This is so stupid. Lose the masks people. Move on and live.
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Who cares? Does it have bluetooth? Everything is better with bluetooth!
And don’t forget masks also protect the wearer. And even if you get infected with COVID-19, with a mask the virus load is much smaller.
A contradictory statement.
Only in a country as backward as the United States would a story on a company's face masks end up in a political forum.
Can’t believe that this post has to be monitored/restricted due to the “political nature”. How sad that basic safety measures and common courtesy of your fellow neighbor became political.
A lot of double-speak, hypocrisy, half-truths, and misdirection from the left and right got us here. People that don't pay attention might not remember who said what when, but the internet doesn't forget. That said, it is only 14 days to slow the spread... that really isn't that long...
I really feel bad for the hard of hearing, I can’t imagine how it’s like for them to communicate right now.
This is why I get a quad flu shot every year and starting next year my first pneumonia.
"Although the infection fatality rate of flu is less than 0.1 percent, roughly 10 times less than that of COVID-19 (current estimates range from 0.5 percent to 1 percent), it still kills 30,000 to 60,000 Americans every year. “Here we have a disease, influenza, a scourge of humankind going back centuries,” said epidemiologist George Rutherford, MD. “We have a vaccine that’s pretty effective. There’s no reason for us to be filling our ICUs with people with influenza who didn’t get vaccinated.”"
"Although the infection fatality rate of flu is less than 0.1 percent, roughly 10 times less than that of COVID-19 (current estimates range from 0.5 percent to 1 percent), it still kills 30,000 to 60,000 Americans every year. “Here we have a disease, influenza, a scourge of humankind going back centuries,” said epidemiologist George Rutherford, MD. “We have a vaccine that’s pretty effective. There’s no reason for us to be filling our ICUs with people with influenza who didn’t get vaccinated.”"
Cost doesn’t matter. This is not a retail product. This is no more expensive to Apple than the uniforms they supply to employees.
We're a pretty sh*t country, ngl.
Speaking of Star Trek with the aluminum, we need to be more like Spock. More logical and less emotional. The earth is round, no it is not.....
Only here in the US 🙄
Trump weaponized mask wearing and gaslighted his low-education, low-information followers (approx 38% of adults) into believing COVID was “just a flu”. No need to wear a mask; look at those stupid Democratic governors taking away their state’s residents freedom by requiring mask wearing in public.
The Republican party for a few decades now has been anti-intellectual and anti-education in their policies. It’s essential if they are to maintain power against the backdrop of changing demographics that will have whites as the minority in the not so distant future.
Dumbing-down textbooks, promoting home schooling and “charter” schools (publicly-funded private schools) so kids aren’t taught sex education (abstinence only!); Darwin/natural selection, carbon-13 dating and dinosaurs and people living at the same time (the earth is only 5,000 years old, right?); eliminating civics (a waste of time!); and anything else that Republicans deemed too threatening to their future political viability.
Fast forward and Trump is the result, not the cause. He just took advantage of the ignorant and easily frightened—and a significant number of racist Americans.
You reap what you sow Republicans. You’ve destroyed your party and done major damage to the country that will take decades to repair.
If Trump told his followers the Apple clear mask gave you cancer, they’d believe him. Even if scientists tested—and the media were to widely report—that it was 100% eaffective against COVID-19.
That’s where we are, and it’s a sad state of affairs indeed.
In the US, science IS political.
Thanks Republicans for your decades of anti-education and anti-intellectualism!
actually looks very uncomfortable. Looks like that thin cord pulls pretty hard around the ears. Exactly what I don't want in a facemask.
They followed their dear leader. This is mostly Trump’s fault, sure, but the Republicans have spent a few decades laying the foundation by making sure their political base were ignorant.
I do wish Apple would sell these, I’d buy one in an instant.
The mask isn’t to protect the wearer, for the most part. It’s to prevent infected wearers from infecting others.
How can you not know that? Oh right. Stop watching Fox News and you might actually learn the truth. It’s nowhere near as frightening in the real world as it is in Trump world. Stop being so deathly afraid of a little piece of cloth. It’s not a good look.
Congratulations on being the first person to make this thread political.