The New England Journal of Medicine – “We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection.” – IOTW Report

The New England Journal of Medicine – “We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection.”

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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.

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Go here to see how masks worn by the general public offer very few safeguards from cross contamination.

the video is quite funny.

ht/ tsunami

13 Comments on The New England Journal of Medicine – “We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection.”

  1. 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.

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  2. 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. 😳

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  3. 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?

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  4. 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.

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