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By whom? It's a pandemic, it affects everyone. It's right there in the name. I'm fully vaccinated, and I spent half an hour at a bank yesterday (wearing an N95

by geofft 5y ago

By whom? It's a pandemic, it affects everyone. It's right there in the name. I'm fully vaccinated, and I spent half an hour at a bank yesterday (wearing an N95) and I'm voluntarily quarantining for two weeks. It's a deadly disease. It doesn't care about your PR slogans or your political alignment. It does care about transmission, which is why avoiding unnecessary trips, wearing real ventilators (not cloth masks, Fauci is lying to you when he says they work, all scientific evidence is that they don't), and getting vaccinated all reduce the likelihood that either you will get it or you will transmit it to someone else. Nothing gets the likelihood to 0%.

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_Microft 5y ago
It is not the wearer that cloth masks offer protection to but to their environment. That's mostly achieved by slowing and diffusing the exhaled air and making it less likely that the infectious droplets reach others in the first place. I wouldn't want to have to wear one now that it's almost exclusively the Delta variant making the rounds but they were an acceptable measure against the wild variety/Alpha. Look for a study from Jena, a town in Germany, that issued a mask mandate weeks before other regions if you are curious.
amanaplanacanal 5y ago
Whether cloth masks “work” depends on your definition of work. They appear to be better than no mask at all, but not as good as surgical masks or N95 masks.
poetaster 5y ago
I have a professional cloth kn95 mask. It is MORE effective then the cheaper models, according to the technical u. In Berlin. The number of layers, 5 in this case, and anti viral agents contribute.
cameldrv 5y ago
It's extremely unlikely you're going to get COVID from your bank trip. Many, many healthcare workers treated COVID patients every day for nine months unvaccinated and didn't get COVID. You are vaccinated, it's only half an hour, and it's unlikely that anyone in the bank has COVID. IMO wearing better masks is a great thing, and so is minimizing indoor time with strangers, but it's also possible to overdo COVID protection. Most of the spread of COVID is among unvaccinated people doing things indoors and unmasked. Unfortunately, you being even more careful will not affect their behavior.

by geofft 5y ago

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_Microft 5y ago

It is not the wearer that cloth masks offer protection to but to their environment. That's mostly achieved by slowing and diffusing the exhaled air and making it less likely that the infectious droplets reach others in the first place. I wouldn't want to have to wear one now that it's almost exclusively the Delta variant making the rounds but they were an acceptable measure against the wild variety/Alpha. Look for a study from Jena, a town in Germany, that issued a mask mandate weeks before other regions if you are curious.

amanaplanacanal 5y ago

Whether cloth masks “work” depends on your definition of work. They appear to be better than no mask at all, but not as good as surgical masks or N95 masks.

poetaster 5y ago

I have a professional cloth kn95 mask. It is MORE effective then the cheaper models, according to the technical u. In Berlin. The number of layers, 5 in this case, and anti viral agents contribute.

cameldrv 5y ago

It's extremely unlikely you're going to get COVID from your bank trip. Many, many healthcare workers treated COVID patients every day for nine months unvaccinated and didn't get COVID. You are vaccinated, it's only half an hour, and it's unlikely that anyone in the bank has COVID. IMO wearing better masks is a great thing, and so is minimizing indoor time with strangers, but it's also possible to overdo COVID protection. Most of the spread of COVID is among unvaccinated people doing things indoors and unmasked. Unfortunately, you being even more careful will not affect their behavior.