Posted on 05/17/2020 6:01:48 PM PDT by DannyTN
It's all about protecting others
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We asked Steven Gordon, MD, Chairman of Cleveland Clinic’s Department of Infectious Disease, and pulmonologist Raed Dweik, MD, Chairman of Cleveland Clinic’s Respiratory Institute, about the science around these masks and why wearing them is important.
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“There is evidence that such masks reduce the exhaled aerosols from infectious, but asymptomatic, individuals.” he says. By blocking the exhale of virus particles in to the air around you, your mask is keeping the virus from spreading.
Additionally, the masks serve as a really helpful physical barrier when you cough or sneeze. “Those actions can propel this cloud of droplets from you up to 25 or 26 feet,” he says. Your mask can “disrupt” that cloud and keep those virus particles from traveling.
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(Excerpt) Read more at health.clevelandclinic.org ...
Where is that exhalant going?
You would be re inhaling it.
Our favorite mask spammer is back.
That would get you a prison term here.
“In fact, the sooner it gets spread around, the better it will be for all concerned.”
Many, but definitely not all.
Gross. Your exhalant contains moisture too. Where does that go?
They probably advocate pulling the Band-Aid off slowly too so you can feel every ounce of pain you can.
Or however you measure amounts of pain.
Don’t see anything new here.
Maybe Coumo (NY) should have had those Corona patients and employees he put in Nursing homes wear them.
Yes, I’m sure all the scientists in labs working with infectious diseases are just wearing a piece of cloth from home on their face. #truth
So people with masks on can cough and sneeze and make no effort to cover their faces ...let it rip. What if it’s a crappy mask? We were told early on to sneeze into your bent arm .
Nope.
I’m done.
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So we’ve been living our lives wrong for thousands of years!
We should have been wearing cloth masks at all times forever!
Who knew?!
Great point. People are coughing and sneezing into their masks and re-breathing that stuff. That’s disGUSTing.
Scoville units
NO. IT. DOESN’T! WHY are you allowed to post LIES here on Free Republic?!
I have an expensive dust mask that has a valve that lets all the stuff I exhale out freely but keeps the outside particles out. I can wear it for hours, but within five minutes of wearing one of those cloth masks, I’m gasping for air.
Unless I am absolutely required to wear a mask, I don’t. If I wore my dust mask everyone would feel safe because it looks so effective, but it only protects me from them.
Is this OK too?:
I really don’t give a @h*# if I spread AIDS. In fact, the sooner it gets spread around, the better it will be for all concerned.
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