Posted on 01/15/2022 8:02:39 PM PST by BenLurkin
I still have my 95 got it at the beginning. It has a replaceable charcoal filter. Haven’t replaced it yet. Must have worked. Very comply. Smells great. But that might be tainted with my sandlewood beard oil ovè the monthe.
FaceBook and NextDoor.
Sue them all through the noses.
If they feel the need to pontificate about what COVID info is correct, then they should have expanded that to all medical comments and films. Where are the warning banners for all the snake-oil salesmen pushing their nonsense about “natural alternatives”?
I remember some guy in a military uniform doing a “how to” make a cloth mask with a cloth and a couple rubber bands. It was a joke.
They will have to be bankrupted.
Doesn't this mean that YouTube was doing a massive misinformation campaign and should pay the penalties, under the same actions those tyrants used against their users?
After all, by censoring valid questions and information that challenged the establishment thought, YouTube was carrying out its own misinformation campaign.
The issue is never the issue. The revolution is the issue.
Yeah, they're cute as a bunny at that age, but I still won't eat in a restaurant that requires masks.
N95’s do not appear to work too well against viruses. One can say they work “better” than cloth or surgical masks.
Here is the data on N95’s and viruses.
• A systematic review and meta-analysis of six RCTs involving 9,171 participants found that the use of N95 respirators compared with surgical masks is not associated with a lower risk of laboratory-confirmed influenza (J Evid Based Med. 2020;1- 9 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jebm.12381). “It suggests that N95 respirators should not be recommended for general public”.
• N95s are uncomfortable, expensive ... and no better at preventing viral respiratory infections than ordinary surgical masks according to a randomized clinical trial (JAMA. 2019;322:817). The study used matched clusters of clinicians working in adult and pediatric clinics at seven large U.S. medical centers were randomized to use either N95s or paper masks when caring for sick, coughing patients during influenza season. Most of the 2862 participants were women (85%) who were nurses (41%) or clinical/administrative support staff (21%) in primary care clinics. About 80% were vaccinated against the flu. Self-reported adherence to the assigned mask was about 90%. During four consecutive flu seasons, from 2011 to 2015, cumulative incidence of laboratory-confirmed influenza was similar in both groups, as was incidence of confirmed infection with other respiratory pathogens and incidences of both influenza-like illness and unspecified acute respiratory illness. Editorialists note it was slightly underpowered to detect its primary outcome of lab-confirmed flu. Although N95s do prevent inhalation of small airborne particles, even the loosest paper mask will keep the wearer’s hands away from the wearer’s nose and mouth and will keep large droplets and sprays away, too. Perhaps that’s all it takes — at least in a highly vaccinated population.
• A RCT compared standard medical/surgical masks in health care workers in Australia and found that while N95 masks offered protection against respiratory illness, medical mask wearers and control group numbers were similar (Influenza Resp Viruses. 2011;5170–179 DOI j.1750-2659.2011.00198.x). The rates of clinical respiratory illness (CRI) (3.9% versus 6.7%), influenza-like illness (ILI) (0.3% versus 0.6%), laboratory-confirmed respiratory virus (1.4% versus 2.6%)and influenza (0.3% versus 1%) infection were consistently lowerfor the N95 group compared to medical masks.
• A RCT (n=446) compared standard surgical mask vs N95 respirator for preventing influenza among health care workers (Ontario nurses working in emergency departments, medical units, and pediatric units) and found no difference during the (H1N1) pandemic (JAMA. 2009;302(17):1865-71 doi: 10.1001/jama.2009.1466). “The fact that attack rates were similar.” They estimated an attack rate of 23% for both. .....randomized to use either a fit-tested N95 respirator or a surgical mask when caring for patients with febrile respiratory illnesses during the 2008-2009 flu season......roughly 23% of each group had suffered a laboratory-confirmed influenza infection, showing the noninferiority of surgical masks for protection......results “should not be generalized to settings where there is a high risk for aerosolization, such as intubation or bronchoscopy, where use of an N95 respirator would be prudent.”...note: protocol did not account for the effect of indirect contact because hand hygiene and use of gloves and gowns were not monitored.
