Posted on 06/16/2020 1:25:41 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Back when the coronavirus pandemic cases started picking up in early Spring, many Americans and experts asked: Should we be wearing masks?
In response, some public health officials, such as the U.S. Surgeon, said that masks weren't necessary for the general public.
And then the public was told that, actually, masks are good to wear to help prevent the spread and also allow you to go out without anxiety of anyone coming within six feet of you.
Dr. Fauci joined TheStreet to talk about why masks are important when you leave the house, and to better explain why there was back and forth in the beginning.
"Masks are not 100% protective. However, they certainly are better than not wearing a mask. Both to prevent you, if you happen to be a person who may feel well, but has an asymptomatic infection that you don't even know about, to prevent you from infecting someone else," said Fauci. "But also, it can protect you a certain degree, not a hundred percent, in protecting you from getting infected from someone who, either is breathing, or coughing, or sneezing, or singing or whatever it is in which the droplets or the aerosols go out. So masks work."
So, why weren't we told to wear masks in the beginning?
"Well, the reason for that is that we were concerned the public health community, and many people were saying this, were concerned that it was at a time when personal protective equipment, including the N95 masks and the surgical masks, were in very short supply. And we wanted to make sure that the people namely, the health care workers, who were brave enough to put themselves in a harm way, to take care of people who you know were infected with the coronavirus and the danger of them getting infected."
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Agree.
Agree.
You missed the most basic point - it isn’t optional here!
I live in Jersey, I never wear a mask and I don’t care what anyone says. Police can’t enforce illegal laws. Supreme court cases back me up.
Unfortunately, all supermarkets out here require masks, so I wear a bandanna, which at least allows me more oxygen.
I wear a mask as little as is required by law; how is it “virtue signaling” when I can’t enter a business - or my job - without one?
IT IS THE LAW. I didn’t write it or advocate for it; I’m glad it wasn’t as extreme as NY state’s law (masks had to be worn IN PUBLIC).
I hear Amazon is going to require you start wearing a mask when you place an order...
I’ve seen people tossed from stores for refusing to wear one inside (the business could be fined for letting them in); I’d like to think they were proud people who were OK with doing without groceries, but they were foreigners who couldn’t follow basic instructions. In fact, they belonged to one of the groups that is supposedly harmed by this more than white people are.
“It was clear that they knew something we didn’t “
They knew nothing. They were doing what they were told. How can the Gov of NJ demand the public wear masks if their own police didn’t?
Around here you’re not going to get far in Jersey, NY or PA without a mask as far as grocery stores are concerned.
Just people washing their hands more has probably done more for the public’s health than all of the masks in world will.
Masks don’t work. Fauci has nothing to do with it
I’m talking about many weeks before the mask requirement, while many of us were still going to work and the panic shopping hadn’t yet started.
Not sure why FReepers think I’m making a statement in support of masks by wearing one where it is required by law; I’m shopping for six people. Like Mel Gibson in “The Patriot”: “I have a family; I can’t afford principles”.
In a procedural setting the masks are appropriately fit. They are worn once for a short period of time and then discarded. They are combined with a surgical handwashing (2 minutes is a very proscribed fashion ) sterile technique and sterile drapes. Once the mask is on it is not touched until the procedure is over. Plus a surgeon can hardly remove their hands from the sterile field to cover a cough or sneeze so they need something over their face
A far cry from the politically correct snot rags people are wearing again and again at the grocery store. If you cough or sneeze use a kleenex and throw it away.
He turned himself in so many directions in that paragraph it literally made my head spin.
Was just backing up your post in response to Trump.Deplorable also in Jersey who says don’t wear a mask and don’t care what anyone says. Good for them. But I don’t see them getting too far in the NJ-NY-PA area as far as stores are concerned. They’ll go to a store that doesn’t have a mask policy? All the stores in Jersey do. I too have seen people escoreted out of stores without a mask. Don’t wear a mask and don’t care? As if it was that simple.
“A surgeon wears a mash to keep his spittle from landing on the opening he is working on.”
Masks would keep out Junior Mints, too.
I understood and appreciate it; I was asking you why others thought I was choosing that path (instead of doing it because it was the only way to buy food or go to work).
Yeah. but junior mints make you thirsty. More like a regular mint
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