Enough Is Enough: Time to Finally Follow the Science on Masks

American Thinker.com ^ | March 1, 2021 | Ted Noel, MD

[Kaslin]

Recently I was "fact checked" by PolitiFact for a demo I did showing that masks don't stop the spread of aerosols (longer one here, shorter one here). The reporter asked for my comments and then said what his narrative required, without regard for any scientific data. The list of CDC and Medscape information in the video description escaped his attention. He also completely ignored the fact that Anthony Fauci has flip-flopped on masks more than a fresh-caught fish on deck.

Scientists have been very busy. When the Wuhan Flu came to America, we were told to constantly bathe our hands in sanitizer. Now we know that very few cases are spread by contact, so constant hand-washing isn't necessary. That leaves droplets and aerosols. Unfortunately, many studies use arbitrary size criteria to distinguish between them, giving us confusing answers. A better distinction is that droplets are too heavy to stay suspended in the air, so they follow a spitball's trajectory to the floor. Aerosols can stay suspended for hours, much like cigarette smoke.

Masks work really well against spitballs — oops, droplets. These larger particles hit and stick. They don't get through. So if you cough or sneeze, your mask, handkerchief, or elbow will do a great job of protecting your neighbor. But what about aerosols? You emit them every time you breathe, and if your neighbor sniffs after you break wind, you emitted an aerosol there, too. (Incidentally, COVID-19 is present in sewage in high concentrations.) We have enough data to show that these smaller, airborne particles are the real culprit in COVID-19 spread. How good are masks against aerosols?

We've all run into that irritating person who screams that "you're going to kill someone!" if you take your mask off. Supposedly, my mask will protect that person from me.

[Tommy Revolts]

I was reported by a Mask Nazi that I was not wearing a mask while working out at the YMCA, even though I was 20ft from the next person.

I was told I had to leave by a staff person whose mask was below her nose.

Although I pointed out that it seems to be ok to play basketball and racquetball there without wearing a mask.

I promptly canceled my (family) membership.

[PIF]

Masks are not worthless. They’re very effective at virtue signaling.

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and drastically lowering you O2 intake, leading to serious problems later

[SomeCallMeTim]

Thanks for posting

Great article

[Mr Ramsbotham]

IMHO if you can sell a fart thru the mask it does not stop COVID.

He who sold it told it.

[Wuli]

Thanks for contributing to the morning laughs:

“Most masks have the same effect on virus that a chain link fence has on a sandstorm.”

LOL That could well have been the subtitle for the article.

[Roccus]

When the Wuhan Flu came to America, we were told to constantly bathe our hands in sanitizer

Sign outside my local tire shop:

"I've absorbed so much hand sanitizer, I clean my toilet bowl every time I pee."

[lightman]

ut what about aerosols? You emit them every time you breathe, and if your neighbor sniffs after you break wind, you emitted an aerosol there, too. (Incidentally, COVID-19 is present in sewage in high concentrations.

BINGO!

Chew on this:

There is a lot of REAL science indicating that COVID—like cruise ship noroviruses—is spread primarily be fecal to oral transmission.

Let that sink in.

Remember about a year ago when there were a few quickly buried stories about communities in the New England states that were going to start testing sewerage for COVID?

Let that sink in.

Now consider this: In many States (Pennsylvania and Ohio for sure) the mask mandates are explicit that those in restaurants MUST wear a mask INTO THE RESTROOM where of course that cloth will absorb all toilet odors and other zhit.

Let that sink in.

Then the patron MUST wear the zhit laden mask back into the restaurant so that with every exhale the patrons innocently eating pancakes can get a dose of the restroom zhit.

Let that sink in.

Still hungry?

[IrishBrigade]

let me take a crack at your tag line, if I may...

‘before every other thing, be armed (arm yourselves)’

[jetson]

You got to admit, we have been exposed to less halitosis.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Bathing suits won’t protect you from pee in the pool.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Best mask study ever done on Covid-19:

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/12/joseph-mercola/landmark-study-finds-masks-are-ineffective/

Fo!lowed 6,000 adults around, some with masks, some without. Results? They don’t work.

Lab tests are pretty, but worthless when compared to real world conditions.

[Roccus]

Close enough

[HotHunt]

The corona virus is infinitesimally small. It is one thousandth (1/1,000) the width of a human hair.

It cannot be seen under a microscope. It requires an electron microscope to pick up an image of it.

The virus is an inert, dead submicroscopic particle. It is not a live organism like a bacteria or germ.

Outside the host, the virus is dormant. It has none of the traditional trappings of life. No metabolism, no motion or the ability to reproduce.

The New England Journal of Medicine released a report which suggested that scientists were at a consensus that the diameter of the corona virus particles varied from about 60 to 140 nm—that means as small as 0.06 microns all the way to 0.14 microns.

This makes it is clear, even the largest corona virus is smaller than the particles that even most N95 and N99 face masks can filter out—which is 0.3 microns.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist or a fake government medical expert, like Fauci, to tell us that masks are effective. They are not.

What they are effective at is scaring the public into wearing the masks. They are effective at assuaging the collective guilt that people have by not wearing the masks. They are effective at providing false confidence to people that think the masks somehow going to stop the transmission of the virus or prevent the virus from being spread. But they are not effective in stopping the corona virus.