Posted on 08/01/2020 9:38:01 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
The Netherlands has decided not to mandate the wearing of face masks in public, citing the fact that there is no scientific evidence to suggest they are effective against the spread of the coronavirus.
“From a medical perspective there is no proven effectiveness of masks, the Cabinet has decided that there will be no national obligation for wearing non-medical masks” announced Netherlands Minister for Medical Care Tamara van Ark.
The country’s National Institute for Health (RIVM) noted that it is aware of studies from other countries that purport to show masks slow the spread of disease, but will not be heeding them.
Indeed, RIVM chief Jaap van Dissel warned that wearing masks incorrectly, in addition to the effect masks have of eroding the perceived need for social distancing, could increase the risk of transmission because of a “false sense of security”.
(Excerpt) Read more at summit.news ...
a friend has her grand dtr living with her who works at a senior facility....masks are mandated....frequent employee checks.....now, despite mask, she has covid.....
3 days old article.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-dutch-cities-virus-masks.html
Dutch cities mandate masks
Masks reduce the chances of spreading, they don’t eliminate it.
cloth masks and surgical masks are like wearing screens
it totally does give wearers a false sense of protection
THIS
Mandating only essential persons drive on roadways reduces accidents, it doesn’t eliminate them
but at what cost?
All mask do is spread virus particles in a vertical plane (coronal plane) instead of out away from you.
3 July: Tribune, Pakistan: More masks than fish
Covid-19 waste is ending up in our oceans and threatening the marine life’s ecosystem
by Eric Shahzar
However, the pandemic is also harming our planet in a very surprising manner — through a relentless rise in ocean pollution. As the production and demand for face masks and gloves quadrupled, Covid-19 waste is ending up in our oceans and threatening the marine life’s ecosystem, which has already been struggling to cope with pre-existing plastic waste. If no urgent action is taken, we will soon have more face masks than fish in our oceans.
Covid-19 waste has become a new source of pollution as single-use personal protective equipment (PPE) floods our fragile oceans. While conducting a litter exercise in France’s Cote d’Azur coast, Operation Mer Propre, a French non-profit organisation, found numerous gloves, masks and bottles of hand sanitisers in the Mediterranean along with the usual litter of plastic waste. This worrying discovery should be very appalling and embarrassing for the human race.
Covid-19 waste is not only visible in the Mediterranean, but it has become a global problem. The other side of the world faces the same predicament. OceansAsia, marine conservation organisation, discovered a huge number of single-use PPE waste during its plastic pollution research. Millions of masks were found on the Soko Islands, near the coast of Hong Kong.
It takes one face mask 450 years to decompose in water...
Today, we see face masks lying on the streets, stuck on trees and inevitably ending up in our vulnerable oceans...
Today is the time to reset our attitude towards our fragile oceans and consider its environmental impact on human survival...
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2253171/more-masks-than-fish
the “gloBULL warmer” writer, Eric Shahzar:
Tweet: Eric Shahzar, Environmentalist. Research Analyst. Faculty Ziauddin Law @Unicef_uk @OxfamGB
The difference between a broken community and a thriving one is the presence of women who are valued - Michelle Obama
31 Jul 2020
https://twitter.com/ESShahzar/status/1288915790184448001
Trying to get it through the head of a liberal (a fools errand) I know that the vast majority of ocean waste comes from Africa and SE Asia and that any further restrictions in the US would have a negligible effect on pollution while greatly increasing cost. He still does not get it.
At least some sanity and common sense left in this year of living stupid.
Most leftys have anendenic infestation of maggots I. Their brains. The flies flying around them hav entered adult stage and came Out their ear or nose
That’s a false analogy.
That’s a false analogy. The correct analogy is mandating that only non-drunk persons drive on roadways. That reduces accidents
People are speeding 30 miles over the limit routinely this year. Nationwide.
Push prohibition elsewhere. The CDC wants BAC down to 0.05. Utah down to 0.03. And in Sweden it already IS 0.01.
Easier convictions perhaps but the founder of MADD said that prohibitionism was never her goal and left the group in the 80’s to lobby on behalf on bars and breweries.
https://radio.wosu.org/post/ohios-pandemic-shutdown-led-big-rise-speeding-tickets-over-100-mph#stream/0
By JERRY KENNEY • JUL 22, 2020
Data supplied by the Highway Patrol shows that between March 24 and July 10, they issued 1,159 citations to drivers going faster than a 100 mph
The mask theory is basically broken down into 2 parts. Are you protecting yourself or are you protecting other? If you are trying to protect yourself then you should wear a full face mask because if someone sneezes near you then you will certainly breath in thier sneeze molecules through the sides of the masj and it will get into your eyes. If you are trying to protect others, then you shoukd stay home if you aee sick. Healthy people will not infect others with a virus if they are not sick!
My old girlfriend, Geirgen keigen, from the Svord in Sweden use to wear a mask and she hawt!
Medical professionals have said, the masks do nothing to stop the virus.
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