I didn't dodge staphylococcus infection, unlikely but barely possible, because it's boring compared to that exciting killer Legionnaires Disease which is coursing through our population by your account. I always thought that the cases in hospitals were due to ventilation symptoms but clearly it's all those medical professionals in masks.
Only the more extreme bacterial infection, on a whole spectrum of things which can be cultured in masks (fungus and mould too), because we didn't evolve to wear filthy rags on our faces. Medical professionals don't normally walk the streets and exert themselves whilst wearing masks, so stupid analogy as usual.
I also look forward to the rash of respiratory problems years from now caused by inhalation of mask fibres, especially from re-use of those shitty, cheap, single-use plastic masks. Some of which say they don't contain glass fibres!
You mean due to the NHS fuck-up of ventilating frail people and thus killing them.
As I just cited in a number of references earlier, not wearing a mask is like coughing on people without covering your mouth. That isn't being brave - it's being an asshole. The mask is primarily there to prevent the wearer from infecting others, not to protect the wearer.
I'm not ill, therefore there is no risk to anyone else. Same as was the case every year before this one when the usual seasonal viruses did the rounds. I "protect" others by not being ill.
And again, how is anyone protecting anyone else if they're repeatedly touching their mask and spreading their germs on their hands?
As for asymptomatic transmission, I think you're referring to this article.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03141-3
In a manuscript posted on medRxiv this month2, they report that the risk of an asymptomatic person passing the virus to others in their home is about one-quarter of the risk of transmission from a symptomatic person.
Although there is a lower risk of transmission from asymptomatic people, they might still present a significant public-health risk because they are more likely to be out in the community than isolated at home, says Andrew Azman, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, who is based in Switzerland and was a co-author on the study. “The actual public-health burden of this massive pool of interacting ‘asymptomatics’ in the community probably suggests that a sizeable portion of transmission events are from asymptomatic transmissions,” he says.
There is no disagreement that asymptomatic transmission exists. The only question is how important it is as a vector. Masks are only one piece of preventing transmission - but they're a simple and easy one. There is disagreement on how important masks are to help, but they do help.
Asymptomatic transmission is utter nonsense. It's unsubstantiated bullshit they trotted out earlier this year to hype up the scare factor. If you are not symptomatic, you are not ill and you are not contagious. Same as it has always been with every seasonal virus.
I find it incredible how supposedly intelligent people have invested in the idea that a strain of the common cold is suddenly the plague.