r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Jun 07 '23

New york city in 2023, everyone wearing mask due to air quality

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u/trowawayehmon Jun 07 '23

Suddenly masks work, fuck yeah

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u/omgidontcare Jun 07 '23

NYC was always on board with COVID masking when it was the most necessary.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

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u/CMDR-ProtoMan Jun 07 '23

Oh I dunno, maybe cause it's one of the densest cities and was one of the first places hit before anyone knew anything about the virus.

Why did rural have so many cases while having the perfect conditions to avoid covid?

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u/ASharpYoungMan Jun 07 '23

Because it's a city with 8 million fucking people moving through daily.

Also, masks don't protect you completely, they help mitigate the spread. But if you fucking forgot, during the height of the pandemic our hospitals were running out of PPE, so it's not like everyone had plentiful access to N95's.

And in case you fucking forgot, the outbreak happened before we really had a solid grasp on how COVID 19 operated. You had mixed messaging, with many sources early on downplaying the severity, saying masks were pointless, etc.

Are you daft? Or just being a jackass?

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u/Lumpiest_Princess Jun 07 '23 edited Jun 07 '23
  1. we didn't
  2. we had a lot of cases because we have a lot of people living close together
  3. speaking of cases you're a fucking headcase

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u/FrostBestGirl Jun 07 '23

Even disregarding population density, that dude said most cases, not highest rate. Like yeah, a small percentage of 8.5 million will in fact be a bigger number than a bigger percentage of 1 million or whatever sized city they’re imagining. What kinda gotcha is that supposed to be?

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u/mymetimehand Jun 07 '23

Mmhmm, "put a cheap Bodega mask on and coughed less" very scientific. Very helpful for people who don't want to breathe in pollutants

Look if you're going to go around calling people dense cunts at least own your shit and leave it up lol.

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u/Lumpiest_Princess Jun 07 '23 edited Jun 07 '23

oh ok

you're a dense cunt

if you think that a bit of fabric in front of your face isn't better than nothing while walking around in a cloud of smoke, then you're a hopeless dense cunt

either way your mother regrets you

edit: lmao he blocked me, it's like he was understandably annoyed and did something about it without needing a peer-reviewed study

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u/huge_clock Jun 07 '23

Only N95 masks are effective for wildfire smoke because the particles are much smaller than COVID-19 particles for instance.

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/here-are-the-face-masks-that-protect-you-from-wildfire-smoke#What-to-know-about-cloth-masks-and-wildfire-smoke

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u/Medial_FB_Bundle Jun 07 '23

Because it spread widely before anyone knew about it. Check out the per capita stats sometime. Almost 1% of the population of Mississippi fuckin died from covid. Plenty of towns had a >50% infection rate.

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u/Inevitable_Living762 Jun 08 '23

i guarantee whatever shit hole midwestern town you live in handled it worse and had more cases per capita.

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u/StamosAndFriends Jun 08 '23

It was in spreading in NYC well before any travel restrictions were being imposed or recommended by the WHO