All countries that conquered the virus quickly have a 90% face mask ratio outside - Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, parts of China.
All countries who give fuck all about facd masks see tremendous growth rates.
—— Claim: ‘Face masks don’t work’ Wearing a face mask is certainly not an iron-clad guarantee that you won’t get sick – viruses can also transmit through the eyes and tiny viral particles, known as aerosols, can penetrate masks. However, masks are effective at capturing droplets, which is a main transmission route of coronavirus, and some studies have estimated a roughly fivefold protection versus no barrier alone (although others have found lower levels of effectiveness).
If you are likely to be in close contact with someone infected, a mask cuts the chance of the disease being passed on. If you’re showing symptoms of coronavirus, or have been diagnosed, wearing a mask can also protect others. So masks are crucial for health and social care workers looking after patients and are also recommended for family members who need to care for someone who is ill – ideally both the patient and carer should have a mask.
However, masks will probably make little difference if you’re just walking around town or taking a bus so there is no need to bulk-buy a huge supply.
we don't have enough masks that's why. the chinese sleeper agents bought them all
Jordan Perez
i still got a 3m industrial half mask with p100 filters. im not fucking around
Adam Foster
The virus enters your body through the mouth nose and eyes. So covering those things obviously lowers the risk of infection
Logan Gray
This is so true. But no, we have to hear about how the asian community isn't to blame and we shouldn't be mean to them. Horseshit. Those fuckers cleaned us out.
Grayson Morgan
>you dont need to buy masks and use them >rich people buy out the stocks when the stupid sheep dont buy masks to use/sell to other countries
Blake Davis
Google is shit these days so I’ll ask you instead: are the Honeywell North filters/cartridges compatible with 3M 6000/7000 masks?
>The Western media continues to peddle the lie that you don’t need a face mask outside You do if you are infected. It's also what the media says. The masks will not protect you, it will protect others from you.
They make a little difference but at the moment most hospitals have a shortage because happooners bought tons of them. In an ideal world every would wear a mask outside.
Joshua Moore
>The masks will not protect you, it will protect others from you. Yeah, that’s the lie. If you are infected and sneeze in your mask, the mask will be full with virus droplets. Not good.
But if everyone wears a mask, the combination of self protection and protecting others lowers the spread. So 90%+ mask wearing is key... only infected wearing masks is a bs attempt to keep masks in stock.
John Scott
Even a basic surgical mask is 50-70% effective at limiting incoming particles of viral size, and more so at blocking larger droplets that may contain the virus. It doesn't have to be 100% effective to boost your chances and decrease viral load. Additionally, COVID-19 spreads form asymptomatic hosts. Advising people to not wear masks unless they're sick will not prevent the spread of the virus - by the time someone shows symptoms, they've been shedding virus for 5-7 days.
Nathan Barnes
>They make a little difference Guess why doctors, nurses, etc. wear them. Guess why numbers in Korea are so low. Stop believing the media shills.
Ayden Myers
Even an improvised mask sewn from an old t-shirt will provide some basic level of protection (100% cotton t-shirt catches about 50% of droplets both ways,surgical masks are above 95%), it will reduce your chance of catching it or transmitting it. We haven't got enough surgical masks to go around, but instead of saying that and going "here is how to make a basic mask out of materials you are likely to have at home, save the proper ones for our doctors/nurses etc." they're saying "there's no need for any mask" because they're scared of hoarders.
Lincoln Jones
This is bullshit. Ive heard the head of WHO Operations say that masks work on uninfected people. He recommends the infected wear a mask and uninfected carers wear masks to double up protection. Stop spreading dangerous myths.
Oliver Ross
I hope you at least get paid for your inane bullshit.
Angel Wright
>Ive heard the head of WHO Operations say that masks work on uninfected people. You've "heard", huh.
Thomas Reyes
>tfw you don't get your paycheck for shilling Big Mask
he was literally on TV here on the news explaining how everyone should wear a mask and how to use it properly for the reatards
Anthony Ramirez
Didn't happen.
