Posted on 04/25/2022 11:13:59 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Masks aren’t required on U.S. flights for now after a federal judge lifted a nationwide mask mandate covering planes and other forms of public transportation, though the Department of Justice is filing an appeal to overturn the decision after a request from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The lifting of the mask mandate has led some people on social media to express their concerns for immunocompromised passengers.
Some medical experts, including Leana Wen, M.D., a public health professor at George Washington University and CNN medical analyst, have previously said that “one-way masking,” where someone is wearing a high-quality mask but others around them are not, still protects the wearer from COVID-19.
THE QUESTION Can wearing a mask help protect you from getting COVID-19, even if others aren’t wearing one?
THE SOURCES The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 3M, a company that manufactures masks and medical supplies Saralyn Mark, M.D., former senior medical advisor to the White House and American Medical Women's Association COVID-19 Lead Study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
THE ANSWER Yes, wearing a mask can help protect you from getting COVID-19, even if others aren’t wearing them. But experts say universal masking offers the most protection from COVID-19......
Cloth or single-use surgical masks, on the other hand, are “more about helping protect those around you as you talk, cough or sneeze.” Because cloth and surgical masks fit loosely on the face, they do not provide protection to the wearer from germs transmitted by coughs or sneezes, 3M says.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
What’s also not being said is they claimed, “wearing a mask doesn’t protect you from getting the Kung Flu, it protects others from getting the Kung Flu from you.”
Well duh! Is there someone that did not know this?
No
They are lying that any mask is effective
Period
The lie needs to stop
And in effect they are admitting that the vax they are trying to force on everyone doesn’t work.
Enough is enough. Time for the mask cult to move on and find some new way to celebrate their hypochondria.
Not this shit again!
I’m pretty sure that five boosters and triple masking would actually work......
“But experts say universal masking offers the most protection from COVID-19...... “
I’m pretty sure that maintaining a Social Distance of at least 264 ft [1/20 mile] provides much better protection.
Sucking on a filthy mask for 8 hours a day can help get you Covid and a lot of other things.
Read this, stopped reading!
It’s a continuum. The better the mask, the more protection. But even a cloth mask offers some protection. Maybe more protection of others from you, if you are contagious, but even for you, some degree of protection.
People that think it’s a binary state are idiots.
A mask making company claiming universal masking is good. No conflict of interest there!
Everyone I know who wore a mask got COVID. Even if they were total maskholes. Yes, even diapers joe got it because he is out-of-pocket for days on end in DE.
immunocompromised passengers passengers can die from catching the common cold- shall everyone mask forever so that they don;t?
Apparently 81 million idiots don't.
The CDC is lying to us — yet again.
Yes...that is, a gas mask! I hope the face diaper brigades man-up and get serious, although, competing in track meets wearing gas masks will probably cause some issues!
And that’s why states which mandated the face diapers saw less incidence of COVID transmission than those which didn’t. Right? Right?
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