Virions are hundreds of times smaller than the weave of the masks. They are airborne, and can stay in the air of a room up to two weeks. If you can breathe, the mask is not working. As I said, the cheapest mask that will help costs $800. All you are doing is polluting the environment and driving a bunch of plastic particle down into you…
Virions are hundreds of times smaller than the weave of the masks. They are airborne, and can stay in the air of a room up to two weeks. If you can breathe, the mask is not working. As I said, the cheapest mask that will help costs $800. All you are doing is polluting the environment and driving a bunch of plastic particle down into your lungs. while creating a breeding ground for bacteria. Find an RCT that shows efficacy for masks, any RCT. The only one is the Bangladeshi study, and in that one the data does not support the conclusions. Your mask fetish is a fantasy.
"They are airborne, and can stay in the air of a room up to two weeks." This is exactly the type of fearporn hysteria that the COVID zealots used in 2020-2021: "COVID is so uncontrollable that everyone should engage in every preventative measure, including experimental mRNA injections with completely unknown long-term risks." How ironic that the opposite camp is now twisting the same fearporn to say: "COVID is so uncontrollable that nobody should engage in any sort of preventative measure and we should spend our time heckling anyone who does."
I am sure you realize that if the "aerosols staying in the air of a room up to two weeks" type of fearporn were actually true (sure there are grains of truth but for all practical / clinically relevant purposes it's nonsense), the world would have been a very, very different place the last 3 years. It's obvious to any honest person that COVID, while contagious, is not really uncontrollable at all. Just the look at the case counts from the hysteria-promoting governments- even the inflated case counts through deliberate over-testing aren't even minutely consistent with the type of fearporn you cited above. And common sense says so as well.
Of course it's not controllable--it's a virus. JFC. The airborne nature of COVID has been tested, and its ability to remain in the air has also been tested. That is not fear porn--it is just data. Different viruses are different sizes and behave differently, but that is how COVID behaves. The initial direction to use masks was based on the notion that the virus was almost completely contained in larger droplets that quickly fell to the ground. Testing soon showed that was not true--ergo, cloth and surgical masks were completely useless. There was only one good trial on N95s (in a health care setting), and it too showed no efficacy. Now there is another. Fear porn is clinging to some "measure" that is pure virtue signaling and theatre. It is like sucking your thumb for comfort. And BTW--that is not just my own idea or interpretation--it is shared by numerous data analysts and medical school professors.
Again, look at even the most inflated COVID case counts since March 2020 onwards, and it is clear that "aerosols staying in the air of a room up to two weeks" is, FOR ALL PRACTICAL/CLINICAL PURPOSES, fear porn. I'm a bit amazed that your insistence on "debunking" masks is so strong that it makes you embrace this sort of fearporn- just think for a second what the fearporn does to people who are truly scared of COVID even now (I really am not). The irony is I've clearly said that I hardly even wear masks at all nowadays, and also that it makes perfect sense to me that large numbers of people choose not to wear them, and still that's unacceptable to you. Have a nice day and take care, Linda.
Virions are hundreds of times smaller than the weave of the masks. They are airborne, and can stay in the air of a room up to two weeks. If you can breathe, the mask is not working. As I said, the cheapest mask that will help costs $800. All you are doing is polluting the environment and driving a bunch of plastic particle down into your lungs. while creating a breeding ground for bacteria. Find an RCT that shows efficacy for masks, any RCT. The only one is the Bangladeshi study, and in that one the data does not support the conclusions. Your mask fetish is a fantasy.
"They are airborne, and can stay in the air of a room up to two weeks." This is exactly the type of fearporn hysteria that the COVID zealots used in 2020-2021: "COVID is so uncontrollable that everyone should engage in every preventative measure, including experimental mRNA injections with completely unknown long-term risks." How ironic that the opposite camp is now twisting the same fearporn to say: "COVID is so uncontrollable that nobody should engage in any sort of preventative measure and we should spend our time heckling anyone who does."
I am sure you realize that if the "aerosols staying in the air of a room up to two weeks" type of fearporn were actually true (sure there are grains of truth but for all practical / clinically relevant purposes it's nonsense), the world would have been a very, very different place the last 3 years. It's obvious to any honest person that COVID, while contagious, is not really uncontrollable at all. Just the look at the case counts from the hysteria-promoting governments- even the inflated case counts through deliberate over-testing aren't even minutely consistent with the type of fearporn you cited above. And common sense says so as well.
Of course it's not controllable--it's a virus. JFC. The airborne nature of COVID has been tested, and its ability to remain in the air has also been tested. That is not fear porn--it is just data. Different viruses are different sizes and behave differently, but that is how COVID behaves. The initial direction to use masks was based on the notion that the virus was almost completely contained in larger droplets that quickly fell to the ground. Testing soon showed that was not true--ergo, cloth and surgical masks were completely useless. There was only one good trial on N95s (in a health care setting), and it too showed no efficacy. Now there is another. Fear porn is clinging to some "measure" that is pure virtue signaling and theatre. It is like sucking your thumb for comfort. And BTW--that is not just my own idea or interpretation--it is shared by numerous data analysts and medical school professors.
Again, look at even the most inflated COVID case counts since March 2020 onwards, and it is clear that "aerosols staying in the air of a room up to two weeks" is, FOR ALL PRACTICAL/CLINICAL PURPOSES, fear porn. I'm a bit amazed that your insistence on "debunking" masks is so strong that it makes you embrace this sort of fearporn- just think for a second what the fearporn does to people who are truly scared of COVID even now (I really am not). The irony is I've clearly said that I hardly even wear masks at all nowadays, and also that it makes perfect sense to me that large numbers of people choose not to wear them, and still that's unacceptable to you. Have a nice day and take care, Linda.