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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Masks aren't there to protect the one who wears it.
Not true, but whatever.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: exit
Eddy Vluggen wrote: wear one while in a car.
Ummmm.....
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ZurdoDev wrote: Not true, but whatever.
Don't care any bit about your non argumented petty opinion.
The mask helps with limiting the spreading, since a cough has not the same reach. It does not protect the wearer, since you can get it from touching stuff. It protects those around you by limiting your coughing distance. You agreeing or not does not change that in any way - and since you have no arguments, you agreeing is not even relevant.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: and since you have no arguments, you agreeing is not even relevant.
Wearing the mask can help me from not getting it if someone sneezed near me. Didn't realize I needed to make such a simple argument. But there it is. Or, to strengthen the argument, if it can be transmitted via breathing, then it protects me from those breathing around me.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Wearing the mask can help me from not getting it if someone sneezed near me.
No, it won't; but it will help when you sneeze.
ZurdoDev wrote: Didn't realize I needed to make such a simple argument. But there it is.
I never realized I'd be educating you without being paid for it.
ZurdoDev wrote: Or, to strengthen the argument, if it can be transmitted via breathing, then it protects me from those breathing around me.
You have the right to "believe" that, as you have the right to believe in God. I'm not explaining anything for free.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: No, it won't;
Why not?
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ZurdoDev wrote: Why not?
Same reasons as the flu.
Do your own research, or pay me. Good luck, you'll need it if you didn't see this coming.
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Once again you have gotten me. I fell for it. I actually thought you knew what you were talking about.
It's amazing that masks are one way protectors. 
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ZurdoDev wrote: Wearing the mask can help me from not getting it if someone sneezed near me.
From the direct contact / landing of the "big" drops in your face yes (that is why we should wear glasses too).
ZurdoDev wrote: if it can be transmitted via breathing, then it protects me from those breathing around me.
Not really, Cotton / vlies / many materials are not that dense to block the tiny particles flying around. And neither are they protecting you of the vaccuum effect when you breath in if the particles are in suspension around the limits of the mask.
In other words... they help to protect you, yes. But they don't protect you.
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Nelek wrote: Cotton / vlies / many materials are not that dense to block the tiny particles flying around.
Then they won't protect other people if you're wearing one and you sneeze.
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They protect reducing the dispersion and hence the probability of infecting others, but they don't protect by totally avoiding it.
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Correct. 
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I agree with you. If it doesn't protect the wearer, why then do the doctors and nurses wear it in the hospital?
The difficult we do right away...
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I'm struggling to understand how it can only be a one way mask. Won't let things out but will let things in? Seems strange.
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One explanation I heard recently is that the authorities wanted to prevent a shortage of PPE for the medical workers, so they set out to convince people that it wouldn't help prevent catching the virus.
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That's sinister, in a way. 
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The let the things out and in, only in less proportion.
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I agree. The mask *helps* to prevent both the wearer and others around the wearer from becoming infected.
It (a non-N95 standard mask I believe we are talking about) is not 100% protective due to it's limitations and since one can be infected via the eyes as well.
But it is not at all correct in anyway to say that it does not at all benefit the wearer.
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Kent K wrote: via the eyes as well.
I had not heard that before. I guess we need to start wearing Predator helmet masks then.
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Because they are bankrobbers!
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I saw a neighbour yesterday wearing one just to come out of the house, get something out of the car, and go back inside.
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Bandits. The lack of regular traffic on the roads makes the bandits more obvious...
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My theory is that the people that are doing this are doing it to reduce the amount of times they touch their face
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MadMyche wrote: My theory is that the people that are doing this are doing it to reduce the amount of times they touch their face
Could be. Although I remember reading a study a month or two ago that found people tend to touch their face MORE often when wearing a mask because it is uncomfortable and sweat builds up and itches, etc.
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ZurdoDev wrote: people tend to touch their face MORE often when wearing a mask because it is uncomfortable and sweat builds up and itches, etc.
As long as it is their own virus/bacteria, they may touch their face as much as they like. Problems occur only if your hands have been infected with some "foreign" virus, and essentially if that self-touching gives the virus a chance to jump from your fingers over to your nose / lips, from where it can move into your lungs.
I guess that the risk of that is not 0%. But the mask makes it less probable that your infected fingers directly touch you nose / lips. Furthermore, I would think that those wearing a face mask are also among the most eager to keep social distance, and to clean their hands many times a day.
Funny observation: Lots of grocery stores around here provide antibac at the entrance. Lots of customers use it on their way into the store. Then they grab a shopping cart (they are disinfected often, but for every new customer), and run all over the shop, opening cooler doors and touching shelves. Then they leave the store bringing along anything that they might have picked up on the visit. I never see a single one using the anticbac after the visit to the store!
Sure, if you are infected yourself, it will reduce the risk of you spreading it to others. That's a good thought. But if you know that you are infected, you shouldn't go to the grocery store at all! People probably think of the antibac primarily as a way to protect themselves, and then they should use it on the way out, not on the way in!
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Besm Allah
wearing masks is a sign of our consideration to our heath.
Corona Virus is a Risk, we are going to avoid.
But we must know that, there are much more Risk in our life that we are take it for granted.
This risk is ignorance of GOD, as the creator of us, the creator of corona virus, the creator of our life.
From the islamic point of view, Death is a like a bridge to pass to resurrection.
Let's think of our philosophy of existance
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