Admit it!!!
So is the left finally admitting that a mask won't stop a person from getting infected from Covid? The N95 is barely effective?
Admit it!!!
In a recent monthly "COVID Update Seminar" (which I have to take for Continuing Education Credit Units/ CEUs) , the lecturer Nikita Katz- a PhD Research neurologist- showed stats that the N-95 in fact is not all that it cracked up to be and that N-99 should now be the norm!!
His researchers also tested other mask materials for viability. They discovered that a very good mask can be made from a Furnace Filter with a MERV rating of 15+ (and the pleats are already made for you!!!) Take apart the filter frame, sew up hem, add a pipe cleaner in the hem at the nose, add ear loops- voila: an effective facemask, equal or better than an N95. As you go up in MERV ratings, the n9X would increase, too. Admittedly, the furnace filter trick may have been needed in COVID's infancy and less so now, but it never hurts to be prepared with some info- - - and a couple of filters!
Thanks for the MHO!
Okay people. I'll go over again what has been stated by the CDC since March 2020.
You DO NOT wear a mask too protect yourself from what others are most definitely spewing into the air around you. YOU WEAR A MASK TO PROTECT OTHERS FROM WHAT YOU ARE DEFINITELY SPEWING INTO THE AIR AROUND YOU.
Maybe that's why people have such a hard time with this. It isn't about "the self". It's about the needs of others. It asks that we make changes to our daily behavior that while being potentially hugely beneficial for others ; it sadly, for the individual does nothing but give us something else to forget about as we're getting out of the car.
Stop spreading false information!!!
So funny.
Well it reduces the chance of getting ill. Like birth control reduces the chance of pregnancy or seatbelts reduce the chance of being seriously injured or killed.
Or any construction related equipment reduces the possibility of men being injured.
If you have a stink about masks reducing sickness do make a stink with everything else designed to prevent injuries, sickness, or death?
We all know it doesn't. I am a case to show it doesn't. I wear a mask all day at work. I still tested pos last Thursday.
However, taken with all the other things, like social distancing, it does reduce the chances of catching it. What I can say is that for whatever reason, I am not really feeling unwell, like I was a year ago.
You had it a year ago too?
Yes. I was ill for 6 months. 4 out of 5 of the family got it. My brother was the exception. Maybe because he was shut away in his room working on his MComp.
Thank you for MHG!
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The masks are not to protect oneself from COVID, they are for protecting others from getting COVID from you. You where them to protect others from you.
And I agree, none of the most basic options do very good job of protect a person from catching COVID, or whatever else spreads in a similar way, including the N95. There seems to be plenty of data on that.
To the best of my knowledge it's never been said by anyone that knows what they're talking about that a mask will prevent covid but is an effective means to minimize the possible transmission of airborne COVID especially when coupled with social distancing.
if the experts are right it has the potential to prevent others from getting sick, if they are wrong all im out is a minor inconvenience of wearing a mask. I often wonder who raised some of y'all
I was raised to question.
There is nothing wrong with questioning a Covid policy that changes daily.
'The masks are not to protect oneself from COVID, they are for protecting others from getting COVID from you. You where them to protect others from you.'
I took some vitamin C the other day but when I read the packaging, it said it won't work unless everyone else also takes vitamin C.
N95s cans top the transmission of viruses, but most people don't know how to put them on correctly, and therefore don't create a tight seal. Here's a hint: if you wear it and it doesn't hurt, then you're not wearing it properly.
It does work, it just depends on the way you wear it, if a mask couldn´t prevent a virus from entering your body at all there would be no reason for medical staff to wear working in a hospital either.
What you say is true but with the Omicron varient cloth masks and the one use three layer paper disposable masks are ineffective. The N95 is a completely different kind of mask. It has five layers and is equivalent to a HEPA filter and unlike the other previously mentioned masks the N95 will protect you and those nearby you. The hospitals can reuse a N95 mask by disinfecting them in a certified UV-C disinfection cabinet. As UV-C light at the correct wavelength will kill a multitude of pathogens including the sar-cov-2 pathogen.
No it doesn't prevents completely but somewhat protects us. See logically, the virus affects us only when it goes inside us. Mask blocks nose and mouth with are most prone to it.
