Catholic Priest Calls Police on Pregnant Mother to Have Her Arrested for Taking off Mask to Breathe

So, if masks don't work, tell me how you will protect others from catching COVID-19 from you when you become contagious?

I was a leader of a Hazmat team for many years. The selection of personal protective equipment for the situations that we faced was our number one priority. My wife is a retired nurse and I volunteered in facilities that she worked at. One of the notable ones was the Life Care Center in Kirkland Washington which if you look it up was the first care facility in the country to have an outbreak of Covid that resulted in multiple deaths. We had not been there for six months before tragedy struck but we understand very well why the facility was vulnerable.

The masks that people are wearing typically have little to no protective even for protection against a dusty environment. They do however increase your chances of becoming sick by forcing you by lowering your oxygen uptake and working as a reservoir and breeding ground for bacterial and viral particulate.

We have two friends who became sriously ill from pneumonia last year... one of them died and one has permanent lung damage. Both were both deathly afraid of catching Covid last year and wore masks even when inside their own homes alone and when outside alone. Their doctors felt that the masks contributed to their demise.

How do you protect others from getting ill if you get sick? By isolating yourself from others as much as possible, practicing good hygiene and trying to take good care of yourself, as well as having as little contact as possible with people who are assisting you and your caregivers if you need them. How is it that people have completely lost their common sense this year?

The masks give only a false sense of security. People who are symptomatic and contagious expose others by not limiting their contact with others and contaminating surfaces that other people are using.

when COVID-19 is in its incubation phase, it shows no symptoms when it can infect others. This is a fact that is known worldwide.

No, the only fact is that you have little understanding of how contagious illnesses develop and are spread. People who are in the “incubation phase” of any illness are far less contagious than people who are symptomatic because they are shedding far less viral particulate. You get ill when you are exposed to a high enough level of viral particulate that your immune system cannot fight it off. This is a virus that is contagious enough that people who are socially active and have lived in the early hotspots have been exposed multiple times to low levels of the virus for many months now. Our immune system is already capable of fighting off this virus even before being immunized. Part of the reason why we are more capable of fighting off the virus now than last year is because we were around people who were shedding low levels of the virus.

Unfortunately we have been exposed now for a year to unbelievable amounts of politically motivated propaganda that has turned reasonable persons such as yourself into paranoid, misinformed fountains of nonsense.

Is it possible for a person who has no symptoms to spread a virus? Obviously! Do they pose a great risk to others? NO!!! Can people who are symptomatic and are running around town with a dust mask, surgical mask, or bandanna on their faces and taking no other precautions pose a risk to others? Yes! If you are sick don't give it to others. Don't share your pop or desert with others; don't shake their hands; don't cough on them; keep your distance; and don't share an enclosed space with them. These are things that were taught to those of us who lost our youth decades ago when we were children.

As a fellow Washingtonian, I was aware of the fiasco happening in the Kirkland Life Care Center. I believe the failure to isolate the residents caused the spread throughout Washington. I blame the Inslee leadership for that. He obviously knew the staff at that center were ignorant of the situation and, for some dark reason, let it spread. I compare him to Andrew Cuomo.

I agree that mask do a poor job at filtering particulates like fiberglass insulation. I had to wear an industrial grade respirator in my long hours in attics installing alarm wiring, many years ago. However, masks do a good job filtering droplets. They mostly protect others from the virus laden droplets you shed. That is important because you control the viral load if you are infected and not aware of it.

I disagree with you on the level of danger one has when they have been infected as the virus goes through the incubation phase. This is a time when a false sense of safety can cause one to infect others with bad practices: joining in a card game, not using the hand sanitizer when entering a public place, pulling the mask down below your nose when in public, pulling the mask down to cough in public, going to see your 65 year-old mom and kissing her, the list goes on. The virus is contagious and loose masks sink ships.

The type of mask you wear can make big difference. A study by Duke University used a laser to evaluate the effectiveness of various forms of masks. The team found a fitted N-95 mask performed best, transmitting less than 1% of respiratory droplets into the air. A standard surgical mask was nearly as effective. This graph shows the droplet transmission from the 14 types of face coverings tested in this experiment. The green dot represents the droplet count for the control trial (a person not wearing a mask). The red dot shows bandana use, emitting about 50% of droplets, which is not very effective compared to the other masks tested.

1. Fitted N95, no valve (14 in photo)
2. 3-layer surgical mask (1)
3. Cotton-polypropylene-cotton mask (5)
4. 2-layer polypropylene apron mask (4)
5. 2-layer cotton, pleated style mask (13)
6. 2-layer cotton, pleated style mask (7)
7. Valved N95 mask (2)
8. 2-layer cotton, Olson style mask (8)
9. 1-layer Maxima AT mask (6)
10. 1-layer cotton, pleated style mask (10)
11. 2-layer cotton, pleated style mask (9)
12. Knitted mask (3)
13. Double-layer bandanna (12)
14. Gaiter type neck fleece ( 1)

You do not know nearly as much as you think that you do about the Kirkland Life Care Center. The facility and the staff were top notch. They offered a higher level of care than any other care center in the area. They had multiple patients on respirators before Covid became a factor. The reason that they were hit hard is because they had a lot of patients that required a very high level of care that was not offered anywhere else outside of a fully accredited hospital.