At least lie more convincingly. Oh wait, you're Chinese.
James Cruz
You shill the government line so you probably are paid. We simply don't have enough masks which is a scandal and our governments are trying to cover it up to save embarrassment.
Zachary Ortiz
Saw him say it with my own two eyes. It's in this interview if you care to look
In the US, thats not the case. I have 4 n95 masks, but everytime I wear one everyone either makes fun of me or stays away. I have stayed infection free, while Coworkers and friends are contracting.
Want to make fun of me more? While you cough on your deathbed? Fuck what people say. Do what you know is safe.
Nathan Powell
>I hope you at least get paid for your inane bullshit. Again, we know that countries were 90% of people were masks outside have lowered the spread fast, efficient and permanently.
The opposite is true for countries under lockdown where people still go outside without masks. Numbers are increasing and no peak inside.
Masks are the key, stop believing the media shills and the government.
Isaac Martinez
p2/p3 filters for half masks are still in stock around here because everyone is talking about n95 n99 / ffp2 ffp3 and they re the same thing
Lincoln Cruz
>the virgin mask wearer V The maskless Chad
Somebody do it
Levi Richardson
>In the US, thats not the case. >I have 4 n95 masks, but everytime I wear one everyone either makes fun of me or stays away. >I have stayed infection free, while Coworkers and friends are contracting. /this/ so much
What New York City teaches us is that the virus spreads in subways, in public places, in restaurants... and now that everything is closed it still spreads. Why? Because masks aren't worn by anyone... except the infected.
Evan Ross
I think someone has already done maskless virgin vs Hazmat suit Chad
Jacob Turner
Go and look it up. Funnily enough no one has actually bothered to really study the effects of masks.
Nolan Cook
I've been shopping everyday without a mask or gloves because I'm not some frail malnourished faggot afraid of a fucking virus that has killed hardly anyone.
Keep hiding in your basement wearing 5 masks so you dont catch a coof.
Aiden Martin
Dis. Wear mask faggots. Improvise and make your own. Cotton with layer of tissue inside is gud.
>because I'm not some frail malnourished faggot afraid of a fucking virus that has killed hardly anyone.
The problem is that this means everyone is in the shitters. The infections keep high because everyone thinks like you ... fucking us all because this 'crisis' is going on until the summer or longer.
If we were as disciplined as Koreans or Japanese or Singaporeans, that thing would already be over.
Alexander Clark
Correlation is not causation. The countries that had masks ALSO had more testing kits, better healthcare infrastructure, faster responses, etc. Masks definitely lower the risk but it's silly to claim this is the reason (or even biggest reason) for the disparity.
>The countries that had masks ALSO had more testing kits, better healthcare infrastructure, faster responses,
Untrue.
Germany has conducted more tests than Korea, our healthcare infrastructure is good and isn't even anywhere close to capacity (2% of beds are used by corona infected right now) and we responded incredibly fast.
Korea doesn't even have a lockdown. Why? Because it doesn't need one with the population wearing masks outside and not shaking hands.
Yes, but it's part of the reason and it could be replicated fairly easily by just having someone official say: 1.) here is how to sew a mask 2.) we advise you to wear a mask outside
Ethan Turner
The thing is that even if you're not sick, you don't know if the guy next to you in the bus or the metro is sick. I don't know why they keep saying masks do nothing.
If you're in your house instead then yeah, i guess they don't do anything.
Ian Johnson
>if it doesn't offer 100% protection it does virtually nothing Full brainlet.
Cameron Gutierrez
>It can go through your eyeballs and ears. But it actually doesn't. Why do we know that? Because we have actual proof of people not getting infected through 'eyeballs' and 'ears'. From Korea, Singapore and Japan.
And from here. Doctors still mostly only wear face masks, the number of doctors and nurses infected in Germany is actually incredibly low... while others get infected because they don't wear mask.
Droplets inhaled through the nose and mouth are responsible for the vast amount of infections.
Kayden Gomez
>It can go through your eyeballs and ears The fact that healthcare workers wear normal safety glasses instead of airtight goggles leads me to believe that the eye infection route is vastly overstated on Yas Forums.
