Good
Protect them from the variants and spike protiens you are shedding
I appreciate that very much sir
Spike protein vaxxers creep me out a bit, and are a threat to my health
Respect
Protect them from the variants and spike protiens you are shedding
I appreciate that very much sir
Spike protein vaxxers creep me out a bit, and are a threat to my health
Respect
In my experience the people who defend masks are those that aren’t made to wear them.
Multiple family members mocked and talked shit on why can’t people just wear their masks. Then they take a 3 hour flight and I gotta hear for weeks how stupid and uncomfortable they are.
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Cost and lack of effectiveness. Need a density of cases and transmissible disease to justify it. Likely it would need to be flu/RSV seasons to see a statistically measurable effect that masking made a difference. And even then I'm not sure that data is really available. Would need to do some studies.
On the other hand the long held recommendation to mask the respiratory sick and mask if in close proximity to said sick should be continued and is likely more cost effective without significant variation in outcomes.
That makes sense and what I believe to basically be the stance up until covid. Just gonna be a wild twist when we get told they don’t really do much again.
Effectiveness of vaccination and wearing masks on seasonal influenza in Matsumoto City, Japan, in the 2014/2015 season: An observational study among all elementary schoolchildren - PMC
Measures of seasonal influenza control are generally divided into two categories: pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions. The effectiveness of these measures remains unclear, because of insufficient study sample size and/or differences ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
there are several like this (5-15% reduction), but the big difference came when symptomatic people and their household wore masks.
it was in Japan or maybe Singapore. but now the googles are all full of COVID references to Japan and mask culture.
You can also look at the flu levels in HK and Singapore at the start of the pandemic.
Would love to see this...lots of studies needed.
Makes perfect sense
Not going around others when you are sickly has been a common courtesy I have always valued
Somebody wants to hang out, have a sip from my cup, share a joint/pipe, etc...I always say hey "maybe that isn't a good idea, I have been around sickly folk or felt sickly myself last week or in my recent past"
I can get down with that type of behavior
i was made to wear a "bunny suit" working 12hr maintenance shifts in a cleanroom.
'uncomfortable' is a relative term, but it usually means "not adapted yet".
and people are pretty adaptable.
Cool, thanksEffectiveness of vaccination and wearing masks on seasonal influenza in Matsumoto City, Japan, in the 2014/2015 season: An observational study among all elementary schoolchildren - PMC
Measures of seasonal influenza control are generally divided into two categories: pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions. The effectiveness of these measures remains unclear, because of insufficient study sample size and/or differences ...
there are several like this (5-15% reduction), but the big difference came when symptomatic people and their household wore masks.
it was in Japan or maybe Singapore. but now the googles are all full of COVID references to Japan and mask culture.
You can also look at the flu levels in HK and Singapore at the start of the pandemic.
I can't read it all now but will get at it later, they seem to be talking vaccines also in that paper on first scan.
I would also like a lot more studies to be done
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It was.
COVID19 is significantly more transmissible than any other virus you've had to deal with. There is a paucity of immunity firewalls in the population that will only resolve with vaccines and recovered patients. Ideally that happens in concert to avoid variants as we are now seeing. Until then masks are an effective way to slow the spread of the disease. Ideally they would be used in higher risk situations and less and less so as vaccinations increase.
If COVID19 were moving through the population such that you saw the same hospitalization/death rate as any other illnesses we deal with all the time, you'd have no good argument for universal masking.
they control for vaccinations and masking.
but the observational/self-report studies tend to dilute outcomes.
just because you can doesn't mean you should
"Bunny suit" huh..."clean room" hmnnn
Sounds like code for a furry convention glory hole clean up man
the first victim of gov't hypocrisy and lies was Contact Tracing.
if you can adapt, you should.just because you can doesn't mean you should
"Bunny suit" huh..."clean room" hmnnn
Sounds like code for a furry convention glory hole clean up man
otherwise you're being uncomfortable for no reason.
haha
you think funny sir
If I am uncomfortable wearing something and my body gives me a sign that tells me so...I stop wearing it
Is this why you’re getting your 5th colonic since April?
Yep shoes are to small just adapt and don’t be uncomfortable
@Freedom more experimental. Obviously we don't have data to correlate viral load reduction to infectivity reduction, but we know that masks reduce the spread of virus - especially when won by the infected. SARS-COV-2 is unique for how infective it can be at low or pre-symptomatic stages.
what sign is your body giving you? are you having an allergic reaction?
It's not anecdotal to observe that community transmission is proportionate to community interaction.
and they have little to nothing to do with your anecdote.
never worn a "bunny suit" so I can't speak to that
as far as masks...my body quite obviously prefers to not wear one and breathe free of obstruction
