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Mask wearing is uncomfortable, but the alternative is lock down. I bet most of us will survive wearing a mask for 10-20 minutes in the shopping center, per day, rather than months of lock down, because we did not care about masks.
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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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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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Beast
Countries like Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan have hardly any cases and I would bet that most people in those countries are wearing masks. I don't know what happened in Japan, where cases are rising sharply, except a friend in Tokyo did tell me that it was disappointing to see how many people are not wearing masks there.
I don't know whether a mask helps to stop anything and I still always remember WHO's initial advice that masks have no benefit. But I do know that information/knowledge about coronavirus changes almost daily and sometimes contradicts itself.
So if there's even a small chance that masks have some benefit and if the advice is to wear one in enclosed spaces or wherever, then I don't have a problem with it, though I don't like wearing one and take it off as soon as I'm back out in the open air. I have antimicrobial masks that are claimed to neutralize 99% of the virus. I don't know whether or not the claim is true but I read the blurb and was happy to take a punt on it, especially as they actually work out cheaper than disposables. What gets me is those people who don't seem to understand that the advice is not actually to wear a mask below the chin or nose or to drop it down to talk to someone else in person or on the phone! What are they thinking?!
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Stoneage
What I was referring to was a overconfidence in wearing masks. As if that's what it's all about. In reality there are many components involved. And some we don't even know about.
There also seems to be a demand for draconian measures. Due to political pressure. We have seen that in Sweden recently. Politicians giving in to that. To gain popularity.
The result of that can be horrific in the end. Businesses giving in, huge unemployment and bankruptcies. Further down the line homelessness and starvation.
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Chris Fountain
College or Pro Football games are getting either or cancelled everywhere. This is getting way out of hand. Again but this seems worse - no telling impact of winter with current epidemic surge-
It's goin to be a long walk home.
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Chris Fountain
College or Pro Football games are getting either or cancelled everywhere. This is getting way out of hand. Again but this seems worse - no telling impact of winter with current epidemic surge-
It's goin to be a long walk home.
the season's should have been cancelled imo, unless they were prepared to create bubbles. Everyone in camp all the time, no outside visitors, no mingling outside of the bubble, then teams could have been assured that they were playing COVID free opposition.
But imagine trying to do this in the NFL, although the NBA managed to pull it off. Although the players in that league know by now that their sport is dying with viewers, it's not Basketball anymore, there's no defence, no hip checks, hand checks, contested lay ups. It's just a Slam Dunk or 3 point contest (sorry for the rant but i loved 80s/90's NBA and this stuff isn't basketball).
They could have moved these leagues to Islands.
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Chris Fountain
No offense , of course , but games have been postponed at least.
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GasLightStreet
Mask fatigue. That's so weak. It's pathetic. The disregard and complete lack of respect of others pisses me off but all I can do is take care of myself. No matter what anyone thinks, because science (and nature) doesn't give a shit about politics and fake news and wrong opinions, it is the only defense along with distancing sans not going out. I see large gatherings where I live with no masks. The attitude of "we're all gonna get it" is defeatist and ignorant. It's the new stupid.
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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.
Thanks for adding to my germaphobe paranoia. :-)
But I must admit everytime I see a puff of smoke lingering in the air from a cigarette or the mushroom cloud exhaled from someone vaping...it reminds me of how long stuff from other people's lungs can float around and be sucked into our own.
I'm sure masks help, but to all of us who exhale and fog up our glasses, you have to assume your inhaling through the same 'leaks'.
I'm almost surprised some ingenious entrepreneur hasn't come up with an affordable comfortable total seal around the nose and mouth to avoid such situations, though now they're saying those with an "exhaust valve" are kind of defeating the purpose of trapping the virus, so probably more difficult than it sounds.
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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.
Thanks for adding to my germaphobe paranoia. :-)
But I must admit everytime I see a puff of smoke lingering in the air from a cigarette or the mushroom cloud exhaled from someone vaping...it reminds me of how long stuff from other people's lungs can float around and be sucked into our own.
I'm sure masks help, but to all of us who exhale and fog up our glasses, you have to assume your inhaling through the same 'leaks'.
I'm almost surprised some ingenious entrepreneur hasn't come up with an affordable comfortable total seal around the nose and mouth to avoid such situations, though now they're saying those with an "exhaust valve" are kind of defeating the purpose of trapping the virus, so probably more difficult than it sounds.
Air leaking out of a mask from exhaling is nothing like air leaking in while inhaling - completely different set of physics and geography.
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Thanks for adding to my germaphobe paranoia. :-)
But I must admit everytime I see a puff of smoke lingering in the air from a cigarette or the mushroom cloud exhaled from someone vaping...it reminds me of how long stuff from other people's lungs can float around and be sucked into our own.
I'm sure masks help, but to all of us who exhale and fog up our glasses, you have to assume your inhaling through the same 'leaks'.
I'm almost surprised some ingenious entrepreneur hasn't come up with an affordable comfortable total seal around the nose and mouth to avoid such situations, though now they're saying those with an "exhaust valve" are kind of defeating the purpose of trapping the virus, so probably more difficult than it sounds.
Air leaking out of a mask from exhaling is nothing like air leaking in while inhaling - completely different set of physics and geography.
I probably didn't make my point clearly which was if your exhaled breath finds its way out to fog your glasses, it's probably founds it's way to float around to infect others; and you're probably breathing in someone else's exhaled air when you inhale, through those same gaps between your mask and face that allowed your glasses to fog.
Of course I'm no doctor so I may be way off, just sounds reasonably likely.
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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.
Thanks for adding to my germaphobe paranoia. :-)
But I must admit everytime I see a puff of smoke lingering in the air from a cigarette or the mushroom cloud exhaled from someone vaping...it reminds me of how long stuff from other people's lungs can float around and be sucked into our own.
I'm sure masks help, but to all of us who exhale and fog up our glasses, you have to assume your inhaling through the same 'leaks'.
I'm almost surprised some ingenious entrepreneur hasn't come up with an affordable comfortable total seal around the nose and mouth to avoid such situations, though now they're saying those with an "exhaust valve" are kind of defeating the purpose of trapping the virus, so probably more difficult than it sounds.
Air leaking out of a mask from exhaling is nothing like air leaking in while inhaling - completely different set of physics and geography.
I probably didn't make my point clearly which was if your exhaled breath finds its way out to fog your glasses, it's probably founds it's way to float around to infect others; and you're probably breathing in someone else's exhaled air when you inhale, through those same gaps between your mask and face that allowed your glasses to fog.
Of course I'm no doctor so I may be way off, just sounds reasonably likely.