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Downvote is not a strong enough disagree. Comment required. Mask in public if you are not feeling well. Healthy people masking in public for extended portions
by GenerocUsername 2y ago
Downvote is not a strong enough disagree. Comment required.
Mask in public if you are not feeling well.
Healthy people masking in public for extended portions of their life is untested and could cause new and unforseen issues.
Exposure to regular levels of background bacteria and virus keeps our immune system tuned. See War of the Worlds for pop culture level introduction. While the mask likely does not protect you from background virus and bacteria it can host all sorts of new growth right against your mouth and face.
- AnthonBerg 2y ago[flagged]
- GenerocUsername 2y agoDisagree. Masking at height of pandemic was possibly warranted. Masking in the summer of 2024 without medical reason to do so is weird. I feel no shame from your emotionally driven judgements, and instead shame you for trying to push your beliefs over others liberties.
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- clove 2y agoI like the way you argue.
- navjack27 2y agoEveryone should have a medical reason to be masking still. If you are alive then you don't want to get this! You know Long COVID? Do you know chicken pox? Do you know what shingles are? There are going to be a lot of things that we don't know that happens to a human who gets COVID even once let alone multiple times.
- wumeow 2y agoI had covid in 2021. I lost my sense of smell completely for a month, and I'm still not sure it's back to 100% pre-covid level. Now it looks like covid is going to be around for the rest of my life, but I don't want to have to go through that again every one or two years, losing more and more of my olfactory function after each infection. Until we get totally sterilizing nasal vaccines, I'm masking.
- methyl 2y agoI’m sorry to break the news for you, but masking will not stop you from getting sick. It’s the other way around, it helps to reduce spreading when you are infectious.
- GenerocUsername 2y agoExactly. These people are stuck adhering to the mask propaganda from 2020. The lies were 'justified' at the time because high adoption meant spreaders were covered. Unless you have advanced medical grade masks and swap them regularly, surgical masks and other common covering do literally nothing to protect the wearer from COVID. Once spit particles are airborne, even N95s don't stop much. And yes I've seen the videos about static attraction. Which is maybe partially true for fresh masks, but the attic attraction fades quickly as your breath saturates the material with moisture
- wizzwizz4 2y agoNot literally nothing. Some people will deliberately cough in your face, but most people will give you a little more personal space. Rule of thumb: if you can smell what's around you – or what was around you 5 seconds ago – you're not protected from airborne biohazardous material. That said, there are masks that do protect you.
- AnthonBerg 2y agoThese statements on the aerosol filtration physics are simply incorrect.
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- simondw 2y ago> Exposure to regular levels of background bacteria and virus keeps our immune system tuned > While the mask likely does not protect you from background virus and bacteria If you believe the second statement, why does the first matter? > it can host all sorts of new growth right against your mouth and face Have you seen any studies on how quickly harmful growth can build up? I'd guess this to be pretty harmless if you change the mask regularly.
- GenerocUsername 2y agoIt both doesn't work, and if it did it would be net negative. Masks protect others from your spit, they don't protect you. If you are not ill and generating airborne spit the mask is useless