Media And Government Officials Told Americans Not To Wear Masks. They Were Wrong

Re: 12 - And it seems that people with masks are very polite. Look! He’s giving some business a monetary donation!

Like I said, a nice guy in a mask.

Wearing eyeglasses can close the bridge of the nose air gaps of homemade masks, making them far more effective.

Austria requires grocery store customers to wear masks.

Did they do this before they were overrun by "refugees"?

A doctor was just on Fox saying pretty much what I said - mask are most effective stopping sick folks from spreading droplets and science doesn't support that the virus is airborne - just in droplets.

He said there is also a problem with a false sense of security and that if they aren't airtight/get wet, they are not effective and if in n environment with the droplets, can harbor the virus and make it easier to spread it through negligence...he said that those who are immune-compromised may get some small benefit, but not as a general rule.

He stated that masks are most effective for those who are showing symptoms/coughing/sneezing to help educe the chance of spreading the virus but they shouldn't be out and about anyway.

My daughter is a RN and agrees with that as does an medical biologist I know.

If you need more - you have the whole internet at your fingertips.

[Re: 12 - And it seems that people with masks are very polite. Look! He’s giving some business a monetary donation!

Like I said, a nice guy in a mask.]

LOL

Masks

One per $50 purchaser, please.

Doing as the author suggests would have created toilet-paper like runs on them and people like my daughter the nurse would not have them available.

Bingo. The author is either woefully ignorant or just trying to score political points.

Per Tucker Carlson: “STOP LYING TO US!”

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-shortage-medical-masks-stop-lying

Your monthly rail pass and mask, sir.

Please go to a restroom, wipe off your luggage handles with an alcohol pad, wash your hands, get a mask fitting guide and a mask after passing through TSA security.

trebb,

If the efficacy of masks is very low to keep from getting sick, as opposed to high for keeping sick people making others sick (and from what I have read this is very true), then why hoard them for health care workers? They aren’t going to do much for them either, yes?

Some are speculating that this is why fed gov did/said this...to not wear masks....in order to build up a supply of masks for our frontline defense....healthcare workers/first responders, etc.

Now that supply demands will be met, we will get the green light of a requirement, from CDC/fed gov, in about a week, to begin wearing masks, in public...per Dr Matt McCarthy, Cornell doc.

Health care workers are on the front line and use them to keep patients from infecting them and to keep from infecting patients and each other in case they get something...they also know how to wear them for best efficacy.

Nice try at being cute while trying to sound astute, but you knew that before being "that way"...I hope.

Anyone know if there are any masks with a “MAGA” logo?

I would like to wear one of those.

In the past, when I have seen Asians wearing masks in public and not being sick, I often had a negative thought in my head... “hey, this is America. OUR air is clean!” Now I realize that they are the experts, having gone through all of those other diseases that hardly touched us. When they recover the supply, a box of N95’s will definitely be collecting dust in the back of the medicine cabinet from now on!

This dithering by the “healthcare community” has really inspired a lot of confidence from the public. The Chicoms really pushed masks and I am thinking they help more than they hurt, but we don’t have enough and the “healthcare community” essentially wants to make sure they are covered even if we are not.

My daughter is an ICU nurse. If the choice comes down to me having one when I go to a grocery store or her having it when she pulls a spittle-laden ventilator tube out of a dead patient, I’ll defer to her every time.

Was the doctor reporting on the results of a study he performed? Or scientific studies that he reviewed? Or what he heard from the CDC and the health care officials in government? If he didn’t say which, it’s most likely the last one.

There are multiple actual scientific studies showing masks are effective to help avoid airborne diseases, some mentioned in this article.

My daughter is an ICU nurse. If the choice comes down to me having one when I go to a grocery store or her having it when she pulls a spittle-laden ventilator tube out of a dead patient, I’ll defer to her every time.

My point exactly. By and large, Americans are honest and patriotic. If they told us masks are effective and that's why nurses need them, people would have responded the same way.

But they don't trust average Americans like us to do the right thing, so they lie to us because they know better.

Our problem is not with you or me, or with anybody I know well. It is with our huge and burgeoning feral population that can’t be trusted to make sacrifices or do the right thing.

Nope - efficacy of masks is very low for well people to keep from getting sick when compared to keeping sick people from making others sick.. U.S. Surgeon General explains why CDC recommends public does not wear masks

3/31/2020, 1:33:23 PM · 42 of 100
daniel1212 to conservative98

Wrong: Fallacy #

1. One of the ways you can get the coronavirus is by touching a surface and touching your face, so wearing a mask improperly can increase your risk of getting disease.

You do not get a virus by touching anything, unless that is an entry point to your body. Thus it must be assumed people with masks are putting their hands in their mouth or up their nose.

In addition, rejecting masks since some improperly wear them would be like rejecting guns since some also misuse them.

2. It can also give you a false sense of security.

Likewise seat belts and helmets, so to be consistent with rejecting something that is overall beneficial due to what can or sometimes do happen negatively, then all such that do so should be banned.

3. The data does not show it helps.

Or that it does not, and common sense tells you it would help prevent transmission as well as reception, or at least the amount of it. See

How the AMOUNT of the coronavirus you get infected with could decide whether you suffer mild or severe symptoms