He was right about masks though.
All the people criticising him for that look very foolish now.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sat 15 Aug 2020, 14:22,
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No, he wasn't.
Sockcooker claimed that anyone who didn't wear a mask from the beginning of the outbreak was as good as dead and that we'd all be sorry for doubting him. That was (and still is) utter nonsense. Wearing a mask doesn't significantly reduce your chance of contracting the virus whatsoever.
The primary purpose for wearing masks is to help reduce the amount of virus being spread by infected people. They're only really serving a purpose if you're already a carrier. You don't know if you're a carrier, so that's why we all wear masks.
Nobody ever questioned the fact that masks reduce the spread. You'd have to be a fucking idiot not to realise that the only reason the Government didn't advise mask wearing earlier was because there was already a significant shortage and they didn't want people fighting each other over face coverings like they were scrumming for the last roll of toilet paper. The NHS had clear priority.
We were criticising Sockcooker because he was panicking unnecessarily like this was some kind of great plague that was going to wipe out 50% of the population. Maybe it still will. Here's hoping. But it's really fucking doubtful.
(, Sat 15 Aug 2020, 17:36, Reply)
Every single one of them people gonna die though innit
have to think about that
(, Sun 16 Aug 2020, 20:04, Reply)