Thread by @TheValuesVoter

I won’t ever understand why some people had such a hard time believing that COVID exists or that there are common sense things we can do to keep it from killing more people.

It takes a lot less faith to believe the truth than it takes to believe a lot of their other theories.

1) There’s an airborne pathogen which is both much more deadly than the flu and also more contagious.

2) The virus affects different folks differently. And not always the way we expect. A lot of people have no symptoms at all. It’s killed little kids. Some have lasting issues.

3) You can spread the disease to others, if you have it, just by talking. Even if you FEEL fine. You can get it by just being near people who have it.

4) Wearing masks significantly cuts down the chance that infected people will unknowingly spread it to others.

5) Masks don’t GUARANTEE that an infected person won’t spread COVID. But it reduces the chances a lot.

If wearing a mask reduces by 60% the chance that someone will give you a virus that has a 2% chance of killing you, wouldn’t you want them to?

6) The numbers are undeniable. More people are dying. More people are in the hospital. The virus is there. It’s everywhere. And all it cares about doing is making its way to a human body where it can replicate and spread to more human bodies. And wreak destruction along the way.

It takes less faith to believe this than it takes to believe a lot of other things that we believe.