Latest on the Corona Virus

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Nice Spin But BS as Usual
Be a Hero wear a mask
Wearing A Mask is better than None
Case closed

Would you expect any different response from a florida "REDNECK"
GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT

[slimslob]

Nice Spin But BS as Usual
Be a Hero wear a mask
Wearing A Mask is better than None
Case closed

The only BS around here is part of your handle. Now quit acting like a spoiled little child and start understanding what is actually happening. If you doubt what someone else posts then Google it, or what ever search engine you prefer, find documented links to actual facts and post them.

[copier addict]

Here is what the Mayo Clinic says about masks.

COVID-19: How much protection do face masks offer? - Mayo Clinic

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Here is what the Mayo Clinic says about masks.

COVID-19: How much protection do face masks offer? - Mayo Clinic

I had a brief look at that site particularly what they had to say about surgical face masks.

these masks may provide some protection when N95 masks are not available.

The surgical face mask as mentioned months ago by various posters does not protect the wearer as it was never designed to. It's almost sixty years old and replaced cloth face masks which are still used in developing countries, so sixty years later and we are still not sure of the protection offered which if you are paying attention is zero. However never let the facts get in the way of a politically motivated panic.

[copier addict]

I had a brief look at that site particularly what they had to say about surgical face masks.


The surgical face mask as mentioned months ago by various posters does not protect the wearer as it was never designed to. It's almost sixty years old and replaced cloth face masks which are still used in developing countries, so sixty years later and we are still not sure of the protection offered which if you are paying attention is zero. However never let the facts get in the way of a politically motivated panic.

I believe the main reason for non medical providers wearing a mask is to help prevent the wearer from infecting someone else.
In my world, "some protection" is far better than no protection.

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The only BS around here is part of your handle. Now quit acting like a spoiled little child and start understanding what is actually happening. If you doubt what someone else posts then Google it, or what ever search engine you prefer, find documented links to actual facts and post them.

Try CDC
case closed
unless the CDC is also bias and Fake

Use Cloth Face Coverings to Help Slow Spread | CDC

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I believe the main reason for non medical providers wearing a mask is to help prevent the wearer from infecting someone else.
In my world, "some protection" is far better than no protection.

Fair enough jump on the bandwagon wear you mask with pride, I won't

[Phil B.]

NBC Virus Expert Who Claimed He Had ‘Undiagnosed’ COVID-19 Reveals He Never Had Virus

maybe we should relabel their reports from FAKE NEWS to LYING NEWS!


NBC medical expert Joseph Fair, who has appeared on the network nearly a dozen times since the COVID-19 pandemic began sweeping across the U.S., offered a horrific tale about the virus.
According to Fair, he caught the virus while on a commercial flight from New Orleans. “I had a mask on, I had gloves on, I did my normal wipes routine … but obviously, you can still get it through your eyes,” Fair in May told the “Today Show,” directly, via video link from his hospital bed. “And, of course, I wasn’t wearing goggles on the flight.”

In another appearance the next month, Fair told NBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet The Press” that the virus was “the worst I’ve ever felt. I probably spent 23 out of 24 hours in bed.”
“I don’t have any of those underlying conditions, I’m 42 years old. So you wouldn’t think, clinically, that I would be one of those people that would get so very ill,” Fair said, adding: “Those people that are young and think they’re invincible or people that just don’t think it’s going to affect them that greatly even if they do get it. I can say that my own experience was the complete opposite.”
“I was a very healthy person. I exercise five to six days a week,” he said. “If it can take me down, it can take down anybody.”
The only problem: Fair never had COVID-19, at least according to several test results.
“What Fair, Todd, and NBC News didn’t tell the audience is that before he made this claim, Fair had already tested negative for COVID-19 at least five times,” Inside Sources reports. “Fair followed that up with an antibody test to detect if he’d ever had the virus. The results were negative.”
“And now we know Dr. Fair never had coronavirus, despite nearly a dozen appearances on NBC and MSNBC where he talked about having it or recovering from it,” media watchdog Steve Krakauer writes in his Fourth Watch newsletter.

In the end, NBC’s viewers were left with two very alarming — and false — impressions. First, that an expert virologist can take every precaution but can still catch COVID-19 through his eyes. False. Second, that tests can be so untrustworthy that you can have multiple negative tests and still have coronavirus. [Today co-host] Craig Melvin described them as ‘false negative tests’ in that initial report on May 14. Hoda Kotb said, ‘every time it came back negative, but clearly you have it.’ False.

Fair took to Twitter last week to try to explain.
“My undiagnosed/suspected COVID illness from nearly 2 months ago remains an undiagnosed mystery as a recent antibody test was negative. I had myriad COVID symptoms, was hospitalized in a COVID ward & treated for COVID-related co-morbidities, despite testing negative by nasal swab,” he wrote in a post.
“I was severely ill for 2 weeks, 4 days of it in critical condition, resulting in pneumonia, diffuse lung injury & 18lbs of weight loss. My path forward is a 2nd AB test, & follow-up with a pulmonologist & tropical medicine specialist in an effort to diagnose what made me so ill,” he wrote.

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Fair enough jump on the bandwagon wear you mask with pride, I won't

Too afraid or too selfish
Be a Hero Wear a Mask

[slimslob]

Only if it is the correct type of mask which are worn mostly by medical professional and are not readily available to the general public. Those that are come from China and have already been found to be contaminated.
Also only if worn properly and proper distancing is maintained. It has been proven that even with a mask on that properly covers the nose moisture droplets from a sneeze still travel up to 6 feet.

Here is what the Mayo Clinic says about masks.

COVID-19: How much protection do face masks offer? - Mayo Clinic

The very first paragraph from the article you provided a link to. "Can face masks help prevent the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19? Yes, face masks combined with other preventive measures, such as frequent hand-washing and social distancing, help slow the spread of the virus." It mentioned social distancing. I mentioned distance distancing two days ago. Their final bullet point was "Don't use face masks as a substitute for social distancing." Again in keeping with what I had posted and have been posting for sometime on Facebook.

Overall a very good article, I shared it to Facebook. They covered the pluses and minuses of the various types of masks. I have seen elsewhere also that multiple layer home made masks might actually be best. A friends doctor advised her that to use 6 layers. I have also seen it said that cotton t shirt material works best but have not verified such. I like that they did in their first bullet point at the end mentioned proper wearing. "Place your mask over your mouth and nose." Far too many people I see on news reports and social media have the top of the mask below the bottom of their noses. It makes it easier for them to breath through their noses but stops absolutely nothing should they happen to sneeze.

Now one thing that they did not get into which only a few people seem to know is that if you go to a sit down restaurant for a meal, cloth masks also make an excellent beard bib.