What good do the masks do, really?

American Thinker ^ | June 26, 2020 | Ted Noel

[cradle of freedom]

It’s a pandemic so they have to vaccinate the whole world. Ca-ching, ca-ching for whoever is in on all the money to be made.

[cradle of freedom]

Yep. It won’t disappear until it runs its course and eventually weakens.

[daltec]

I wore a K-95 with an exhalation valve, back in early November when I was painting part of wife's car. Good-quality 3M K-95 mask with rubber seal.

I was applying a pretty nasty (but very good) 2k clear coat, with hardener. Warnings and little skull pictures all over the container. With mask on, I could not smell it at all.

After I was done, I walked away some distance (maybe 20') and removed the mask. And let me tell you, that stuff stinks! :-)

I have no idea what the particle size is for that clear coat. It was a pretty fine mist from a paint gun, and of course I was right up against it. But I could not smell it with the mask on.

[cyclotic]

You’re lucky. Normal N95 type disposable respirators are not sufficient for vapors.

For my job, I occasionally need a cartridge respirator and I must use a specific cartridge for similar vapors.

As far as I know, only one company makes a disposable one for vapors and it’s not a Home Depot type item.

Plus, yours probably had an exhalation valve. It’s just blowing pure exhaled air out, thus making the “I’m protecting you from me” argument null and void.

[logi_cal869]

Thank you for proving my point.

[logi_cal869]

“...runs its course and eventually weakens.”

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Misnomer, imho. The very nature of these types of viruses is that once they are in the environment, they’re ALWAYS in the environment. I sincerely doubt that any vaccine will prove BOTH effective & safe. 2003 SARS was an outlier; MERS as well...both of which are a discussion of their own.

Thus we are left with only 3 options:

1. Hide like a little bitch in sequestration and a metaphorical bubble, severely-compromising integrity of immune defenses, lending to a very disastrous next pandemic,
2. Treatments for those who experience complications, currently limited to fringe applications such as Hydroxychloroquine therapy and my own proffered propylene glycol therapy due to the control exerted by a combination of the Left & big pharma,
3. Herd immunity.

Since treatments are wholly-lacking, we’re left with herd immunity. But there are 2 distinct problems:
1. Certain asshats’ insistence upon projecting fear & thereby insulating the healthy from becoming exposed for no other reason than to protect others (rather asinine logic),
2. The very nature of this type of virus is that, like the many cold viruses out there, it may NEVER disappear.
Considering both its virulence and still-anecdotal evidence that it may be zoonotic (it’s been found to infect both dogs & cats), this [assuredly-manufactured] virus may be around until it infects every living person on the planet, making it - insofar as its most-affected demographic is concerned - potentially one of the greatest cullings in human history. The latter is why I avoid discussing that aspect, as it is no pleasant discussion to assert that every diseased person must die to make everyone else safe.

But there it is.

Thus my biting critique of those who proffer that “we must wear masks to protect others”...analogous to banning peanuts to protect those with deadly peanut allergies.

THAT is the level of idiocy we’re dealing with.

I am absolutely done with anyone asserting that “I” or anyone else needs to do ANYTHING to protect others, flying in the face of the premise of personal responsibility and, ironically, demonstrating the antithesis of Conservative values.

Cold hard fact: If a person is at risk or “fearful” of infection, wearing a mask for yourself combined with whatever isolation you deem necessary to protect yourself and those actions are not sufficient, leading to your own perverted hypocrisy which rationalizes that EVERYONE ELSE must act to protect you, then you are assuredly downrange with all the other useful idiots and are deserved of what’s coming your way, virally, metaphorically or ballistically.

[SamAdams76]

The issue in the Southern states is they need to get out of their air-conditioned homes and spend time OUTSIDE.

I know it's hot outside. I've lived in Alabama where pretty much from May to October, it's brutally hot. But that's what the body needs. Sitting in the air conditioning all day is not going to help you against the Chinese virus.