Pamplin Media Group-Don’t be ignorant: Wear a mask

At this point, wearing masks in the middle of COVID summer is over

During the first few days of coronaviruses in North America, both the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization were slimy in their masks as an important factor in combating proliferation. However, the mistake was caused by a false sense of security, as our initial infection rate was low and there was a desire to essentially provide medical personnel with masks and other protective elements.

Later, the masks became political partitions (as if we needed another) and the Republicans took them as an insult to the mantra that the federal government was handling the crisis, and the Democrats were progressive. Recognized individual liberty that they were using them as walking billboards to replace free liberalism. Then there were American exceptions that sometimes got in our way. The mask was for the smog region of China, not the beautiful United States.

Therefore, American masking will continue to take some sweet time.

However, at this point, wearing a mask in the middle of COVID Summer is over. In essence, all rational leaders of both parties now encourage masks and recognize their importance.

CDC and WHO have long changed their stance on masks. The main factor in the change on the unanimous front, rather than wearing a mask from an expert, is the inability to know who gets the virus and who can get it. The medical field has determined that both presymptomatic and asymptomatic people can be infected with the disease.

Masks, which you should all know by now, block the water droplets that come out of your mouth when you talk, breathe hard, or cough. Having a virus, whether ill or not, is much less likely. Widen more than when not wearing a mask. Masks also help protect the wearer from infected people.

Experts have proposed that 95% of countries in the country could avoid the deaths of 33,000 Americans by October 1 when wearing masks in public. Weapons against viruses.

The latest great comparison on the ups and downs of the mask you need today — was it Tom Hanks? — It’s strong. During World War II, English was told to turn off their lights at night to make it more difficult for Germans to bomb their communities. Perhaps no one resented next to them, barking that they had the right to keep their lights on, and went to hell for the safety of their neighbors and brethren.

Sliding a mask to make you, your neighbors, your family, or your fellows safer is less difficult than keeping your home dark at night.

It happens because Americans believe their opinions are important. This is one of the powerful and uplifting beautiful things about being an American. However, on a particular topic, we often think our opinion is valid, as is the opinion of experts in that particular field. However, while expert opinion is based on experience, research and education, it is too often pulled behind our back or stolen from internet comments. Not all opinions are created equal.

Experts, scientists, and those whose job is to know such things suggest that 85% of the public can get on the virus in about a month if they wear a mask. I will. What do you expect to happen in a month or so? Schools can start in a somewhat normal way and our obsession with football begins, but the weather begins to get cold, people move indoors and the flu season begins. Time is certainly important. As we approach the last day of July, it may be too late to save autumn, as we know it. However, if you put on a mask, the odds will improve.

Two months ago, when I was preparing for the first stage to relaunch Oregon, I used this space to make people, especially men, macho even though they all looked a bit silly and less. The column had a little bit of a tongue out, a commitment to humor, and an attempt to downplay the serious situation of COVID-19.

But that’s also when there were single-digit numbers of COVID cases in our community, and statewide, and even nationally, and we flattened the curve. We were making a lot of money and the only thing left was to kill the virus without doing anything.

But in the United States, from June to July, all the freedom we enjoy, the freedom and power of our own opinion, all backfired. COVID has exploded. Two months ago, I didn’t personally know who was tested. Now I know who got the COVID, who needed to be quarantined. Like all of us, I’m nervous and anyone can get off it or give it to someone at any time.

Just as the scientists behind the CDC and WHO changed their minds a bit, I learned things along the way. We all have it, right?

Play your part to combat the health crisis of this world that is large enough to threaten the Earth but small enough to be at the front door.

If you’re interacting with someone outside your family, and you’re within 6 feet of your family and don’t wear a mask, you’re selfish and ignorant. So get a mask.