Masks

If we set the 'is it real or fake' debate about COVID aside for a minute. The reality is many businesses are requiring masks.


My issue is why wouldnt a face shield work better? why masks? cheap, easy to get?
a face sheild would protect eyes as well. So why masks?

 

Probably that's as good an answer as you'll find. Face shields may or may not be "better" than masks, in much the same way as masks are better than nothing. Consider also that coughs and sneezes will escape the sides of shields far more readily than masks alone, so "better" would be both.

 

I think it depends on the environment you get into, and the other protocols you are advised to follow.
Wearing a mask is useless if your hands are contaminated and you are handling the mask and every other thing others touch breath and sneeze on.
Do you transfer the things you handle on to your vehicle? the doorknob of your house?
Masks and shields are a part of the issue but hand sanitation is the bigger part because we are so tactile, not only that your clothing is a sponge by comparison, every bit of humidity in the atmosphere is clinging to it.
You can live in fear of ever getting sick or you can take care of your self and avoid doing unhealthy things and choose to strengthen your self and your health eating right and getting enough sleep and make people keep their distance. Don't blame them if you don't have the discipline to make an issue of it.
Now that plague has shown up in China and may well travel the world, does this little training session with corona mean any thing?

 

We just spent near a Grand $$$$$ for sneeze guards for the office.
We will require mask and a Temp check and the use of hand sanitizer for Vets.
Some seem to not take in demographic as a major cause of the CCP Virus spread.

If you live in a remote area you a less chance of being infected.

OTOH
If you trust the remoteness to protect you and ignore the fact that your town is crossed by 3 major highways all leading to and from Major cities then you are in trouble.

Houston is in trouble and a lot to do with stupid people. Those areas are where some of my kids live.

We are now over 260 infections with 3 deaths.
YMMV

 

we are down to 8 cases in my zip and 120 some in the county 5 hospitalized we wear the masks and it seems to be work that's all I can say

 

this site has pretty good updates for numbers

Tracking The Pandemic: Are Coronavirus Cases Rising Or Falling In Your State?

COVID-19 Map

I just dont think the mask is that effective and when in rome.....

 

Not all droplets that carry Covid-19 are small enough to pass through a surgical mask. It’s the ones we expel as we talk. Larger droplet from coughs and sneezing, also carry COVID-19, will be stopped by a homemade or surgical mask. That being said, it’s your choice. Mask mandates are not being enforced because cops already have their share of hate directed at them. If you want to take the risk for you and your family, go for it. Just stay out of my face.

 

I found this interesting CDC says just because you test positive doesnt mean you have COVID
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

 

Depends on the type of mask and if you Decom it every time you use it.

 

We are the special kind of Special in AZ. Poster Child for the world on how NOT to do it

 

I went shopping today and it was busy and half the people, including their kids, had no mask. I decided to wear a mask when going out to stores and such. Otherwise, I boost my immune system with Moringa and Zink with Quercetin. I try and stay away from people.

 

To each their own but I am going to wear my mask when I have to come in contact with strange humans

 

I don't give store associates any chit. Number one they don't dictate store policy. Number two, they're being forced to wear those masks for their entire shift. If anyone has the right to bitch about masks, it's them. I only have to put it on for the 10 minutes I'm in there.

I don't know about the rest of the country but where I am, it seems that while everyone has the "Wear a Mask" sign up, no one is enforcing it. Inside it's about a 50/50 mix of wearing/not wearing, and no one seems to be getting bent out of shape over what others are doing.

 

Around here, only the groceries, packies, and smoke shops are enforcing it. Other than that, the proportion is about 50/50 on or off.
I suppose it would not be too far out of line to observe there are three reasons to wear 'em. Self protection (almost universally untrue, since the readily available masks are essentially useless for that) or social consciousness about protecting others, which is a "proven" concept. The third possibility is conflict avoidance.

 

I still dont see the logic of cloth masks when your eyes and ears are still exposed, other than to prevent spraying. but even then most masks are loose and you get some around the edges if you sneeze or cough.

I think the whole thing has no logic

 

That is what the goggles are fer and the hear plugs which also tones down the volume of everyone complaining.

 

I honestly wish I could say that logic applies in politics. To me, it looks like there was a convenient horse walking by when the SHTF and dot gov mounted up and rode off randomly. They have refined the mask concept (I think) to at least justify some of the random broadcast air time that isn't otherwise consumed by dreck.