Seeing significantly more people wearing masks this holiday season. Smart. Viral infections surge during this time of year due to travel and more time spent indoors. Wearing a mask means avoiding illness and therefore more valuable time spent with loved ones.
@luckytran
"Wearing a mask means avoiding illness" ? Are you sure of that? I'm not. For centuries we've learned the best ways to avoid illness, -- why have masks have never been part of them?
@KeithDJohnson
@DamonWakes @luckytran @KeithDJohnson "We" are those who have understood, learned and carried out actual health enhancing behaviors and practices (f.i. combinations of balanced diet, reasonable outdoor activity, basic cleanliness, keeping weakened people apart from the ill, low stress, loving care, no wars and repression, creative expression...).
btw -- Japan's 2019 flu season was the world's worst that year.
@windy @luckytran @KeithDJohnson I can't work out why you're bringing up 2019. Why is that year significant?
@DamonWakes @luckytran @KeithDJohnson The year isn't important. I just wonder, if Japan culture includes mask wearing in order to avoir illness, how could that country have so many cases of flu?
@windy @luckytran @KeithDJohnson If Japan has "so many cases of flu," you shouldn't have to cherry-pick one particular year to make that point. Frankly I thought you might have misread 1918 as 2018 and that was the reason behind the non-sequiteur. But if you're not going to acknowledge that your original point about masks not being used historically was completely wrong, I've got no reason to believe you're going to take anything else on board either.
@luckytran Sorry. I might not have expressed myself clearly. All I was saying is that I think that "we" (humanity) have learned to avoid illness by enhancing our health instead of magically believing -- namely in masks. Japan was referred to. My understanding is that if masks didn't avoid illness in 2019 in Japan, then they don't avoid illness at all anywhere. If you see something wrong there I'll acknowledge it right away.