[cba123]

Wear masks for now.

For real. They work, if people actually use them.

[Artcore]

No, they do not work! They do not stop the COVID-19 virus from getting through! Enough of this lie!

[P-Marlowe]

Masks work.... If you are robbing a liquor store. If you are trying not to inhale virons, they are as useless as a screen door on a submarine.

When you are wearing glasses, your glasses get fogged up. That means that particles as big as water vapor are escaping your mask and getting into the air. You are also inhaling whatever is in the air.

You are going to be exposed to this virus sooner or later. The mask may delay it but it won’t prevent it. Sooner or later everyone will be exposed. All this mask and social distancing nonsense is just going to prolong the inevitable... until after the election.

[afchief]

BS!!!!!

The Science is Conclusive: Masks and Respirators do NOT Prevent Transmission of Viruses

https://www.sott.net/article/434796-The-Science-is-Conclusive-Masks-and-Respirators-do-NOT-Prevent-Transmission-of-Viruses

[Mom MD]

really? your proof of that statement?

One month after statewide mask mandate, California’s daily COVID case average has increased by 162% - by Daniel Payne - Just The News

[Prince of Space]

And if a handful of ppl don’t wear them, then the virus continues to spread and the lockdown will never end. Of course, there won’t be 100% compliance, since there never is due to human nature, so nothing will change except the loss of freedom (to worship, to travel, to enjoy our regular activities) that we allow and endure.

[LateBoomer]

“Wear masks for now. For real. They work, if people actually use them.”

For real what works is for you to stay 6 ft. away from me and me to stay 6 ft. away from you.

All wearing a mask does is forces me to touch my face dozens of times more than I would if not forced to wear one.

At the start we were told three things:
1. Social distance.
2. Don’t touch your face.
3. Wash your hands.

No mask: no reason to touch my face or even bring my disease-infected fingers anywhere NEAR my face.

Mask: Since I can’t wear for an extended period in this heat and humidity, it’s on-adjust-off-handle multiple times throughout a shopping run.

Which has increased my risk of Covid-19 exposure? Mask or no mask?

Obviously, even with proper social distancing, the mask has increased my risk. And I’m supposed to be okay with that, because my wearing a thin piece of cloth (we don’t hear about how only N95 masks can block the microscopic virus particles anymore, do we?) makes the Pandemic Panicked feel better.

All for show which would be benignly idiotic except for the Good Little Comrade Or Else sinister aspect of it.

[IrishBrigade]

‘They work, if people actually use them.’

ok, whatever gets you through your day, bud...

[MayflowerMadam]

“Wear masks for now. ... They work, if people actually use them.”

They work, if you’re hankerin’ for a good case of Legionnaire’s Disease, or pleurisy, which my brother’s friend got from her mask.

[logi_cal869]

Oh, Ok. I suggest laying off the Kool-Aid and putting on that thinking cap.

First, OUTER N95 layer (repeated as the inner layer which sandwiches the fine mesh between):

Second, inner FINE layer sandwiched between:

Third, T-shirt material, pretty much ALL non-N95 material, including surgical masks (which are, obviously, woven just a bit tighter):

The small dot to the right of the coronavirus graphic is the virus represented AT THE SAME SCALE (you may have to zoom in). N95 and surgical masks were shown to fail demonstrably at protecting heathcare workers from influenza, a virus LARGER than Coronavirus, available here:

Surgical Mask vs N95 Respirator for Preventing Influenza Among Health Care Workers

If surgical masks, N95 and "cloth facial coverings" can't possibly "physically" block a virus (aside from a tight facial seal, another matter of physics altogether), then masks have NOTHING to do with public health, correct?

Therefore, what, possibly, could they be used for in these mandates, hmmmMMMMM?

Note: NO, the N95 inset graphic is not to scale. It is merely representative. Don't be stupid.

[hal ogen]

For real...they don’t.

[fortheDeclaration]

You wear one, I won’t. That is freedom

[9YearLurker]

And you know that how—despite all the many studies showing that they and better than the mandated masks don’t work for any similar coronaviruses?