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Merlot

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2. It's not just lives that would be saved

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2020, 07:54 PM

Jun 2020

people who would have gotten sick and recovered would be lessened as well. That's less people in hospitals, missing work, or having long painful recoveries.

It's not just life, it's quality of life.

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Seema Yasmin, Stanford outbreak expert on CNN, says that if everyone wore masks [View all] applegrove Jun 2020 OP

It's too much trouble. Voltaire2 Jun 2020 #1

+1 n/t area51 Jun 2020 #5

"Pro-life" my foot StarfishSaver Jun 2020 #7

It's not just lives that would be saved Merlot Jun 2020 #2

Yes and they don't know much about the long term damage COVID-19 applegrove Jun 2020 #3

No one talks about recovery or long term damage, only putting it in terms of life/death Merlot Jun 2020 #11

Only 35,000? Hardly worth the trouble. Nevilledog Jun 2020 #4

Just think if stupid trump had asked the nation to wear masks... brush Jun 2020 #6

Fauci did say they put off telling people to wear masks for a bit because applegrove Jun 2020 #8

If the idiot had deployed the Defense Production Act we... brush Jun 2020 #10

But free-dum!!1!! n/t Silent3 Jun 2020 #9