So....do we see a drop in flu cases next winter due to most people being freaked the fuck out and more people than ever wearing bandana's and medical style facemasks....like Asians have for years? Does this bring numbers way down next year? And how many of you plan on doing the same?
The concern I have with wearing a face mask is that people never have the opportunity to build up an immunity to these viruses. Once the mask comes off, they are more susceptible to contracting every germ that comes withing 20 feet of them. Masks are not a remedy. Vaccines may be though. Often the vaccine only controls the intensity of a virus, like the flu. People still get it. But, when they do, they don't get deathly sick.
Ask people whose professions put them in greater contact with a variety of contagious illnesses, such and nurses, doctors and folks working in childhood education, what their first year in the job was like and many will tell you they got sick a lot more often then they had previously. Second year....their immunity becomes much greater to most illnesses except something like COVID - 19 which has not be around long enough for people to have built up an immunity to it.
So if you are still wearing a mask when this particular situation is resolved, you better never take it off when you are around other people, including family because there is a much greater chance you are going to get sick.
