>>510492481Yeah, if you mischaracterize the point I was making and squint a little I guess I can see how you thought that was what I was getting at.
The point was that the purpose of masks was always to avoid the spread of germs. Yes, we know now that it was completely airborne. When the masking guidance was first issued, we didn't know that for a fact - for all we knew, it could be spread by droplets, mucus, or a number of ways that masks could stop.
This is why these discussions are frustrating. Yes, the guidance changed. But it's because the guidance is based on whatever knowledge we have at a given time and the knowledge itself was evolving. We knew more a month into it more than we knew when it started. We knew more three months into it than we knew in the first month. And we knew more a year later than we did in that first half year.
You blame people for not knowing *everything* right from the get-go. That's not how the world works.
Again, I didn't blame people at the time for not masking, even if I thought it was foolish. I still don't blame people for not getting vaxxed. In times of uncertainty, people adopt different approaches. But it pisses me the fuck off when I get lectured for going one way by people who bitch about being lectured for going the other, as though you assholes didn't lecture everyone and make a huge stink at the time too.
You're exactly what you criticize, most of you at least. Two sides of the same fucking coin. You have no problem shaming people for disagreeing with you, same as the people you hate.