re: WHO: Masks should only be worn by healthy people when caring for covid patients

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Do we like the WHO again or are they still Chinese sympathizers? I can't keep up

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The CDC and Fauci will fall in line soon.....of course if you think Fauci and the CDC are any different from the WHO then the joke is on you.

I think this ends up getting back to laws of small numbers again (what this whole thing has kind've been about).

NUMBERS BELOW HYPOTHETICALS

Lets leave you the house, and head to an environment where there is a 1% chance of sufficient exposure. Also say that the type of mask wearing that exists in the general public is only about 10% effective at preventing the required respiratory droplets from exiting the immediate vicinity of the infected patients mouth.

So, as an individual - this isn't such a big benefit:

Your chance of avoiding sufficient exposure on that date under a mask wearing regime drops from 1% to 0.9%.

However, at the community level, that 10% drop in R can have a significant impact. Starting with an initial case count of 100, and an average latent time to be able to infect additional people of 6 days:

No Mask Case (R=2): 100 initial infections, 5 generations (30 days) - 3200 infections

Mask Case (R=1.8): 100 initial infections, 5 generations - 1890 infections

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Or they simply neglected to take the videos down. The WHO didn’t do anything new so I don’t think you can reaffirm something by not doing anything

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It would be quite impressive if the WHO actually thought masks should be worn by everyone, yet their website has them saying they shouldnt


I guess its possible

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Ny post is not a liberal site.

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Right?!!! That's what I'm saying! OP should be banned and buttfricked for this tomfoolery.

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I don't see anything recent from the WHO that supports what is being reported in that article. Pretty disappointing that they would publish this without any source.

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The WHO still has this on their website...

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If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with COVID-19.
Wear a mask if you are coughing or sneezing.
Masks are effective only when used in combination with frequent hand-cleaning with alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water.
If you wear a mask, then you must know how to use it and dispose of it properly.

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They very clearly have not pulled a Fauci and completely changed their stance

Directly from The WHO

With the mask controversy being so big you would think the WHO would have recently made announcement about masks. The only thing I can find are those videos from February and March. Wether that is their current stance or not it’s just strange to not hear a peep out of them about it recently.

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quick hijack of thread.


87 has the results of the Ochners antibody test been released to the public? Would like to know the results.

Thanks.

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Just posted the numbers in the stickied thread

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I did the abbott test and came back negative

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Is this a callback to the "Who's on first?" bit posted earlier in the thread? Ha.

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Extreme left wing Liberal NY Post for those that only beleive liberal websites

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NY Post isn’t liberal