Now that it seems everyone understands the importance of wearing masks to prevent COVID spread, the Gov. of Georgia has banned cities from requiring masks. Is there any wonder this thing is out of control?
Well, to be perfectly scientific about it, there is no evidence yet that wearing masks cuts infection rates for COVID-19, nor for whom. Inductive reasoning suggests it likely will, under the right circumstances, but there's no evidence.
People like to drone on about doctors and nurses wearing masks as if that's just the very pinnacle of logic. But there is a protocol for medical professionals wearing masks, without which the mask not only fails to protect against infection, it in fact becomes a vector for it. Most people have no idea what the protocol is.
And as for your average bandanna protecting you or anyone else? Forget it.
You make some solid points to prove Dean's post. Upon further review, I'm going to continue seeking perfectly scientific advice from actual scientists and people who, you know, study diseases and how to control them.
Oh indeed, I just finished my first of four meetings today with those kinda people.
Just remember that it was scientists who told us masks wouldn't help before they told us to wear masks. I won't make any jokes about John Kerry here, because he's a politician and we expect stupid from politicians.
Science is more like radar than video. There's something out there. Could be an incoming nuke, might be a flock of geese.
And I'll take the people who see something coming on the radar and try to figure out what it might be over the people who don't even bother to turn their radar on in the first place.
But you'll forgive that people are skeptical of those who have a government-instituted requirement that they justify the taxpayer dollars that they receive.
TD has it right, LTG. Stick to inductive reasoning. The pronouncements of the the CDC or WHO or the government or whatever have a long track record of being inaccurate and contradictory. Inductive reasoning is good. "The CDC sez so!!" doesn't mean shit.
Inductive reasoning is a great and useful tool, and quite frankly, it would be great if more people utilized it. But if you use it, and your every conclusion flies in the face of people with decades of experience in fighting disease, my only suggestion is that you examine your reasoning process. Because it's likely flawed.
Somebody should have explained that to Galileo Galilei.
You're probably right, that one guy on Youtube who says COVID is a liberal hoax is probably onto something. Perhaps one day we'll remember MILFLover69 alongside Galileo, Einstein, Newton and Hawking. 
I get all my professional information from FaceBook. they were so great as political analysts when Trump was running for office, plus climate change experts when the overseas rugrat started crying, and the money I saved by the financial advice they gave me when the stock market tanked. I'm telling you, those guys know it ALL. 🤣
