Posted on 06/19/2020 1:40:57 PM PDT by Yosemitest
Any reliable links?
Seems to me that filtering effects are similar to that of hardware cloth to keep out the mosquitoes, Or is there some mask magic I don’t understand?.
In Hong Kong, after SARS, anybody with a sniffle wears a mask. It helps, I guess, to control sneeze droplets, but the thing is, it tells everybody else you’re nor well and they give you a bit of space in a very crowded place.
That’s the attitude that should be adopted here.
most android phones have one built in.
Even the M95 only stops particles down to about 5 microns. The virus is 250 times smaller. Masks do accumulate bacteria so you can concentrate them and re-breath them. Masks do lower O2 levels which eventually affects the brain. It can be said that long term wearing of masks will starve the brain of O2 and make you more stupid. Maybe that is the goal of the supporters of masks; leads to idiocracy.
Where?
“If mask wearing is required and at least 80% of people wear masks, transmission of the virus is halted... “
I just read that paper you linked. It is all theoretical and bench tests. As in, “cough at the petei dish” type experiments. No real world evidence. But the link I posted in #17 gives over a dozen peer reviewer papers that did actual, real world experiments with real people, sick and not, and counted who else got sick. Results? Masks don’t work to prevent people from getting sick. Bench tests and theories are fine, but when they don’t work in real life, you must discount them. When theories fail in real life, the theory is wrong. That’s science.
And as for Asia, Hubei province study in China where everyone wore masks showed... Drumroll... Masks don’t work. They didn’t prevent further transmission. And everyone wore them. In China, there is pretty good compliance. Or jail.
So stop with the propaganda. Masks don’t work, and we’re tired of fear mongering virtue signalling control freaks telling everyone what to do.
Taiwan
Japan
Vietnam
S.Korea
Hong Kong
Most of China (although new outbreak in Beijing)
Perhaps some of you will listen and survive the pandemic. The rest have made their choice.
Masks can help if properly worn and donned/doffed to train people to keep their hands away from their mouth and nose.
It's all about percentages. Masks are not 100% effective. They are not designed to me.
Don't waste your time reading about what Karin feels about masks. HeSheIt would destroy our country to make us wear masks 24/7.
Ignore HeSheIt, one day Jim will tell HeSheIt to stuff a sock in its mouth.
Uniform mask-wearing is the best measure to stop the spread of viruses like COVID.
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A common piece of cloth will stop a virus which so small it cannot be seen in a regular microscope because it is smaller than the wavelength of light.
OK Karen.
Most of these aren’t “laws”...they are administrative edicts. The fascists act as if they are laws.
If mask wearing is required and at least 80% of people wear masks, transmission of the virus is halted....
How can you prove that?
The major flaw in the article you posted is that the author states that the asymptomatic spread the virus. The cdc now says that’s not the case. Thus for these people wearing a mask is irrelevant.
I will concede that a mask on a symptomatic person will impede droplets but these people should just stay home.
and that is if the N95 is fit appropriately and tested. The ones I see people wearing in the grocery store are not
Do you believe anything that communist china says about anything? If so...I believe you could well be exceptionally naive.
You do know the fatality rate among those who contract the disease is around 0.2% or less. Even if you get the disease you are overwhelmingly likely to survive the pandemic despite your dramatic statement. Even if you are a drama queen
or use a kleenex
COVID raging and killing families in U.S.
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