[bots]

Proper protection requires the mask to be moulded and shaped to your face, otherwise it wont be a perfect seal. Medical masks will probable be better than your average mask, but the intention of public mask wearing was always to protect others arounf you rather than yourself

[Crimson Dynamo]

its to stop water droplets from coughing and speaking

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

no, i see that on the boxes of the masks we got, protection up to 96%



still wearing a mask protects you more than no mask (i know you still need to be careful of course, but with a mask you are more protected for example in stores within crowded areas of that)

"up to" 96%, with 96% being when both you and the people you are in contact with are wearing the masks.

Yes obviously wearing a mask is better protection for yourself than not wearing one - but most of the protection is from the infected person wearing one.

The only way you'd get 90%+ protection for yourself would be wearing full PPE (medical mask, goggles, full body suit and gloves).

A lot of the rhetoric about masks being magical near-full protection is coming from the US and is a lie. If masks worked that well there would be no need for any distancing or lockdown.

[Tom4784]

Anti-maskers are scum.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

no it also protects yourself



some masks protect up to 94% and some others up to 96 or 97%

Not the wearer though as we understand anyways..unless you’re wearing the top range surgical masks

Also those figures look ridiculously optimistic given that there you can fit 1/4 million (250,000) Covid19 particles on a PIN head !!!

One microbiologist recently compared us wearing the normal cheap masks to closing the farm gates to keep an ant from walking through ...

( it won’t)


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[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

"up to" 96%, with 96% being when both you and the people you are in contact with are wearing the masks.

Yes obviously wearing a mask is better protection for yourself than not wearing one - but most of the protection is from the infected person wearing one.

The only way you'd get 90%+ protection for yourself would be wearing full PPE (medical mask, goggles, full body suit and gloves).

A lot of the rhetoric about masks being magical near-full protection is coming from the US and is a lie. If masks worked that well there would be no need for any distancing or lockdown.

you need masks, as well as social distancing and a lockdown, neither can work effectively without the other

yes you are correct about that, but these measures all help of course, so those nutjobs of anti-maskers need to keep their mouths shut, stay home and don't protest anymore what only wastes our time

[Dogeatdog]

Hope he gets some justice. The people that attacked him could’ve easily just explained why they were exempt (which I don’t think they were but is possible) from wearing a mask, there’s no justification for getting violent.