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No, misinformation is objective, and allowing it to propagate lets it fester.

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Your statement and opinion are why Elon Musk owns Twitter now.

Huh? What are you saying?

No they aren’t. He owns it because he couldn’t back out of his Internet Troll-joke offer.

Let’s try to be at least slightly honest about reality, here.

And I don't think he cares because he has more money than sense at this point. Like I said elsewhere, you can now pretty much say whatever you want on Twitter within reason.

So tell me, who's winning now?

Mark Zuckerberg?

I’m not clear what this has to do with your parent comment being disingenuous.

Does Musk “winning” make you feel better about things?

The belief that wearing general purpose masks would prevent the spread of COVID 19 was misinformation that festered for quite some time.

Okay buddy. Masks absolutely help reduce the spread of particulates but you can pretend that’s not true if you want.

Masks do reduce the spread of particulates by some amount. Reducing the spread of particulates by some amount has a negligible impact on the spread of COVID 19 and other respiratory viruses. To believe otherwise is, again, misinformation.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...

That link reaffirms that masks reduce particulates by some amount and offers no evidence this impacts the spread of respiratory illnesses.

lol it literally says that masks reduce the spread of COVID. By all means, provide some evidence to the contrary

The most obvious and trivial answer is that countries implementing mask mandates have seen COVID become endemic. That masks provide 'some' impact is obvious. That said impact is negligible is also obvious. We are still waiting, years and years latter, for that curve to finally be flattened.

So no data, cool. I will no longer believe Johns Hopkins and will instead defer to you for medical advice because obviously you’ve made a seriously compelling argument.

Curve flattening was about trying not to overwhelm the hospitals.

You're making a basic logic error that I've seen so many times from your camp: "if it doesn't work 100% it doesn't work at all". Why do you think this is a logical requirement?

> That said impact is negligible is also obvious

No, it's not obvious in any way. Please show us.

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