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 ...
Being fined for not wearing a mask in my garden is mandating.
Mandated is when mothers with children are forced to the floor & arrested for not wearing a mask.
I agree a store has a right to set dress code & I can comply or not go.
Thanks for posting.
The bullet seems to be:
“Shorter duration of face-mask wear may reduce the frequency and severity of these headaches.”
Where do you live, that these things have happened? and have you witnessed them?
I was talking to some nurses on FB today and they complained about headaches and at the end of their shifts they said that had “fuzzy thinking” and not at their best. They hate the masks.
Bad decision-making, and an assumption that the Federal government is going to make states whole for their financial losses.
Everyone makes their own decision to wear a mask based on hopefully an informed decision. I fully respect the decision that those who have decided not to wear a mask have made.
With that said, I think we would have been way ahead of the curve on COVID-19 if we had prioritized high-risk groups to stay home and enforce quarantines for major hot spots like NYC, etc. Lots of bad decisions were made re: NYC.
I sympathize with your fear, I am not immune to fear. But 2/3 of the cases since the shelter rule have been from people who sheltered at home. They didn’t get sick from walking among people. Ir’s dangerous to take as gospel suppositions that sound logical but have not been tested.
Cuomo says it’s ‘shocking’ most new coronavirus hospitalizations are people who had been staying home
Published Wed, May 6 202012:25 PM
Early look at data from 100 New York hospitals shows that 66% of new admissions related to the virus are people who were at home, Cuomo said.
Surgeon general: Data doesn't back up wearing masks in public amid coronavirus pandemic
“On an individual level, there was a study in 2015 looking at medical students and medical students wearing surgical masks touch their face on average 23 times,” Adams explained. “We know a major way that you can get respiratory diseases like coronavirus is by touching a surface and then touching your face so wearing a mask improperly can actually increase your risk of getting disease.”
Yes. Putting together the suggestion that the surgeons had decreased oxygenation from masks worn during surgery & the headaches on the mask wearing healthcare workers suggests to me that the headaches may be on that basis. Not proven but interesting.
And with whom did they come into contact? I’ve stayed at home for most of the past two months; but my husband has gone outside, I’ve gone to get the mail, I’ve received delivery food and packages. It’s impossible to know who has really been ‘staying at home’ at all times for weeks, with no possibility of exposure to outside infection.
(I don’t exactly trust anything Cuomo says - I think he’s a hack politician and not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree; and he probably has reason to characterize things in a self-serving way.)
“chain link fences work against mosquito’s in Louisiana.”
Nope, the skeeters down there eat chain link like candy and crap out barbed wire.
Google is a biased search engine. Pull up any medical subject and it will lead you to the establishment spin on COVID-19. The disease came from the Wuhan wet market, banning travel from China is racist, only a mandatory vaccine can save us, Orange Man bad, the Russians defeated Hillary, anyone to the right of Biden is a racist, fascist, sexist, homophobe, blah blah. Google is the Pravda and Izvestia of our time and place.
Yes. He said so with caveats - and he said that new recommendations would be announced if the data warranted - which it apparently did.
Have you not been seeing these articles? I have been so upset by them.
Asia is a big region. The virus originated in China - and certainly not in South Korea.
I haven’t personally seen a single liberty diminished - except that I’m asked to wear a mask in the grocery store.
I guess I’m not quite the ideological ‘snowflake’ that you are, because I don’t see that as any kind of ‘slavery’.
That article is also from the same CDC site as your article.
That wasn’t google.
That was the Cleveland Clinic.
Yesterday it was Yale and Harvard.
I have a long list of other respected medical institutions saying the same thing, often pointing to specific studies like this one did to support their claims.
The worst thing done in NY was forcing nursing homes to accept covid positive patients. NYC should have quarantined several weeks earlier & closed the subways (or at the least made a concerted effort to deep clean & minimize crowding).
The Times found 14 states where more than half of total deaths occurred in facilities for the elderly. It was 55 percent in Connecticut, 57 percent in Colorado, North Carolina and Kentucky, 58 percent in Virginia, 59 percent in Massachusetts, 61 percent in Delaware, 66 percent in Pennsylvania, 73 percent in Rhode Island and 80 percent in West Virginia and Minnesota.
The states with the most nursing-home deaths, New York and New Jersey, didn’t make the list because of so many other deaths, yet more than 10,000 people died in their facilities. The 5,500 nursing-home deaths in New York are more than the total deaths in all other states except New Jersey.
https://nypost.com/2020/05/16/blame-governors-for-coronavirus-deaths-in-nursing-homes-goodwin/
What about hands? Hands touching the face are the biggest vector. Hands touching a virus-laden mask on your face are a super-vector. Wearing gloves makes no difference. Gloves might even hold more virus-laden moisture.
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