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[–] ketoll [S] ago  (edited ago)

Ok, so for starters I see maybe 1% wearing actual N95 anyway. 99% of people are wearing a sewn cloth that wouldn't even stifle the smell of a fart. Coronavirus particles are .125 - .2 microns at the largest. N95 when properly worn and sealed across the face can only protect up to .3 microns. Not to mention it's hard to breathe.

The hysteria that's happening right now is that people wearing a piece of cotton cloth are believing that they're stopping this virus from spreading. Perhaps if you sneeze or cough or spit your words then yes, it will stop those saliva molecules from projecting at others, but it does nothing for breathing and talking, which the virus goes right through the cloth fibers with the air. Besides, if I'm going to sneeze or cough I'll do it into my elbow because I'm not a savage. That's just courtesy with or without a cold.

If this were about stopping the virus we would be looking into Hydroxychloroquine treatment and allowing herd immunity. This virus isn't going to just disappear and we can't just lock down the entire damn world. If anything, more doctors are murdering patients with ventilators than if they would simply provide HCQ, Z-Pak, Zinc, Quercetine. Hell even cheap hydrogen peroxide nebulizers kill the virus. Oxygen therapy (not ventilators) The truth is the medical industry is suppressing the true cure and is endorsing things that don't work (masks) and things that have a high mortality rate anyway (ventilators).

The population is dumb as a rock because they are ill informed and most think masks are a magic holy grail.

Mask mandates are providing a false sense of security to a public that is already coming into contact with spread of germs even when wearing them. They don't block coronavirus molecules. They are a personal medical decision, not everyone else's decision to impose on you. Finally, they recommend sick people wear them. Healthy people throughout society should not be treated as sick people until proven healthy, and if you're so paranoid that everyone is potentially sick then you should just stay home at that point because masks won't save you.

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[–] toasterleavins 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

The paper sited here literally shows those cloth masks only work if everyone wears them. The population that's dumb as a rock is you. A virus is sub-micron. That virus dies upon hitting air. You don't need a mask to defend against it. It also doesn't come magically shooting out of your face. It comes out in droplets of oil and water, which are 50 microns in size. The mask, even a cloth mask, catches those on their way out, preventing you from spreading the virus.

The masks would be a holy grail if literally everyone wears them. It's like vaccines. They can be 60% effective, but if everyone has a vaccine no one gets sick.

People are already on oxygen therapy. Z-Pak is an antibiotic - do you know the difference between a virus and bacteria? Of course you don't. The other two you mention literally don't do anything. At all. To kill the virus with peroxide, you would have to inhale peroxide fumes. That would cause more inflamation than the virus. People are killed by ventilators you say? You know what kills you more? Not breathing. People are sedated and put on a ventilator when they literally cannot breathe anymore - they would literally die from lack of oxygen in an hour if there was no ventilator - because they cannot inhale air.

Dumb as a rock is correct as fuck - you're right about that.

the mask mandates reduce transmission from the infected to everyone else. Coronavirus doesn't travel in "molecules" - water is a molecule. A virus is hundreds of thousands of molecules. The virus globs that come out of your mouth are literally the size you can feel. couch or sneeze on your hand, then wipe it on your face. Fell something? That's how the virus comes out. Now do that in a cloth mask. Fell something? No, because your mouth-goo is in the mask.

I'm against mask enforcement because the government doesn't have the authority to mandate that. It's also up to the individual to protect himself, not the responsibility of the world around him to give him a safe space.

But you calling the population dumb and ill-informed. That's quite rich.