Maggie's Farm

Mostly worthless! It was a case of lies, damned lies and statistics. Statistically a mask might prevent transmission of 8% of viruses. So to say it helps a little is true but meaningless. Because 92% of the virus gets through and you need far less than 1% perhaps less than .001% of the virus to get infected. so the mask is statistically mostly worthless but in fact totally worthless. But it gets worse. The mask becomes a petri dish for any and all viruses and germs that get caught in it either on the way to your lungs or on the way out of your lungs and there it sits in a warm moist environment waiting for you to touch it to spread it to others. So not only is the mask a totally useless artifact it is a dangerous tool in the spreading of disease. Touch your mask then touch your child or octogenarian parents and you pass on the diseases.

I actually believe that you think you are correct. So I doubt you would listen to anything that doesn't confirm your beliefs.

It takes only 8-15 Virus inhaled to become infected. When an infected person coughs, sneezes or exhales they can eject millions and tens of millions of virus. 001% of ten million virus is 100 far more than the 8-15 required to become infected. So you were wrong again.

"A cloth mask will stop about 25% of aerosols and most droplets."

If you are wearing a cloth or paper mask most of the exhaled or coughed virus, bacteria, air, etc. is ejected out the sides and does not go through the mask. Cloth masks don't work even when worn as effectively as possible and definitely not when worn as most people were them. I was being generous when I gave them an 8% effectiveness. N-95 masks are "supposed" to stop 95% of bacteria and virus but even when worn exactly as they should be (fitted and taped) their effectiveness as tested is in the 80'% range. But you can easily see that does not matter because 5-15% escapes which is still in the millions of viruses which statistically is hundreds of thousands of times more than you require to become infected.

Masks don't work. Their greatest accomplishment is that they capture some of the larger droplets and quickly become medical waste and highly infectious. There is zero doubt of this in the medical community. Ask any health care worker to enter into an ebola quarantine room with nothing more than a cloth mask and the best you could hope for would be a polite "go to hell". They do not work. You can make claims about 8% or 25% or even 95% all you want and they still don't work. The mask manufacturers will tell you they are ineffective against virus and they even print that on the box. In fact wearing garlic around your neck would be more effective.

"When you must mix, keep social distance and wear a mask. Of course, if you can, you should get vaccinated."

Six feet doesn't work. You have to be stupid to believe that.
the mask doesn't work. Recent events have shown that the vaccine doesn't work. In Israel today 80% of the sickest hospitalized covid patiens have had 3 jabs. At this point covid is a pandemic of the vaccinated.