Masks made of natural fibers are better than synthetics (the rough texture of natural fibers catches more stuff).
Multiple layers of fabric masks is better than single layers.
Masks made of melt blown fibers (think medical grade masks) are the best, or a mask with tightly woven fabric with pockets for melt-blown fiber filters will work better than masks with just fabric. The melt-blown fibers will trap more stuff coming and going that any woven fiber.
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Melt blown polypropylene in particular is very good because it can carry a static charge.
It makes it more tolerable. I hate masks. As I wear glasses I literally see half the day at least in a fog lol. When no one around I drop below the nose to not fog up.
Like with one mask I got the company put cthulhu graphics on it. This mask finds the true dorks. They know that menacing octopus has a name lol.
Also got their alien face hugger offerings. Most people see that off the bat.
These things suck to wear…so I just find something to make it more tolerable.
What exactly are you saying is the conspiracy? She was reprimanded by a judge for harassing The Barber and everyone knows the reason she was harassing the barber was because he stood up to her. she herself said that the lockdowns were going to last longer because people exercise their first amendment right to redress the government. If that’s not being spiteful I don’t know what is. The Michigan supreme Court ruled that whitmer giving herself power to write all the executive orders after the state of emergency had ended was unconstitutional according to the Michigan Constitution.
It seems you don’t have a clue of what the facts are.
Hence the mask. You think coughing into the crook of your arm or your hand has anything on a mask? The mask is just 1 measure of many that will HELP. Not prevent… but help. Thats the whole point. I have yet to find it said anywhere that a mask will stop Covid.
I have absolutely no idea what hunting season has to do with anything. People sitting out in the middle of a field hundreds of yards away from anyone else, what does that have to do with the conversation?
Are you one of those people that drive their car wearing a mask and think you’re more protected?
It has to do with social distancing, proper ventilation, not remaining near individuals for increased periods of time, AND masks. Masks alone do little to nothing, they’re an additive. Plenty of 24/7 mask wearers have been infected by other 24/7 mask wearers in their own family here in NYC.
Not all employees are required to wear masks and most employees do not wear medical grade masks or multiple layers of cloth. They interact with hundreds of customers a day to the point the viral load reduction of masks does NOTHING when they interact with the sheer volume of customers every day for over six months.
You have bought into the hype.
Sweden should have millions dying by now…Florida should have millions infected and dying by now.
Open your eyes to other possibilities beyond what is being spoon fed IMVHO.
I also live in Michigan in fact, I was down the pier when Whitmer’s husband went to the marina in Traverse City and tried to get their boat in the water right after declaring that no one can be on the water.
Just to clarify, the WHO is against lockdowns as a primary containment tactic. They are not, as such, against using them as a temporary injunction to rebalance your resources. I’m not clear on what every single area is doing but I know at least some places are only locking down for a short window, which sounds more like what the WHO is suggesting.
“The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganize, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted, but by and large, we’d rather not do it.”
It should be noted that the WHO points entirely to economic factors for not locking down. They’re not saying that lockdowns can not halt or slow the spread of a virus. They’re saying that a lockdown is too costly a tactic to be sustainable. There’s a technical difference there, because the question of whether lockdowns work is not actually happening; it’s a question of whether it’s worth it economically.
The CDC said that 80% of people who got Covid were religiously wearing their mask. Mask do basically nothing to protect you from the virus, what Mask do is, if you are sick it will help to catch the water droplets that come out of your mouth and reduces air flow that pushes those droplets and spreads them around.
So mask are not there to help you, and cashier’s wearing them don’t really help the cashier it’s mainly there for the customer. Well, to be more accurate it’s there because they don’t want customers to not visit the store because they are afraid that they could get the virus from the cashiers.
All the resources are definitely not in place. We’ve been shuttling stuff all across states and counties.
My point was that if you locked down for a day or two in a county that just got it’s first real outbreak, that’s one thing. Locking down the whole state for weeks on end is another thing entirely. Which is consistent with the WHO’s advisements.
This was data taken wildly out of context by right wing pundits. You can google this yourself and make the conclusion on your own.
This is also wrong.
For the amount of “sheep” calling in this thread, you all certainly like to spew the same nonsense by Tucker Carlson and the outgoing President. It’s almost as if you’re projecting.
At the risk of a ban and flag bomb for alleged wrongthink,people like you are why lockdowns are happening around the world again and in various states. People like you are why we can’t do anything and why most can’t go back to work and people are either getting sick,dying or dead. Suck it up and wear the damn mask, I’m glad people are making it mandatory and I hope the punishments become harsher for those who refuse to wear one because of some QAnon brainwashed fool spreading their crazy conspiracy theories [and the occasional anti-vaxx snake oil salesperson/hunbot] The more spiteful side of me Hope’s they make vaccination mandatory too.
Stop being defiant and wear the mask
Wash your damn hands [which is basic hygiene anyways so you kinda should at the risk of not being gross]
Social distance [ which before all this was just respecting personal space] and we can all go back to normal.
TLDR- stop trying to be defiant just for the sake of “sticking it to the man” and be a team player in getting rid of this VERY REAL DISEASE KILLING PEOPLE AND MAKING US PRISONERS IN OUR OWN HOMES. This shouldn’t even BE politicized in the first place, just follow the damned mandates. COMMON SENSE!
The goal is to trap droplets of moisture, that are hundreds of times larger than the virus, that contain the virus. Almost any tightly woven fabric has been proven to provide some level of protection against droplets coming in AND going out.
you don’t know the first thing about common sense… or science.
with lockdowns and masks, my state is now covid free.
…but sure, you know more than all those pesky smart-alec people who spent years learning all the stuff which you think you learned on youtube in 15 minutes.