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Everyone is cheating anyways, they leave gaps to breath freely. It's a mask in name only. The bandanas I think are the worst. Do next to nothing I'm sure.
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"Yeah, like... well, I just want to slap a hippie or two. Maybe even make them get jobs."
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Went to the pediatricians office today, signs everywhere said masks required, they did not offer us any, and we did not wear any.
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Data do not back cloth masks to limit COVID-19, experts say
April 9th
The paper was prepared by committee members Richard Besser, MD, of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Baruch Fischhoff, PhD, of Carnegie Mellon University, and two subject matter experts contributed. It was approved by Committee Chair Harvey Fineberg, MD, PhD, and was peer-reviewed by seven additional US experts.
Many factors at play in gauging effectiveness
Committee members point out that research suggests that COVID-19 can spread via invisible droplets as small as 5 microns and by tiny bioaerosol particles as well as via visible respiratory droplets just by breathing.
Infected yet asymptomatic people are of particular concern because the particles they breathe are predominantly bioaerosols. "To complicate matters further, different individuals vary in the extent to which they emit bioaerosols while breathing," they said.
Because different masks have different filtering capacities and the role of droplet size on disease transmission is unknown, it is difficult to predict the effectiveness of these masks, the authors said. "The extent of any protection will depend on how the masks are made and used," they wrote. "It will also depend on how mask use affects users' other precautionary behaviors, including their use of better masks, when those become widely available."
Those behaviors may reduce or enhance homemade fabric masks' overall effects on public health, they noted. "The current level of benefit, if any, is not possible to assess," they said.
Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), who contributed to the paper along with Sundaresan Jayaraman, PhD, of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, said in his weekly CIDRAP podcast yesterday that, because aerosols likely play an important role in coronavirus transmission, cloth masks will do little, if anything, to limit spread of the disease.
"Yeah, like... well, I just want to slap a hippie or two. Maybe even make them get jobs."
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The only sure bet is to live in a plastic bubble... and if the "experts" advised it, we'd have loads of kooks clamoring to find their plastic bubble - and chastising others for being outside of a plastic bubble."Kamala is a radical leftist lunatic" ~ Donald J. TrumpComment
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If you’re wondering whether to wear or not to wear, consider this. The day before yesterday, 21 people died of COVID-19 in Japan. In the United States, 2,129 died. Comparing overall death rates for the two countries offers an even starker point of comparison with total U.S. deaths now at a staggering 76,032 and Japan’s fatalities at 577. Japan’s population is about 38% of the U.S., but even adjusting for population, the Japanese death rate is a mere 2% of America’s.
This comes despite Japan having no lockdown, still-active subways, and many businesses that have remained open—reportedly including karaoke bars, although Japanese citizens and industries are practicing social distancing where they can. Nor have the Japanese broadly embraced contact tracing, a practice by which health authorities identify someone who has been infected and then attempt to identify everyone that person might have interacted with—and potentially infected. So how does Japan do it?
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e is also the chief architect of an in-depth study, set to be released in the coming days, that suggests that every one of us should be wearing a mask—whether surgical or homemade, scarf or bandana—like they do in Japan and other countries, mostly in East AsiaComment
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Vanity Fair hahahhahahahahahComment
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the media all wear masks....
UNTIL THE CAMERAS ARE OFF
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This is really effective in stopping the spread of this and other viruses:
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"It is time for us to do what we have been doing and that time is every day. Every day it is time for us to agree that there are things and tools that are available to us to slow this thing down." - Kamala "Heels Up" HarrisComment
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I’d bet the most vocal advocates still cheat, leave that gap to breath easy.
"Yeah, like... well, I just want to slap a hippie or two. Maybe even make them get jobs."
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I guess some people cant read and understand the quote was referencing a study..
The study in question:
Another study:
Even a mask that isnt that effective (20%) helped.
It bears repeating that our model results are consistent with the idea that face masks, while no panacea, may synergize with other non-pharmaceutical control measures and should be used in combination with and not in lieu of these.
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Masks alone, unless they are highly effective and nearly universal, may have only a small effect (but still nontrivial, in terms of absolute lives saved) in more severe epidemics, such as the ongoing epidemic in New York state. However, the relative benefit to general masks use may increase with other decreases in β0, such that masks can synergize with other public health measures. Thus, it is important that masks not be viewed as an alternative, but as a com- plement, to other public health control measures (including non-pharmaceutical interventions, such as social distancing, self-isolation etc.). Delaying mask adoption is also detrimental. These factors together indicate that even in areas or states where the COVID-19 burden is low (e.g. the Dakotas), early aggressive action that includes face masks may pay dividends.
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