Suzanne Roberts says:

Kimberly Lay . Healthcare workers get closer to the sick person.

Boo White says:

I’m wearing a mask. Suite yourself. Right now it’s survival of the fittest.

deenycest10710 says:

Trusting the WHO is the same as trusting China. DON’T DO IT. Please read with comprehension. Take it to heart and arm yourselves with the confidence that accurate knowledge provides. It may save your life.

As far as masks they are effective. Wear a mask. Don’t touch your face or front of the mask after you put it on. Take it off holding it by the elastic bands or ties. Dispose properly to not expose others to the potentially virus containing mask (that’s why never touch the front of the mask).

CDC etc. are trying to confuse you with lies and terms like “source control.” Also remember their information is rated for direct contact patient care in a hospital/health care setting. If you are just walking to the pharmacy respi droplets that you encounter indoors should be far less infectious if there is adequate ventillation (breaks up and or minimizes infectious viral load) in the pharmacy/grocery store, social distancing is adhered to (proximity to potential droplets from infected / asymptomatic individuals) and people who are infected are wearing masks (asymptomatic is a HUGE issue here). But trusting asymptomatic carriers to wear masks when many haven’t even heard or understand the term ASYMPTOMATIC is a major error of judgement. Therefore wearing a mask in the aforementioned enviornments is not 100% effective, but neither is a N95 mask.

The 95 in N95 stands for 95 percent filtration. Guess what? Surgical masks filter 90%, just 5% less than N95 masks. Bet you didn’t know that. No problem. That’s why don’t completely trust the guidelines. Yes they are trying to prevent hoarding. I get it. But lying to prevent that and putting people at risk is also not the right response.

Additionally and more importantly for you to understand is this virus itself, it’s size is .15 to .3 microns. HOWEVER the virus is RNA based and is not itself MOTILE (it can’t move). Covid19 needs to bind to respiratory secretions of it’s host and rely on the host shedding by coughing, spitting, sneezing or even just talking in proximity to a person or that bag of chips in the grocery store that you than pick up and place into your shopping cart, hence respiratory droplets is believed by ALL professionals as the main mode of transmission.

GUESS what? Respiratory droplets are usually larger than 5 microns. Why is that information important? Because surgical masks are rated to filter particulates as small as 5 microns. In short. Weak a surgical mask. Don’t hoard them. One mask is good for 8 hrs. After that your own secretions reduces it’s efficacy down to about 50%.

Once again vector or mode of transmisssion is either by cough (this is where masks can reduce how much you inhale of that cough or prevent that spread if you cough) if you happen to be in proximity (3ft to now 6ft or less) or via the droplets that fell to the enviornment (hence the recommendation for sanitizing every time you touch something out in public, and washing hands when you get home, unpack items picked up outside even your cellphone, keys, everything etc., seriously wash your hands for a minimum of 20 seconds and make sure there is plenty of lather while getting under your fingernails, in between your fingers and the back of your hands.

False sense of security is correct. True. But it’s simple. Proper application of a surgical mask will reduce respiratory droplets inhaled and or spread in danger zones which is likely anywhere somone recently sneezed or coughed indoors and or poorly ventilated places. Outdoors isn’t much of a problem as there is air circulation dispersing the droplets and rendering them far far less infectious.

Princess Gamble says:

mtregi sammmeeeee

deenycest10710 says:

You’re right. And maintain all other physical/social distancing, hand washing guidelines as well.