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Here’s How Wearing a Cloth Mask Helps Fight the Spread of Coronavirus
Cleveland Clinic ^ | May 13, 2020 | Cleveland Clinic

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bs; coronavirus; covid19; masks; misinformation; propaganda
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1 posted on 05/17/2020 6:01:49 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

Where is that exhalant going?


2 posted on 05/17/2020 6:03:29 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

You would be re inhaling it.


4 posted on 05/17/2020 6:04:48 PM PDT by funfan
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Our favorite mask spammer is back.


5 posted on 05/17/2020 6:05:20 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

That would get you a prison term here.


6 posted on 05/17/2020 6:07:22 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

“In fact, the sooner it gets spread around, the better it will be for all concerned.”

Many, but definitely not all.


7 posted on 05/17/2020 6:10:28 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: funfan

Gross. Your exhalant contains moisture too. Where does that go?


8 posted on 05/17/2020 6:10:55 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
Exactly. Notice the mantra is *Slow the spread" not "stop the spread". All the MaskBros are doing is prolonging the misery.

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.

9 posted on 05/17/2020 6:15:19 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: DannyTN

Don’t see anything new here.

Maybe Coumo (NY) should have had those Corona patients and employees he put in Nursing homes wear them.


10 posted on 05/17/2020 6:17:28 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Wear your face homemade coverings (not a N95 please) when you zoom into work to show you care.)
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To: DannyTN

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


11 posted on 05/17/2020 6:18:26 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Voltaire: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool".)
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To: Texas Eagle

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 .


12 posted on 05/17/2020 6:18:35 PM PDT by lilypad
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To: DannyTN

Nope.

I’m done.

L


13 posted on 05/17/2020 6:18:56 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: DannyTN

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?!


14 posted on 05/17/2020 6:19:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who could have guessed the Communist Revolution would arrive disguised as the common cold?)
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To: lilypad

Great point. People are coughing and sneezing into their masks and re-breathing that stuff. That’s disGUSTing.


15 posted on 05/17/2020 6:20:35 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle
Or however you measure amount

Scoville units

16 posted on 05/17/2020 6:20:57 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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To: DannyTN

NO. IT. DOESN’T! WHY are you allowed to post LIES here on Free Republic?!


17 posted on 05/17/2020 6:21:26 PM PDT by WXRGina
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To: DannyTN

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.


18 posted on 05/17/2020 6:21:26 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
"I really don’t give a @h*# if I spread coronavirus. In fact, the sooner it gets spread around, the better it will be for all concerned."

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.

19 posted on 05/17/2020 6:21:47 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: DannyTN

Masks are a joke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cTOUNwb5Fc&t=2s


20 posted on 05/17/2020 6:23:38 PM PDT by Yollopoliuhqui
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