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Nate
You give the awful impression of someone that hasn’t read any of the arguments against your position.
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Stoneage
Wear a mask if you want. It won't stop the virus though. Personally, I see no reason to wear one. Fortunately, there is no mask law here. Most people don't wear one.
You give the awful impression of someone that hasn’t read any of the arguments against your position.
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Stoneage
Wear a mask if you want. It won't stop the virus though. Personally, I see no reason to wear one. Fortunately, there is no mask law here. Most people don't wear one.
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Stoneage
Okay, BV. There are many studies out there. Enough to make you bewildered. I have heard many professors (medicine...) making predictions and juggling numbers.
So far most of them have been wrong. When it comes to this virus it isn't easy to tell. And there is a diversity even within the profession.
Anders Tegnell is receiving a lot of criticism from his peers, for instance. Constantly.
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bv
About face masks: They should ONLY be used if you are sick, and you want to avoid others from getting hit by your illness. Health experts in Norway say the masks, when used by people not being ill, will actually make things worse. First of all, they do collect drops on the outer side, also inner side, so they will collect virus rather than keeping it out. Secondly, they do not cover your eyes. Thirdly, you will fiddle with the mask every now and then, with your fingers, so you will simply have a virus collector rather than a protection.
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georgie48
No offence to anyone, but I need to let you know that the head of the Dutch Government Institute of Public Health claimed already way back in March that face masks are giving a false sense of security ... there was no scientific proof that they were really helping to stop the virus from spreading. The truth was that ... there were NO F*CKING MASKS in our country.
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Hairball
I forgot where I heard this tidbit, but must have been a comedian as it is sort of funny - to paraphrase:
Do underwear stop the smell of farts from spreading?
If you can smell it, the answer is no, and to think of the multiple layers of cloth it has to go through and is still noticeable.
Same principle would apply to masks in the hope of preventing the spread of corona - exhaling is basically like farting through underwear, the molecules are still spreading everywhere.
Also, every time you inhale around people, chances are your breathing in air that others already have breathed - even when wearing a mask - similar to smelling a fart that someone let rip lol.
Not trying to make light of this, and not saying I believe in or promote the above as I constantly where a mask when out and about, but it was funny and thought provoking when I first heard it.
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About face masks: They should ONLY be used if you are sick, and you want to avoid others from getting hit by your illness. Health experts in Norway say the masks, when used by people not being ill, will actually make things worse. First of all, they do collect drops on the outer side, also inner side, so they will collect virus rather than keeping it out. Secondly, they do not cover your eyes. Thirdly, you will fiddle with the mask every now and then, with your fingers, so you will simply have a virus collector rather than a protection.
Bv, you made quite a change in your mask Assessment there...
Now you are citing and seemingly agreeing with a study predicting xx deaths in case no masks are worn? Not very convincing.
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About face masks: They should ONLY be used if you are sick, and you want to avoid others from getting hit by your illness. Health experts in Norway say the masks, when used by people not being ill, will actually make things worse. First of all, they do collect drops on the outer side, also inner side, so they will collect virus rather than keeping it out. Secondly, they do not cover your eyes. Thirdly, you will fiddle with the mask every now and then, with your fingers, so you will simply have a virus collector rather than a protection.
Bv, you made quite a change in your mask Assessment there...
Now you are citing and seemingly agreeing with a study predicting xx deaths in case no masks are worn? Not very convincing.
You are quoting a post I did February 28, 2020, on the very first page of this thread !!!! At that time, the current US president said the virus would go away in a week or two. We do all know that did not really happen. Since then, 250,000 people in USA have died, since then 1.4 million people in the world have died from covid-19. No wonder, nine months on since this post, we do know a lot more about the virus.
We do now know that the virus spread mainly by asymptomatic people, typically young people with the virus, who do not know they are sick. They go to their hair dresser, shop, the gym, their doctor, stay with their family, and we all know they live a normal life with their friends. They visit their grandparents at the nursing homes, and many work in nursing homes, stores, with contact with many people at risk.
The whole point of a mask, is to protect other people from any asymptomatic person carrying covid-19. We did not know that nine months ago, but now we do know, it is a matter of life and death.
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MononoM
i understood they start vaccinating in germany december
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doitywoik
A conspiracy theory that I haven't heard (yet) would be that Covid was actually designed to promote the production and sale of face masks (to benefit China's national gross product).
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Big Al
I would say that the vast majority here in the U.K. are adhering to the face-covering policy when it is mandatory to do so. Yes, there’s always some who don’t, but they’re usually the builders’ on their commute home, with their legs stretched-out onto the opposite seat, whilst cradling a can of Fosters.