OT: How effective are masks you ask?

masking up goes against every bit of human immunology that exists...by masking up you are not only exposing yourself to whatever you have trapped in the mask, the lack of exposure to flora and bacteria is sacking your immune system
 

that is quite a statement. Let’s break it down.

goes against every bit of human immunology that exists

I guess you learned immunology from a Medieval scroll. You see, modern medicine has discovered that diseases are not transmitted by “bad air” or “humors”, in fact diseases are spread by microscopic organisms called bacteria and viruses. These organisms don’t have the ability to fly through the air. They are transmitted from person to person through physical contact and the small water droplets in the breath, etc. I know breath appears to be only air, but actually it has a lot of droplets and is near 100% humidity. Not sure if you’re able to follow all this to it’s logical conclusion, but this means that wearing masks is actually supported by every bit of immunology that’s been known for the last 100 years. 
 

By masking up you are not only exposing yourself to whatever is trapped in your mask

So you’re exposing yourself to yourself. What would be trapped in your mask other than your own germs? 
 

the lack of exposure to flora and bacteria is sacking your immune system

This is more than a stretch. This is something that hippies brought up like 50 years ago when companies like Clorox and Lysol started producing a lot of bleach and antibacterial products. Think about how many times you’ve cleaned your house without wearing ppe. Every time you spray cleaning solution on a surface and wipe it wit a cloth, some of the bacteria that lives on your skin dies. It hasn’t disrupted people’s microbiomes. If all the sanitizer and bleach you’ve used for years hasn’t “sacked” your immune systems ability to respond then wearing a mask will certainly not do that.

masking up goes against every bit of human immunology that exists...by masking up you are not only exposing yourself to whatever you have trapped in the mask, the lack of exposure to flora and bacteria is sacking your immune system

I assure everyone reading this that it is entirely false. "Sacking your immune system." Jeebus. If you want me to explain the "Hygiene Hypothesis," which is what you're probably referring to, I'm willing to do that in some other forum.

Even if you want to mak a point about how we build our immune system by exposing it to the world, trying to build up your immune defense in the middle of a pandemic by exposing yourself to the pandemic is just a big bucket of dumb. 

This isn't letting your kid play in the dirt with worms to get used to microflora and fauna or letting kids get colds so they can fight the dangerous things later.

Do you just not know how to evaluate risk?

You could have just started with the conspiracy theory Youtube link and saved us all the time reading what is, at best, a stream of words with tenuous connection to medicine and science.

There are not "two sides" to this argument, or anyone "silencing" some additional viewpoint.  On one side is the entire medical profession and combined hundreds of thousands of years of research, experimentation, and knowledge.  And all of them basically say that wearing masks and taking necessary precautions can stymie an airborne virus from infecting others.  On the other side are people who look at all that information and, because it doesn't match their prior assumptions, dismiss it all and resort to theorizing about some great cabal trying to kill us all because they can't accept that they're wrong.

HA!  I've been waiting all day to see this video here! You delivered!

My favorite was the 800 years to mutate enough to jump to humans...something along those lines.  All I needed to hear, and then I read earlier about muuuuuch more wrong with that video.  Which is only a snippet of a larger film that must be 10 hours long if that was a snippet.

Blue_by_u

You posted a bs video profiling this doctor:

”Mikovits has become a champion for believers in medical conspiracy theories, basing claims linking the XMRV to autism and cancer on other retracted papers, and claiming she had been jailed by the influence of the Deep state and Big Pharma for exposing the truth about vaccines. In reality, she was arrested on November 18, 2011, for allegedly stealing lab notebooks, a computer, and other material belonging to Whittemore Peterson Institute (WPI).[23]”

Apparently she has been a long time antivaxer who made up a conspiracy theory that Covid19 was from a bad flu vaccine.  I’ve never googled a person before and come up with anyone that  has had as long of a conspiracy theory (debunked) resume than Mikovits.  Her big YouTube video keeps getting taken down.  

You say “two sides to every arguement” and what you have instead is just a bunch of BS on one side.  You need to go back to study college level (accredited) science and journalism so that you can understand what is needed in terms of double blind studies, statistics, peer reviews, and independent editorial boards before you suggest any hint of an argument. 

Yep, good thing there are folks like you to make sure this lasts a really long time.  Whatever you have "trapped" in your mask would only come from you.   The US will drag this virus out as long as possible because of all of the conspiracy theory idiots.