Posted on 03/29/2020 6:41:23 AM PDT by Lazamataz
To mask or not to mask, that is the question.
But scientists now think you may want to put a face mask on it after all — if you have one.
Their advice is laid out in a new report in Science Magazine.
People in Asian countries have been wearing masks for months, which the head of the Chinese Center for Disease and Prevention supports.
In the US, face masks are in short supply and government officials want the rapidly dwindling supply saved for health-care professionals.
“This virus is transmitted by droplets and close contact. Droplets play a very important role —you’ve got to wear a mask, because when you speak, there are always droplets coming out of your mouth,” the Chinese Center’s George Gao told the magazine.
“Many people have asymptomatic or presymptomatic infections. If they are wearing face masks, it can prevent droplets that carry the virus from escaping and infecting others,” he said.
KK Cheng, a public health expert at the University of Birmingham in the UK, put it bluntly:
“It’s not to protect yourself. It’s to protect people against the droplets coming out of your respiratory tract… I don’t want to frighten you, but when people speak and breathe and sing —you don’t have to sneeze or cough — these droplets are coming out,” he said.
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Short supply?? BS...check out Amazon.
Wow! I was told masks don’t help, except if you’re in healthcare /s
If everyone wears valveless masks, maintains 6’ and washes or gels their hands after touching anything it will all but stop the virus. The narrative that masks don’t work was BS from the start.
“Masks don’t work ... Donate your masks”
WHICH IS IT?
“Get it as soon as May 5 if you choose one day shipping”
We, The Essentials, while working on the fire alarm system at a closed golf course, were stopped and questioned by a Non-Essential golfer who demanded to know where we got our N95’s.
I think they are starting to realize super spreaders can aerosolize.
"Oh Really. The authority has spoken again ladies and gentlemen. Make yoj a deal DannyTN..:we will stop telling the truth about you when you stop lying about us and giving your torturers less than expert opinion - gas-dr to DannyTN
"If everyone wears a mask the liklihood of transmission drops dramatically." - KK Cheng, UK public Health, KK Cheng University of Birmingham · Institute of Applied Health Research MB PhD FRCGP FFPH FMedSci
gas_dr you happy now? Same opinion as mine, but now it's said by a bonified expert with lots of credentials.
Teaches us how our official treat us like children.
They knew face masks were effective all along (have you seen one photo of a doctor not wearing a mask while treating COVID patients??)
They also knew there was a shortage.
They had a choice between the truth (Yes they are effective but please leave them for medical professionals who need them to treat patients) or a flat out lie (children, don’t wear those silly masks — adults know that they’re just play masks and they don’t do anything for you)
They chose the effective lie over the risky truth and they will always choose the same way.
I just ordered some SATA cables via prime. They won’t arrive until late April.
I just checked for “N95 mask 3M”. The reusable mask I found “arrives April 17 — May 8”. That’s quite a wait at this critical time.
KNEW IT!!!
Idiots.
How about a dosage of Zi-Cam? This treatment, I’ve been told, is relatively effective in shortening the duration of the “common cold”, which is another form of the corona virus.
Would it not also work in suppressing the virus release from a person in the infectious stage of the Wuhan virus?
The claim that masks were ineffectual for preventing the spread of this virus among the healthy general public struck me as nonsensical since they were also saying reserve them for sick people as if they had one-way filters, and also to save them for medical professionals and first responders. I’ve suspected it was one of those misinformation campaigns that appear to be rampant right now, to stave off hoarding as much as possible. Of course, competing objectives getting muddled together in the fog of war could be creating the appearance of misinfo as well. Very difficult to ferret out truth right now.
Last week, you were touting a 0.6% case fatality rate and dropping.
It's 1.8% now. (883/53,455)= 1.7%.
By the way, what's your "expert" opinion? How do we restart the economy. Do we just go back to work and let the virus spread? Do we wear masks, if available? Can you give us any useful advice?
They knew this all along.
They lied to the sheep so that they would not buy masks and first responders might be able to get some.
You cannot believe the media.
Yes...things changed overnight. Wonder if PillowGuy will be selling them?
“I think they are starting to realize super spreaders can aerosolize.”
Only took them a couple of months, when it was OBVIOUS in early February to all of us non-FluBros.
Only true if you are infected and starting to have symptoms. Once your symptoms start the virus state is known as viral shedding and THEN you can be infectious to others.
The article is deceptive if you only read the headline. The “experts” have been saying since the first reports of the Chinese Wuhan Flu, that wearing a mask is probably not going to prevent a person from getting the virus; but if you have the virus, wearing a mask will help stop the spread. The article confirms what the experts have been saying all along, with one difference: So many people now have the virus, and therefore, we should all wear a mask in public to prevent the spread of the virus to the few people who have not been infected. I disagree. At this point we should allow the virus to spread to build “heard immunization.” which, from what I have read, kicks in when 80% of the population is infected, and with less people to infect, the virus (as with most viruses) will die out on its own.
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