re: It boggles my mind how people scared to death of the virus

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Again...goes back to what I said earlier about how the research before this year didn't paint the picture they are painting now.

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could it be that we are simply doing more studies with more effective procedures now?

mask studies before 2020 are kinda few and far between and most are not exactly applicable to what we are doing now

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could it be that we are simply doing more studies with more effective procedures now?

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It's possible, but it's not like all the studies are from decades ago. There are plenty from the 2010s that were conducted by the same people putting out studies today.

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mask studies before 2020 are kinda few and far between

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Are they? I know they usually get whittled down to the same "best" 14 or so, but there are plenty more than that. You can even find a mask study from ~1918.

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most are not exactly applicable to what we are doing now

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Potentially, as most will have looked at flu. Are you of the mind that SARS-CoV-2 and the various influenzas, rhinoviruses and other human coronaviruses that cause respiratory infections are transmitted in drastically different ways?

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Not sure why we are attributing sneezing to Coronavirus.

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We aren't. It was an example meant to illustrate how particles travel.

I honestly don't know why I even try anymore.

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And imagine if the car filter was put in by some random dumbass, and not a mechanic

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Whoa, dude...you need a mechanic to change your air filter? Haha.

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My coworker’s husband spent three weeks in the ICU with Covid and died on Thanksgiving Day at the age of 35.

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this imaginary fat frick would have died in this same fake scenario with or without masks

I see people adjust their mask all the time, sometimes it’s crooked, sometime it’s only covering their mouth. I’ve even seen people lift their mask up to cough.

I’ve seen people use thinly veiled masks that I’m sure are ineffective. Also, droplets can still pass through the mask, allbeit less droplets.

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I know 5 dead people killed by that hoax.......it is not a ruse to allow mail in voting.

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No, but they sure took advantage of the crises to get mail in voting so they could cheat their asses off.

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Imagine if a side effect of a car having a filter, was a giant stick poking at it and adjusting it 500 time a day

And imagine if the car filter was put in by some random dumbass, and not a mechanic


Now you see the actual analogy?

These car filters arent being put in by mechanics and properly left alone.....

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So my assumption is that filters work. Your assumption is that the positive effect of filters is entirely negated by, or even surpassed by, the side effects that they cause.

People touch their faces all the time, mask or not. Is it better to put a dirty hand on a mask or directly on the face? Is it better to put a contaminated hand on your face 1 time, or on a mask 10 times?

Do you think men with beards touch their faces way more often than those without? Do bearded men tend to get sick more often than other people?

People who wear glasses probably touch their faces a lot more than those who don't. Do people who wear glasses get sick more often than others?

Or do you think it's more likely that infecting yourself by touching your face is determined much more by how clean you keep your hands rather than how often you touch your face? Is it better to touch your face 100 times with clean hands, or 1 time with contaminated hands?


Does any of this mean anything to you? Or are you just going to keep arguing that filtering your mucus holes is actually worse than not?

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If you don't mind me asking, how old is she? Does she have health issues? Or is she just over the top scared?

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She’s mid-40s and is a prediabetic, other than that she’s healthy

To tell you the truth - I think her doctor is a quack and has her scared - but no one listens to me

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I’m saying you wear a mask when you walk, talk to your host and say Patty if 5, you’re seated and you all take off your mask. Someone at the table with the virus sneezes, droplets going flying everywhere inside. Literally did nothing, the host is infected, waitress, ect as the droplets are airborne and the workers are only wearing a mask and their eyes are still receptors to get the virus.

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You are operating under the assumption that every contact results in an infection. That is absolutely NOT how it works. If that were the case, it would rip through the whole country in days.

A contagious person might interact with dozens or hundreds of people during the contagious period. You know how many other people one sick person infects, on average? Like 2. You could have thousands of potentially infectious interactions, and maybe 2 of them pass on the infection. If you wear a mask most of the time, and only remove it to eat for a little while, you could cut the number way down. A lot of times a person with covid might live in the same house with 3 or 4 other people and none of them get sick. It's just nowhere near that contagious. Nothing is.

But while 2 infections sounds like a low number, it still means that the total number of infected people will basically double every few weeks. Anything above 1 means the virus will spread, so that reproductive rate needs to be below 1 before it will start to die out. If the average is 1.1, the number of infections will grow exponentially. If the average is 0.9, the number of infections will shrink. It's a very small difference that makes a big difference. That's what the masks are for.