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So you're suggesting we've been provided with "improper" masks all along? Where do you get yours?
I have an acquaintance working as a surgeon's assistant in an ER, and he's been my supplier. I can't tell these masks apart from those most people are wearing (and are now being told to double and triple).
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I don't know where I get mine, because my wife bought them. 
They look like surgical masks but may not be N95 rated. But they certainly seem to be better than cloth masks.
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The little earloop blue surgical masks are not rated for viruses. They're bacteria-catchers.
And the study showed that the only ones in the surgical suite who actually need to wear them are the folks leaning over the patient. More anti-drool than anything else.
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Sander Rossel wrote: I wouldn't even be surprised if some people actually did it if the government farcebook or twatter said so
FTFY
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government, facebook, twitter? Is there a difference?
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Yeah, government laws apply even if your IQ is larger than your shoe size ...
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Only because they apply, doesn't means that more people will follow them  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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But if your bank balance exceeds the cube of the result of your IQ multiplied by your shoe size then government laws start to apply less and less.
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Being based in the UK you will also know that Ofcom clamps down on any mainstream media outlets questioning the government narrative.
Which is why the BBC has not been asking any questions.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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This virus is like a bad programmer. Just uses copy and paste all over the place.... 
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Kenneth Haugland wrote: Just uses copy and paste all over the place
Sometimes it pastes as plain text and sometimes it pastes with merge formatting and then we have a new strain.
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I would call that a bug
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I was originally joking, but after a little research ...
Doctor says coronavirus could be spreading through farts – but experts aren’t so sure – The Sun[^]
This is the Scum, though, so the quality of anything that doesn't involved silicon enhanced ladies chests is pretty dodgy at the best of times.
But if Covid is present in pooh - and it certainly is at least some of the time - then passing gas butt-naked is probably a bad idea. Underwear and suchlike should trap it though.
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Luckily, walking around butt naked is already restricted in most countries.
BTW, the quality of silicone enhanced ladies is also up for discussion.
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Slacker007 wrote: I personally, think this is stupid, and we are now just being silly.
You, personally, aren't thinking.
The masks help; not to save you, but others. Sneeze in one and taste the proof.
In any infected individual, lots of copies of the virus. More copies, more faults during copying. Meaning the more hosts, the faster its evolution. And that happening in everyone infected. Can't have that.
In ten years it'd be worse than polio and the plague combined. There's too many hosts and we need to reduce that. Or live the fermi paradox.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Sneeze in one and taste the proof.
Indeed it will catch your boogies but we've been told that the virus is so small it can go right through the mask. So, you won't be tasting much covid.
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20212 wrote: Indeed it will catch your boogies but we've been told that the virus is so small it can go right through the mask
"Might".
The chance is lowered, by a lot. The snot you normally spray and contains most is caught.
That's why you need wash your hands and stop touching your eyes.
20212 wrote: So, you won't be tasting much covid.
Great argument.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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For all the two faced people everywhere.
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Because most can't fit one properly ... the odds are better with more layers, I suspect.
For the non-medical ones, if you knot the strings where they connect first, the whole thing fits better.
As for not stopping "sneezing and coughing", you're supposed to do that "into your elbow" ... the argumentative tend to skip over that part.
Trivia: Why did Napoleon's soldiers have so many buttons on their sleeves? So they wouldn't wipe their noses on them.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Every time I've been to the hospital or doctor's or dentist during the epidemic, the doctors and dentists have all been wearing double masks. Usually two different kinds. Might be because some masks are better at blocking outgoing viruses while others are better at filtering incoming ones?
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I understand your frustration. Since the quality of whatever china feels like shipping is always in doubt (even the quality of the bogus 3M masks they send), you need to be sure that the primary purpose of the masking is properly accomplished - which is to capture and thereby reduce the spread of your spittle to those around you. Also useful to a degree in preventing you from inhaling theirs.
You can get an extremely high quality seal with these masks[^] - which are both inexpensive and easy to put on correctly. This will, in short order, reduce any resentment you have for not being "thanked for sharing" with others around you.
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As far as I can tell the mask mandates contravene prior, peer reviewed studies showing masks outside medical situations do NOT stop airborne viruses
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If a Wombat became a street mime, would he be Marcel Marsupial?
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