You are hopeless. The transmission is the droplets. Limiting the range of droplets is key. There is NO cure for Covid-19 genius, not even N-95 masks. But you can mitigate the spread. Every little bit helps.
Nice post The mask is to keep blood and other foreign things out of a surgeons mouth/eyes etc... It doesn't protect a surgeon from viruses for more than 20 mins. Sorry but since masks obviously are the be all end all lets fully open up the economy. BTW, there are only going to end up being 2 kinds of people. Those that have gotten the Covid-19 and those that are going to get Covid-19.
If you use N'95 masks this is true. The size of the droplets that cause Covid -19 are so small that a regular mask doesn't work. They get thru a mask and on people without them even knowing it. (Viruses, not just Covid-19.) Why is this so hard to understand.
You are a fool. If you can blow out a match then the material is too thin (bandana), that is better test for droplets. N-95 is best but no mask/barrier is just ignorant.
Wrong. Large droplets are specifically what surgical and cloth masks prevents. There CAN be small particles or small droplets that may pass through a mask but a regular mask absolutely does work. Why do people cover their mouth and nose when they sneeze? It's the same thing. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/4...s-heres-science-behind-how-face-masks-prevent http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-ne...ntists-contribute-to-who-mask-guidelines.html https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/hea.../coronavirus-face-masks-what-you-need-to-know
I'm so done with life ya'll. This corona stuff has ruined everything. I hope all of ya'll are staying safe and healthy. Don't take this virus lightly and please be aware of your surroundings and other people and please for the love of whatever God you believe in or don't, wear a mask. I don't care how healthy you are, wearing a mask isn't to prevent you from getting it, it's to prevent someone else from getting it so they don't spread it to more people. Seriously, when you're simply just looking at the numbers and when nothing is affecting you or your family, it may just seem like nothing... but when you do start losing family and loved ones, I'm telling you, this **** really hits different. So please, just be careful and please be mindful of others and for crying out loud, please wear a mask if you're going out or going to be around anyone.
Raining Threes... you're getting bad information. I recommend StatNews for solid reporting. It's a medical news site. Pay particular attention to Helen Branswell, who is their senior writer on infectious disease. This is ALL that she reports on for her entire career. She's covered COVID, SARS, Ebola... everything. There are NO POLITICS on this website. https://www.statnews.com/tag/coronavirus/ To address your specific post, you're reading about half-way through these articles and jumping to conclusions. Everything you say has a little truth, then huge jumps in logic that arrive at terrible generalizations. I have no idea where you're getting the info about N95s only working for 20 minutes. You need to discuss this with your friend in greater detail and ask more questions. Someone mentioned saturated masks not doing the job... that sounds potentially reasonable, but I doubt the moisture in your breath is going to saturate an N95 in that time. However, let's say you're right and 20 minutes is all that it does. That's still 20 minutes better than nothing. About the effectiveness of masks in general... TRUE: Aeresolized particle size of COVID is very small. N95 will filter particles that small. Cloth masks will not. WHERE YOUR ARGUMENT FALLS APART: Cloth masks ARE NOT useless. The previous post about pissing on each other is absolutely correct. Aeresol transmission is not the only way that COVID is transmitted. Primarily it is through droplets. Droplets are larger than aerosols, and cloth masks are effective at blocking droplets. WHAT YOU'RE LEAVING OUT: Every bit of protection helps. Stop listening to cable news where pundits bicker about "Trump rallies will cause a case spike", "protesters are causing case spikes", "Memorial Day parties are causing case spikes", "lack of masks are causing case spikes". The real truth is that there is no one single cause for the spread of COVID. On a population-wide basis, it is a combination of all of these factors. What we need to do, is attack all of these factors simultaneously in as many ways as we possibly can. Only this will protect us on a population-wide basis. You've probably heard this but this pissing illustration makes the point... "I wear a mask to protect you, and you wear a mask to protect me". WHAT YOU NEED TO DO: **Separate**. This helps. It won't give you 100% protection, but let's say hypothetically, it decreases your chances 20%. If you separate 10' instead of 6', let's say it decreases your chances 30%. GREAT! What else? **Wear a mask all the time in public**. This helps. It won't give you 100% protection, but let's say hypothetically, it decreases your chances 30% of transmitting it to other people. If everyone does it, that reduces your chances by 30%. **Wash your hands**. This helps. Do it frequently and after touching potentially contaminated object. Let's say hypothetically this decreases your chances 15%. **Don't take unnecessary risks**. This helps. If it's possible for you, order groceries to be delivered instead of going to the store. If it's possible for you, work from home instead of going to the business where you work. Order pick-up food instead of dining in a restaurant. If you socialize, do it outdoors instead of indoors. Use ATM machines instead of bank tellers. Don't go to the gym. Maybe all of these things lower your chances 25%. WHAT IS THE RESULT: Maybe you have to take risks because of your work. Maybe you can't separate in certain situations because it's part of how you earn a living. Do all the other stuff you can, as much as you can. Maybe that reduces your chances of getting sick by 60%. Why wouldn't that be worth it? Maybe you avoiding getting sick prevents you from landing in a hospital and exposing a doctor to COVID. Maybe it prevents you from accidentally spreading the illness to a vulnerable friend of family member. More than anything it slows this thing down, which prevents the hospitals from getting overcrowded, and sacrificing the quality of care for someone that is diabetic and had to work on a construction site because they had to feed their family. Maybe that diabetic person is saved and can raise their children in the future.
1) wearing regular masks are still better than nothing 2) so if you believe than N95 are indeed effective, do you think the govt should be providing them to everyone or at least all health workers and subsidizing for the rest of the population who wants it?
Nobody says masks are the be all end all. Where did you get that? If this is why you are arguing, then just stop. You are beating up a strawman.
For the skeptics, what's the harm in wearing a mask? At most, a minor inconvenience. Wearing a mask is not just about you, you could have the Rona and you reduce the likelihood of passing it to someone else. In basketball, we fans, talk about risk and reward. Wearing a mask is low risk and high potential reward.
BimaThug post, was posted on B/R. Update: DeMarre Carroll was just waived. Was that a serious comment @BimaThug?
You misunderstood, I said N-95 masks work. 20 mins of a surgical mask equals a 20 percent reduction of the spread of Covid-19,? Where did you get this info? If this is the case then the economy should be opened up If the government wants to open up the economy they should provide everybody with an N-95 mask and let everyone go about their business. This is a test case of govt control. I would have never thought people would be willing to give up their rights so easily. I guess PT Barnum was right.
Dude, people are very patient and trying to reason with you and give you correct information. You keep spilling out head scratching statements. How is the government supposed to provide EVERYONE N-95s when even the healthcare professionals don't have enough? Your problem is that you think only in 100% or 0%. Reality is not that simple. There is not just ONE solution to a problem.
