Biden's ridiculous free N95 mask offer. Nobody in the medical community is speaking out about how ludicrous this is. So I will.

substack.com ^ | 1/31/2022 | Steve Kirsch

[ransomnote]

ICYMI, the Biden administration is giving out 400 million free N95 respirators. Here’s the offer:

Here’s what they aren’t telling you about these free N95 respirators:

1. An N95 respirator will “work” for around 2 hours in a hospital or similar setting with filtered air

2. An N95 respirator will “work” for around 30 min outdoors

3. If you have facial hair, forget it. It will not seal. If you were expecting at best 1% protection before, it is now 0%.

So if 200M Americans receive two respirators each, they get around 4 hours of protection. And that only works if the respirators are fitted perfectly with no gaps and people are trained on their use. And as we noted before, even if everything was perfect, you aren’t likely to get anywhere close to 95% reduction in virions (because of the size of the particles and the rate of airflow into the respirator), and even with such a reduction, that’s unlikely to make the difference between getting infected and not getting infected.

In general, N95’s are ineffective with respect to protection against viral spread. Randomized studies show cloth and surgical masks do nothing. Zero.

Not surprising at all. If you read the WHO 2004 “Laboratory Biosafety Manual” (Third Edition) it says, “Surgical type masks are designed solely for patient protection and do not provide respiratory protection to workers.”

So it’s not like we haven’t figured that out 15 years before COVID came on the scene. It says surgical masks do not work. Period.

Yet, here we are 18 years later and the CDC and medical community now think they do. Evidence not required. Just belief.

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[Sergio]

If masks do such a good job of “trapping” the virus-to-end-all-viruses, why are there no bio-hazard containers to collect used masks?

Instead used masks that have been contaminated with the deadliest virus the world has ever known are just thrown in the regular trash or more commonly, on the street.

[AppyPappy]

It’s just a virtue signal anyway

[caver]

400 million more masks being discarded on the streets as trash.
What a deal!

[maddog55]

Free is bullshit to begin with.

The fact they don’t work for airborne pathogens like COVID is well known to anyone with a brain so that falls in line with 50+% of people living in America walking around wearing any mask. Actual Americans no better.

[Captain Compassion]

I wear a thermal gator that I also use for winter fishing. I have worn this where required for 2 years. It’s a lucky mask. Only got Covid once.