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RE: Funny how you make assumptions....

Hong Kong is protesting - we border China and the infection rates are still very low - and more densely populated than ANY US city.

Everyone wears a mask everywhere all the time. And they have been doing this since later January.

Here's the thing about the west. People always demand absolute proof of something before they lift a finger to change. Smoking is bad for you - it will kill you. Americans do nothing while paid off on the take scientists create "doubt" - they are paid by big Tobacco. See the movie Merchants of Doubt - they have linked articles and science to back them up.

What happens is that these big companies create say 50 organizations with different names - they all start pumping the media that Tobacco isn't the problem something else caused the cancer. The battle finally gets won for the most part that most people even smokers agree that smoking is unhealthy. But Big Tobacco moved to third world countries where those countries literally do not have the money to fight Big Tobacco in court.

Then comes climate change - and these SAME exact scientists who were paid off by Big Tobacco are the ones creating "doubt" about climate change - same organizations. Myth is great - you don't have to prove anything you just have to slow change so the companies can remain profitable - now it's big oil.

So enters the masks. People say well the masks are not PROVEN to 100% protect you from the virus so I'm not wearing one. But by the time you wait for the proof you might be dead.

I never understood this. It causes no harm to wear the damn things - Low risk high reward proposition. This is what poker players like myself live for. You always want to have pot odds. If the pot odds are in your favour you may play a weaker hand than normal. If they are not in your favour it's okay to fold a fairly strong hand.

Masks have almost no cost to buy and wear. The gain is possibly saving your life and your mother's life. 0% cost to you and possibly 1%-100% gain depending on whatever the science comes up with.

You play the pot odds here. And if you get the virus wearing the mask - well hey at least you tried. If they scoop out one of your lungs and you live your life in a shattered state - you don't have to facepalm yourself that "man if I only wore the bloody mask."

And the weird thing is people who demand "absolute proof" of mask effectiveness or climate change or Cigarettes being bad for you - may live their lives in other ways like having all kinds of religious beliefs and never once ask for "absolute proof."

Risk/Reward - masks have no risk (cheap to buy no harm) and big reward (you live versus possibly dying). And yet how many threads just in this forum have people moaning about masks the last 5 months?




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