Unless a mask is N-95 rated or better all it's good for is virtue signalling and to condition the public to follow stupid orders from petty tyrants.
Masks are being used in nursing homes, yet infections and deaths are still at high levels.
In Pennsylvania, nursing home deaths are over 70% of the total Wuhan deaths.
My mask is my passport.
It’s like a large-scale game of Simon Says, but instead of Simon - it’s Science.
They do not work in theory, nor practice. In simple terms, the virus is small enough to penetrate the fabric of a mask. That’s the theory. The practice obviously has proved itself as wanting.
Wearing a mask is as effective as stopping mosquitoes with a chain link fence.
This is ridiculous. I went to a store recently, after the customer in front of me checked out and left, an employee proceeded to spray and wipe down the counter, the key pad, etc. I probably picked up and put back a dozen or so different items as I looked for what I wanted. As far as I know, no one swooped in to sanitize each item after I set it down.
What it says on the backs of the disposable masks we buy: Not for use in healthcare settings.
Nuff said.
BTW, we can’t find disposable masks made anywhere but in China.
We’re going through at least a box of the dang things a week.
Wonder if Cuomo is getting a kickback from the ChiComs for the fricking mask mandate.
The Chinese have made $$$$ on manufacturing a thin piece of paper with two rubber bands and convincing people it will save their lives.
I’d like to see some data on how much money is being made on masks. Something tells me it’s a factor.
“Follow the money.”
Masks are public submission, not public safety.
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Unless a mask is N-95 rated or better all it's good for is virtue signalling and to condition the public to follow stupid orders from petty tyrants.
If masks are so good at capturing virii, why aren’t they treated as medical waste after use?
The mask is not about disease prevention, the mask is about control.
Masks probably cut transmission risk by 90% for a 15-minute grocery store foray.
I’ve had seven respiratory reactions after about 60 store visits.
Masks are a risk reduction tool.
Police cut crime but don’t eliminate it.
They got the masks backward, masks are worn to not get the virus. Nobody gives a sh!t whether you give the virus to someone else. You don’t want to get the virus.
The whole ‘servers...or ANYONE wearing masks, in a restaurant’ idea is the most absurd.
Just as the mask requirements are, too.
Corona fascism...I LIKE it!
Masks work. This has been documented in numerous scientific papers. They do not have to work perfectly, they only need to decrease disease transmission. The goal is to achieve 60% protection, which is equivalent to herd immunity. The fact that new case numbers have been steadily dropping since their peak in mid-July is a good indicator that measures such as mandatory mask use and social distancing work.
This could be why in place after place that has instituted mandatory masking, from California to Israel to Peru to Columbia to India to countless others, the virus continues to spread unabated and seemingly even faster than in non-masked places, only finishing when it runs its course at 15 to 25 percent seroprevalence.
Where does this even come from? There is no place in the world where there is 15 to 25 percent seroprevalence of Covid-19. Fewer than 0.4% of the world population has ever caught Covid-19. Even if the seroprevalence were that high, it would still be far below the number needed to achieve herd immunity. The measure of how contagious Covid-19 is, or R-nought (R0), is 2.5 (each infected person infects, on average, 2.5 other people). The formula to determine the level of herd immunity or protection that must be achieved in the population is 1-1/R0 (x 100 to make a percent). Since R0 is 2.5, the level of protection must be 1-1/2.5, or 0.6 (60%). In no case has Covid-19 "run its course" anywhere. It has been controlled by strict social distancing, masking requirements, etc., but never by just letting it spread uncontrolled.
This kind of misinformation helps the virus to spread, because people who believe it is no big deal don't take proper precautions. Covid is a killer. Even though the death rate has been dropping, it is still close to 3%--that is, one out of every thirty who catch it will die. It truly is not something we can just allow to circulate unopposed.