Masks: Logical Fallacies Abound

People are also committing other logical fallacies.

For example, they assume that they’re wearing a mask and didn’t get Covid-19 it’s because of the mask. Humans like to find pattens in things so it’s a neat equation to apply but causation is not correlation. Ie wearing the masks doesn’t mean because you didn’t get Covid it’s because of the mask.  

One rebuttal to this is, well, this site and its material arguing masks are largely ineffective and may in fact be causing harm. Two, a simple straight raw calculation reveals the statistical probability of getting Covid. Canada averages 7000 cases. Divide that into a rough population of 37.5 million and you get .019% of the population is a case - not necessarily infected. So the odds are you’re not going to get it.

The slight crinkle is the reality that eventually, because it is a coronavirus strain likely to remain in circulation, we will all get it at some point.

Another one that’s popping up is ‘there’s no flu because we’re wearing masks’. This one gets to the heart of why I set this site up and starkly shows science is deliberately overlooked. The mass body of evidence we have are studies on INFLUENZA.

It also, once again, distracts from other possible reasons. Can it be officials are simply shifting flu cases into Covid since we don’t generally test for flu? Is a more likely reason hand washing (which is actually backed by science)?

You can’t just insert your anecdotal assumption into this without EVIDENCE.

In any event, if masks work to stop the flu, then why hasn’t it done so for Covid?

The only way is if we do actual STUDIES instead of talking out of asses to know if we're misapplying causation and correlation.

It's leading to a 'false positive' and this is as good as pure shit.