Posted on 07/16/2020 8:02:07 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, believes "the most powerful weapon we have" against the novel coronavirus is wearing face coverings, washing hands and "being smart about social distancing."
"If we all rigorously did this, we could really bring this outbreak back to where it needs to be," Redfield told the Journal of the American Medical Association via video on Tuesday.
Coronavirus cases are surging across the U.S., from California to Texas to Florida. More than 3.4 million people in the country have been diagnosed with the coronavirus and over 136,00 people have died.
To Redfield, a major key to controlling the pandemic is wearing masks.
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They're gradually increasing the number of places where mask-wearing is required. The latest new ones I recall are Best Buy and Walmart. Every time there's a new headline about X number of people being tested positive, the governments and businesses act by increasing restrictions.
Just over 1% of the US population has tested positive for the virus so far.
When you say "eventually", what kind of time-frame do you have in mind while the other (roughly) 99% of the population is tested and found positive because they have the antibodies in their system?
Ignore that junk scientist:
1. You can’t breathe easily through common mask fabric, so you inhale and exhale around the edges of the mask. (That’s why glasses fog up.) Thus, the same germs that you might sneeze out are being steadily breathed out into whatever space you are sharing.
2. The fabric itself is too coarse to trap viruses.
3. Because you cannot easily breathe through the fabric, your body has to work harder to obtain given amounts of oxygen, and you are inhaling some stale mask air as you breathe. People can get used to this, just as they can get used to working in 100 degree heat; but the body is still having to work harder to get oxygen.
Wearing a mask to prevent COVID-19 is like putting up a chain link fence to stop mosquitos.
Increasingly, savvy folks wear the top of their mask just below their nose.
Mothers have shown their kids out and about how to wear the masks thusly and not be social outcasts for not wearing a mask
‘It’s almost like the mask mandate is a test to see how easily we will obey without thinking. And it makes us fight each other.’
it’s not ‘almost like’ that, it is like that...that’s exactly what these control freak authorities wish to do to us; and turning mask wearers into rabid animals has worked only too well; they seethe with hatred for people who wish to live their lives as they see fit...
read some of the posts from pro maskers on this very forum; quite informative...
Thanks for that very informative chart.
They can manufacture as many “cases” as they want but they can’t produce a corresponding number of deaths to that scale. Sooner or later the death rate is going to have two zeros to the right of the decimal and the whole scam will start falling apart.
Bump!
I wear a mask regardless of the law because my wife asks me to. She feels better, and a mask on the rare occasions I go out, is not much to ask. I do understand my eyes are still exposed to people who don’t. The whole thing is a mess.
Regardless, this shall pass. I just hope no more I care about does with it. We have lost one mother in law so far in Chile.
They know everyone won’t wear a mask so they will blame all deaths on people not wearing masks. #OrangeManBad
I wear a mask because I am in several vulnerable categories..
Two thoughts regarding masks:
1) If masks work, why would anyone wearing care if I wasn’t? They’re protected, correct?
2) If masks work, why are inmates being let out of jail/prison early? Simply make them wear masks while incarcerated.
“The purpose of masks is to protect the wearer. That’s it. That has ALWAYS been it.”
Not true. When I was an EMT, I wore a mask when I picked up a heart attack patient. I didn’t wear it to keep from catching their heart attack.
The states are trying, but youth will not be denied.
They’re worse than plastic bottles littering the streets. Masks, gloves, gowns overflowing the dump. How come no protesters?
Agreed. My focus is on preventing the loss of life, particularly that of Americans. I don’t go out much anyway these days except to the mountains or for groceries, so I also don’t see a mask as a huge issue for me personally. (My wife is also the one bugging me to wear one, and I know better than to cross that woman.)
I’m very sorry to hear about your mother in law.
1-2 months........5-6 months........a year and a half, max............get used to it.
‘Yes - at the very least, as an off & on thing. At least until there is a vaccine.’
then we should prepare to see pro maskers begin killing non maskers in public places; the hatred coming through from the pro crowd is becoming palpable...
I like to tell people that these masks are, at best, designed to protect from bacteria. But bacteria is a basketball to a virus’s golf ball.
I tell people that if I really thought I needed to wear a mask, I would wear one with a replaceable screw on filter and full face covering.
Fortunately, the world has not gotten to that point yet. :)
Show me one shred of scientific evidence to back this claim up.
What's been said about masks (and at this point, I don't know if it's true or isn't) is that they reduce the risk of transmission in both directions. If you're infected (and possible not yet symptomatic or are asymptomatic), your coughing, sneezing, talking, and breathing generates respiratory droplets that carry the virus. Many of those droplets will get caught by the mask and the rest will be slowed down so they don't go as far out from you. This is their main function. As an uninfected person, it may have some effect in reducing the risk of transmission, but mainly it's for people who are infected (and may not realize it). Again, how much of this is true, especially now that they're saying it may be aerosolized, I don't know for certain.
"2) If masks work, why are inmates being let out of jail/prison early? Simply make them wear masks while incarcerated."
For the same reason you still wear a seat belt even though your car has airbags. The airbags "work", but only to reduce risk; not eliminate it entirely. Now, when it comes to masks, how much risk reduction you're getting is definitely up in the air. It seems to depend a lot on what kind of mask, how often it's being cleaned, how it's being worn, and lots of other factors.
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