Would you agree to participate in an experiment? If so, see below... is it funny? This recently-relevant but very old Dilbert captures the humor fairly well, IMHO.
Posted on 10/19/2020 5:12:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
I worked in corporate America for 34 years, and found Dilbert cartoons hilarious because they were so spot on with my experience. In fact, there were times I’d swear he worked for my company.
It’s not a switch - as if you’re protected or you’re NOT protected.
If person X wears a mask, it protects person X to some extent. If person Y wears a mask, it ALSO protects person X (as well as person Y) to some extent.
Thus, if both people wear masks, both people are better protected. HOW well protected, again, depends on what kind of mask both people are wearing, how long they’re in each other’s proximity, where they are, and, of course, whether either of them have the virus or not.
Since the virus travels in droplets from coughing / sneezing / talking (or perhaps just breathing!) anything one can do to reduce those droplets from hitting the air would seem to me to be a good thing. As far as I’m concerned, people whining about “face diapers” are simply being selfish, and those claiming that “everyone should get the virus!” are dangerous fools who don’t seem to give a damn how many older people drop dead because of it.
Where I think our government failed (and this includes you, President Trump) is that they should have sent everyone in the country a box of masks. More people would wear them if more people HAD them to begin with. I certainly remember going a month or so before I could get hold of one. Perhaps if that had happened, more people would have worn them months ago and we’d have this thing stomped down by now.
Here’s the thing, if there really was a horrible virus that could be stopped (coming or going) with a face mask, you could never wear that mask again.
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No.
The virus has a short shelf life, and dies on paper (and presumably whatever masks are made of) in 24 hours or so.
I hope all the mask wearers realize when they smell flatulence that what they are breathing in has usually passed through, effectively, two masks.
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Odors are molecular.
Viruses are not.
He has no evidence that they are effective.
His next claim is that wearing a bathing suit prevents piss from getting into a pool.
I look at it this way, masks are greatly preferable to shutting down the economy. You have masked people riding planes and mass transit who don’t appear to be contributing to community spread, so social distancing also looks questionable. Masks and an economy that is wide open and firing on all thrusters are compatible, and of all the virus precautions, masks are the only one that you can say that about. Its particularly sweet when you buy your masks from little old American ladies instead of the ChiComs.
Because let's face reality - if neither you nor I have the virus and are not spreading, then the mask does nothing from a virus prevention standpoint.
Of course, in general it is the symptoms that cause the spreading. Coughing, puking, etc, are the ways viruses have evolved to spread.
Which is why there are claims that just talking can spread the virus. Or singing. Or breathing.
Those are the things that need to be proved if we really want to prove masks work. Because nobody is arguing that the sick should be allowed to wander around mask-free. The argument is about forcing the healthy to wear masks - “just in case.”
Just in case of what?
There were times I'd swear that our senior management was using the Dilbert calendar for their ideas, because we were always about three years behind on the really stupid ideas.
You missed the third piece of the puzzle - if neither of us have the virus, what is the difference in protection between either or both of us wearing a mask, or none of us wearing a mask?
I never understood Dilbert. My husband loved the cartoon, I just thought it made no sense, which maybe was the whole point. Big business and no point in the methods to their madness.
Would you agree to participate in an experiment? If so, see below... is it funny? This recently-relevant but very old Dilbert captures the humor fairly well, IMHO.
No, thank you. I enjoy living without having to wear a mask. Now, if I CHOOSE to go into a place where people may be compromised, sick, etc., (medical facility, nursing home, etc.) where we can’t “socially distance” then, I will wear a mask out of respect for them. Outdoors and inside places where we can “socially distance”, not gonna do it.
63 year old Adams cried wolf about the Coronavirus and has consistently ridiculed anyone with factual data dismissing the virus or questioning mask ineffectiveness. I think he is afraid to die and leave his 26 year old girlfriend all his goodies...
I think you are implying that odors go through masks because the particles that make them up are smaller than the openings between the fibers of the masks. But you don't think that viruses, which are also smaller than these openings, do not.
This doesn't make sense to me.
ML/NJ
Your point is well taken.
The real problem is someone having the virus and not knowing it. What is the best way to prevent spreading it. Mask or no mank?
Ya know, Corona-19 is with us. It is going to be here from now on. Any vaccine will probably be no more effective than the current flu vaccine. Sometime in the next 10 years we will all have had it.
Fat, sick, and old people need to take additional precautions. Very good masks might be needed by them.
That’s all that’s needed.
I don’t know about that.
Masks appear to be working ok, in Asia.
Not sure why...
Yes, that was my point in an earlier comment. How common are asymptomatic spreaders? After all,the way viruses work is by causing the carrier to spread it through things like coughing. How well does it spread if one does not have the symptoms?
Masks stop covid particles like jeans stop farts.
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