• sadeiko@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Best interaction with an antimasker:

    Them: masks don’t work

    Me: We’ll I’m going to wear one anyway

    Them: Well then you’re just traping the germs against your face

    Me: so you’re saying they block germs?

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      They even stated the correct reason to wear a mask: to trap the germs against my face, so others don’t get infected

      It’s like they don’t compute the idea behind it, it stops at me me me

      • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        My favorite reply to them is that it’s America and I can do whatever I want, I’ll call them snowflakes too whenever appropriate. They get pissed when you insinuate they’re anti American lul.

        • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          i’ve just recently seen the same with pro 2a people. It was on a video about inclusive gun safety training, because the 2a is quite literally, for everyone. SO many people in the comments were saying something along the lines of “well if we trained them, then they might kill us”

          Yeah no shit. What do you think they thought of you prior to this moment huh? Just utter fucking ignorance for anything more than a mere shred of intellectual thought being put into whatever they say. Not to mention that this is borderline authoritarian policy by nature but that’s the other funny part.

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            Didn’t gun control ramp up when the Black Panthers started exercising their rights to bear arms? Funny thing is the Panthers seem much more like a “well-regulated militia” than this Wild West, permitless carry, anything goes BS.

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              exactly. gun control only started when minorities started exercising their right to bear arms. The right don’t want gun control laws until the groups they are trying to oppress start exercising their second amendment rights.

      • hannes3120@feddit.de
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        8 months ago

        I think they actually do understand but don’t have enough empathy with other people to see it as their responsibility to protect other people from their viruses.

        Not that someone as perfect as them would ever sick enough to potentially infect others…

        • FilterItOut@thelemmy.club
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          8 months ago

          This. So much of this. I can’t even convince family members to not go and socialize with dozens of others while they are sick! Five years ago, I would have bet my life’s savings and every appendage I have that I would get the correct answer if I asked someone whether illnesses spread through contact with or being near a sick person.

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        Someone once told me that the box in which masks came in says “doesn’t protect from viruses”, as if it was hidden-in-plain-sight proof that masks don’t work.

        Yeah, they don’t protect the user from viruses, they protect other people. The box is technically correct, Patricia, there is no conspiracy here.

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            They will, but you have to follow some protocols, like not having beard where the masks is supposed to seal around your face, not using it more than ~3 times (iirc), not trying to clean it (just let it rest for some days on a clean surface) and etc.

            Basically always seal testing.

            Also, iirc the N stands for not oil resistant, so any oil staining ruins it. I’d guess that includes sneezing on it.

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          It is humorous that these people think that they have some secret knowledge that only they know and they feel so much power because of it. Except that the information they know is incorrect and they just end up looking like an idiot.

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    Fauci is to blame. The path of evil is paved in good intention.

    The fucker told everyone that they didn’t need masks.

    What he was intending to do was make sure doctors and emergency personnel had masks. instead, it became an inflection point of publicly dividing the nation.

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      Let’s be real, the misinfosphere would’ve have found something else to misguide the morons. He didn’t even say “you don’t need masks”, he said “don’t buy all the masks, stay inside”

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        I think the much deeper reason is, that stupid people can’t fathom that knowledge can change. They can’t understand that scientists legitimately didn’t know better, despite their best efforts. They can’t accept, that scientists come to other conclusions based on new data, instead they assume some ulterior motive.

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    8 months ago

    What is the thesis of this meme, that people are just stupid and there is no underlying problem or system that can be improved?

    Science is often communicated to the public via either companies, politics, or the media. Which al have their own interests and issues in representing “scientific facts”. To give some examples of the “science” people have been exposed to: These new pain killers are perfectly save and absolutely not addictive. Making health care accessible is actually bad for the economy and will be more expensive in the end. Or the numerous articles on outlier papers published in the media that conclude that it’s actually healthy to [insert obviously unhealthy habit here (sponsored by some industry group)].

    Science has a communication problem, and the communication conduits have a huge credibility problem. The results of which made an already bad pandemic even worse.

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      8 months ago

      While using a smartphone with nano chips and GPS, based on satellites and Einstein’s General Relativity.