Nice!

@PUBLIQclopAccountant  
Which is why it’s important who we elect. The office makes people listen to whoever holds it, even if they are lying their ass off.

@Brass Melody  
As it turns out, being an expert on public health does not make you an expert at political leadership. They inadvertently sow doubt by acting like scientists and expressing uncertainty to a public who is too stupid to listen to anyone who doesn’t put on a macho man certitude act.

@Brass Melody  
… the masks help make that contact safer. That’s the point. They don’t solve everything, but they help lessen the chance you and others will pass this crap back and forth.
 

 
We won’t need lockdowns if we can just get adults to stop spreading this shit around by being responsible.

@Brass Melody  

 
Those are complete apples to oranges comparisons. Cancer isn’t contagious so distancing wouldn’t have any effect. Flu is less contagious than Covid, and most strains of flu are far less lethal than Covid. We also have centuries of experience with flu, compared to only a few years of experience with the much more recently known coronaviruses, and what experience we do have with coronaviruses paints very grim pictures for mortality outcomes.
 
The second part of your post is pure conspiracy theory and doesn’t even bear responding to.

@Brass Melody  
The problem isn’t the lethality, it’s how wrecked it leaves your body. I personally know two people (one my wife) who got bad cases and they exhaust easily, find it painful to breathe deeply, and they had it months ago. And let’s just assume you don’t care about yourself, can you maybe manage it for others around you?

@Brass Melody  

 
See, this is the problem right here.  
These are the words of someone who can’t see things as being about anyone but themselves.  
You wearing a mask isn’t to protect you from getting Covid, it’s to protect everyone else from getting it from you.
 

 
Bringing these up is an attempt to create a false dilemma where none exists. It’s both possible and perfectly reasonable to be concerned about more than one thing at a time.  
Flu could kill you, sure. Cancer could also kill you.  
Just because those things exist doesn’t mean Covid can’t also kill you (or other people you give it to, more importantly), and it doesn’t mean you get a pass on being a responsible adult and doing your part to control it.

No.

@Brass Melody  
CDC estimates that the burden of illness during the 2018–2019 season included an estimated 35.5 million people getting sick with influenza, 16.5 million people going to a health care provider for their illness, 490,600 hospitalizations, and 34,200 deaths from influenza (Table 1).Jan 8, 2020
 
Estimated numbers of new cancer cases and deaths in 2019 (In 2019, there will be an estimated 1,762,450 new cancer cases diagnosed and 606,880 cancer deaths in the United States.)
 
Covid cases Total 119M Deaths 2.63M
 
So… Covid has in fact surpassed both cancer and flu. Will you wear a mask now?

@Brass Melody
 
In the US, Covid-19 kills way more people than influenza, and is seriously challenging heart disease and cancer.
 
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-is-on-track-to-become-the-u-s-s-leading-cause-of-death-yet-again1/

@Setsugekka  
many horse a**es

This comment section is mine field

@ all the stressed out BPs: have you considered watching Bob Ross? it might really help y’all out

@Background Pony #5AA3  
don’t worry, mommy’s gonna need her iPad back at some point

@Background Pony #5AA3  
clearly someone who thinks “questionate” is a word is a man of true wisdom, logic and knowledge whose sage advice we should all listen to
 
he has the IQ of a Norse god, truly he is the mightiest of men
 
all hail Big Brain Bungus and his intelligence

@Background Pony #1FB3  

 
 

@Background Pony #1FB3  

 
you didn’t really fix much here m8, it’s still not a word