Posted on 04/14/2020 6:40:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
We are told that, on the one hand, heads should roll for not providing health-care workers with enough masks to save their lives, and on the other, that masks will not aid us the people in trying to survive the virus. We smell a rat. Further, the frail elderly among us have grown sceptical of the words of professional bureaucrats and politicians -- we would rather know the raw facts and live or die based on our own judgement. It’s all a bit life and death. So, here are the facts. They do not rely on an elevated position in a bureaucracy but rather on fifty years hands-on experience with fluid dynamics and particle dynamics.
The virus is a respiratory virus, meaning that it attacks the respiratory system and finds new hosts by the process of exhalation. The human skin is a desert of dead cells and, although it produces most of household dust by shedding, it is mute of malice in spreading the virus. The virus makes its living by getting from an infected respiratory tract to an uninfected one. It can only do this by being carried in droplets of liquid. Left alone in the air, it cannot move relative to the air and is not a happy camper. So, let’s look into droplet production by exhalation.
In normal breathing, we produce a range of droplets. Our yardstick is the micron -- there are 100 microns in a hair’s breadth and the droplets we produce range in size from submicron to 1000 microns. The smallest droplets are produced by the little ducts that lead to the alveoli (the tiny little balloons in the lungs).
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
My guess is that the average schlub out there does not change/wash them often enough so they actually become high-volume collection points for all sorts of germs.
In some localities, they can prevent you from being attacked or arrested.
LOL.
“So, in a hospital and in theory,.....”
“In Theory There Is No Difference Between Theory and Practice, While In Practice There Is”
So “in Hospital” may be somewhere in between.
If everybody wrote a rude insult to their Governor on their mask I suspect they would suddenly be not such great fans of this.
I’ve seen people with those cheap paper dust masks
“I’ve seen people with those cheap paper dust masks
“
I didn’t see any of those last time I was in Home Depot.
I like the way you think!
There’s a reason they started wearing masks in ORs - to keep staff from potentially infecting a patient...and during times of contagion, staff wears the masks (and puts them on contagious patients) to prevent them spreading bugs they may have among patients and each other.
This is ONLY my opinion, but I personally don’t believe masks protect from anything. Virus particles are infinitesimally small. If they can find their way through or around the specialized masks worn by medical professionals, they sure as heck will penetrate pieces of cloth. Area of spray might be reduced a little, but particles will still escape and can remain in the air long enough to infect the next person to walk by.
It’s almost as if they’ve become a mere fashion accessory or a tool for virtue-signalling. A way for them to feel superior. “Look at me! I’m wearing a mask! YOU don’t care about people’s safety if you’re not wearing one!”
That the masks trap humid, particle-laden air INSIDE the mask, then recycle it back into the lungs with each new breathe should be obvious. That the medical regime-national press corpse is not asking questions is “interesting “.
They have no agenda, of course.
Yes. IF you’re very very good at following proper mask protocol. Which you probably aren’t. So never mind.
How worried should we be? If you live in the USA, then about 3 million people must die every year of old age.Speaking as a 73-year-old, with leukaemia, I can afford to be quite matter of fact about stepping off the twig. We, the elderly, tend to prefer this level of plain speaking (preferably loudly). So, three million of us are going to die every year, mostly from the comorbidities that we have picked up along the way.
Statistics seem to show that a lot better than 90% of people who die from the virus have comorbidities. Clearly, what is happening is that when we are old and frail, the weakest of us will die preferentially.
But, in the U.S., the very worst prediction is that a total of 100,000 will die in this epidemic. Contrast that with the three million who are going to die anyway and note that this is merely 3% of that number.
An examination of the actuarial tables will show you that this is not your greatest fear. In fact, it is nothing, compared with the real danger of being bored to death by the frenetic media.
Certainly, the danger to us is not worth ruining the economy for very marginal gain. In the scheme of things, we weren’t going to last very long, anyway
“If they can find their way through or around the specialized masks”
Agreed!! Our last outing I paid attention to the various masks worn.
As a frequent spray painter I know for fact that if a dust mask is not properly fitted the spray paint floating in the air will seep past any gaps between the face and the mask. Tell tale signs will be paint streaks on ones face and especially mucus the same color as the paint.
The flow of air into ones nose will take the path of least resistance, which will be any such gaps. PERIOD.
During our last outing we noticed people with dust masks that were not form fitted to the contour of their face, especially their nose. The air they were inhaling was actually coming from the large gaps at both corners of their nose.
We paid attention to the hospital grade masks. They were better, but still not perfectly form fitted.
So yes, as you say, they are more apt to be a fashion or a feel-good accessory.
IMHO this is largely a confidence game intended to make grocery store workers feel more secure about coming to work.
The media is flooded with ChiCom propaganda stories intended to scare them away and collapse the food supply chain.
At Domino's, masks are available;Nobody on the inside wears one, and they are shoulder to shoulder on the make line. About half the drivers wear masks.
If I start coughing incessantly, of course I'll put one on, but I will not fall to "mask shaming".
As of yesterday, Domino's has gone to 100% contactless delivery. Basically, you put the order at the door, or on a table or chair, ring the doorbell, and stand way back.
If I do have to wear a mask, here it is (yes, that's me):
RE: At Domino’s, masks are available;Nobody on the inside wears one, and they are shoulder to shoulder on the make line. About half the drivers wear masks.
How bad is the outbreak in your neck of the woods?
I have a copper cloth Shamagh.
The material is used for radio wave shielding.
And...copper kills a corona virus after about 4 hours.
Mostly confined to nursing homes. The JBS plant shut down today. A few inmates and staff at the jail. Weld County CO.
If you’re trying to protect yourself, little good, if your eyes are still exposed
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.