re: Graph that shows outbreak was highest in places that said they weren’t wearing masks

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Or the mask filtered off the larger particles the virus was attached to so that literally only the covid particles entered their system, making it more likely they had symptoms instead of being asymptomatic.

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Wrong. The amount of virus you take in most definitely makes a difference.

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During the pandemics caused by swine flu and by the coronaviruses which caused SARS and MERS, many people in Asia and elsewhere walked around wearing surgical or homemade cotton masks to protect themselves. One danger of doing this is the illusion of protection. Surgical facemasks are designed to be discarded after single use. As they become moist they become porous and no longer protect. Indeed, experiments have shown that surgical and cotton masks do not trap the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) virus, which can be detected on the outer surface of the masks for up to 7?days. Thus, a pre-symptomatic or mildly infected person wearing a facemask for hours without changing it and without washing hands every time they touched the mask could paradoxically increase the risk of infecting others.

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This was essentially done in an effort to try and reduce community transmission, especially from people who may not perceive themselves to be symptomatic, rather than to protect the wearer, although the evidence for this is scant.

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You RA’d like a bitch didn’t you?

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You don’t provide anything useful to pay attention to one way or another.

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Done with you. Talk to yourself

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