You reached many false conclusions in that paragraph through false dichotomies.
The first being that masks are ineffective because you wore one but got COVID. That's like saying seat belts don't work because people still die in car accidents while wearing one. It's not how it works.
The second being that I didn't get COVID because I "live in granny's basement". Granny 1 has been dead since before I was born, and I never spent so much as an overnight in (also dead) granny 2's house.
I am living in house #3 that I have owned since I have moved out. Food delivery? Who was delivering during the height of the pandemic? Nobody in my area. Had to go out for my job, had to go out for supplies.
Was I nervous? Sure was. Did I play it safe? Sure did.
Never got COVID.
My personal success isn't proof, but hundreds of millions of success stories IS proof, no matter how much you and others here BELIEVE otherwise. Science doesn't give a flying rat's *** about your beliefs. Sorry.
You keep spinning off onto different excuses for why you are wrong. The general public was your dataset. That's a shi*-ton of people, and the "general public" absolutely includes people who can shop online, and who can buy a mask that will be a 100% barrier to COVID.
FFS, the "general public" buy almost 200 BILLION cigarettes per year, 15 million people use vape, as much as $97 BILLION per year is spent on ****, $249 BILLION on booze. A full-filtration mask is certianly available to the general public, and your excuses are like the c***s complaining of fuel prices while they sit and roll coal at every stoplight.
For the same reason I conceal carry everywhere I go, drive defensively, stay on a high level of alert: Because there are f*****g idiots like you out there who don't know how to behave in society, and I am tasked with having to deal with your actions that can directly affect me.
People who refuse to cover their sh*thole of a mouth when they cough. People who pick their nose and wipe it on their pants, then pull open a door at a store. Idiots who are driving while texting, or drunk, or smacking their woman or kid around. F***tards who think they have the right to the money in the cash register at a gas station simply because they have a knife they can threaten somebody with.
Enjoy your COVID and "your "freedom". Be proud to have contributed to the disease hurting our country. You're a real patriot.
NOT having COVID has allowed me to go out when and where I choose. My employer has not had to pay me for any time off, insurance has not had to pay for any doctor visits, medicines, and certainly no hospital time, I have not been able to shed any COVID germs and share them with others.
Go figure.
"There's no question about the significant effects the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the workplace. Industry experts and analysts have pointed out the burden borne by employers, from increased health care costs to lost hours and productivity."
"Now, new research estimates the pandemic's startling price tag for employers: $213.1 billion.
"That figure comes from the Integrated Benefits Institute (IBI), an Oakland, Calif.-based nonprofit research organization, which estimates that the cost associated with the loss of work hours from the pandemic was a staggering $167.4 billion in the pandemic's first year and $45.7 billion in its second year. The number of lost hours attributed to the pandemic was 6.6 billion—5.2 billion hours in year one and 1.4 billion in year two."
COVID-19's Price Tag for Employers: $213 Billion
The Integrated Benefits Institute estimates that the cost associated with the loss of work hours from COVID-19 was a staggering $167.4 billion in the pandemic's first year and $45.7 billion in its second year.
www.shrm.org
