Some say tis one does, or maybe not.
Posted on 10/28/2020 1:14:06 PM PDT by Liberty7732
With regard to COVID, we are awash in unreliable or even intentionally misleading empirical claims. A neurosurgeon from D.C. who understands statistics analyzes a popular claim that is being made on behalf of mask mandates.
I encountered a Washington Post figure making its way through social media, suggesting that not wearing masks is conclusively the reason for COVID spread:
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“Respiratory droplets are already heavy enough to fall to the floor normally with gravity. If you slow the droplets, they don’t go as far. If they don’t go as far, they’re less likely to reach someone else before falling to the floor.”
And if you are wearing a mask, where do those droplets end up? And how far is that from the entry back into your system? Lastly, why was the human body designed to cough?
The answers to the above, lead most to the conclusion that mask wearing is actually more dangerous than anyone is letting on.
Lastly, how much protection does a mask provide on someone who is not sick? I believe the answer is exactly the same amount as nothing at all.
Yes because when scrubbed in you can’t cover your mouth when you cough. But they are equally there to keep blood and body fluid from being spattered on the providers face/mouth
That’s what the splash guards are for. A surgical mask isn’t going to prevent blood from getting where it isn’t ideal. Any messy surgeries I’ve witnessed the surgeon and attending ORNs were gowned and shielded. By comparison, a knee replacement isn’t exactly bloody, but you could wear an N95 mask with the best possible filters and that smell of sawn bone stays in your nose for hours.
I can’t stand wearing them, they actually gross me out....
First all masks are not created equal. An industrial mask will work better than one made in Grandmas basement.
My question is - If everybody is wearing a mask these days when the go out to the store, because they work so well, why are cases (positive test sick or not sick) spiking?
I know a guy. 48 years old, big Liberal, always wears a mask, but has diabetes and does not monitor his sugar and likes his Mt Dew and Snickers bar and is a bit chubby. He has been in the hospital for 09 days w/ Covid.
So I do not think generic masks do anything but make people feel good. Social distancing, stay home if you are sick likely does work.
It is not transmitted off surfaces, but yet we disinfect everything. If I am a symptomatic am I still infectious? I don’t think you have enough viral load to be shedding the virus to others.
Yes but the mask does keep the biggest stuff off your face
But real science by real scientists have studies that strongly suggest elephants may be able to fly if they flap their ears fast enough.
Some say tis one does, or maybe not.
Maybe so. I have a whole box of them by 3M and I thought they were 95
You got solid evidence of this?
You don't...
“Masks reduce the risk of getting Covid.”
By how much?
One thing that masks will accomplish is that people who wear them will be touching their nose and face more often than without. This whole mask and shutdown thing seems to work as a convenient excuse for governments around the world to take control of the populace. I smell globalists behind this as well as the Chinese communists.
I hope I’m wrong.
The more we wear masks, the higher the count goes.
So, NO !
Meanwhile, the mask I wear to enter Costco is steaming up like crazy and leaking droplets of COVID like the priest throwing out holy water.
Okay, fair. You wouldn’t be eating bits of viscera or adipose tissue in a panic situation.
I would have wrote droplets, but I didn’t want to give away the secret.
“It is not transmitted off surfaces, but yet we disinfect everything.”
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From what I’ve seen, it’s a possibility - though they say it’s not a “primary mode” of transmission. The virus does stay alive on diff surfaces for varying amounts of time. I expect if someone has it and has cough and wheezed all over an object it wouldn’t be a great idea to handle it until either time has passed or it has been disinfected.
my wife is a nurse. They of course, wear PPE of every kind constantly. In a 6 person general practice office, her and two others came down with 19 all in a 24 hour period. Both of us are at home with it now, basically a fever and light cough. Mine was 5 days after hers, last Sat night, and I’m pretty much over it.
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