I'm going to vastly oversimplify, because so many people are vast simpletons.
A virus needs a host.
It can't stay in one host long, because either the host dies or the host adapts and kills the virus.
The virus doesn't just move to the next host, it multiplies and each of its "children" jumps to a new host.
Each time it does this, it "learns" from its host so the children adapt to be more successful in the next host. That's what the variants are (this is not strictly true, like I said I'm oversimplifying.)
Masks deter the jump. They do. They just do. They are like a border wall if it actually worked. The higher grade the mask, the higher the wall and the fewer beasties can jump it. If the virus in one host can't jump to another, eventually it will either be killed or the host will die and it will starve (or at least be buried/cremated with the host.)
Vaccines don't deter the jump. They can make it harder for the virus to "win" the battle and kill the host. They can make the host harder to stick in (so it doesn't have a base to jump from,) or faster at killing the virus.
So here's the thing. If everyone had just worn god damn masks at the start, the virus would have died off before it mutated. If everyone had gotten god damn vaccinations as soon as they became available, the virus would have died off. But because they didn't, the virus was able to "learn" how to jump harder and stick more often and kill faster. That's why we have the delta variant. That's why the vaccines we have aren't enough on their own any more. That's why we'll never get out of this pandemic.
All of you anti-science morons whining that the CDC was wrong because _they_ are adapting are the same ones who refused to mask up and get vaccinated in the first place when the simple guidelines could have put an end to this before it got out of hand. It's YOUR FAULT that I can't go to dinner and a show without wearing a mask and forgoing any physical contact. You. You are responsible.
So shut the fuck up, get a vaccine, wear a god damn mask, and when science comes up with the next thing for you to do, DO IT. Because frankly, I'm fully vaccinated and won't get very sick, but it's pretty easy for me to become a delta carrier; and I'm sort of hoping science will get desperate enough to recommend coughing on all you idiots and wiping you out to stop this lunacy once and for all.
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