Posted on 04/14/2020 7:59:59 PM PDT by SoCalCynic
WASHINGTON – A team of government officials – led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – has created a public health strategy to combat the coronavirus and reopen parts of the country.
Their strategy, obtained by The Washington Post, is part of a larger White House effort to draft a national plan to get Americans out of their homes and back to work. It gives guidance to state and local governments on how they can ease mitigation efforts, moving from drastic restrictions such as stay-at-home orders in a phased way. . .
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Lets just toss anything else those fecal brained buffoons come up with in the round file unread where it properly belongs.
This is a job for the State Governors. Some will do it well, some will positively stink and some will do a mediocre job. All fifty of them are far better qualified than the CDC, and its their job, not the CDC’s job.
The proper response to this is to mock the CDC.
Studies show that with the best fitting N95 mask, that the forward jet of droplets is greatly reduced. The offset though is that it creates a sides directed plume cloud around the wearer. This cloud stays with you, kinda like the Pigpen character in the Peanuts comic strip.
Take a close look at a N95 mask.
The air is filtered on inhale...exhaust is through the check valve and unfiltered....so a sneeze would create a plume of infection if the wearer was coronavirus infected.
re: “Studies show that with the best fitting N95 mask, that the forward jet of droplets is greatly reduced. “
MY cited study shows this:
Thus, it is concluded that the reaerosolization of particles and bacteria, collected on the fibrous filters of N95 respirators, is insignificant at conditions encountered in respirator wear.
That’s good enough for me.
re: “The air is filtered on inhale...exhaust is through the check valve and unfiltered..”
Duh!
And OBVIOUSLY not the design considered.
We have a few N95 masks that we rotate. Without going out very much it is easy to hang them to dry the virus out in the recommended 3 to 4 days.
HOWEVER, an elderly couple my wife and I help out once a week want us to wear our masks around them in case we unknowingly have the virus. Good idea and we are fine with that.
Except now I just realized that “DUH!”, our N95 masks with the valves are still letting our breath out. I’m going to have to red over that paper better. I wonder if that is one reason I’ve seen some doctors with surgical masks over their N95s?
I thought it wast to protect the rarer N95s, but perhaps if their N95s have a valve, the N95 is to protect the doctor, and the surgical mask is to protect the patient?
We have a hard enough time breathing with the valved masks.
We'll find out soon enough if that's true.
I couldn’t wear that much clothing in Arizona.
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