depends on multiple factors including how well your mask fits, if any particles end up on your skin or other surfaces that you touch then touch your face etc. Will it lessen the load you are exposed to enough to prevent infection - which is the real question you are asking. doubtful as even fauci and other mo mask nazis say the masks do not prevent the wearer from catching the virus. In addition we do not use viral load to determine infectivity. we use it in infected people to determine how well their immune system or drug therapy is working against their disease. Wear the mask if you want but there is zero evidence it does anything to protect you from catching covid or any other viral illness
[[ Wear the mask if you want but there is zero evidence it does anything to protect you from catching covid or any other viral illness]]
See my post #45 and #50- these new type antimicrobial masks ‘are supposed to be’ 99% effective- don’t know if you are practicing medicine? Or know of folks who do? Might be worth a look for those who are exposed to sick people on a daily basis if so?
No that isn’t my question
I accept it is quite likely I can be infected
the key is keeping the viral load as small as possible so my body can fight it off..ESPECIALLY since no one seems to know how thalassemia and my oxidative stress is going to react to it.
Even the specialists in Italy who are experts in thalassemia and watched the cases in Italy say there a lot of unknowns. At least in the webcast I listened to which is a few weeks/months old
Perhaps my thalassemia will make it easier for my body to react to it as one medical person here theorized as my body is used to oxidative stress
In any event, it would be CRAZY for me not to try to lessen the viral load and it disgusts me that anyone would denigrate me trying to lessen the viral load