Masks obviously work. This is why medical professionals wear them. Why China, Japan, and South Korea have been able to contain the outbreak.
The reason they didn't give masks to criminals is because they wanted them out. They don't care if they are healthy or not. The point is to destabilize society. To sow disorder and chaos.
The "paper' surgical masks block 70-80% of incoming bacteria and viruses. The cloth ones block 40-50%. You are still getting some incoming material, but a lower dose, and in the case of a brief interaction, most likely less than the 100 to 1,000 viral particles currently suspected to trigger an infection.
No. Medical professionals wear PPE that vary depending on the job. You're probably referring to dentists or nurses that wear masks which is used to prevent bodily fluids such as saliva from landing on the patients. Perhaps some places even require masks with low micron ratings to stop germs or diseases but the point is that medical professionals wear PPE that vary from job to job. There are different types of masks that have more or less protection than other masks and an extremely contagious airborne virus requires the right equipment and procedures to protect the wearer.
Wrapping a T-shirt around your face or buying a cheap, generic mask or one of those stupid fashion masks won't do anything against an extremely contagious and airborne virus. Especially if the mask have a rather large gap between the edge and your face.
Closing down local businesses while allowing national and international corporations like Walmart to stay open without much restriction on number of customers won't help at all against an extremely contagious and airborne virus. If multiple people are constantly walking within two feet of each in the cereal aisle everyday then they will pass the virus between each other. Stupid generic masks won't do anything to stop it.
And they definitely didn't do anything during the weeks of panic buying that hit grocery stores. If an extremely contagious airborne virus with all the wild claims over the past few months had actually happened, then we would be completely screwed. At the very least it would be easier to list who doesn't have this virus.
Also have you looked at a picture of a Japanese train? This is just the line, where you can actually move. There's no way the virus would have been contained in time. If one Asian man was able to cause a small outbreak by visiting nightclubs then those trains would have made Japan one of the hardest hit countries.
There are different types of masks that have more or less protection than other masks and an extremely contagious airborne virus requires the right equipment and procedures to protect the wearer.
For droplet precautions, a paper surgical mask is considered adequate. For airborne precautions, an n95 or powered (CAPR or PAPR) is considered the correct PPE. The key thing about an n95 is whether it has been fit tested to an indvidual. A surgical mask can let air come in from the sides, possibly under the chin and around the nose. For droplet based disease transmission, that isn't considered a significant risk. For airborne it is.
Chinese coronavirus is largely transmitted through droplets. This isn't different from just about every other infectious respiratory disease. It can be airborne as well, when someone coughs or some other process of forcefully moving air "aerosolizes" the virus from droplets into much finer particles.
Saying masks don't work is like saying seat belts don't work, for the very same reasons. Smash into a wall at 120 mph and that seat belt won't save you. Wear a surgical mask while someone is coughing and coughing and coughing in your face for 20 minutes and the mask won't save you.
No, I'm referring to the medical professionals wearing masks specifically to prevent the transmission of Covid-19—which is, I might add, just the flu.
The quarantine makes literally no sense, and unless you're 80 years old and morbidly obese then you have nothing to fear from Covid. However, that has nothing to do with whether or not masks work at limiting the transmission of the virus (they obviously do). Even if they stop 50% (and in fact they stop about 80 - 95%) then this is a significant decrease in the viral load which could be passed along.
It's not like if a single virus gets into your body that you will be infected. The more you are exposed to, the more likely it will overwhelm the immune system. It's a nonlinear tipping point response.
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Masks obviously work. This is why medical professionals wear them. Why China, Japan, and South Korea have been able to contain the outbreak.
The reason they didn't give masks to criminals is because they wanted them out. They don't care if they are healthy or not. The point is to destabilize society. To sow disorder and chaos.
The "paper' surgical masks block 70-80% of incoming bacteria and viruses. The cloth ones block 40-50%. You are still getting some incoming material, but a lower dose, and in the case of a brief interaction, most likely less than the 100 to 1,000 viral particles currently suspected to trigger an infection.
No. Medical professionals wear PPE that vary depending on the job. You're probably referring to dentists or nurses that wear masks which is used to prevent bodily fluids such as saliva from landing on the patients. Perhaps some places even require masks with low micron ratings to stop germs or diseases but the point is that medical professionals wear PPE that vary from job to job. There are different types of masks that have more or less protection than other masks and an extremely contagious airborne virus requires the right equipment and procedures to protect the wearer.
Wrapping a T-shirt around your face or buying a cheap, generic mask or one of those stupid fashion masks won't do anything against an extremely contagious and airborne virus. Especially if the mask have a rather large gap between the edge and your face.
Closing down local businesses while allowing national and international corporations like Walmart to stay open without much restriction on number of customers won't help at all against an extremely contagious and airborne virus. If multiple people are constantly walking within two feet of each in the cereal aisle everyday then they will pass the virus between each other. Stupid generic masks won't do anything to stop it.
And they definitely didn't do anything during the weeks of panic buying that hit grocery stores. If an extremely contagious airborne virus with all the wild claims over the past few months had actually happened, then we would be completely screwed. At the very least it would be easier to list who doesn't have this virus.
Also have you looked at a picture of a Japanese train? This is just the line, where you can actually move. There's no way the virus would have been contained in time. If one Asian man was able to cause a small outbreak by visiting nightclubs then those trains would have made Japan one of the hardest hit countries.
For droplet precautions, a paper surgical mask is considered adequate. For airborne precautions, an n95 or powered (CAPR or PAPR) is considered the correct PPE. The key thing about an n95 is whether it has been fit tested to an indvidual. A surgical mask can let air come in from the sides, possibly under the chin and around the nose. For droplet based disease transmission, that isn't considered a significant risk. For airborne it is.
Chinese coronavirus is largely transmitted through droplets. This isn't different from just about every other infectious respiratory disease. It can be airborne as well, when someone coughs or some other process of forcefully moving air "aerosolizes" the virus from droplets into much finer particles.
Saying masks don't work is like saying seat belts don't work, for the very same reasons. Smash into a wall at 120 mph and that seat belt won't save you. Wear a surgical mask while someone is coughing and coughing and coughing in your face for 20 minutes and the mask won't save you.
No, I'm referring to the medical professionals wearing masks specifically to prevent the transmission of Covid-19—which is, I might add, just the flu.
The quarantine makes literally no sense, and unless you're 80 years old and morbidly obese then you have nothing to fear from Covid. However, that has nothing to do with whether or not masks work at limiting the transmission of the virus (they obviously do). Even if they stop 50% (and in fact they stop about 80 - 95%) then this is a significant decrease in the viral load which could be passed along.
It's not like if a single virus gets into your body that you will be infected. The more you are exposed to, the more likely it will overwhelm the immune system. It's a nonlinear tipping point response.
This is the correct answer.
Source please.
I believe you, but people are lazy and can't be bothered to google.
Right. The masks serve to incubate bacteria, irritate and subjugate the wearer
No evidence exists that even N95 masks prevent transmission of respiratory viruses