How effective protective gear is ranges from non-effective to completely effective and all points in between. Let's assign this range to the numbers between 0 and 1. I agree that we are not 100% protected unless we wear an Infectious Disease Protection suit. Anything that we can do to curb the virus should be done in a pandemic. As a society, we should recognize that putting on a simple face mask helps avoid the spread of the virus more than not wearing a mask. That is, 0.1 > 0. We should be doing what is right from a scientific and common sense standpoint. Republicans have politicized this issue to the point where they are harming the public. Just because wearing a mask doesn't completely prevent transmission, doesn't mean one should not wear a mask.
The problem with politics is that everyone has an alternate agenda and sometimes it disagrees with scientific and common sense reasoning. The truth is contorted to advance the political agenda often at the cost of the public. What can be easily understood and mapped to a number between 0 and 1 ends up being either 0 or 1.
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