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I have a feeling Shepard has some deep seeded phycological issues or he is ignorant of the facts. Perhaps both.😉

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Shep is an overpaid useless script reader.

I am a proud maskless Floridian. Shop at Publix maskless. Voted in Venice Fl maskless.

REJECT THEIR NEW NORMAL.

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If you look at what the CDC considers a "close contact," you know they don't buy their own BS about masks. A close contact according to the CDC is as follows: "Someone who was within 6 feet of an infected person for a cumulative total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period* starting from 2 days before illness onset (or, for asymptomatic patients, 2 days prior to test specimen collection) until the time the patient is isolated." You will notice what is missing from this. The only two factors considered are time and distance. Literally nothing about masking. In science if a variable has no effect on the outcome (in this case masking has no effect on whether or not you are considered to be a threat to others can need to quarantine--you are a close contact), the variable, in this case a mask, is irrelevant.

To be fair, they have a fine print section, declaring that because most of the population does not know how to mask properly (nine months in, we don't know how to mask properly), use or not of facial fabrics is not a consideration. Of course, this leads to a question: if nine months in we still can't "mask properly," I don't see much hope for the future, and a real scientist would admit this fact. But given that we've all heard the refrain that any masking is better than none at all, you'd think that would be reflected in the "close contact" guidelines, and they would have a "if you were properly wearing an N95, you could be with that person for any length of time at any distance and we won't consider you a close contact." But, no, they don't. Hence, how we all know the whole thing is utter balderdash and it's more about conditioning people to absurdity than actually "slowing the spread."

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Waste of time giving said puke and the idiot followers any regard whatsoever.

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