Posted on 08/14/2020 4:37:43 PM PDT by Yosemitest
Though the vast majority of cases of COVID-19 — the infection caused by the new coronavirus — are reported in China, at the time of writing, the WHO has officially called the coronavirus a global health emergency. Recent surges in infections in Italy, South Korea, and Iran, have led world organizations to say the risk is high — though containment might still be possible .
One thing that won't help to combat the number of infections, and might even hinder efforts, is the widespread use of different types of face masks that are, wrongly, believed to be highly effective at preventing the transmission of the virus throughout communities.
As infection specialist Eli Perencevich, MD, a professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Iowa’s College of Medicine, told Forbes , the vast majority of people should not wear a face mask, even if there are cases of the coronavirus in their communities.
Why's that? In short, there is no watertight scientific evidence to support the belief that face masks of any kind — including surgical masks and respirators such as the “N95 mask” — are effective at preventing infection of the coronavirus within a community.
But there's more to it than that.
“The average healthy person does not need to have a mask, and they shouldn’t be wearing masks,” Dr. Perencevich said. “There’s no evidence that wearing masks on healthy people will protect them. They wear them incorrectly, and they can increase the risk of infection because they’re touching their face more often.”
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Firstly, the vast majority of people are buying surgical masks. These are designed to stop sick people from infecting others, they do not keep droplets out.
The "N95 mask" does keep germs out for wearers, though not with a one hundred percent efficiency. However, as Dr. Perencevich explains, even a mask that is somewhat effective can cause a false sense of security for users leading them to forget to wash their hands often and stop touching their face — the much more effective prevention method.
What's more, medical workers are trained to use "N95 masks" effectively. They are taught how to correctly place the airtight masks on their faces and how to dispose of the masks without being infected by the contaminants that are accumulated in the mask's filter. The majority of the public, of course, do not have this training.
Perhaps the most important reason the majority of the public is advised not to wear masks, as Dr. Perencevich points out, is that taking off and putting on any kind of mask leads a person to touch their face several times a day. This is the most likely way someone will be infected.
People are mainly buying face masks due to a lack of accurate knowledge about the transmission of the coronavirus. The hysteria is also clearly pushing demand as the public is met with an onslaught of pictures in the media of people wearing masks.
Sadly, some sellers are also inevitably taking advantage of the situation and are making a profit out of the widespread paranoia by selling masks online.
One very important factor, however, is that there is no scientific consensus on whether the new coronavirus is airborne or not. Despite what many believe, there is no clear evidence that the coronavirus can be breathed in when an infected individual nearby exhales. Instead, COVID-19 is most likely transmitted via droplets, which are often spread on surfaces and people's hands.
Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!
They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus , but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!
https://t.co/UxZRwxxKL9 — U.S. Surgeon General (@Surgeon_General) February 29, 2020
The incorrect belief that masks are effective at preventing infection has caused several experts to raise their concerns, including the U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, MD, who focused on the fact shortages put healthcare and frontline workers at risk.
“The one time you would want a mask is if you’re sick and you have to leave the house,” Dr. Perencevich told Forbes . “If you have the flu or think you have COVID, that’s when you’d put on a mask to protect others. In your house, if you feel like you’re sick, you should wear a mask to protect your family members.”
Those who have infected family members are also advised to wear masks when they have to come in close proximity to the infected individual. They are also advised to inform themselves how to use a mask properly and how to dispose of it correctly — all of that information can be found in this detailed post by the WHO .
The fact that the coronavirus seems to be spread via droplets and is not airborne means that the best way to prevent it is, simply, by washing one's hands often and trying to not touch your face.
As Karen Fleming, Ph.D., a professor in biophysics at Johns Hopkins University explained in a detailed Twitter thread , COVID-19 is "an ‘enveloped’ virus, which means that it has an outer lipid membrane layer," and “washing your hands with soap and water has the ability to ‘dissolve’ this greasy fatty layer and kill the virus.”
Though advice on hygiene might seem mundane, Fleming says, soap can be a real lifesaver when it comes to preventing infection by COVID-19.
It also contaminates everything that contaminated snot rag touches.
N95 Fine layer
T-shirt
Dots to the immediate right of all 3 of the Coronavirus graphics are the virus to the SAME SCALE (you may need to zoom in).
