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Nope. It protects you from said droplets, not from the virus, which it is incapable to protect you from, unlike a FFP3.
by TomMarius 6y ago
Nope. It protects you from said droplets, not from the virus, which it is incapable to protect you from, unlike a FFP3.
- tomp 6y agoWhat is the physical explanation behind this fact, and how come normal masks protect others if a carrier wears it?
- TomMarius 6y agoThe physical explanation is simple, the gaps between the strings of the mask are significantly wider than 50-100 nm. The mask protects others through preventing you from breathing/coughing on them, which it does way better than preventing you from breathing contaminated particles in.
- P-ala-din 6y agoso you're saying that the gaps are so wide that almost no contaminated particle (getting in) will get stuck on the mask? but somehow (some of the) particles going out will get stuck. how is that simple?
- P-ala-din 6y agoI feel like I have a wrong model of how things work. I'm thinking that for each virus there is a chance that it will infect a cell. The higher the viral load, the higher the number of chances that you will get infected. a lower number of droplets -> lower viral load -> less chance to be infected.
- amanaplanacanal 6y agoBut as far as we know, the bare virus does not travel through the air, it only travels in droplets. Although there is some disagreement on how large those droplets are.