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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Also, the mask nazis NEVER provided minimum mask specifications.
The true test: If masks were effective mask makers would warrant their use...want to bet that any manufacturer would do that? Get the Fauci flu and sue the mask maker for a million!!!
Really. The agenda is to sell mask.
3M almost went broke because it sold masks to “protect” against asbestos that did nothing but make 3M money and give workers false confidence.
Maybe Slow Joe will come out and say that mask makers are the only industry that can produce a defective product and not be sued!
IF mask wearing worked no one in Japan would ever get sick
People that call a “possible” minimal protection “protection” and treat it like it is meaningful are dissembling.
It’s ridiculous and an attempt to control people. The facts bear out that masks have not protected people in areas where they are mandated.
There was one type mask that was pretty well 100% foolproof against all virus, particulates and bacteria. The problem though was in the clinical trials when the participants kept tearing away the saran wrap that was tightly wound around their head and face after just a few seconds complaining that they couldn't breathe.. /s
Well duh! Is there someone that did not know this?
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Yes. 2020 we were told to wear a mask, not to protect yourself, but to protect others. If one did not wear a mask, they were signaling that you didn’t care if they died from covid.
Where have you been?
There is no way all the people I see walking around with masks still on are immunocompromised. Neurotic perhaps, but not immunocompromised.
don’t forget hoarding toilet paper
Dr. Ashish Jha, Fauci’s replcacement at the Whitehouse has now clarified the matter....”If you are wearing a good mask and even if no one around you is wearing a mask, you are well protected against Covid.”
It’s so sad that everybody that has a different opinion from the anti-mask and anti-vax crowd on FR these days gets labeled a rat. or worse. That’s just cancel culture infesting a former bastion of free speech.
All this garbo despite study after study overseas indicating that masks did NOTHING to prevent COVID. Yeah, okie dokie.
Keep wearing that face diaper placebo.........
Standard face masks will not even stop a particle of sheetrock dust that is at least 10 times larger than a particle of corona virus.
Makes you wonder which government officials have a financial investment in companies that manufacture and/or sell face masks.
People can wear them as a groin cup,or as a hat, for all I care.
Fixed it.
Hmmm...that IS freedom of speech.
Although, calling people who do not agree with your opinion a “rat” is kind of silly.
I have no problem with other people wearing a mask. Most of them are ugly as hell anyway.
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