We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or even 30 minutes). The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.
Go here to see how masks worn by the general public offer very few safeguards from cross contamination.
ht/ tsunami
Google: Gary Cheevers Hockey mask.
Greatest mask EVER!
and it’s Boston, not New England.
… & so do we know it … known it for a long time
PDT knew it too …
bunch a phuckin’ ‘experts’
I thawed a pound of hamburger for dinner prep and myself, being a devious bastard, sopped up the bloody juice with a yellow surgical mask. I can hardly wait to try it on my next Costco run.
I get a reflexive reaction with anxiety being forced to wear a damn mask. How’s them apples?
When are the American people going to say enough already? Wearing a mask is like crack to these sociopaths. 😳
Miss Kitty, you should really move out of that flat barbarous hellhole and drive up the hill.
All the cool people live up here.
Well, now that TRUMP has suggested everyone wear a mask, the demoncrats will declare them racist and ban them.
… & another voice of sanity from the same Journal …
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2009405?query=recirc_artType_railA_article
Aaron
I am seriously considering voting with my feet.
I am tired of the heat 🔥 🥵 and the White Mountains looks pretty darn attractive right about now.
But, but, but the governor, his medical advisor, several mayors, the woman at Walmart and the guy at the gas station all said if we don’t wear a mask most of us are going to die.
Actually the medical advisor to my state governor two days ago said (paraphrased), “Wearing mask are effective, research proves wearing a mask saves lives. Wear the damn masks!”
I thought he was a guy that would be stumped by the question, – Which of these two things is Shinola?
I wonder if anyone around Joe has informed him that wearing that mask is starving his brain of oxygen. Judging from his incoherent babbling, he’s absorbing little enough now.
I kinda like wearing my mask – it has a cat face print with big fangs that’s pretty realistic – with a hat & sunglasses it freaks people out!
Trump is going to blow the election with his cowtowing to the mask bullshit.
We are supposed to be draining the swamp. Not helping those bastards.
What would the people at the NE Journal of Medicine know? They are obviously science deniers!!