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Surgeon General Doubles Down: Masks Increase Virus Risk
Newsmax ^ | Tuesday, 31 March 2020 | Sandy Fitzgerald

Posted on 05/02/2020 5:09:51 PM PDT by LoveMyFreedom

Surgeon General Jerome Adams Tuesday doubled down on his advice against healthy people wearing face masks to protect themselves from coronavirus, saying that wearing one improperly can "actually increase your risk" of getting the disease.

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Isn't it interesting that on 3/31/2020 the Surgeon General states that it is not a good idea for healthy people to wear masks and now we have too!
1 posted on 05/02/2020 5:09:51 PM PDT by LoveMyFreedom
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To: LoveMyFreedom
wearing one improperly can "actually increase your risk" of getting the disease.

Is he an idiot?

2 posted on 05/02/2020 5:14:21 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: LoveMyFreedom

“saying that wearing one improperly can “actually increase your risk” of getting the disease.”

Just how stupid does the stupid SG think the American people are?


3 posted on 05/02/2020 5:15:33 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Jeff Chandler

No, I don’t think he’s an idiot.


4 posted on 05/02/2020 5:15:37 PM PDT by freepertoo
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To: LoveMyFreedom

I’ve seem many people wearing those stiff paper dust masks that had no seal on their face at all


5 posted on 05/02/2020 5:15:46 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Mariner
Just how stupid does the stupid SG think the American people are?

Is this a trick question?

6 posted on 05/02/2020 5:17:23 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: LoveMyFreedom

My understanding is that the mask is not to prevent the wearer from getting the virus but to prevent giving it.


7 posted on 05/02/2020 5:18:24 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: LoveMyFreedom

March: Don’t wear masks. They increase the risk.
April: Must wear masks unless you want to kill people!

Eastasia is at war with Oceania. Eastasia has always been at war with Oceania.

Orwell would be proud.


8 posted on 05/02/2020 5:21:39 PM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: \/\/ayne

Correct.


9 posted on 05/02/2020 5:22:00 PM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: LoveMyFreedom

so nurses are really stupoid according to SG BS.


10 posted on 05/02/2020 5:22:45 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (That`s 464 people per square foot! Is this corrrect??)
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To: LoveMyFreedom
It was a lie to prevent people from hoarding N95 respirators and surgical masks needed by hospitals and first responders. I use N95 respirators routinely at home, so already had a supply.

BTW, the N95 standard means the mask itself removes at least 95 percent of 0.3 micron particles at test conditions. That particle size is the most difficult to remove (explanation is beyond the scope of this posting).

11 posted on 05/02/2020 5:23:27 PM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: LoveMyFreedom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5DXs8xxaMU&t=18s

Humorous youtube video which highlights how all advice is contradictory to all other advice when it comes to COVID-19.


12 posted on 05/02/2020 5:23:36 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: LoveMyFreedom

Fact: A virus is so small that it cannot be seen through an optical microscope. The existence of virus’s was only speculated about(due to otherwise unexplained illnesses) until the invention of the electron microscope. Until then no one had ever actually visualized a virus.

Keeping that in mind then one should realize that not many masks could even filter a virus out. A virus can even get through an N99 mask. Now imagine that the mask becomes contaminated and actually becomes a transmission source.


13 posted on 05/02/2020 5:24:42 PM PDT by Revel
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To: bunkerhill7

Oh get real


14 posted on 05/02/2020 5:24:42 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Jeff Chandler

“Is he an idiot?”

Someone is...either him or the governors who are ordering it.


15 posted on 05/02/2020 5:25:10 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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He is exactly correct.

Wearing a mask INCREASES the chance of getting the virus.

People wearing masks touch their face 5 times more often than people who do not. Most people constantly readjust their mask. Touching surfaces (counters, handles, windows, railings,etc) and then bringing whatever is on your fingers to your face is the best way to get the virus. Masks only increase the amount of touching of your face, therefore increasing the risk.

16 posted on 05/02/2020 5:26:14 PM PDT by Freeze923
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To: butlerweave
They don't do a great job of keeping the virus out -- but, they do do a great job of keeping it in. Civic-minded people wear them to protect others.

USA (little mask-wearing) Deaths/million = 204

Taiwan (mask-wearing) Deaths/million = 0.3

S.Korea (mask-wearing) Deaths/million = 5.0

Japan (mask-wearing) Deaths/million = 4.0

17 posted on 05/02/2020 5:26:59 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: LoveMyFreedom

Just how many people are going to change their masks everyday? Maybe mask buying can be a personal property deduction and not medical. Keep your receipts just in case. How much is this costing the average family. . .there goes the corona check.


18 posted on 05/02/2020 5:27:57 PM PDT by Maudeen (JESUS . . . OUR NATION'S ONLY ANSWER)
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To: Jeff Chandler

A mask can increase your risk if you use it improperly (e.g., touching your face more to adjust it, not washing it, using material so porous it has no effect, luring you into a false sense of security around people with the disease so that you no longer distance from them). On the other hand, a properly used mask provides some added measure of protection over no mask at all. So not an idiot, but I somewhat disagree with him on this.


19 posted on 05/02/2020 5:28:24 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Follow your Inner Trump)
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To: bunkerhill7

A nurse is a whole different situation and wears his or her mask differently. People wearing them on the street just trotting around are just concentrating any virus they may have contacted, they’re breathing and rebreathing their own (possibly infected) air, and they are also reducing their oxygen levels and not filling their lungs.


20 posted on 05/02/2020 5:28:45 PM PDT by livius
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