Masks serve me well. The ones I am issued are properly fitted, made of the proper material, and only used for the recommended lifespan or shorter.
Tell me, what happens when a person wears the same underwear in inhospitable conditions for days on end? What happens if a person rucking for days on end don't change their socks? What happens if a person doesn't properly clean their weapon? Or God-forbid, makes unauthorized modifications for the sake of convenience? What happens when a person straps a dirty shirt to their face for days on end, maybe washing it once a week, while expecting it to keep themselves or others safe from a more infectious than typical virus?

I know testing procedures. I know safety and sanitation. I see those afflicted. I've got a front row seat of the whole mess, and all the bullshit being spewed by "experts", politicians, and the media.

I'm speaking from experience as a medic in the Army. Trained in Fort Sam Houston, stationed on the "front line" (we hate that phrase) in Fort Bliss with the 1st Armored Division.

Cursory knowledge? Myself and my section have fucking been on that "front line". Fuck you, man.

I've been giving you the benefit of the doubt, but now I'm wholly convinced you're being deliberately obtuse. I've made it very clear that this was learned BEFORE Covid-19. 20th century fucking lessons learned in bile and tears.
The agenda is the powers that be trying to manufacture crisis to consolidate power, but worse than even usual.
Actually, forget it. You've demonstrated consistently that in this one thing, you're beyond rationality and even the pretense of skepticism.

You: "I am being forced to have sex against my will."
Me: "Oh my god, you're being raped!?"
You: "Only an American would imagine people being raped instead of being forced to have sex"

Words mean things.

@creativedragonbaby There is a stark difference between shutting everything down and forcing people at gunpoint to go to work. One is self-destructive, the other is slavery.
@strangelyacoustic There is also a stark difference between having to work and being forced to work. One is life, the other is slavery. Thankfully for Belgium, they are living life.

Belgians are being forced to work? That is naked fucking slavery, there.

Good for them. Maybe we can control our border without being called racist this time.

As for "intel", there is clearly an agenda being pushed when you look at selective enforcement, convenient changes, and especially at how the usual suspects (Google, YouTube, social media) are throwing their lot in with the Chinese run WHO and pushing studies with 6 patients over the analysis of any current medical personnel who dare to suggest that even one little thing could be better or isn't right.
I am not going to wait for experts to tell me that left is right and up is down, I am an educated adult with a life to live and a brain of my own that works plenty fine, thank you very fucking much.

We know that the masks aren't good because it is proven, these measures would never fly in a hospital, and as I keep saying, people either are not or cannot properly mask up.
We are arguing nationally, not state, so do kindly stop moving your goalposts.
And the fatality count is stupidly inflated. Especially when California is counting car crashes, NY is counting deaths of people who were never tested, hospitals nationwide were given a profit motive to have more Covid deaths, and across the board deaths that would be attributed to age, cancer, or chronic conditions are now being attributed to covid.
The commands are vague and harmful because strapping a sock to your face is not like wearing an N95 is not like reusing the aforementioned N95.
Legality does not decide right or wrong. Never has, never will.
And I do follow orders to mask up in my duties as a medic. I am trained and have the resources to do so while at the quarantine barracks.

Please try it. I'm bored, I haven't shot at anything living in months.

Same

Jesus. Thanks for the heads up

Fuckimation.

That's just disingenuous and wrong.