The research scientists have found that once the virus loses its encapsulated surrounding (the aerosol droplet) it becomes impotent. Those S-spikes that need to attach to the ACE2 receptor fall off and the virus becomes a harmless mass of protein. Even if it were still airborne after the evaporation, it could fly through those mask fibers dead on arrival.
I had to put your post in large lettering as an example of the fake science that is swirling around the internet. Some of this misinformation is being created by the ChiComs who want Americans infecting each other. The more this pandemic continues, the more damage it does to our economy.
I ask you this question and I hope you answer it honestly:
The question of the method of coronavirus transmission has been answered. The virus is encapsulated in the vapors exhaled by the human respiratory system. These are droplets that protect the virus in the atmosphere and wherever they land. In the mask environment, the normal electrostatic attraction of the mask fibers, draws the droplets to the fibers where they attach. There the droplet begins to evaporate. Once the outer vapor coating evaporates, the virus goes into decomposition. The S-spikes fall off, rendering the virus impotent. This illustration shows the vapors leaving an unmasked person vs a masked person. The idea for the mask is not to protect the wearer but, like a condom, to protect another from impregnation. So, I hope you wear a condom too!
Some people are allergic to their own sweat and will break out or worse. Such people who get skin reactions need to get alternative methods of PPE.
The purpose of the mask is similar to wearing a condom. You are not wearing a condom to prevent you from getting pregnant. Similarly, you are wearing a mask to keep from impregnating others with the virus.
The report concluded that the remedy to the contamination problem with masks during surgery was to:
“Moreover, we recommend that surgeons should change the mask after each operation, especially those beyond 2 hours. Double-layered SMs or those with excellent filtration function may also be a better alternative.”
Problem solved!
Spot on!
keep talking and you may eventually convince yourself you are not convincing anyone else. masks, particularly as used by the general public, are worthless in preventing the spread of covid
Here are the fibers tested for their ability to filter the virus:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.0c03252
Yes, quilters cotton makes a pretty good mask material.
LOL!!! You CANNOT breathe through a quilt, or quilt batting.
This is a joke!
Fauci was correct. The mask is not great at protecting yourself. They are good at protecting others, like the people you are treating in a hospital. Because in the early stage of the pandemic, they needed the masks for hospital workers. Such workers have to change their masks often and go through a number of masks in a day. Fauci was thinking about mask shortages. He was worried that people would hoard them like we saw with toilet paper.
The virus degrades after the droplet of moisture that encapsulates the virus evaporates due to temperatures and humidity. The higher the temperature, the faster the evaporation. The lower the humidity, the faster the evaporation.
wrong. during the early part of the pandemic i had to wear a mask 5 consecutive shifts. The same mask. Now I am down to 3 shifts per mask
No joke. You are confusing quilt batting with quilter’s cotton. People are breathing through quilter’s cotton all the time.
Do you think it is wise to wear a mask for 3 shifts?
... A cotton quilt with batting provides 96 ± 2% (10 nm to 300 nm) and 96.1 ± 0.3% (300 nm to 6 μm). Likely the highly tangled fibrous nature of the batting aids in the superior performance at small particle sizes.
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FWIW....I have sewn MULTIPLE masks, out of various fabrics. Early on, I used a lot of my quilting fabric (called fat quarters), to make several masks. Just the (cotton) fabric....no added layers/filters. Even these are hard to breathe through, after a given amount of time (like a grocery shopping trip).
FRAUDci was correct???
Fauci was thinking about mask shortages. He was worried that people would hoard them like we saw with toilet paper.
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Did he tell you this, personally?
Why are you sticking up, for the national disaster known as FRAUDci????
He’s flip flopped on numerous things, he NEVER offers back up/resources to his claims. He’s a career long, gov’t paper pusher who’s never seen/examed patients in his OWN doctor’s office.
Please.
Masks will not protect you from getting the virus. However the research is in. Masks protect others from those who carry the virus like a condom prevents impregnation. Here is the research:
http://ftp.iza.org/dp13319.pdf
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“We set out by analyzing the city of Jena. The introduction of face masks on 6 April reduced the number of new infections over the next 20 days by almost 25% relative to the synthetic control group. This corresponds to a reduction in the average daily growth rate of the total number of reported infections by 1.32 percentage points. Comparing the daily growth rate in the synthetic control group with the observed daily growth rate in Jena, the latter shrinks by around 60% due to the introduction of face masks. This is a sizeable effect. Wearing face masks apparently helped considerably in reducing the spread of Covid-19.”
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