Latest CDC Guidelines 'universal mask wearing' etc ( Dec 2020 )

[Ellener]

1 hour ago, NuevoYorko said:

I don't think so, all my life there have been pervasive ones:  No one landed on the moon, KFK shooting conspiracy, the enduring "Illuminati."  "Paul (Beatle) is dead," Holocaust was faked, contrails, flat earth.

It was studied in the 70's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect

[Wiseman2]

2 hours ago, NuevoYorko said:

 KFK shooting conspiracy, 

They assassinated a bucket of chicken?

[NuevoYorko]

9 minutes ago, Wiseman2 said:

They assassinated a bucket of chicken?

HAHAHA!!!!

[Angelle]

2 hours ago, NuevoYorko said:

I don't think so, all my life there have been pervasive ones:  No one landed on the moon, KFK shooting conspiracy, the enduring "Illuminati."  "Paul (Beatle) is dead," Holocaust was faked, contrails, flat earth.

I'd forgotten that some people take these seriously. Also Elvis was still alive, supposedly.

[Taramere]

On 12/8/2020 at 6:21 PM, dangerous said:

i stick by my view that the "vulnerable" should be protected. Not just masks, but isolation. The majority should be free again. Why is that selfish? I have the majority's interests at heart. The alternative is selfish, many would say.

The word "freedom" is open to all sorts of interpretations.  Even in the most free societies, we don't have absolute freedom to do whatever we want.  When you say "free" do you mean "free to go without masks in enclosed public spaces" in the middle of a pandemic?

[QuietRiot]

4 hours ago, Taramere said:

The word "freedom" is open to all sorts of interpretations.  Even in the most free societies, we don't have absolute freedom to do whatever we want.  When you say "free" do you mean "free to go without masks in enclosed public spaces" in the middle of a pandemic?

Right, people have a warped sense of what "freedom" really is. They twist it to fit their own agenda.

[QuietRiot]

7 hours ago, NuevoYorko said:

I don't think so, all my life there have been pervasive ones:  No one landed on the moon, KFK shooting conspiracy, the enduring "Illuminati."  "Paul (Beatle) is dead," Holocaust was faked, contrails, flat earth.

Oh yeah, duh, my bad. I was thinking about that after my post. Back in the old days of AM radio, I had a friend that would listen to such shows in the wee hours of the morn.

[serial muse]

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/report/kff-health-tracking-poll-december-2020/ 

More people in the US say they are wearing masks now than did in May (73% compared to 52%). So that's something. 

[Ellener]

21 minutes ago, serial muse said:

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/report/kff-health-tracking-poll-december-2020/ 

More people in the US say they are wearing masks now than did in May (73% compared to 52%). So that's something. 

To be fair in US we did get poor guidance at first.

People have largely embraced the masks with self-expression and creativity even where I live in stubborn ol' Texas now.

I didn't buy/make a Christmas theme mask myself on the premise that we won't need them but this once & hopeful thinking!