Augie RayJan 11, 2023

Many people are desperately afraid of “forever masking.”

I'm afraid of #COVID19 remaining a top five cause of death indefinitely.

I'm scared COVID will leave billions with lasting damage to their heart, brains, and immune systems.

I'm frightened that children infected three, four or nine times will have lifelong health issues.

I'm worried that a rapidly mutating virus could yet spin off a deadly new variant.

Why is it so hard to do something so simple to possibly save a life? #WearAMask

Show threadA Concerned ScientistJan 11, 2023

@augieray

A child born today, with today's lack of precautions in school and daycare would have to be expected to contract COVID upwards of 40 times by college, right? I don't see how that child survives that.

Seems like a lot of people are just waiting for the magic science pill that makes it all go away....which is really no different than people who are "concerned" about climate change but believe scientists will solve the problem any minute now without them having to do anything. Scientific wishful thinking.

Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPEJan 11, 2023

@BE @augieray Trouble is it has worked at least once.

Nobody set out to solve the horse manure problem, but the prediction in 1894 that London's streets would be under nine feet of horse manure by 1944 never happened.

Show threadAugie Ray
@TimWardCam @BE There are all sorts of examples where new solutions to problems were found. There are also plenty of examples where humans ignored the risks and paid the price. With a worldwide pandemic causing mass morbidity, do we really want to roll the dice rather than take a few sensible precautions?
Jan 11, 2023 at 10:04pmWeb
Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPEJan 11, 2023

@augieray @BE Just sayin', *some* people might have that mind set - "doing nothing worked for horse manure so why wouldn't it work with climate change and covid?".

I'm not one of them.