Posted on 02/04/2021 6:20:45 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Don’t think for a second there aren’t some “overhead expenses” involved in this billion dollar scheme to fleece “We The People”.
Only Inner-Party Members will get a mask.............
That one is probably more effective than the Alyssa Milano crochet knitted mask. LOL!
Humans do not exhale (sneeze, shout, breathe out, cough, etc.) significant quantities of aerosolized virions. However, these can be produced by some types of health care equipment.
We DO exhale (as above) droplets, which are larger and any decent surgical mask will catch almost all of on the way out. There are demonstrations on You Tube or even better, anyone with an elementary school (even now!) education can perform and understand their own test (also on YouTube and described on FR as well. The latter would be hard to search for though -- maybe some FReeper with a little time would be so kind as to describe in full and make a thread on the subject to be easily referenced.)
Droplets exhaled past a poor fitting mask (or obviously no mask), or through a thin cloth mask like a bandana, into a lower humidity environment, will usually dry to smaller size and some may dry small enough to float around in quantities sufficient to infect others.
There seems to be little certification and publicity of certification of mask effectiveness and materials' safety. (I am among other things thinking of a local TV station that used to post summaries of Health Dept. reports on local restaurants -- you really DO need to keep an eye on some restaurants.) This is another reason to do your own tests, do your own research, etc.
The above does not address "incoming", however, which may be present due to non or poor method mask wearers (mask below nose), poor mask fit, poor mask material, etc. Essentially, a good quality valveless N95 used with proper mask etiquette will GREATLY reduce inhalation of even individual virion size particles, and greatly reduce "outgoing" of all sizes as well. This has been well tested and published. N95's have an internal filter layer with electret charged fibers which actually grab individual virion size particles (less momentum and a more zig-zag path) more effectively than larger particles. Other layers assist with droplets.
Unfortunately, certification of Chinese made N95's (usually labelled as KN95 masks) by any US agency I know of seems to be scarce if it exists at all. User education of proper mask etiquette seems to be near non-existent too, except (again) on YouTube. And, good freaking luck getting N95's one would trust because they are made in the US by a reputable company (eg., 3M).
Note: Assuming your post was honestly a question, and maybe even if not, just the fact you even post this question demonstrates one of the most egregious failures I have ever seen by government agencies. We get everything bad in spades: A stomped economy, fatalities, damage all around, and people more at odds with each other over a virus than I'd ever imagined.
The CDC says that Maybe a N95 mask might help if proper procedures are followed. adjust to a perfect fit, Replace every 2 hours, never reuse, once you touch it get a new one,... Fat chance of that in a Society. In other words wearing a mask won’t do jack for society at large.
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/10/20-0948_article
Rates of infection were consistently higher among those in the cloth mask group than in the medical mask and control groups. This finding suggests that risk for infection was higher for those wearing cloth masks.
A September report by the CDC found that more than 70 percent of COVID-positive patients contracted the virus in spite of faithful mask wearing while in public
https://thenewamerican.com/cdc-admits-no-conclusive-evidence-cloth-masks-work-against-covid/
If it’s got a good seal and doesn’t let airborne droplets in. Pretty sure that a gas mask or an sCBA would be more effective.
Yep, and the tragedy is you offered more explanation than most people do on the subject.
Are they made in China? Are they saturated with covid? Do they go only to Trump voters?
A September report by the CDC found that more than 70 percent of COVID-positive patients contracted the virus in spite of faithful mask wearing while in public
Well, of course!!! Typical surgical and cloth masks are NOT recommended for prevention of respiratory viral infections to oneself if one is in an atmosphere containing sufficient virion quantities to cause infection in oneself. Surgical or typical cloth masks for the most part only reduce the chance YOU (if contagious) infect someone else, and in that they, especially decent surgical masks, are effective. Whether that "someone else" gets infected or not through a surgical or cloth mask depends strongly on whether the contagious person wears it or not, not on whether the "someone else" wears a cloth or surgical mask, or not. Why is that difficult to understand? Or are you just the protagonist in "Argument Clinic"?
Further, that "report" was in a medical setting. It has very little bearing on the question of viral spread at the freaking grocery store. Sheesh!!
The rest of your contentions are even more inane. That study you cite had nothing to do with source control, other than mentioning it in passing. And, having over 20 years experience in teaching various complexity tasks to people all the way down to minimum wage level, I assert that most of the population CAN be taught and self-motivated to do effective (not "perfect", effective) mask etiquette, including with N95's (which CAN be user-sterilized, BTW) for those at risk. Unfortunately, our government has done neither (education or self-motivation) instead relying on mandates and whiny commercials / officials, along with effectively no supply of N95's to those of the public at risk but outside of the health care profession. (Heck, from what I've been seeing, even much of the health care profession can't get the 3M or equivalent quality M95's.)
Yeah, our gov’t has proven to be so inept in this that sometimes I want to cry. I think DJT had mostly the right approach, but the best driver in the world can’t scale Everest in a failing Model T with snipers behind every rock.
I think they go to everyone but OTOH, no one is taught that there is a right way to use them, and the sad misinformation about putting on multiple at once is misinformation at the highest levels, in fact you don’t do so in hazmat handling, you use one set of Protective Equipment and use it right. Multiple paper masks on at once, or multiple cloth masks, just puts wear and tear on them, and compromises an actual facial seal. Indoor environments are also risky, simply because while a mask reduces the range drastically of individual exhales, the exhaled air has a cumulative effect and goes over the room or the building with circulation, and without circulation, you fill the room. UV radiation combined with filtration systems neutralizes most airborne virions though.
“And no doubt made in China.”
The box we got said they were made in Wuhan China. Go figure. Fauci and Wuhan created the virus. Fauci and Wuhan make the equipment that’s required to address the virus. Biden makes another deal with the devil to send our taxpayer money to his overlords in China.
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