New research reveals that cloth masks filter just 10% of exhaled aerosols, with many people not wearing coverings that fit their face properly.
Researchers theorize many people wear masks that don’t fit their face properly. As a result, many cloth and surgical masks only filter about 10 percent of exhaled aerosols. The rest make their way past the mask, most through the top, and spread into the surrounding environment. Conversely, higher-quality, more expensive N95 and KN95 masks filter over 50 percent of all aerosol droplets.
Most of you probably already know that logic and science doesn't apply when it comes to dealing with covid. Governments use the masking of their citizens to pretend they're making it safer for the public when in reality that's not really the case. You can look at a graph of when a country locked down, required masks, the number of covid cases and it will show no decline or flattening of the curve only case going up up and up.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that these cloth and cheap masks are ineffective because all you have to do is walk around a store to see kids, adults and employees wearing them incorrectly or they don't fit properly. Masks are only effective if you been trained to properly wear one and you throw them away after a certain amount of use. They general public never been trained or is clueless in this. In my mind social distancing and washing your hands often is the simplest option for kids and untrained adults.
In light of these findings study authors recommend that everyone wear a N95 or KN95 mask if possible whenever indoors in the company of others.
The author is crazy in my mind and I doubt they even follow their own recommendation. An N95 masks is designed to last what maybe 8 to 12 hrs and their not cheap either. So asking people to wear them indoors and spend hundreds of dollars on masks isn't practical in my mind. Also trained professionals that can use them correctly and are at higher risk need these masks more than the public does. We don't want a shortage in medical mask because some government official says you need to wear the most effective mask possible to stop covid and the public buys up all these masks that they don't even know how to use properly.
It's all nanny state politics designed to make it seems like the government is doing something to protect the public but again science and common sense says otherwise.
Source: https://www.studyfinds.org/face-masks-wont-stop-covid-indoors/
I've heard pro-mask people say various things like "even if it reduces it a couple of percent then it is worth it" or "it isn't so that you don't breathe the virus in, it is supposed to prevent you from breathing the virus out on other people."
What kind of logic is this? Especially the last one, which i hear / see often. SO let me get this straight, it CANT prevent me from breathing the virus in but somehow CAN prevent me from breathing it out? What sort of mask magic is this?
Logic goes out the door with covid. It's like putting on band aid on a gussying wound and saying great I stopped 10% of the bleeding but you're still going to bleed out and die.
Its only obvious... but still this info needs to be brought every day to people to break the tv spell
Nice update keep it up.
It's sad that people just don't get it. You don't have to think about it much to see that these masks do nothing to prevent the spread. All they do is spread fear to those still blinded to what is going on.