If you want to protect yourself from a respiratory virus, you need to dress like these guys.
Anything less is just theater.
Posted on 09/02/2023 7:30:24 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
An uptick in Covid cases and hospitalizations in the U.S., and the emergence of new variants of the virus, are prompting questions about whether Americans should start masking up again.
One thing's for sure: People infected with Covid should wear masks around others to prevent the spread of the virus.
For those not infected, the decision to mask depends on a few things. That includes your personal risk level, Covid rates in your region and who you might make contact with, public health experts said.
(Excerpt) Read more at google.com ...
“This is a virus and can be dangerous.”
You talking about the viral stupidity that surrounds this imaginary disease right?
Getting people to refuse to wear masks and observe social distancing was a major PR success of antivax/antiscience charlatans.
See post #23, and explain how it is wrong. Otherwise, your advice here can kill people dumb enough to ignore experience.
They do not.
I am in my 58th year as an environmental health and safety professional in heavy industry, big agriculture and R&D, with more than a half-century of hands-on experience with personal protective equipment including, specifically, face masks. As to their effectiveness with respect to transmission of a respiratory virus, I say without reservation that even a properly selected, properly applied and fit-tested, properly worn and properly maintained N95 mask (which nearly all are not), even when worn by a person trained in their use will not provide protection from a respiratory virus.
The physical reality is that a mask does not, can not and will not protect the wearer from exposure to, getting sick from and spreading a respiratory virus. Masks can be very effective with things such as pollen, dust and other particulates which are massively larger than a virus ... but they do not provide protection from a respiratory virus. That I have heard doctors advise their patients who, due to comorbidities or other factors must do everything possible to avoid exposure to a highly contagious respiratory virus, that if they wear a mask and if they avoid people who aren't masked they will be relatively safe ... the implication being that a mask will protect them from contracting the virus. This is not true and I find this advice from doctors who damn-well know better (or at least they should know better) to be irresponsible, unconscionable and potentially dangerous to their patient ... and yet many continue to do so.
So, I agree with your advice and supplement it with noting that if you're sick -- if you have the virus symptoms -- stay home and away from other people until you're better. Stay away from people who have virus symptoms with the clear understanding that whether or not they (or you, or both of you) are wearing a mask has no effect on virus transmission. Do your very best to avoid confined, crowded spaces and do whatever you can to keep your immune system healthy (I use Quercitin with zinc along other supplements that I find keep me feeling great ... at 75.) Cheers! & be well.
When to wear a mask?
When you are doing surgery on a patient.
When you rob a store
When you are interviewed by a liberal TV station
NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gee. Another election. Another pandemic.
Who would have thought?
Feeling scammed, yet?
NEVER AGAIN! Kelly Clarkson.
“Does it hurt to know I’ll never be there? (Does it hurt?)
Bet it sucks, see my face everywhere (Bet it sucks)
It was you, who chose to end it like you did (You chose)
(Ooh) I was the last to know
You knew exactly what you would do (You knew)
And don’t say, you simply lost your way (What you would do)
They may believe you, but I never will”
“Never again will I hear you
Never again will I miss you
Never again will I fall to you
Never
Never again will I kiss you
Never again will I want to
Never again will I love you
Never”
NEVER AGAIN!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVYesEpMr84&ab_channel=kellyclarksonVEVO
Yuppers
I want to point and Laugh...
Or cry out for Logic and Reasoning.
>> Your best protection is washing your hands and keeping your distance.
No, your best protection is your GOD-given immune system!
Take good care of it. That means, among other things, breathing out in the open (not strangled by an N95 mask) the way you were CREATED to breathe, so that your body receives the oxygen it was meant to receive.
Also vitamins C and D. And keep a combo prophylactic/remedy like ivermectin on hand.
If the masks did any good they would be outlawed.
Variant BS.24.7 is on the loose.
never, because masks DO NOT WORK!!!
I dare ANY liberal who belives that masks work to enter a sealed room filled with toxic chemicals.
They wont, because in their gut even THEY know that masks don’t work, but their feeble little brains need to FEEL like they are doing SOMETHING, because of them feeling helpless.
PAGEING DR HOWARD
DR FINE
DR HOWARD.
Wait...
WHAT?
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of course you forgot your ‘/s’ tag.
Great comments...
Never Surrender!
If you want to protect yourself from a respiratory virus, you need to dress like these guys.
Anything less is just theater.
The real purpose of a mask like the N95 is to prevent the wearer from infecting people close to them. While an N95 does offer a little protection to the person wearing it that is not it’s purpose. In general it is a bad idea to wear an N95 type mask if you do not have too. You are re breathing bad air and that is bad for you. Under the mask you are creating a great environment for germs and bugs, warm and humid, so do not wear an N95 unless you have too. IG, you’re sick and don’t want to spread what you got (cold, flu, covid).
BAM! Great point.
Masks are very helpful.
They remind you to never touch your face.
They keep idiots 6 feet away.
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