Way, way back when I was a high school K*D.. I thought 'Scientific American' was a cool publication coming from a thoughtful and also educated place. Well now.. with all of these 'free?' self appointed experts 'showing me the way'... why should I even tax my brain, thinking for myself??? The 'easy' way is to choose some fool to believe. And follow him (or her) right down their 'rabbit' hole that leads to and also winds up nowhere. The ability/acquired skill to be able to always question everything.. is one of the best gifts that if we are lucky and smart enough, that we could ever (in one lifetime) be able to receive. I suppose it just all comes down to our 'individual' choices (and reasoning). Or maybe how many lifetimes that you (think you) have to do it over and over again. Don't count on it. Get it right.. right now.. or forever fade away into oblivion.

I really like how these same Karens who were hacking their lungs out a few months ago are now telling me to "pull up your mask all the way". But, that's the direction of the Herd right now.

Don't get me wrong I love sheep, I just prefer to eat mine and not be one. I might be a little more on board with the mask thing if everyone was wearing a gas mask type apparatus but for Christs' sake most of the face coverings are a joke. I am going to make one out of pantyhose just to make a point...... I'm wearing a mask Phuck your mandate it doesn't do shit but I'm wearing one.....

I guess there's no point in explaining how masks actually help, and how they work.

I guess there's no point in explaining how masks actually help, and how they work.

That's a privilege for those who don't want to do anything to stop the spread of this virus, and hopefully those against wearing masks will get to experience it.

I guess there's no point in explaining how masks actually help, and how they work.

Nope, no sense trying to convince me like I have no chance of getting you to see my point of view. Some people go bareback and others always suit up. I have lived 55 years without a mask, I will go till I die without one. And for the record, my health directive is no ventilator and no heroic measures. When it is my time to go that is when I am ready. I am not going to change my personal thinking and feelings for anyone except myself.

VIBE CHECK

None of us have the knowledge to be experts in everything, in reality not even in anything. Even the Nobel Prize winners only have expertise in their own fields. So we all have to choose what voices we listen to, and we need to be very skeptical especially with the internet bringing complex and convoluted stories to us...mostly based on false assumptions and false stories. I have a very strong belief that it is only the scientific method (based on skeptical thought and processes) that can tell us what is real. And I'm using the term "scientific method" in a broad sense. So basically we can know something is true or real when others can question every part of it, go through the proofs and find no way to refute them, and eventually the community of those with the ability to understand the "something" finally agree that it is real or true. And of course that is always provisional, because new or more complete understandings may come in the future.

The questions around this virus, what is it, how does it spread, how can we slow down the spread, how can it be treated, how can it be prevented - all of these questions are being worked on in real time as we go through this. I have not heard any of the real experts, the epidemiologists, the virologists, the medical community, come across as dogmatic. They are trying to answer those questions as they learn more about this disease. But, even without all the answers actions had to be taken. And around the world every country I know of has taken some action. Far far away from all the political crap in the US and other places, countries on the left, right, and center have felt they needed to do something to stop the spread of this virus, and eventually treat it or cure it successfully. And these people come from many countries, many political backgrounds, and basically only have a scientific approach to the issue in common.

The rise of the outright attack on the messengers and spokespersons for action against this virus is unprecedented I think. There is a new conspiracy every minute it seems.