> Viruses are MUCH smaller. <
Thank you for the reply. Again I will play the devil’s advocate here. Yes, I have read that viruses are very small. But when viruses are exhaled by an infected person, wouldn’t they probably be stuck to droplets of moisture? And so couldn’t a good mask be at least somewhat effective against that droplet?
I was trained as a chemist. But I will freely admit that I didn’t pay too much attention to the diffusion lectures (the gal who sat next to me was quite pretty.)
The size of the initial Covid-19 microbial load into a victim which infects a victim is very important to whether the victim actually contracts the disease. This makes cloth masks useful in preventing the person with the disease from infecting others.
Ben Hecht said, "The race is not always to the swift, nor victory to the strong. But that's the way to bet." Protecting people from Covid-19 is very much a matter of percentages. It's not a matter of either you are protected, or you are not. Reducing the odds of contracting it is always somewhat effective.
Whether any given means of doing so is cost-effective is another matter, and timing is an element there too. Lockdowns were arguably cost-effective in the spring and summer of 2020. They clearly aren't any more.
LOL! There were distractions in college. (But LOVED Organic. )
It will stop a virus if it’s in a moisture droplet but the droplet will dry.
And from what I’ve read you are more likely to breathe it back in, increasing your viral load than breathe it out but it’s not like a mask traps the virus til it dies.
Did you check out the vape tape? Most of the air comes out the side and top if you are wearing a mask. But it still comes out.
Also have you noticed all these congress-critters talking with their masks on. They keep touching their face, possibly putting more available virus on their mask and breathing it in.
This mask stuff is all BS.
Proof is in the pudding. Do they reduce infection rate in real life?
No.
All else is BS. They don’t work.