Posted on 05/27/2020 12:10:17 PM PDT by Yosemitest
Explain to me WHY there are dozens and dozens of different stories ALL "anti-mask" with every possible different meme against doing so. Then ask yourself who benefits the most if Americans are sold on NOT wearing masks.
I frankly don't understand the antipathy. Is everybody just nuts?
All of that is hogwash and fear mongering !
I wore a mask in a medical setting for a very long period of time. I wore a mask in a (nuclear) laboratory, again for months at a time. I wore EABs and other respirators in the military. I don’t have a problem with wearing a mask when there is a reason. That said, the reaction to the China Syndrome Virus is absurd.
I’m retired military and VERY familiar with sever different types of gas masks.
Most aren't "fitted" properly and average about 75% effectiveness so they fail at least 25% of the time.
A surgical mask, about 70% of the outside air moves through the mask and about 30% travels around the sides
Fabric masks also allow air in around the sides, but lack non-woven, moisture-repelling layers. They impede only about 2% of airflow in
https://www.livescience.com/are-face-masks-effective-reducing-coronavirus-spread.html
There's just as many references that say they don't work. Unless it's a properly fitted HEPA type filer it's useless so all these folks running around stores with homemade mask are just fooling themselves not to mention unless they have a face shield to protect their eyes then it's even more irrelevant. To be truly protected you'd need a real mask:
No. You explain to me how me being against masks is somehow because the Chinese told me not to wear masks.
I know a lot of Chinese from when I lived in Flushing in Queens in New York. A lot of them have been putting on face masks long before coronavirus. They like face masks. They are not likely to tell anyone not to put on face masks let alone an independent thinker like me.
Because the fake news media, CNN MSDNC New York Times etc are pushing face masks 24/7 with a hundred times more intensity?
Did you see CNN, MSDNC out in full force trying to shame Americans out enjoying fresh air without face masks, during the Memorial Day weekend? Even as they themselves were exposed by irate citizens as not wearing face masks behind the camera?
Then ask yourself who benefits the most if Americans are sold on NOT wearing masks.
NOT the Chinese that's for sure, given that the Chinese make a lot of money when everyone wears face masks. Most of the face masks on the planet come from their factories.
My daughter-in-law taught middle school in Hong Kong for about three years. She said the one thing she found most frustrating after living her life up to that point in Minnesota, including teaching middle school here for a few years, was that the kids in Hong Kong seemed to be mostly unable to display any creative, independent thought. They'll willingly do whatever they're told, but if you ask them to come up with their own thoughts and ideas on what to do, their minds go blank.
I think the populations in those Asian countries generally follow the rules, regardless of whether or not they really make sense, because they live in a culture which has ingrained an abhorrence to questioning or having doubts about societal norms. Best way to avoid having doubts is to learn not to think for yourself. Just do what you're told and everything will be great.
Kids there are taught to just memorize whatever they're told to memorize. They're real good at that though. You could find loads of Asian kids that could do an incredible job of copying the guitar licks of the Money for Nothing song, or Hotel California. You'll look forever before you'd find one that could CREATE one of those songs though. Of course, it isn't some genetic thing. Two generations into living in the US and their descendants would show the same creativity of thought as any other American.
Good misquotation. I didn't say "the Chinese", I said the Chicom government.
The science says otherwise. Show your data. I’ve posted mine.
No, it's just science.
The “Chicom Government” as you put it, makes oodles of money when everyone wears face masks. The Chinese are the number suppliers of face masks in the world.
Heck they WANT everyone tonput on face masks forever.
No, I post accurate scientific information about masks. Nothing there about "we're all gonna die". I'll leave that to you anti-maskers.
"It still doesn't make wearing masks out in the streets any less stupid."
Agree. Wear a mask in a crowded indoor venue. But I don't consider that to be "stupid", just not properly taught. Plenty of YouTube vids on proper technique.
Actually, no, it’s not science, it’s engineering, and, like all engineering, the devil is in the details.
I will not wear a mask. ‘Nuff said.
This is exactly how I feel about wearing a mask! I won't do it! It's oppressive.
Just a thought. As a Hazmat guy, OSHA makes me go for Medical tests and I have to fill out all kinds of forms to wear N95 masks and other PPE. Every 2 years I have to blow into a tube and have my lung capacity tested. Have my oxygen levels tested. Blood Pressure tested. Just a thought.
Bwahahahahaha!
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