That guy is full of shit...I suppose if you purposely make a mask to leak you can do it...but most are making masks to protect at least others, and there has been plenty of research to show they do. Two layer, pleated masks have been tested to show they protect about 60 to 80%...put a blue paper shop towel in between the layers and you have 3 micron protection. Just don’t clean in water, spray a little everclear or rubbing alcohol on it. Or, do as we do...shine some UVC light on it.
What is going to destroy the economic recovery are the yahoos who have been brainwashed by this shit and refuse to wear masks.
I like to breathe. I have allergies that cause sinus problems so I don’t wear a mask. I don’t hassle people who wear them and I don’t expect to be hassled for not wearing one.
If you have one on for too long it causes hypercapnea and there are doctors who believe they can be harmful to the wearer.
So wear or don’t wear but don’t virtue signal.
“What is going to destroy the economic recovery are the yahoos who have been brainwashed by this shit and refuse to wear masks.“
No, shutting everything down killed the economy. There was never any true danger outside that which fear and stoking fear causes.
I forget, did we shut down and force masks during sars1? Did we have a run on hospitals and millions of dead littering the streets?
Lastly, how many years did our natural immunity last from sars 1 before sars2 could take hold?
Nature has its way of keeping hummanity safe and we are trying to stop it. Flattening the curve prolongs the virus. I see no reason to let sars2 run longer than is necessary.
There has been no shortage of medical space, no dead littering the streets. It is time to open everything now. Starting with our schools.
I read the studies on pubmed every day - haven’t seen one like what you are referencing. Want to help a guy out with a source?
Masks Don't Work: A Review of Science Relevant to Covic-19 Social Policy
Masks and respirators do not work.
There have been extensive randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies, and meta-analysis reviews of RCT studies, which all show that masks and respirators do not work to prevent respiratory influenza-like illnesses, or respiratory illnesses believed to be transmitted by droplets and aerosol particles.
Furthermore, the relevant known physics and biology, which I review, are such that masks and respirators should not work. It would be a paradox if masks and respirators worked, given what we know about viral respiratory diseases: The main transmission path is long-residence-time aerosol particles (< 2.5 μm), which are too fine to be blocked, and the minimum-infective-dose is smaller than one aerosol particle.
The present paper about masks illustrates the degree to which governments, the mainstream media, and institutional propagandists can decide to operate in a science vacuum, or select only incomplete science that serves their interests. Such recklessness is also certainly the case with the current global lockdown of over 1 billion people, an unprecedented experiment in medical and political history.
No RCT study with verified outcome shows a benefit for HCW or community members in households to wearing a mask or respirator. There is no such study. There are no exceptions.
Likewise, no study exists that shows a benefit from a broad policy to wear masks in public (more on this below).
Furthermore, if there were any benefit to wearing a mask, because of the blocking power against droplets and aerosol particles, then there should be more benefit from wearing a respirator (N95) compared to a surgical mask, yet several large meta-analyses, and all the RCT, prove that there is no such relative benefit.
Masks and respirators do not work.