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With COVID surging, should I wear a mask?
theconservation ^ | 11/19/2023 | Luis Alvarez

Posted on 11/20/2023 9:26:04 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

COVID is on the rise again, with a peak likely over the holiday season.

Given this, health authorities in a number of Australian states have recommended people start wearing masks again. In Western Australia, masks have been made mandatory in high-risk areas of public hospitals, while theyโ€™ve similarly been reintroduced in health-care settings in other parts of the country.

Hospitals and aged care facilities are definitely the first places where masks need to be reinstated during an epidemic. But authorities are differing in their recommendations currently. Calls to mask up, particularly in the wider community, have not been unanimous.

So amid rising COVID cases, should you be wearing a mask?

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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m not a doctor, but it NEVER made any sense to wear masks and that was common sense.

The mask was a method where politicians/bureaucrats show action and give you false hope, making you feel like you have control.

You need to give people something, give them something THEY can do to control the outcome, real or imaginary.

Here’s are reasons and you need to look at them compounded.

1. The virus is FAR smaller than what a paper or even cloth mask will filter, it only filters to a limited degree but that is ESPECIALLY true:

a.) as the mask becomes damp within 15 minutes of breathing (your breath is moist and once damp the whole electrostatic argument is lost). How many people change their mask every 15 minutes?

b.) many people do not wear a mask properly or the fit isn’t right around the nose or the side of the face.

c.) practically no-one, even those lecturing others about wearing a mask actually mask up all the time. It’s a show we put on for others but then when at home, or with certain friends, or, or, or we don’t mask up and that is true usually even at the work place. That is also true even for Biden, Fauci, the celebrities that talked about masking... almost everyone.

2.) We ignore the fact that this virus is still transmissible via contact. It can live depending on the surface and temperature for a very long time and if you come in contact with it and then say rub your eyes lips etc. still be exposed to it.

3.) Most people not only didn’t replace the mask every 15 minutes, but they also even reused them the next day or even over several days. Like a Petri dish, this mask probably poses more of a health risk than benefit since bacteria can grow in that environment.

*** The mask became political. It was all about showing action in crisis (Cuomo, Shumer, Pelosi...), making Trump look bad for not doing enough and downplaying this disease, contradicting Trump wherever possible to make him look foolish. Covid was mostly election politics and the folks in charge today don’t really want to play that game again, so now it won’t matter.

The mask was like many other things politicians and bureaucrats did during Covid. Nonsense for the sake of showing action like closing beaches and public parks. It was incredibly stupid, and even destructive: economically by shutting everything down, alienation of elderly and those with mental health issues, delays in health care, children education.

*** NO ONE can really show you empirically where we did any better because of masks, the shut down and social distancing. But I can show you definitively how it impacted the economy, children’s education, caused for delays in health care, and caused a spike in suicides.


41 posted on 11/20/2023 10:03:18 AM PST by Red6
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Only if you are dumber than a box of rocks...


42 posted on 11/20/2023 10:03:21 AM PST by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists - redundant labels.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

43 posted on 11/20/2023 10:03:48 AM PST by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: Bob434

“Masks donโ€™t work”

Au contraire, Pierre.

They work very well indeed for CONCENTRATING the intensity of the victim’s - er - patient’s exposure to the virus in question. The plan was and is to get as many persons infected and if it can be arranged, hospitalized, where totally ineffectual medical procedures assure a hastened decline of state of health, or even death. The end objective is to decimate the human population of the earth, and to stop “climate change”.


44 posted on 11/20/2023 10:04:52 AM PST by alloysteel (Most people slog through life without ever knowing the wonders of true insanity.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Of course.

There are layers of protection. A properly worn mask is one layer. Social distance is another layer. Vaccination is another layer. Eye protection is another layer.

Any one of those can be overcome by exposure to a high enough number of viruses. So, stacking protective measures is more effective at protecting you than just using any one of those alone.


45 posted on 11/20/2023 10:11:50 AM PST by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Only if you’re ugly. Oh, and it is good to be able to identify idiots on sight. So if you are a Liberal, then by all means wear the diaper. Insist I wear one too and the mask is going to be least of what’s in your face.


46 posted on 11/20/2023 10:12:15 AM PST by katana
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To: ChicagoConservative27

As before:

๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ˜ท๐Ÿ’‰๐Ÿ’Š๐Ÿ‚๐Ÿ’จ๐Ÿ’ฉ! ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ”“!


47 posted on 11/20/2023 10:14:17 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this๐Ÿ’ฉ? ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’‰! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‘!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Message to the Sheep, Baaaaaa Baaaaa Baaaaaa, wear your mask Baaaaaaa.


48 posted on 11/20/2023 10:15:14 AM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Marvin
49 posted on 11/20/2023 10:17:04 AM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

yes you should wear a mask, infact, wear 3 masks for better protection and don’t forget you helmet and gloves, at all time...


50 posted on 11/20/2023 10:19:02 AM PST by cherry
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To: Huskrrrr
Only Hamas sympathizers and Antifa are currently wearing masks.

And FBI agents posing as neo-Nazis.

51 posted on 11/20/2023 10:20:44 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: ChicagoConservative27

More 2024 ELECTION COVID FEAR PORN using MASKS as a DEEP STATE TOOL aimed at enabling LEFTIST J6 FIB RIOTERS and LEFTIST BALLOT BOX STUFFERS to CONCEAL THEIR IDENTITY during COMMISSION OF THEIR CRIMES.


52 posted on 11/20/2023 10:21:56 AM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Covid must be rising in certain areas, covid is missing the East Texas area


53 posted on 11/20/2023 10:26:11 AM PST by wild74
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To: MuttTheHoople

“Rightfully, COVID was not a โ€œpandemicโ€, it was an Outbreak.”

I’m not sure it was even an outbreak. I think it was an attack. And there are a lot of reasons to think that.

wy69


54 posted on 11/20/2023 10:28:11 AM PST by whitney69 (yption tunnels)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What a weenie


55 posted on 11/20/2023 10:31:36 AM PST by Fledermaus (It's time to g.et rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yes so I can identify blithering idiots


56 posted on 11/20/2023 10:36:07 AM PST by albie
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Of course you should! And while youโ€™re at it, be sure to install a section of chain link fencing to keep out the mosquitoes โ€” it works on the same principle (eye roll)โ€ฆ


57 posted on 11/20/2023 10:49:58 AM PST by SonAboveAnItch
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If you are a moron you should.


58 posted on 11/20/2023 10:53:11 AM PST by cp124 (80% of everything is fake or a lie.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Your body, your choice.


59 posted on 11/20/2023 11:07:57 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (I AM A ZIONIST HOODLUM!)
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To: Retain Mike

“the CDC dismissed the study for involving only .001 of Denmarkโ€™s population”
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So we can dismiss this “new shot” garbage that’s been only tested on 8 MICE and ZERO humans!


60 posted on 11/20/2023 11:09:08 AM PST by JCL3 (As Richard Feynman might have said, this is reality taking precedence over public relations.)
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