November 30, 2020, 10:24 am*
Anti-maskers just won’t give it a rest, despite nearly 1.5 million people having died from COVID-19 around the world so far this year. And so many of them aren’t content to just admit they’re too selfish to wear a mask in their day-to-day life while we sort things out. Instead, they’d rather drudge up any kind of pseudo-science or inaccurate claims to try to back their anti-mask stance with “proof” that masks don’t work.
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Of course, masks actually do work, and perpetually trying to prove otherwise always ends up backfiring in anti-maskers’ faces — not that they’d ever admit it.
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A recent example that’s gone viral was a simple Twitter exchange in which the anti-masker got dunked on so hard she wound up deleting her tweets.
“Not only do masks reduce your O2 & increase your CO2 intakes which makes you wheeze or gasp but they also provide perfect warm damp breeding grounds for pathogens to breath [sic] in, that will progressively make you ill,” @EliotKate wrote. “For those who WANT more respiratory illnesses – job done.”
It’s the kind of anti-masker sentiment that’s written with such unearned authority that people would undoubtedly repeat it as fact simply because of scientific terms and a couple bits that sound logical. But it was the user’s insistence on arguing with pro-mask folks that was her downfall.
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Richard Cantelo responded quite simply replied that “absolutely none of that is true,” prompting @EliotKate to ask him what his “exact qualifications” are for daring to dispute a statement she, an anonymous person on Twitter with no known qualifications herself, put out there.
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“A degree in medicine and Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, for which I was examined in respiratory physiology and the mechanics of gas transfer,” Cantelo replied. “What are yours?”
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Even though we see anti-maskers get taken to task every single day on social media because their arguments hold no weight, seeing this hyper-specific version of it was glorious, and people responded appropriately.
Of course, anti-maskers generally just double down when they are faced with facts, and that’s exactly what happened here (prior to the tweets being deleted, anyway).
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But while the anti-masker never went on to provide her supposed credentials for her inaccurate claims, choosing instead to stay anonymous on the internet, proof of Cantelo’s experience was easy to dig up.
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Sorry anti-maskers, better luck next time! Or maybe…just wear a mask.
*First Published: November 30, 2020, 9:16 am
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