• N95 respirators have long been thought to offer superior protection to surgical masks against respiratory illness, but the evidence supporting their use has been largely experimental (49th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC): Presentation K-1918b. Presented September 15, 2009).....The RCT on 1936 healthcare workers in China compared surgical masks to fit-tested and nonfit-tested N95 masks in at-risk healthcare workers has found that the respirators were “clearly superior” in guarding against viral and respiratory infection.....”N95 masks should be the standard of care for healthcare workers who have a high risk for respiratory transmission.”.....I haven’t seen a shred of evidence supporting any benefit from surgical masks. You might as well tell healthcare workers to wear nothing.”
• In January 2021, the German state of Bavaria was one of the first places in the world to mandate N95/FFP2 masks in most public settings. A comparison with other German states, which required cloth or medical masks, indicates that N95/FFP2 masks made no difference.
• The N95 filtering face piece respirators may not provide the expected protection level against small virions. Some surgical masks may let a significant fraction of airborne viruses penetrate through their filters, providing very low protection against aerosolized infectious agents in the size range of 10 to 80 nm. It should be noted that the surgical masks are primarily designed to protect the environment from the wearer, whereas the respirators are supposed to protect the wearer from the environment” (Am J Infect Control. 2006;34(2):51-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2005.08.018). The results indicate that the penetration of virions through the N95 respirators can exceed an expected level of 5%. The 2 surgical masks, which originated from the same manufacturer, showed tremendously different penetration levels of the MS2 virions: 20.5% and 84.5%, respectively.
• Ordinary surgical masks may be just as effective as high-filtration N95 respirators in protecting hospital staff from the novel pandemic influenza A strain H1N1, according to an observational study (Clin Infect Dis. 2010;50:1011-1014).....Actually there were fewer ARI and H1N1 cases among staff when surgical masks were being worn than when N95 respirators were being worn at the hospital.
• Consistently wearing N95 respirators, which remove 95% of particulate matter, offers far better protection against clinical respiratory and bacterial infections than use of regular medical masks (Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2013;online February 14).....”However, many health professionals put on a mask only when they feel at risk. But patients are often asymptomatic and health workers may not always identify situations of risk.” Certain nurses or doctors who worked full-time in the emergency or respiratory wards were eligible. While working, they were randomized to wear medical masks at all times, to wear N95 respirators at all times or to use the respirators only while doing high-risk procedures such as barrier nursing of a patient with known respiratory illness. Clinical respiratory illness (CRI) was most common in the medical mask group (17%). In the targeted N95 group it was 12% and in the continuous group it was 7% (p<0.05). Corresponding proportions for respiratory tract colonization in those with such illness were 15%, 10% and 6% (p=0.02). After adjusting for confounders, only continuous use of the N95 remained significantly protective against CRI and bacterial colonization compared with medical mask use. The finding on bacterial infection was surprising. “Outbreaks in hospitals tend to be viral,” Dr. MacIntyre stated. “No-one has thought of bacterial diseases as being responsible for outbreaks. In addition, bacterial co-infections commonly occur during influenza outbreaks. We suspect that if you have one infection it predisposes you to the other. There is a complex synergy between bacteria and viruses in the respiratory tract.”
I don’t want to see lawsuits. Just bust up Big Tech.
Alphabet most of all. They are FAR more dangerous than Facebook or Twitter. Bust up YouTube. Bust up Google.
Directions for N95 says no facial hair. Facial hair needs to be banned per the Nazi regime.
You live in a free city. Here where I live, covid spreads very fast from the front door to the table or barstool, so you have to wear a mask in those zones. Once you sit down though, it becomes a covid free area so you can take the mask off.
This was a joke as even the best surgical masks are designed for only about 1-2 hrs of use, not 2 years.
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