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Once again someone with no background in science (and I mean actual science, not the science invented by governors and celebrities) promoting masks as a panacea to the pandemic.
People, masks only work IF they are the N95 variety. Those dingy, filthy cloth rags you wear on your face have giant pores more than 1000x the size of a SARS-CoV2 virus. It's like trying to stop flour with a sieve - pointless.
Yes, masks work but only if everyone wears and N95. You can dump your saliva infested cloth rag right now.
I'd say , anything can protect well against theoretical virus...
Disagree. But it sure has turned lots of normal smart people into idiots.
Many of you probably wouldn't wear condom if asked. You'd find it offensive. You'd think it was a form of Conservative control. You probably would whine about how doing something to protect both people is mainly just the other person's problem.
does the mask protect me, or thee? If both, at what degree each?
Once again someone with no background in science (and I mean actual science, not the science invented by governors and celebrities) promoting masks as a panacea to the pandemic.
People, masks only work IF they are the N95 variety. Those dingy, filthy cloth rags you wear on your face have giant pores more than 1000x the size of a SARS-CoV2 virus. It's like trying to stop flour with a sieve - pointless.
Yes, masks work but only if everyone wears and N95. You can dump your saliva infested cloth rag right now.
I wear the mask so others aren't so scared - ie, fear as a virtue. I'm always shocked at the 65+ crowd either not wearing or doing it incorrectly
And just think, if the masks that probably 80%+ of people wear aren't effective, why aren't even more people infected?
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THE LOCKDOWN HAS TURNED FEAR INTO A VIRTUE.
Disagree. But it sure has turned lots of normal smart people into idiots.
Many of you probably wouldn't wear condom if asked. You'd find it offensive. You'd think it was a form of Conservative control. You probably would whine about how doing something to protect both people is mainly just the other person's problem.
Yes it can...if most are wearing the masks...wish we could've been more like Taiwan (7 deaths) and New Zealand (25 deaths) where mask wearing is universal...our non-mask wearing super spreader President is responsible (225K deaths with rapidly rising numbers)...blew it big time on covid!
Just do some simple research. The size in microns, of a virus, vs what size particles in microns can pass through a mask, particularly the cloth masks most people wear. Then there is exposure time, the actual amount of viral material that could hypothetically be expelled from a human just breathing and speaking normally, etc.. Common sense rules the day. But as some of us have observed, there is a serious shortage of commons sense being utilized these days. It has been replaced by fear, panic and a large does of hatred from the leftist MSM. The argument for masks says it protects others who have the virus from spreading it to others via droplets from saliva. I'm not sick so I'm not at risk of spreading it.
I believe after the dust has settled from all the panic ginned up by the media, we will find that masks were largely ineffective in slowing the spread of Chinese WuFlu among the general population. I also believe the entire thing was more an experiment to see how easily the general public can be persuaded into uniform behavior if you scare enough people.
I laugh hysterically when Republicans/Trumpers make this claim.
We've been on our knees since the Whiskey Rebellion in 1791. We accept it. We love it. We crave it. They don't need to run any "experiments" on us.
We took Lincoln's War and said nothing. We took Lincoln's federal income tax and said nothing. We took the Federal Reserve in 1913 and said nothing. We took LBJ's Great Society and said nothing. We took the Patriot Act and said nothing.
Nobody cares. We'll go to Walmart and vote (well, not me). That's America.
Ask Herman Cain. Oh, so sorry, Mr. Cain went to his buddies rally, became infected, and died. During Trump's super spreader event over 35 attendees were all diagnosed with Covid after attending this event most without face masks. Trump and his wife were infected too.
A universal driving ban would save many more than that. Do you lunatics want to ban cars in addition to mandating masks everywhere?
The difficulty of wearing a mask for several more months vs. losing the ability to own private transportation aren't even comparable inconveniences.
Not even.
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