This is the reason I am still wearing a mask.

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126. The science says that Covid is still out there

and mutating.

It also tells us that, not only are those with co-morbidities at risk, but even those who are otherwise healthy may and perhaps will suffer long term health effects we are only just beginning to document, let alone understand.

As for wearing masks to prevent the spread of the flu, this is actually SOP in cultures such as Japan and Korea. So what "unintended consequences" have been documented for the inhabitants of Tokyo, I wonder, who have been routinely masking for decades?

The science also tells us that rates of deadly flu went down substantially while people here masked up to prevent the spread of Covid, and that as a result hundreds if not thousands fewer Americans died.

The people who refuse to follow the science are those who ignore all this in the name of "freedom." If we truly followed the science then yes, widespread masking would be a no-brainer, certainly under the current state of this ongoing pandemic.

I raised the analogy of drunk drivers in a previous post. Another analogy would be to second-hand smoke. I'm old enough to remember the backlash against regulating smokers in restaurants and other public spaces. Given the current wacko and anti-science environment, I strongly suspect such regulations, proposed today, would meet with the same "it's my right to endanger others" mentality, and would probably fall by the wayside in the name of "freedom.".