My guess is that they are probably about 90% effective at reducing infections at grocery stores.
Masks are tools. They, like police officers, are not anywhere close to 100% effective.
The economy needs vaccines.
Dr. Russell Blaylock warns that not only do face masks fail to protect the healthy from getting sick, but they also create serious health risks to the wearer.
The bottom line is that if you are not sick, you should not wear a face mask. .
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Coronavirus will go away even without a vaccine.. Herd immunity at 80 percent. No need to wait – 18 months - for a vaccine from Bill Gates..
Were they to ever come up with a vaccine, I would resist it to the end. This whole episode has been about propaganda and cowing people into submission.
My mask is my ticket into the grocery store. And the liquor store.
No mask, no entry.
That’s the one and only benefit of my mask.
The masks everyone is wearing are at best 50% effective against bacteria in a grocery store, or any store. Viruses are so small they can get through easily but then the amount of virus “hanging” in the air flow inside is extremely small. Masks are also bacterial concentrators and rebreathers. They help the bacteria stay in contact with your respiratory system. Police officers in general didn’t wear masks before the scamdemic and vaccines are hit and miss. One variant of the coronavirus is a primary cause of the common cold. Do we have an effective common cold vaccine?
“The economy needs vaccines.”
Never happen. We need herd immunity. If the lockdown demonstrated anything, it’s that this virus won’t disappear.
Thus if masks are effective at anything, they are effective at prolonging the pandemic.
There’s a ‘tell’.
*The economy needs vaccines.*
If you think an effective and safe vaccine is coming before another year goes by, I urge you to consider that we do not have vaccines for most viruses out there. To my knowledge, we don’t have a vaccine for SARS nor MERS, and this SARS-COV-2 is similar to the first SARS.
People are being misled by Fauci AGAIN and are placing some false hope in some future vaccine that may or may not be effective. If you notice when Fauci talks about things, he’s starting to catch on to the careful phrasing that he needs to use, so that he can continue his time in the limelight. He isn’t helping anything. He must have taken a different Hippocratic oath. His recommendations have harmed a LOT of people.
“The economy needs vaccines.”
The common cold is due to coronavirus (20%), rhinovirus (10-40%), RSV and paninfluenza (20%), other viruses (10-15%), unidentified viruses (20-30%). There is no vaccine for the common cold.
HIV is a virus. The scientific community has been working on a vaccine for nearly 3 decades and billions of dollars per year are spent on HIV/AIDS vaccine research. Dr. Fauci has been in charge of this effort. So far — no vaccine.
Influenza is caused by a virus. There is an influenza vaccine developed each year. Current effectiveness rating by the CDC for the 2019/2020 vaccine is 45%.
An effective vaccine may be needed by the economy. However, we have to fact the very real possibility a vaccine will not be developed for Covid-19, or any vaccine developed will not be very effective. Currently government, industry, the medical community and the media seem to be proceeding under the assumption a highly effective vaccine will be developed quickly. There seems to be no planning for the much higher potential there will be no vaccine.