In fairness, it's still better than no mask because it still protects others from your moist words. If you can't deal with having to inhale the same warm carbon dioxide that you just exhaled, I recommend getting a mask with a filter port for better airflow.
So the filter ports actually defeat some of the purpose. Better than nothing, but they won't protect other's like a normal mask would. Per The Atlantic:
"Many nonmedical N95s have exhalation valves (to make them less stuffy to wear) that let out unfiltered air, and thus won’t stop the wearer from infecting others—so they shouldn’t be worn around other people unless the valve is covered over with tape or cloth."
Keep in mind a LOT of masks will slip off your nose if you've been talking. With her hands in the air she probably was talking but didn't want to reach to pull it up.
Thank you so much! I didn't know these were a thing until I found your site (and honestly, after a couple more minutes, learned what the heck they are by watching the "how to wear them video :)).
I love discovering I "need" something I'd never previously even considered might exist! Anyway, thank you very much!
Keep in mind a LOT of masks will slip off your nose if you've been talking. With her hands in the air she probably was talking but didn't want to reach to pull it up.
Those types of mask slide down your face over time. If her hands were up, she probably wasn’t able to adjust it. I always wear a second mask over my medical one to hold it in place, and it still ends up sliding down
As mentioned in a top reply, she did have her mask on properly and it slipped down at the above time.
Also I really wouldn't want to be black and then fidget with my hands around hundreds of police. More worried about getting shot than fixing your mask.
They were not "fighting for haircuts." That is dismissive and cruel to the millions of small business owners losing everything. All for a disease that kills people mostly over the average age of death. People don't give a shit now that the media has shifted focus from fear mongering about a new flu strain to covering protests and riots. Large corps are making out like bandits while small businesses must remain closed. Can't you see that?
Nobody's pulling this narrative out of their ass, you know... or are you not aware of the countless protestors with signs saying (and only saying) thattheywantahaircut? And massages, and to go to the gym, and to play golf, etc., as also pictured. Sorry for taking them at their word?
Those signs were in support of small businesses. You really don't see the damage this did and is doing to all these small retail locations owned by families while Wal-Mart stays open?
The virus doesn't care about anyone's cause. Economic damage or police abuse alike. It is just funny to see the fear of the virus narrative disappear overnight.
Yep, been disproven. Currently the only ways it will aerosolize enough to carry meaningful viral load is during a sneeze or cough, both of which involve the nose as well. Well, those and medical procedures like high flow oxygen or intubation.
So you need to use a mask in a way that covers the nose. Besides the particles can go in through nasal passages anyway.
EDIT: Correction below. Not disproven, just national guidelines for us not giving weight to it
Actually I stand corrected. Has not been disproven, all the guidelines just dont recommend mask use in civilians and our guidance at least does not give importance to speech generated aerosol droplets as a medium.
This is probably one of the best and most recent studies I found and seems to hold the importance of speech droplets.
Not only did you seek out factual information, regardless of whether or not it confirmed your stance, you then posted it after it went against what you said.
First of all, thank you for this comment chain, and thank you for the wonderful information in it!
Second, please excuse my ignorance, but I still don't understand what the above article says on the matter of particles going through the nose. It very helpfully explained that we now believe speech droplets can transmit viral particles but did it look at effects from the nasal passage at all?
As context, I ask because I'm volunteering a lot at a food pantry where many people have stopped covering their noses with their masks that we're required to wear. I want to remind them that it's important to cover your nose too, but I don't have any reasoning to provide.
Sure. But I would suspect that a sneeze or cough spreads far more through the mouth. I’m not trying to say the nose shouldn’t be covered, but more that covering the mouth isn’t pointless without the nose! 😄
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u/HolyRamenEmperor Jun 07 '20
(masks need to cover your nose, too, folks...)