Joseph Perez
Be sure to remember that when coof makes you unable to breathe and everyone helping you is wearing a mask.
‘Maybe that dude in the mask at walmart doesn’t have the serious coof’
Enjoy dying in stress and despair, thrown on a freezer truck like a piece of shitty meat you are.
Xavier Kelly
The shortage is more for ñ95 masks. Surgical masks you can buy anywhere and to be honest you could wear anything to just cover your mouth and nose. But I would be willing to bet that any benefit to wearing a shitty surgical mask is offset by riskier behavior from the feeling of safety.
It's like wearing a metal helmet as a soldier. Shit isn't gonna stop a bullet but might catch fragment shards. Or a ricochet bullet
Charles Lee
>1.) here is how to sew a mask >2.) we advise you to wear a mask outside Even easier, just distribute masks (in plastic) in front of all supermarkets. Tell people to wear the mask in supermarkets. People will get the message and wear the mask elsewhere too.
Nathan Green
(Not wearing eyewear) (Not rocking airpods)
You fucking third world simpleton.
Landon Jenkins
Make masks yourself to protect your family. Now.
Liam Hughes
The people in the hospital are wearing gloves, masks, face shields, goggles and they still get sick/infected despite constant disinfection of all surfaces. Not some garbage mask that wasn't even fitted properly
Kayden Torres
Pretty sure they are useful but doctors need them more than us. It would be better to tell it that way but the media are too used to manipulate and consider us like disposable cattle. Plus when I go to the store I always hear some fucking coofers. These bastards should stay home.
Jonathan Flores
The part about the mask not helping and that vitamin c "can kill you at high doses" is the dead giveaway that this crisis is manufactured
Liam Jenkins
yea thats why korea japan and other asian countries all weark masks right, because they have zero experience with fuckin chines viruses and its so out of control there right? Fuck off you fuckin chink
Jaxon Butler
Not in the fucking US. A lot of them are wearing surgical masks, or barely anything. Everyone here is treating it like a coof, except workers in NY. Who initially did until they saw hundreds suffering. Now everyone is scared and wants masks.
Hudson Ross
Make everybody wear masks, cloth ones are fine and people can even make their own and have fashion statements. They can wash them as well.
If 90% of people are in masks, infection rates plummet especially since those infected if they cough, the virus is attached to vapor droplets and is caught by the mask.
Fucking simple concept, but some cunts are afraid of losing face because they said they "wouldn't work" to look all cool and relaxed for social points.
sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190903134732.htm Study from 2019 that says surgical masks are as good as respirators to prevent flu virus. I don't trust anything that is being promoted now. The only person i can trust to look out for my safety is me.
Nathan Walker
lmao you dull faggot I wear a sealed N100 that stops EVERYTHING. You can do impossible things like social distancing without social distancing!
Nolan Powell
Shortage of masks is not only in your country. Just make masks yourself. Its easy to make a mask from scratch. I make it with kitchen paper, surgical tape, rubber string and stapler. It only takes a few minutes. Just do it Now!
Cooper Long
>Go and look it up. Funnily enough no one has actually bothered to really study the effects of masks. Yeah, except everyone.
Guess where the contradiction is in this one: > “Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!” tweeted Dr. Jerome Adams, the U.S. Surgeon General, on Feb. 29. “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!”
I’ll explain it to you with logic:
A. Stop buying X. B. X does not prevent you to end up with state Y C. Z (subset of X) urgently need X D. Z need X to effectively prevent them to end up with state Y
You see the problem?
And here is some info from Asia:
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Picking the right type of mask may be key, said one researcher.
"Several studies, including research from my group, show that if worn properly, masks can protect people in the community from respiratory illness, especially [those] in close contact with sick people," said Dr. Raina MacIntyre. She's head of biosecurity research at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
MacIntyre's group did a study where parents of a sick child wore a mask at home. Those who wore the mask at all times were protected, she said.
"When infection is widespread, it may be useful," she noted.