The other part of the equation there was that the part of King County where the Kirkland Life Care Center was located in is home to half a million recent arrivals from China and many went home for Chinese New Year. If you have ever shopped at the Kirkland Costco you would realize that half or more of the customers there are of Asian descent. Many of the residents and staff at the Kirkland Life Care Center were also of Asian descent and their family and friends who came to visit were also of Asian descent.

The chart you included is amusing in that it does show that the majority of masks being worn by the public are less than worthless. They actually put the person who wears them for hours a day at greater risk of getting sick. This is despite the “droplet count” measure being an almost meaningless standard to measure effectiveness. As soon as the mask becomes saturated the viral particulate can migrate from inside to outside the mask during airflow through the filter and the viral particulate is released from the outside of the mask. The masks act like a sieve making the droplets much smaller and able to float around longer. Do you believe that makes them less or more likely to be breathed in or make contact with other peoples mucus membranes.

I do not blame you for your media and big tech provided "facts" but they are not facts in any normal sense of the word and are mostly propaganda meant only to deceive the public. You can agree or disagree with my decades of training and work choosing the proper PPE for hazmat chemical and bio-hazards... it makes no difference to me.

I suspected the COVID victims at Kirkland Life Care Center were Asians infected by their family and friends. I also suspected the staff. I wondered why it took so long to test the staff, after weeks of new infections. Confusion inside the nursing home and among state health officials over who was responsible for testing sick patients allowed the disease to continue spreading, turning Life Care into the nation’s largest source of COVID-19 fatalities. When testing was done, of the 120 residents at Life Care, more than 81 tested positive.

By March 13, tests on the staff recorded 47 positive for COVID, 24 testing negative with the remaining 133 pending. The nursing home didn’t obtain enough supplies to test all residents until March 7, and it took another week to test most employees. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that limited access to testing, as well as staff working at multiple facilities while sick and a lack of protective equipment, contributed to the disease’s spread at Life Care. Did Inslee step up to the plate? No. He dragged his feet and dropped the ball.

If you are concerned about over saturating your mask consider fabrics that are moisture-wicking, so moisture is wicked out of the mask into the air. Also to make a tighter and a more comfortable mask experience, consider the 4Ocean Face Mask Support Frame:

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Maybe it is something interesting to some others here but I personally do not need the Wikipedia version of what happened at the Kirkland Life Care Center recited to me. During my career I was involved in many incidents that were reported on by the news media. In some cases I was one of those who directly provided information to them. Do you know want to guess how many times the incidents that I had personal knowledge of were reported on in a way that actually was accurate?

I wondered why it took so long to test the staff, after weeks of new infections.

The "tests" were not available to anyone other than politicians and celebrities that early in the “pandemic”. Second, the "tests" being used were never intended to be more than one diagnostic tool to be used by professionals. Somewhere in the abject nonsense over the past year the roles of various diagnostic tools have been turned on their head. The public now has a completely backassword view of their role in diagnostic procedures.

Did Inslee step up to the plate? No. He dragged his feet and dropped the ball.

I am certainly no fan of Governor Dimsley, but he had absolutely zero to do with the situation at the Life Care Center in Kirkland. Your expectation of his ability to have any meaningful impact in the fight against this highly contagious pathogen is unrealistic and just plain silly. Dimsley is a draft dodging third rate lawyer whose most valuable attribute is his ability to call attention to himself. What an embarrassment to this state! Nearly everything Dimsley he has done responding to the “pandemic” has been costly and detrimental to the well being of the citizens of this state. Do you think that he would have been a help to me as the incident commander at the scene of a hazmat incident as well? No soup for you!

I do thank you for the latest link you provided and your commentary on masks; it had me rolling on the floor laughing. “Purchasing this product pulls one pound of trash from the ocean” It is not enough that this product works by preventing even professional grade personal protective equipment from forming a good seal with your face it also saves the earth! Incredible!

“Our Face Mask Support Frames are designed by BreatheWire to minimize points of contact with your face” Oh my goodness! It is genius I tell you!

“Disclaimer: The 4ocean Face Mask Support Frame is intended to be used as personal protective equipment for general, non-medical uses.”

“OCEAN FACT COVID-19 has had a number of unexpected impacts on the environment, particularly the ocean.”

I appreciate that you and just about everyone else have had their heads filled with nonsense over the past year by the media, politicians, and the big tech filtering of information. But please try to start using your common sense just a little and refrain from parroting the just mentioned sources of “information”. From the perspective of someone who actually had training and responded to many incidents involving both chemical and biological hazards... it has been like pounding my head against a wall for over a year now...

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