@acroll Interesting. Why Mandarin…especially now? My view is that the schism between PRChina (assuming Xi continues to lead) and ROW will just continue to get wider and wider making this skill less “valuable”. Though it is a cool language to know :-)
@markorgan I think the root cause of your objection is that you’re triggered by mask-wearing. Science(as you should understand given your background as a (former) neuroscientist) always has dissenting positions. The existence of diverse findings is not grounds to overturn standard of care.
@markorgan I scanned some of the papers and most seem to indicate reduced efficacy. Are you saying that masks have zero efficacy? It’s simplistic to discount masks in toto based on a few dozen papers. I think your cherry-picking papers to confirm your bias.
@markorgan This is lazy on your part. Your justification being that some apologists point to Asia as exemplars of where masks work, so you decide to attack Asians who wear masks as having odd beliefs. Then you dig-in. You want to win the argument at all costs.
@markorgan Disagree. Disagree. Look, I don’t have a problem with you being anti-mask and anti-vaccine and expressing this. Where I have a problem is when you impugn an entire community - Asian people (mainly Chinese) - for having a fetish and being enslaved to collectivist groupthink.
@markorgan Fetish is the wrong word, Mark. You generally try and use language in a precise way unless you want to use it to score a political point. Which you’re doing. I get that you don’t agree with mask-wearing and you’ve assembled some body of evidence to back-up your claims.