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SteveRudzinski t1_j6mtugt wrote

Reply to comment by Mindraker in Japan’s monthly COVID-19 deaths surpass 10,000 for 1st time by DoremusJessup

Because most masks you can't see your mouth or nose even with minimal gaps, and masks aren't generally protecting YOU they're just preventing your spittle from your mouth from getting in people's eyes and shit. So it's bringing up an argument nobody is really making in order to dismiss mask use at all while focusing on a hyper specific example.

I wear an N95 that fits perfectly with no gaps and I still don't expect it to do anything to protect me, it's to lower the odds of getting someone ELSE sick from me.

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CatProgrammer t1_j6mttnz wrote

Reply to comment by YeetTheeFetus in Canadian universities have been conducting joint research with Chinese military scientists for years by No-Drawing-6975

There's a lot of money you can get that doesn't even have to be spent on actual military or classified stuff, too. The US military funds a ton of basic, public research. Personally I think if you're able to get the military to give you money for that sort of stuff, more power to you.

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seinera t1_j6mtdd0 wrote

Reply to comment by SuperRedShrimplet in Canadian universities have been conducting joint research with Chinese military scientists for years by No-Drawing-6975

> At the risk of being branded a commie, this is what happens when countries progressively privatise higher education.

Private higher education is still better in every way. It's only that just like every other application of free market, there needs to be some amount of government regulation.

The main problem is that the western nations have been sleeping at the wheel for a while now, embracing oikophobia as a moral good, they have forgotten enemies exist and how to deal with them. Some countries just need to be blanket banned from having access to anything western, no matter how "xenophobic" it might make academics feel.

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