Posted on 07/01/2020 5:53:00 AM PDT by eyeamok
Such small particles (< 2.5 μm) are part of air fluidity, are not subject to gravitational sedimentation, and would not be stopped by long-range inertial impact. This means that the slightest (even momentary) facial misfit of a mask or respirator renders the design filtration norm of the mask or respirator entirely irrelevant. In any case, the filtration material itself of N95 (average pore size ~0.3−0.5 μm) does not block virion penetration, not to mention surgical masks. For example, see Balazy et al. (2006).
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WHERE ARE THE PRODUCT LIABILITY LAWYERS?? Shouldn't they be SUING Everyone involved for these False Claims??
Question: I’ve seen some comments to the effect that masks are justified to calm the anxiety of the public, ie, give them the idea that they can do something about the virus.
Does anyone have a link to a authoritarian source?
Shut up and wear the mask, serf!
It’s not about being 100% effective. It’s about decreasing the odds of transmission. Even a novel virus is attacked by the immune system. All foreign bodies are. If you reduce the viral load your body has a better chance of destroying the infection before it replicates out of control. It’s turning out that many have immune systems very adept at this which is why so many people don’t test positive for antibodies after recovery. The deniers of this are behaving like flat earth petulant children.
Masks have nothing to do with a virus, or any kind of healthcare issue.
They’re a tool to control the masses, and to distinguish sheep from freedom-loving Americans. It’ll make it so much easier to identify the compliant from those who might be trouble when the SHTF.
...masks are justified to calm the anxiety of the public, ie, give them the idea that they can do something about the virus.
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If there is one, it will be someone who studies belief. It’s a subjective field, so our own observations and experiences are probably just as valid.
The mask is a talisman. It’s like wearing a combo protective religious medal and a gang color token. Safety on several levels.
The calming was part of the incessant application of disinfectant, accompanied by vigorous scrubbing. Perhaps social distancing also was calming, limiting face-to-face, casual exchanges and forcing conversations to the digital realm, where they can be monitored, at least somewhat.
Hoarding became a substitute for working. Jobs offer a reward, either money, a rise in status, a sense of accomplishment, the satisfaction of increasing one’s future security. TP, masks and hand sanitizer were *transformed* into currency equivalents, at least in the minds of the hoarder, allowing that needed sense of accomplishment,along with an increase in future security.
The entire operation was managed by media and social media. Few sentences up until the 1st of June lacked the word virus.
We have all been played exceedingly well.
The people that want to make everyone wear masks with no data to show it works are behaving like flat earth petulant children
The forced wearing of masks is only symbolic and according to real scientific studies does little or nothing to stop the spread of the virus. I believe the forced wearing of masks is all about social control. The more sheep that can be coerced into wearing masks long term, the greater the chance that some other trumped up “crisis” can be used to control the population with decrees for supposedly the common good. Imagine being ordered not to drive your vehicle unless it was “essential” and the social shaming Karens brow beating you every time you pull your car out of the garage.
There was a study recently published which concluded that mandating the wearing masks reduced the number of infections by 78,000 (I can’t comment on their methodology because of my ignorance on that area.) They made this conclusion by comparing the various mitigation efforts mandated by authorities and whether masks were included in those measures.
One place used to show the success of mandating masks was NYC. Now this had me ask one big question and perhaps someone else can help.
If mandating masks made a significant difference in reducing the number of infections why was COVID19 so prevalent in skilled nursing facilities when such a mandate was in place before the one declared for the general population?
Study link:https://www.pnas.org/content/117/26/14857
The media keeps pushing this fake concept that the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT must mandate every citizen wear a mask, there on a jihad. They don’t understand that states elect Governors to run them.
” Imagine being ordered not to drive your vehicle unless it was “essential” and the social shaming Karens brow beating you every time you pull your car out of the garage.”
I’m glad I’m old. I can see that, and similar things in our future. The political class isn’t filled with brilliant minds, but it is filled with opportunists. You can be certain that the political class has noticed how easily Americans are controlled.
There is all kinds of data that shows proper maak wearing prevents disease transmission. That’s why they’ve been required in medical settings for 100’s of years. You idiots have politicized it.
BS. The studies say NO effect.
Show us one study that found masks or respirators had ANY good effect.
“That’s why they’ve been required in medical settings for 100’s of years.”
The surgical mask was invented in 1897 and wasn’t fully adopted until about 1937. Your data becomes more believable when you get basic facts correct.
Your ad hominem attacks “idiots” and petulant children” remarks show you have no scientific argument, only insults.
So fu2.
Here’s a whole bunch of them. Crawl back under your rock.
actually the data isn’t as strong as you seem to think. Even with proper mask wearing in medical facilities the data isn’t there. and the snot rags worn in the grocery store are far from properly worn masks. you fearful subservient idiots have politicized it
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2006372
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/06/what_good_do_the_masks_do_really.html
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19216002/
but thanks for playing. may your chains rest lightly
There is an argument for wearing properly constructed and correctly fitting masks in certain circumstances along with continuing the other mitigation methods. However a general mandate applying to the public at large in very vast circumstances does not make sense especially when the face coverings range from respirators to bandanas.
I know the argument about asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic carriers making such large scale mandates necessary. I looked at two of the studies leading to this conclusion. Both involved such persons in places where the virus was known to be present. Mitigation measures were taken but by that time the virus had spread from the initial cases.
To me this shows a high probability of catching the virus once it has emerged in a given population and when contact direct or indirect is highly likely. Not that a bunch of symptom free people who have not had some kind of contact with an infected person are walking around infecting others.
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