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In reply to the discussion: The foolish American: Many Americans foolishly refuse to recognize this fact about the virus. [View all]lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)I can't pound it through the "free dumbs" idiot's heads. But I did make one angry enough to totally go off on me with this:
The lungs of a health-compromised person are much like an open wound. The oxygen exchange barrier between your bloodstream and the air is thinner there than anywhere else, and in a diabetic, cancerous or many other conditions, that barrier has practically no protection, very little moist phlegm layer, and is much like an open wound to the air it is pumping, at some pressure too.
Now, if the surgeon getting ready to work on you were to say "I won't wear a mask during your operation"....
You'd kick that motherfucker out and go find a competent surgeon wouldn't you?
After the mouth of the recipient of this bit of discourse quit gaping...
He got madder than hell and stormed away calling me some sort of "liberal snowflake" string of names.