TRUST THE SCIENCE – RIGHT????

You cannot have a rational discussion with anyone about masks vs no masks. If they believe the masks work, that’s it.
Case in point:
I was at a bar last night (yes, they are still open FOR NOW). My friend was sitting next to me. He had Covid back in March or April I believe.
So, per real science, he is now immune via antibodies at first then TCells later on. The discussion came up that last call is 9:30 which I thought was ludicrous. He said it made sense. Ok, I tell him, walk me through how it makes sense.
Well, he says, it’s been shown that higher alcohol intake equals less mask compliance.
So? I say, people can’t get drunk before 9:30? That makes no sense still.
Then I ask him, have you ever read the box your blue surgical paper mask comes in? No, he says, why? Well if you read the box it says in black and white the mask does not prevent or protect you from viral transmission.
So, then why to Surgeons wear them in the operating room? (Yes, this old chestnut). Well, I tell him, the entire room is sanitized, the surgeon and all OR personnel “scrub” in with antiseptic procedure, and all instruments are sanitized as well. The mask is only to stop spittle/mucous from leaving the surgeon’s mouth and entering an open wound. He just gives me the three blinks. So then I say, yet people STILL get infections from operations, that’s why they go on post-operative antibiotics.
Then I ask him, if we are at 80-90% “mask compliance” per an October Men’s Health article: “right now Massachusetts is the state with the highest number of people wearing masks, at 94.87 percent of the population” and we have been told that if the population would comply at 80% then cases would “plummet”: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/masks-covid-19-infections-would-plummet-new-study-says
So why are the CASES still going up? He had no answer. So then I bring up the PCR tests having their sensitivity ramped up to 40X . At which point, dead particles or such minute particles are being detected. Which is nonsense. I told him the threshold should be 30X.
So then I said, who cares about the cases? Deaths are down and have been down, about 40-50 per day recently, which in my opinion is simply winter death increases which is every year since the dawn of time.
He then tells me Well, my parents are high risk. Ok, I say, then they need to take all necessary precautions and let the rest of us, who have a 99% chance of recovery (if we even have symptoms) to just go ahead and live our
We can’t crash an entire country’s economy on the off chance that some people might die. That’s not how life works.
He has no viable, logical argument to this, so he just says I don’t agree with you and that’s why the government has to do something so people can get money.
Yes, just magically “get money”.
So I tell him, look, for your own edification, just do some research. Go look at how many people, in total, died in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 and then look at this years numbers.
I happen to know he won’t. Most people won’t. They won’t because they are afraid to find out that they have been lied to, that there is a serious problem, that the “science” is not science at all, but might as well be just random ideas pulled out of a hat every day.
They truly, absolutely want to believe that this government won’t spy on you, take away your livelihood, crash the economy, inject you with some hocus-pocus “vaccine” that’s barely been tested. That BLM actually cares about black lives. That Antifa is actually anti-fascist. That the US of A will always be number one.
They desperately, and will every fiber of their being, want that to be true. Because if it’s not, then the reality of what’s coming is just too much for them to handle.
Which is what TPTB actually want.