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To be fair the way the average person wears a mask it won't protect them.
by gvjddbnvdrbv 7y ago
To be fair the way the average person wears a mask it won't protect them.
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- Consultant32452 7y agoLiterally anything that increases the friction between you and the virus protects you. Even a snorkel, with no filter at all, which forces the water droplets carrying virus to travel farther and around a few corners will likely provide you with some tiny bit of protection. It will do so because the extra turns increases the odds that the droplet will hit a surface or something and get stuck before entering your airway. It's very reasonable to suggest that a trained professional with years of experience in dealing with contamination will have better results from PPE than an average person. But that's a wildly different claim than masks do not offer the general public any protection.
- gvjddbnvdrbv 7y agoIt takes very few viral particles to catch covid.
- Consultant32452 7y agoAny protection greater than zero is still some protection. Reducing odds of getting it by 0.01% is a huge number of people at scale when you're estimating over a million people dying and 100+ million getting it.
- gvjddbnvdrbv 7y agoI agree. I wear a mask and wish others would.