The knock on affects is that the Democrats were not doing themselves any favors in the election. It’s bad politics.

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