My Army training for operating under nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) warfare conditions. I'd spent many miserable hours wearing and working in genuine protective gear, and drilling don/doff and decontamination protocols. I knew even those weren't guaranteed to work. And they certainly couldn't be maintained for an entire population for a prolonged period.
So it was obvious from the start that cloth masks and the rest were just self-soothing gestures. I never bought the hysteria that Covid was evil magic insta-murder radioactive death cooties. But even if it was, we weren't going to stop it.
(Writing from Maryland, indeed right the heart of Faucistan right by NIH. My father worked there in the 1980s/90s and crossed paths with Fauci himself a few times, although they were in different agencies.)
My Army training for operating under nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) warfare conditions. I'd spent many miserable hours wearing and working in genuine protective gear, and drilling don/doff and decontamination protocols. I knew even those weren't guaranteed to work. And they certainly couldn't be maintained for an entire population for a prolonged period.
So it was obvious from the start that cloth masks and the rest were just self-soothing gestures. I never bought the hysteria that Covid was evil magic insta-murder radioactive death cooties. But even if it was, we weren't going to stop it.
(Writing from Maryland, indeed right the heart of Faucistan right by NIH. My father worked there in the 1980s/90s and crossed paths with Fauci himself a few times, although they were in different agencies.)