Posted on 04/25/2022 11:13:59 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Masks aren’t required on U.S. flights for now after a federal judge lifted a nationwide mask mandate covering planes and other forms of public transportation, though the Department of Justice is filing an appeal to overturn the decision after a request from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The lifting of the mask mandate has led some people on social media to express their concerns for immunocompromised passengers.
Some medical experts, including Leana Wen, M.D., a public health professor at George Washington University and CNN medical analyst, have previously said that “one-way masking,” where someone is wearing a high-quality mask but others around them are not, still protects the wearer from COVID-19.
THE QUESTION Can wearing a mask help protect you from getting COVID-19, even if others aren’t wearing one?
THE SOURCES The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 3M, a company that manufactures masks and medical supplies Saralyn Mark, M.D., former senior medical advisor to the White House and American Medical Women's Association COVID-19 Lead Study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
THE ANSWER Yes, wearing a mask can help protect you from getting COVID-19, even if others aren’t wearing them. But experts say universal masking offers the most protection from COVID-19......
Cloth or single-use surgical masks, on the other hand, are “more about helping protect those around you as you talk, cough or sneeze.” Because cloth and surgical masks fit loosely on the face, they do not provide protection to the wearer from germs transmitted by coughs or sneezes, 3M says.
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“Got COVID twice.
No biggie.”
The universe extends well beyond your fingertips. I know probably a dozen people that died from it.
Yes,this is why I was against shutting down America because ot a germ,
.
There is always a element of risk. Do we punish EVERYONE.. lock everyone down whenever a germ is loose..wear mask and take whatever shot the government forces of to take?
Let them destroy our economy because there is a 1% chance you might die if you get the COVID.
OR,maybe if people had a fever we should have sent them home or see a doctor. let the rest of us earn a living.
Live life,
Not live in fear.
A mask is next to useless. It is s political tool, that’s all.
If masks work at stopping covid then why are the mask States still claiming a heavy outbreak (total lie, but let’s go with it) while Florida and the Free States are doing just fine?
Mask do not work. I don’t care how much of a pretzel you turn yourself in to trying to make it sound good.
So, what do you do with that contaminated mask? I mean, you claim you breath through a mask and the mask stops the virus; therefore, the mask is contaminated.
You, like every other ignorant idiot, puts it in your purse, on your dash in your car, and on the counter at home. I do not see contamination bins for all these contaminated wipes and masks.
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