Its the same as getting a horse used to a bit...
Political social fear conditioning.
Find something the people fear and make them turn on each other. Snitch on each other...castigate..lord over, Karenize.
Feel the power of control by standing on the soapbox of fear of the lower class failing to follow your rules. And then having the power to punish them, possibly making yourself wealthy on it...
not surprisingly, the conflict has continued to heat up, and now it has led to full-fledged warfare, with each side taking up arms against the other and blood being spilled.(mask advocates vs. non-maskers)
Not quite. Most non-maskers just want to be left alone and don’t care if someone wears a mask or not.
“After careful consideration, I have come to the conclusion that only the giant pharmaceutical corporations will save us.”
Wearing a mask 'may' slow the spread of Covid-19 but that's it. We've been wearing masks....we've been social distancing...we've been washing our hands...
How does wearing a mask create or contribute to herd immunity? It doesn't. What we need to beat Covid-19 is herd immunity, which can come about naturally or via a viable vaccine.
Emmett Tyrrell lost all credibility once he referred to Birx as pulchritudinous. Since he’s a self-described hypochondriac, I’m not at all surprised he endorses mask-wearing. A preponderance of evidence suggests that masks do not protect the wearer or those around the wearer from viruses.
Oh yes. I think we have heard this before.
FIRST THEY CAME WITH MASKS
NEXT!
Just 4-8 weeks! And then, just 4-8 more weeks!
It’s so easy when it’s just a few weeks.
It has now been 15 weeks.
What's the real point?
The masks are meant to SLOW the spread of the virus. It’s too valuable to the Left for it to go away.
I can’t believe Emmett Tyrell is this stupid. If he hasn’t lost faith in the nitwits who lead our government bureaucracies by now, he may as well skip the mask and just tie a plastic bag around his head.
Is this author prone to sarcasm? Because that is sure how I am reading this.
Forty years of respect crushed in one moment. You mask proponents are the worst scurge to ever hit this earth. Thank God you won’t win.
I notice the author does not define what research and the CDC director considers a mask. Just any old face covering? I doubt it.
I never wore one till the governor started threatening business licenses if they allowed maskless into their business. Being in a very rural area with a great local farmers market 2 miles away that is very heavily used, and has a horrible number of “Karens” that I can only assume come from town ten miles away. I wear one (but way under my nose so I can breathe) just to try and keep them from closing this great mom-n-pop store. These idiots are going to businesses, taking phone pictures and sending them to the head ‘Karen’ governor. Four restaurants got licenses yanked because of these busybodies.
The mask
In the following, I write “should,” because not all masks work perfectly.
A chemical mask should work, because whatever is passing thru the mask, with the intake, or outlet, air, bonds chemically or physically.
A mechanical mask should work, because of some combination of its layers consisting of fibers, as a complex physical mesh composition -— all designed to cause intake, or outlet, air, to change directions more than once. At, or near enough to, the change of direction for air, objects and particles “suspended” in the air, fail to make the change of direction, because of their mass/weight, and are caught by the fibers.
A screen or fence should work, because its single layer of composition, is in the way of some object’s direction of travel.
There are degrees of combinations of the following:
- cleaned
- disinfected
- restored
- sanitzed
- sterilized
. . . that may apply to some masks that are intended to be re-used. Plus, the number of times that a mask can pass thru such processing, before the level of efficiency of a mask, falls below “satisfactory” performance (or the straps become frail and useless).
If 100 percent protection is expected, but not met, then a mask may be considered worthless. If levels of protection - levels of performance - are expected, then a mask has levels of value.
In general, masks should provide a “satisfactory” level of protection when an effort is made to respect the weaknesses of the mask.
I have been helping my 3M N95 masks to last longer, by using an additional, cheap, ordinary, not-an-N95 dust mask in a fashion similar to a radiator bug screen. And, the extra, out front, cheap mask, adds more changes of air direction, increasing overall efficiency.
The SARS-2-CoV virus
Usually air borne along with moist human exhaust vapor droplets.
In somewhat contained areas - such as some spaces within an Old Folks Home - and not destroyed by staff cleaning efforts, and thus a window of air drying opportunity is available to the SARS-2-CoV virus, it may be reduced to either of:
- most of the time, a combination of itself plus some chemical/mineral crystalization
- very rarely, a lone virus structure.
Air currents could break either of those structures, free from a surface.
I do not expect that any mask I am using, will be effective against a “cloud” (air borne concentration) made up of the second structure that is only SARS-2 virus.
Instead, I anticipate that the masks that I use, afford me a better chance of some protection from the first structure that is the SARS-2 virus plus some chemical/mineral crystalization (usually the result of human saline, so to speak).
And, I anticipate that the masks that I use, afford me a relatively much better chance of some protection from the SARS-2 virus - when the SARS-2 virus is borne along with moist human exhaust vapor droplets.
Without masks available from my shop inventory, I would probably create my own mask from at least 4 layers of cotton T-shirt material. Use shoe laces for securing. And probably wear a bandana over that, as my “bug screen.”
Disinfecting
I have been bathing the shop masks in sunlight. On dark days, I place the masks in a kitchen pot that is wide enough for the masks plus room for a tiny bowel in which I place some Hydrogen Peroxide. Put the lid on the pot and place the assembly in an oven for 1 hour at 160 deg F.
After wearing a mask
If home, I use a wash cloth with some rubbing alcohol and trace the boundary of where the mask was obviously in contact with my face. Because that “joint” is not perfect.
Soap
I have used FELS NAPTHA bars for decades. This soap breaks up a variety of oils and resins. I figure that this soap will quickly break down the exterior lipid surface layer of the SARS-2 virus. So, FELS NAPTHA is my preferred, at-the-sink bar, for the occasion.
I have used SIMPLE GREEN (approx. SG 30-40 / 70-60 H2O concentration) as an engine degreaser; so I consider that it, too, may be a contender.
Groceries
I try to wipe down everything with a combination of Mr. Clean and Rubbing Alcohol. I try.
Gloves
I stopped using from my shop supply of rubber gloves. Switched to washable gloves (local hardware store supply); sometimes sun-bathed; sometimes soap, hot water, then air-dry.
Rubbing Alcohol
Needed for medical cleaning, disinfecting, reasons. I have long been in the habit of keeping up reserves. But I am now well into my reserves. This will become a serious problem, if stores continue to not stock rubbing alcohol. I figure, September is my deadline.
If you wear a mask, you’re an idiot.