I just got a hand-held UV light at Ace for $22.
No way to test if it is actually doing anything, but I’m not going to depend on it as a universal panacea.
Just a possible addition to the viral-load-reducing protocol.

The organization I work for does work for the CDC. They sent us some cloth masks, pointing out they were not to be used when near those infected by the virus. Also, an email told us”for your safety, employees should remove their face covering while driving between assignments.”

So the mask is theater. One way it endangers us is that it creates a false sense of security, so people wearing masks think the mask is a magic protection, and walk right next to you. I have a cane that I have used to ward off someone entering my cone.

Back early in the year, since I went to medical offices as part of my job, I needed to learn about masks. Since the CDC said they didn’t help, I researched them. There wasn’t much info available that said they were useful.

I figured it was like the flu shot, even if it wasn’t very effective, at least it would help. So I started wearing them in stores before almost everyone, since we had a supply of masks. Now I am on the other side, still wear them inside, and to please my wife. They may help a little, but separation is much more important, also having a disposable glove to touch any surface when I am in a store of bank. Wash hands when you return home!

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2% is the magic number. Which we’re still NOT admitting. And which is still in evidence. Find the exception if you wish to argue otherwise; command on my forum where it is. And by the way, masks not only don’t work in a controlled trial in an operating room NOT wearing them cut infection rates IN HALF. The belief in them is VOODOO.

Statistics. It probably depends on the pathogen and transmission mode, the particulate and the environment. The mask mandate was ordered based on intuitive evidence and emotional suppression. So far, the paths in each jurisdiction follow the same curves, and the peaks precede the mitigation methods, with exception for Planned Parent and similar bad choices.

You are ignoring what this post is about.

It’s not about whether mask-wearing is stupid, right or wrong, or whether people should comply with it or not.

It is about whether people already complying are stupid for wearing masks in their car while alone. I am explaining a non-stupid reason that those people might do so.

The post has nothing to do with the merits of mask-wearing or whether it is advisable to rebel against it.

I like your stuff and prefer nice people being nice in a vacuum, but politics is war and you’re offering an olive branch to the enemy. We can and should use shame, guilt, and normalcy-enforcement for our own ends, including calling out certain behaviors (nearly all of which are “well-meaning”) as “stupid”. I mean, that’s the damned LEAST we could do. Or we could split hairs between “stupid” and “ill-advised” or “counter-productive” but frankly none of that matters in the least. Tone policing will not win this thing.

I was just thinking… I wonder how the Asian societies that have more of a habit of public mask-wearing cope with this aspect. I imagine that because their modes of expression of emotion and so on in public are habitually more restrained anyway, maybe they don’t feel as much of this type of social handicap from this.

I do go along with it in places that require it by policy. They are private businesses, and have the right to set the rules as they see fit.

Nevertheless, I have extreme doubts regarding it’s efficacy in preventing transmission. Furthermore, I believe that it is doing a great deal of psychological damage by isolating us and preventing the casual social interactions that help remind us that we live within a social matrix.

(Thank God the fires are still over the hills from the bay, but a number of the outlying communities have been evacuated.)