If people only knew how smal is a virus and how big the 'holes' in a mask are for a virus to fly through... This sums it up pretty good:
You are aware that the virus attaches itself to droplets emitted by sneezing and coughing... the mask will and does impair the droplets from becoming airborne. This was stated over and over by virologists and epidemiologists all over the world.... this practice will continues to save lives regardless of these cartoons but nonetheless should be challenged wherever they appear.. I wish you good health
Yes, afraid some total nonsense is being put out by people I assume who no nothing about the subject. They should read this: "Man who believed virus was hoax loses wife to Covid-19" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53892856
But I think you are not aware of the delivery method for this new hemorrhoid vaccine. Let me fill you in. It has to be given at the site of the problem (ouch!) and it is delivered by a type of bullet. I would like to help so am currently trying to source a Gatling gun.
Well, first of all, a mask is primarily meant to keep the wearer from spreading the virus to others in tiny droplets and aerosols. From a recent article in The Lancet: ( https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30323-4/fulltext ) "Surgical masks might offer some respiratory protection from inhalation of infectious aerosols, but not as much as respirators. However, surgical masks worn by patients reduce exposures to infectious aerosols to health-care workers and other individuals." So yes masks are pretty effective, but mostly if worn by infected people. Second, and yes I'm always up for some fun, but that comparison in the picture is misleading, in the sense that the main transmission mode for this virus is through such tiny droplets and aerosols. So yes, the virus itself is a lot smaller than the holes in a woven mask, but that's beside the point, because those tiny droplets and aerosols that the virus travels in are much much bigger. Big enough to get caught in a mask.
so, let me get this straight. i have a visual of a great ape wearing lipstick behind a gatling gun is part of the "new normal". yeah, its all beginning to make sense now!
i agree with this. its not one hundred percent effective but it will stop you from expelling most of the virus/droplet issued (if you have the virus). but its really only going to stop the spread of the virus if there is compliance. but, join me this morning at the main market in downtown dumaguete where there will be a hundred plus people. of those, there is no social distancing, no foot baths, no handwashing, no log or register and a minimum of half of the people either wear no mask or wear it on their chins. the cast change every hour by at least a hundred people, probably more. its like trying to stop a case of diarrhea with your finger
my friend, as a trained epidemiologist, allow me to explain how an epidemiologist looks at this problem of covid in the philippines. first, an epidemiologist is a detective who needs first of all to know who has covid. in the phils the last hard evidence i saw was less than one percent of the population had been tested. being generous, lets say ten per cent have now been tested. that means more than ninety million of filipinos have still not been tested. who has covid? we really do not know. second, for those who do have covid, then your remedies do in fact apply. yes they should wear a mask, maybe a shield, be isolated, wash their hands, et cet. if you truly believe all of those who test positive are really doing all of these things then you probably believe everyone in the phils wears a condom during sex. third, if you do identify positive cases then contact tracing is one weapon. that means you have to determine all of the people the infected person has had contact with. if its me, and proper social distancing and mask are your standards, then just my early a m trip to the market gets you probably one hundred filipinos that should be contacted. but wait, NO ONE KNOWS THEIR NAMES! in the course of my full day, probably two hundred. the idea of contact tracing in the phils is a joke (from an epidemiologists point of view) the real issue is that of approximately 600,000 annual deaths of filipinos this year, so far about 3000 are due to covid. some of them will of course be women who are married, as you note. for this we have already destroyed approximately 20 percent of the philippine economy? wake me up when this gets serious please
