>>Anyone who spent a few minutes of research knew this all along. Laughable.
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>>From The Telegraph UK - https://tinyurl.com/yjg4zdk8
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>>"Cloth face masks are 'comfort blankets' that do little to curb Covid spread" UK SAGE adviser warns. He warned some cloth masks have gaps which are invisible to the naked eye, but are 500,000 times the size of viral Covid particles."Masks can catch droplets and sputum from a cough but what is important is that SARS CoV-2 is predominantly distributed by tiny aerosols". Dr Axon said that medics were "unable to comprehend" the miniscule elements at play, adding: "A Covid viral particle is around 100 nanometres, material gaps in blue surgical masks are up to 1,000 times that size, cloth mask gaps can be 500,000 times the size". "The public were demanding something must be done, they got masks, it is just a comfort blanket," Dr Axon noted.
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>>Wear your mask, it's your duty as a citizen. Stop killing people! < /sarc > LOL :)
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Because of my awful habit of smoking during the early years of my life I have trouble breathing. When I put a mask on, the difficulty gets a lot worse.
Because of some loud unpleasantness in Korea, I have trouble hearing. The VA has stepped up nicely with aids that help a lot but I still read lips.
When someone with a mask talks to me it sounds like mush.
So, as you might surmise, masks are a major PITA to me.
When no one's around, I take the mask off my nose so that I can breathe.
When I want to hear someone with a mask, I point at my ears and step back. They take off the mask, repeat what they said , replace the mask, and all is OK.
Meanwhile, that PITA mask is making a lot of helpless people who have been scared out of their wits feel just a little bit safer so I wear it with pride when anyone is around and get rid of it a soon as I can.