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I certainly didn't say asians wearing masks was stupid. My implication is they are not effective for either COVID-19 nor cold or Flu viruses. Japanese don't wea
by asiachick 7y ago
I certainly didn't say asians wearing masks was stupid. My implication is they are not effective for either COVID-19 nor cold or Flu viruses. Japanese don't wear N20 masks. They basically wear a piece of cloth that seals no where.
https://askul.c.yimg.jp/img/product/3L2/8475270_3L2.jpg https://askul.c.yimg.jp/img/product/3L2/8475270_3L2.jpg
That is not a N20 mask.
Further they don't all wear them. < 50% wear them.
The majority of people wearing masks in Japan are for hay fever.
- robocat 7y agoIf everyone wears masks that reduce droplet exhalation, that helps, even if a mask didn’t help prevent inhalation of droplets. I chose the words “droplet transmission” carefully. > less than 50% wear them. I looked a photo taken in Japan today - certainly looks like more than 50% to me - but hard to get facts on and I only looked at the first photo I could find. > The majority of people wearing masks in Japan are for hay fever. I.e. the mask is worn to reduce inhalation of small particles: surely you are contradicting yourself (you say they “seal nowhere” you are implying that they have no effect and that anyone using one for hayfever is mistaken).