Thorin is home

[dreamshark]

 He drove himself. I was a little dubious about that, but the nurses said it was okay. Laparascopic surgery - what a great invention. It's like taking your car to Midas - you drive in and drive out an hour later with a new exhaust system. 

Comments

[dreamshark]

My conclusion is that the CDC has been deliberately lying to the public for reasons that seemed so morally right to them that they overrode the usual scientist's commitment to the truth. Clearly, masks were thought to be effective enough at protecting the wearer that they needed to be saved for the people who needed them most. So the general public was told that they were COMPLETELY INEFFECTIVE so they wouldn't hog them. But this resulted in a cascade of lies and half truths so confusing that I don't think anybody knows what's real now, least of all the health care workers that they were trying to protect. So now we have nurses running out to Home Depot and buying dust masks for use in COVID wards - surely that isn't going to work, is it? But it probably works better than homemade masks made out of t-shirts. Or maybe not. Who knows?

[quadong]

Well, The Bulletin agrees with your conclusion.

https://thebulletin.org/2020/04/another-victim-of-the-pandemic-trust-in-the-government/

[laramie]

I saw a lovely graphic yesterday showing progressive degrees of protection.

Wearing a mask is better than not wearing one. Both people in an encounter wearing masks is better than that. If they are both also six feet apart, it is better yet, and more distance is better still. None of it is as good as staying home and having no encounter at all.