Posted on 08/24/2021 9:57:03 AM PDT by John Semmens
Though science indicates that the mesh on the commonly available masks are too wide to impede more than the tiniest fraction of the virus, they are still being mandated all over the place to try to stop the spread of COVID. Now science is indicating that the plastic barriers used in classrooms, offices, and retail businesses is not really helping reduce virus transmission.
The less permeable plastic barriers can stop spewn virus globs from a sneeze or cough from making a direct hit on a person on the other side of the barrier, but they also impede air flow in the indoor space. Virus particles exhaled during breathing or during conversation are dammed up by the barriers. This allows a concentrated accumulation of virus-saturated air to build up and eventually flow around the barrier where it can infect someone else. In an unbarricaded environment normal air flow turns over the air mass in the room every 15 to 30 minutes.
These new findings are not likely to lead to the elimination of these plastic barriers because as Dr. Anthony Fauci explains "it is important in this time of pandemic panic that people not lose hope. Effective or not, these barriers and masks convey a message of encouragement to people that they are making a contribution in the fight against COVID. The false sense of security that they instill allows people to take risks that they would avoid if they knew the truth. This enables us to get a better picture of how well the vaccines are doing than if people did the only thing that might genuinely protect them from getting infected."
In related news, President Biden has instructed the Department of Justice "to take whatever steps it deems necessary to prevent Republican governors from banning mask mandates in schools. These governors' contention that the decision on whether their child wears a mask belongs to the parents strikes against the unity that I pledged to bring to this country. Letting every family decide for itself defeats our goal of having everyone accept the role we assign them in the fight against this awful disease. Refusing this role is like dodging the draft. It is treason."
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Well, of course those barriers aren’t effective.
We are up against a very intelligent virus.
It knows if you are standing up or sitting down in a restaurant, and won’t attack you if you are sitting down as required by restaurant rules.
And it knows that if you are sitting down at a beach, and not upright walking around, and that the sitting person should be infected, not the upright walking person who is following the rules.
Hey, this ain’t me making the rules. These are the social distancing czars, so they must be doing it scientifically.
I don’t generally shop at Kohl’s (don’t want to give as much as a penny to Dem moron Herb Kohl or the family that spawned him) BUT at Christmas I was desperate so visited the local store. They had acrylic panels hanging around each cash wrap, and the poor cashiers were required to go around to the “customer side” between EACH TRANSACTION and spray and wipe the panel with cleaner!! Completely insane policy. As if the next customer was going to come along and lick the damn panel!
Haha...yep...pretty much exactly how it all went down.
Glad you liked it...it made me laugh...:)
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