We already all know that is the theory. The question is to what extent it is effective. If the mask blocks the natural flow of air in and out of 98% of the facial area around the mouth, that 2% that is unguarded may be seeing a dramatic acceleration of air in and out of that route - called a Venturi effect - whch negates all of the good accomplished by blocking the 98%.
@OlderAndWiser Oh I didn't knew that. Anyways I still have to use a mask as my dad sells it lol. And he will kill me if I go against it.
Oh, I understand that!
@OlderAndWiser Actually a N95 mask does not block airflow but filters out 98% of microscopic particles that are in the air flow. With Omicron being a different problem then previous varients the cloth masks and the 3 ply paper masks are not as effective with the highly contagious Omicron. The well fitting N95 is the most effective disposable mask available against the spread of Omicron.
@LiamSawyer Yes, I understand that some are better than others, but none are totally effective. . . and using a mask lulls people into a false sense of security so that they let down their guard with other precautions.
@OlderAndWiser It most likely will only lull the fools into complacency and a false sense of security. It would seem the some have a false sense of security not wearing a mask or social distancing for some ridiculous notion that COVID is a hoax and doesn't exist yet where I live 40 to 45 people in all age groups are dieing per day from COVID. For myself I'd rather lessen the odds of getting the virus by any means possible. Even the vaccines were never intended as a prevention for getting COVID but as a means to slow the spread and lessen the severity of getting the virus and prevent hospitalization and from the overwhelming numbers filling the ICU.
@LiamSawyer I understand the purpose of vaccines but they were marketed to the public with a great deal of deception.
@OlderAndWiser I don't disagree with that especially in the U. S. not so much in Canada where I'm from. There has also been a flood of false information spread on the internet by person's that don't have a clue what they're talking about. The other thing to take into consideration is there has been a huge learning curve with Sar-Cov-2 more commonly known as Covid-19, and the parameters have changed with each varient. I've been working on the design, development and manufacture of a disinfection cabinet that will kill a whole host of pathogens including Sar-Cov-2 using UV-C light. You wouldn't believe the amount of research, testing and consulting with experts in their fields world wide that it has taken. I even had to have the lamps custom manufactured. It has been an interesting journey.
@OlderAndWiser By the way it's a pleasure to have a conversation with someone that is older and wise enough to have a discussion without jumping to non-factual and radical thinking but open to factual conversation.
@LiamSawyer I understand the learning curve and don' really expect experts to have a wealth of knowledge on a relatively new subject. But in the US, they make guesses but present them as well-established facts that we should automatically believe simply because we have been told these things by experts. And when those facts are proven wrong, there is never an apology or explanation that the experts don't really know very much. And then, two weeks later, we get another announcement whoch is presented as the absolute gospel truth whch we are required to beloieve because the gospel has been presented by experts.
The pleasure is mutual. FYI, I am fully vaccinated and boosted, wear a mask in public and at my office, and since I am president of my congregation, in December I reinstituted a mask requirement for all people indoors on church property.
@OlderAndWiser likewise for myself.
No one has ever claimed wearing a mask prevents the wearer from getting Covid. But it does reduce the chances of others getting Covid from the person wearing the mask. And there is no question it does that.
lying and making money go hand in hand, welcome to planet earth
non bias source?
Masks are designed more to prevent from spreading then catching them
this certain type of mask is for people to fear buy and give people more money as they up the price. saw it first hand from my coworker... a mask is a mask.
A mask is literally just there to prevent you from infecting others. If you are not sick it is a useless piece of cloth muzzling you.
Like a typical conservative, you have missed the point of wearing masks completely.
Like a typical liberal, you have no clue how to think for yourself.
Masks never were effective to begin with.
It’s fucking hilarious. But they are completely in the matrix.
No one ever said that it was 100% effective. But it does mitigate the spreading of the virus. That's what matters.
A Danish study of masks showed that back in 2020. But they do help prevent the spreading if the wearer has COVID the study also found.
covid prevents the mask not the other way around.
wake up sheeple
*but the sheeple were already aWoke*
yea seems it. we always knew it didn't work. its designed to make you feel safe. security theater
Probably right, only thing that works is a strong immune system and getting vaccinated
At this point i think it's just a fashion trend
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