Says the person who's side believes wearing mask to protect themselves and loved ones from disease is oppression.
Says the authoritarian that wants to control everyone .......
DIY FACE MASKS ARE BASICALLY USELESS AGAINST THE CORONAVIRUS
Studies have confirmed the fact that homemade cloth masks are pretty terrible at catching viruses. A
2013 Cambridge University study found that tea towels and vacuum cleaner bags were far closer to the effectiveness of actual surgical masks in blocking a certain type of virus.
And then there’s the fact that people might think their cloth face masks can do more than they actually can — in fact, a false sense of security could actually do more harm than good. By touching a contaminated surface and then the mask could actually end up with you getting infected yourself. Besides, homemade masks aren’t properly sterilized.
Surgical and Cloth Masks are Useless Against COVID-19, Says New Study
Both the cotton and surgical masks are ineffective for filtering the SAD-CoV-2 and don’t prevent the dissemination of virus from the sneeze or cough of patients suffering from COVID-19. The study was conducted at two hospitals in South Korea and Seoul, which demonstrated that face masks are ineffective as virus droplets release to the external mask surface and the environment when patients coughed into either type of face mask.
The findings of the research report are published in the
Annals of Internal Medicine.
Face masks are thought to prevent virus transmission during respiratory viral infections, leading healthcare professionals to recommend the use of masks during coronavirus pandemic. With the shortage of N95 and surgical face masks, which thought to prevent the virus spread, cotton masks are now used as a substitute. But it is not confirmed if these masks are worn by COVID-19 patients actually prevent the transmission of the virus to the environment.
COVID-19 – Your Mask Is Useless, and You’re Using it Wrong
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Now, if you paid attention to the words I used so far, you’ll have noticed that I’m only mentioning
surgical masks. You know, those cheap masks, usually blue or green, that you see everywhere in Hong Kong. Well, those masks are useless against 2019-nCoV. And for three reasons.
First off, surgical masks are loose-fitting. Try as you might, you will never obtain a perfect seal around your mouth and nose with a surgical mask. This allows smaller airborne droplets, which may -or may not- carry viruses, to find their way through gaps between the mask and you skin, and into your respiratory system, hence infecting you even though you are wearing a surgical mask.
As a matter of fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that the surgical mask “(d)oes NOT provide the wearer with a reliable level of protection from inhaling smaller airborne particles and is not considered respiratory protection”
[1].
One could argue, though, that surgical masks may be useful in case an infected person coughs directly in your face. Although incredibly rude, it happens (this is Hong Kong, after all). And in such case, a surgical mask may offer some protection against splashes of fluids and larger droplets.
However, one must bear in mind the mode of transmission of coronaviruses. And 2019-nCoV, as most human coronaviruses, spreads from an infected person to another through the air (coughing or sneezing), through fecal contamination (albeit rarely), or through contact (direct or indirect) between a contaminated surface and your mouth, nose, or
eyes. Yes, you could also get infected with 2019-nCoV through the eyes.
Now, let’s bring back that infected person coughing directly in your face. In such a scenario, wearing a surgical mask would help prevent contamination directly through the respiratory system. It wouldn’t protect you from a contamination through the eyes, though.
The Science Turns Against America’s Mask Fascists
No less than the
New England Journal of Medicine has dealt a body blow to America’s growing army of mask fascists with
the news that “wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection.”
The reasons for this are both simple and logical:
We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or even 30 minutes). The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.
Cloth Masks Are Useless Against COVID-19
The idea that cloth masks will protect anybody from contracting COVID-19 is magical thinking, Lisa Brousseau, ScD, expert on infectious diseases, Professor (retired), University of Illinois at Chicago, tells Infection Control Today.