Masks Part 2 — for Pete’s Sake!

I know, I know we’re all tired of this topic. But I just saw ANOTHER thread on our local ‘Nextdoor’ website. It was mostly intelligent, mostly people just questioning the general inconsistencies we’ve been seeing throughout this pandemic.

But ONE person, a mask naysayer who starts the post trying so, so hard to sound. like the person who’s the only one doing the research, the only one who REALLY understands this shit, goes crazy over the really small size of a virus.

They’re really, really small.

I think we non-medical, expertless, regular humans have a basic understanding of that, but no — this guy is explaining that the virus is SO SMALL it can easily pass through the holes of a cloth mask, even a double-layered one. So of course, because of this oh-I’m-so-obviously-a-medical-genius explanation, well obviously we don’t even need to wear the damn things, right? That was the impetus of this neighbor’s argument. I can see that shruggy emoji, can’t you?

🤷🏻‍♀️”Aw, screw it! Those pesky things are just so, so small.”

The whole concept of a primary means of spreading the virus is through saliva that comes out through coughing or sneezing. Maybe by yelling at people who can’t conceive of a world where sometimes you’ve just gotta do stuff that might, God forbid, inconvenience you a little, is completely forsaken.