Common sense, like people eating in a restaurant that you whined about earlier?
Don't worry, Juggs. The scary virus can't get you when you're wearing the cloth mask you haven't washed in weeks.
You fucking use a piece of cloth on your face and you're talking to me about the science of viral transmissions through "masks that doctors use during surgery."Thats required by county mandate fucktard. Wearing a mask into a room full of people to take it off just when you eat is like have a pissing section in a pool.
I know things like laundry and hygiene are foreign concepts to you..but no..it gets washed regularly and i have multiples. Just have to be a little smarter than the mask, sport
"Reduced range"large droplets being stopped, small droplets having range reduced. again, not rocket science
Read the entire thing.I did a bit of digging on the mask stuff after our discussion in the covid thread. Best meta analysis I could find was the following:
Face masks: what the data say
Conclusion: Science is unsettled, but it is more likely than not that masks do assist in reducing the spread of Covid. This varies greatly by environment, mask type, and how the user wears their mask. However, the greatest risk in contracting covid has been shown in conditions where you have long sustained contact with an infected person. Chance of catching covid walking down the street is extremely low.
You fucking use a piece of cloth on your face and you're talking to me about the science of viral transmissions through "masks that doctors use during surgery."
You're such a god damn retard. Wait a second, aren't you the AIDS water idiot? This all makes sense.
"My cloth mask that I wash like once a month is totally stopping viruses from spreading, gais"mkay...can't help the functionally retarded understand the reasons for a mask. Go ahead, your towering intellect has gotten you thus far in life.
"My cloth mask that I wash like once a month is totally stopping viruses from spreading, gais"
Read the entire thing.
Benn worked with Danish engineers at her university to test their two-layered cloth mask design using the same criteria as for medical-grade ventilators. They found that their mask blocked only 11–19% of aerosols down to the 0.3 µm mark, according to Benn. But because most transmission is probably occurring through particles of at least 1 µm, according to Marr and Jimenez, the actual difference in effectiveness between N95 and other masks might not be huge.
Double-layed, tightly woven cloth mask did basically nothing. Of course, these are also lab tests, not real world, where you the shit collector on your face becomes a disgusting formit that people touch, reuse, etc. over and over and over.
"Eric Westman, a clinical researcher at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina, co-authored an August study11 that demonstrated a method for testing mask effectiveness. His team used lasers and smartphone cameras to compare how well 14 different cloth and surgical face coverings stopped droplets while a person spoke. “I was reassured that a lot of the masks we use did work,” he says, referring to the performance of cloth and surgical masks. But thin polyester-and-spandex neck gaiters — stretchable scarves that can be pulled up over the mouth and nose — seemed to actually reduce the size of droplets being released. “That could be worse than wearing nothing at all,” Westman says."
So some masks "worked" by blocking droplets, not aerosolized particles.
"Some scientists advise not making too much of the finding, which was based on just one person talking."
"Further confusing the public are controversial studies and mixed messages. One study13 in April found masks to be ineffective, but was retracted in July. Another, published in June14, supported the use of masks before dozens of scientists wrote a letter attacking its methods."
For now, Osterholm, in Minnesota, wears a mask. Yet he laments the “lack of scientific rigour” that has so far been brought to the topic. “We criticize people all the time in the science world for making statements without any data,” he says. “We’re doing a lot of the same thing here.”
Yep. Basically any "research" done after COVID is heavily political, which is why ALL of the actual research done before COVID explicitly states that masks don't work for blocking viral transmissions; lab tests see improvements, but real life (DUH) they're worse. The only thing that works is avoid people. Shocking.
You didn't even read your own article... just a couple hundred words.
It is a good thing, but it doesn't matter. Once you've contracted it (because you will if you're around someone that has it), then you've contracted it.isn't lowering transmission a good thing?
I figured I'd have to. Water vapor in air mixes with virus-laden aerosolized breathing (with and without a mask). Higher humidity, let alone normally more accommodating temperatures with it, means it's easier for the vapor to stay in the air.i think you'd better explain the effect humidity has on transmission to the rest of us rubes.
No, pussy. Stop worrying about something that has a 0.06% fatality rate, and that's giving the full ~250k people are only from COVID and at least half aren't from people who have other issues NOT going the hospitals and dying pointlessly due to COVID panic.wear your mask fucktard