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With COVID surging, should I wear a mask?
theconservation ^ | 11/19/2023 | Luis Alvarez

Posted on 11/20/2023 9:26:04 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

COVID is on the rise again, with a peak likely over the holiday season.

Given this, health authorities in a number of Australian states have recommended people start wearing masks again. In Western Australia, masks have been made mandatory in high-risk areas of public hospitals, while they’ve similarly been reintroduced in health-care settings in other parts of the country.

Hospitals and aged care facilities are definitely the first places where masks need to be reinstated during an epidemic. But authorities are differing in their recommendations currently. Calls to mask up, particularly in the wider community, have not been unanimous.

So amid rising COVID cases, should you be wearing a mask?

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To: jdege

You should qualify your remarks. Cloth and surgical masks do not work. N95’s are likey do stop virus particles, but only up to the point of tolerance of the mask irritation. After a half hour or so, people start touching their masks. Sometimes they remove the mask and adjust them. They touch the contaminated outer surface and often even touch the inside of the mask. Others keep it in the pocket in between uses. In real world situations N95’s do not work as they are generally worn for more than half an hour.


21 posted on 11/20/2023 9:38:43 AM PST by consult
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To: ChicagoConservative27

VA is not requiring masks. Yet. Nor are local hospitals in the Ozarks.


22 posted on 11/20/2023 9:38:49 AM PST by donozark (He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.)
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To: abbastanza

Is Covid surging? I had not heard this, it is flu season however!!


23 posted on 11/20/2023 9:39:17 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

actually I LOVE when people where masks! Then I know who to avoid!!

To me it’s like them wearing a giant tattoo on their faces that says “moron liberal”


24 posted on 11/20/2023 9:40:09 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Are you stupid? Are you self harming?
If No to the above do not wear mask.


25 posted on 11/20/2023 9:40:25 AM PST by JayGalt (A proud slave must be broken before the contagion spreads. Ever was it thus.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

[[With COVID surging, should I wear a mask?]]

IF you had a 99.94% chance of winning the lottery, woudl you play? (The lottery payoff being a 99.94% chance of living)

People stand only a 99.94% chance of surviving of dying- Some might say “Yeah but, there is still a .06% chance of dying” but the fact is many many things have a far far higher chance of dying- and we still do them anyways without a second thought-


26 posted on 11/20/2023 9:43:10 AM PST by Bob434
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To: ChicagoConservative27

almost everyone who caught covid was wearing a mask when they caught it because of the asinine mask mandates-

Masks don’t work


27 posted on 11/20/2023 9:45:08 AM PST by Bob434
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To: ChicagoConservative27

All the photos in Luis Alverez’s article are Getty Stock photos of models and actors in staged scenes for purpose of stock photos. They cost from $199 to $499. They have no actual relevance to the article. The article text is nothing but an Australian government propaganda release.


28 posted on 11/20/2023 9:45:17 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: abbastanza

Change your gloves every time you touch something that’s contaminated.


29 posted on 11/20/2023 9:45:26 AM PST by jdege
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’ll wear a mask again just as soon as you shove a Palestinian flag up your azz.


30 posted on 11/20/2023 9:45:27 AM PST by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Wear a mask? By all means! It's your choice, afterall.


31 posted on 11/20/2023 9:45:28 AM PST by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I have four doctors appointment in the next three months. I’m not wearing a mask. I’m 76 and have had cancer three times. Don’t care. Not wearing one. If they say I have to then I’ll just say I’m not going into the office.


32 posted on 11/20/2023 9:45:58 AM PST by Mercat
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To: donozark

I had an operation in Tucson 10 days ago. Masks weren’t required for everyone in the hospital; some staff wore a mask, some didn’t. I think everyone in the OR wore one, but I can’t swear to that, because I was asleep.


33 posted on 11/20/2023 9:47:13 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Bob434
"Deploying Ventilators to States: HHS continues to expedite the deployment of ventilators to states. Just last week, the Administration sent 330 ventilators to states like Indiana, Michigan, Maine, and New Hampshire, with more planned deliveries on the way to states that are facing strains and need them."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/12/21/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-new-actions-to-protect-americans-and-help-communities-and-hospitals-battle-omicron/

Ventillators killed most of the Covid patients they were used on.

34 posted on 11/20/2023 9:50:42 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Whenever I see someone wearing their virtue signaling device, whisper “retard” as I walk past them while breathing clean air.


35 posted on 11/20/2023 9:53:35 AM PST by cyclotic (It's a great time to live in America. It's like the collapse of the Roman Empire except with wi-fi)
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To: ChicagoConservative27; All

Comments BUMP!


36 posted on 11/20/2023 9:56:24 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This info is apparently for idiots still living in Australia the new Fascist country.

So sure wear your masks, get more Covid vaccinations and avoid other humans.


37 posted on 11/20/2023 9:56:43 AM PST by Grampa Dave ( A nyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities!!" ~ (Voltaire)!, )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Didn’t work then, won’t work now. The first time, many were reluctantly willing to give the benefit of the doubt. When it became apparent what real agenda was that trust was over. I simply will not comply. They can ask me to wear one, I will refuse. If asked to leave private property without one I will comply, but that’s it. Wearing a face mask is not law. The government cannot demand that we wear them.


38 posted on 11/20/2023 10:00:42 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Just one? How about ten?


39 posted on 11/20/2023 10:01:20 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: ChicagoConservative27
COVID is on the rise again, with a peak likely over the holiday season.

A soothsayer clown.

40 posted on 11/20/2023 10:02:16 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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