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That is what I use and love them! Since there is space between my mouth and the mask it makes wearing one so easy. I always hated those other masks that smash up on your face.
Yes! There's so much room! They fog up my glasses less, but still do. But MUCH less than cloth.
If I could back in time to when we all started wearing masks I would have got the KN95s way sooner. I did use some of the early cloth masks which I feel now are largely useless (I am of the any mask is better than no mask constituency).
While people much smarter than me say that those blue and white surgical masks are supposed to be good, I think they probably are for those few people whose faces they fit, which IME is some at best. I used them as a second mask under my then cloth masks when I had to fly or be in higher-risk situations. If I were to fly again I would do the same with the KN95s.
In other news, I still have yet to hear back from Mako / Lumina on either our results, or followup emails on our results. Their callback service never called back yesterday or today, and I've been on hold now of over 30 minutes, and I have no idea what hours they work. I'm experiencing concerning issues, and I need test results.
I gave every detail of the words the Kidd Rd tester gave that I could recall, and I've got pretty good recall. "I went to a big gathering over the holidays and I heard some tested positive".
When you know that you've had real exposure, of course it makes sense. If she had said "I went to a party on the 27th and the girl I talked to for 15 minutes texted me the next day saying she had Covid" is very different.
Except it would have been pretty weird if Kidd Rd person said "I went to a party on the 27th and the girl I talked to for 15 minutes texted me the next day saying she had Covid." No one gives that much random detail, especially to a reporter at a testing site..."on the 27th...for 15 minutes."
What they did say at least indicated possible exposure, and it may have even been what you deem "real exposure," so it really doesn't make for a good example of when not to test. I could see trying to make your case with the Zebulon person though.
Yes to all of this!!! To answer a question you asked in another post, no the school board will not go back to virtual. They will close individual schools if there was a need but not the entire district.
I think that's all any district in the state can do now, at least that's the way the district we're in presented it. It seems districts can only close specific classrooms and schools if needed, but not the entire district. I assume the state could still close schools down, but I don't see that happening.
The article I just posted said a recent study showed cloth masks reduced Covid cases by 5%.
This is NOT what that study said. If you are going to advocate for 'following the science' you should consider 'reading the science' not the abcnews summary.
In this study they gave out masks to villagers in some villages (different types) and encouraged them to wear them. (no mandates, no double blind controls, etc,)
Just handing out free masks and suggesting people wear them made the infection rates drop.
10% when the masks were 'surgical', 5% when they were cloth.
This is not the same as saying 'cloth masks work 5% of the time'
From the study (linked from your linked article):
We conducted a cluster-randomized trial to measure the effect of community-level mask
distribution and promotion on symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections in rural Bangladesh from
November 2020 to April 2021 (N = 600 villages, N = 342,183 adults). We cross-randomized
mask type (cloth vs. surgical) and promotion strategies at the village and household level.
Proper mask-wearing increased from 13.3% in the control group to 42.3% in the intervention
arm (adjusted percentage point difference = 0.29 [0.26, 0.31]). The intervention reduced symp-
tomatic seroprevalence (adjusted prevalence ratio (aPR) = 0.91 [0.82, 1.00]), especially among
adults 60+ years in villages where surgical masks were distributed (aPR = 0.65 [0.45, 0.85]).
Mask distribution and promotion was a scalable and effective method to reduce symptomatic
SARS-CoV-2 infections.
Type pretty good for a dead guy…..some more for the laugh department. (FTR, I realize it’s a lampoon. And yes it’s sad that, what was not that long ago, the gold standard for our species’ Public Health Organizations, is worthy of it.)
This is NOT what that study said. If you are going to advocate for 'following the science' you should consider 'reading the science' not the abcnews summary.
In this study they gave out masks to villagers in some villages (different types) and encouraged them to wear them. (no mandates, no double blind controls, etc,)
Just handing out free masks and suggesting people wear them made the infection rates drop.
10% when the masks were 'surgical', 5% when they were cloth. This is not the same as saying 'cloth masks work 5% of the time'
Who said that?
If you're going to make claims about others not "reading the science", it would be helpful if you put in a little more effort than just copypasta-ing the abstract. What were the percentages of PROPER mask wearing across the population in the study (43%) versus <insert Triangle city/town here> that does not have a mask mandate?
ETA: I just looked at the study, and I will be the first to admit that it is nearly 100% Greek to me. So any summary you can provide in layman's terms would be appreciated.
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