jesus christ log off you fucking man child

https://twitter.com/SleveMcDichae19/status/1421292097961930756

EDIT: I keep seeing comments saying "he's not telling them to kill themself" which, to me, seems like only giving him a pass for not outright saying it. It's not like they were discussing gun suicide rates - that topic was not what the conversation was about whatsoever. The person replying, who mentioned being a gun owner in their bio, made a joke at felix, who in turn, seeing a viable topic that person cares about, starts reminding them the statistics of what they’re most likely to use their gun for, if they use it - suicide. I fail to see how that’s anything other than outright hostility.

I’m trans and say so in my bio and it’d be like if someone randomly brought up the 40% statistic in response to me making a joke about them

  • Wheaties [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    It is security theater, though. Asking people to mask-up without a stay at home order is just the state trying to look like they're doing something.

    • saskguy [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Nope, still helps a lot. Even if you have 40-50% of people wearing good masks, it can drop R levels by almost half. That may not stop a wave and will result in many unnecessary deaths but it's still way better than doing nothing. Source: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118 (fig 1)

      • 420clownpeen [they/them,any]
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        3 years ago

        The theater part is more that there will be near-zero enforcement. Enforcement was already barely existent back when it was generally acknowledged that COVID was a problem. But now we're living post-"COVID is over".

        • saskguy [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          The goal is to get the most people wearing them as possible, any amount helps lower R values if you read the paper. Even if a mask mandate jumps usage from 10 to 40%, it'll lead to a significant drop in infections/spread.

        • saskguy [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Any amount of mask wearing will lower the R value. 50% wearing surgical masks still drops the R from 2.4 to 1.5 in the model. That's massive. With the delta variant having an even higher R value (I've seen between 5 and 9), that effect will be even greater.

      • Pezevenk [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Even if you have 40-50% of people wearing good masks, it can drop R levels by almost half

        40% of people wearing masks would not half R levels even if they were perfect at stopping infection, and if that 40% wore them all the time. Would maybe help a bit though I guess if people did that.

      • Wheaties [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Something can help and still be security theater, especially if it does nothing to solve the problem long-term.

        • saskguy [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          It does help the problem long term. Even if the same amount of people were to be infected (they won't be) it will extend it over a longer period of time which means hospitals can at least partially continue to function.

          • Wheaties [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            Even if you mask up and hospitals aren't pushed to capacity, each new infection is a chance for a new, potentially vaccine-immune variant to emerge. It's still incredibly shortsighted and less than the bare minimum needed.