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Re:Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced ... by swader999 on Thursday August 26, 2021 @01:45AM (#28311139)
Masks are a bad joke. Respirators are the only thing that work with aerosol size particles and covid is well below the size that aerosols are classed at. See Edwards et al 2/23/2021 (figure 4.) for a start. Go and read the package insert on an N95 mask (the weakest kind of respirator), it warns they are not suitable for asbestos particles which are many times larger than the covid virus. Masks leak because they are impossible to seal, they don't do anything beneficial. The infection rates in schools in Florida where some were under mask mandates and others were not were identical and tracked the general community rates.
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Re:Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced ... by PaulDavisThe1st on Saturday August 28, 2021 @06:48PM (#28342222)
Congratulations on being another vector for misinformation.

It has never been the case that anyone suggested that N95 masks could stop the passage of naked SARS-COV-2 particles.

However, when ejected from the respiratory passages during breathing, coughing, sneezing, the viral particles are not naked, but bound into much larger particles comprised mostly of bodily fluids. N95 masks do a stellar job of preventing the passage of such particles. Yes, edge sealing is an issue, but it is completely incorrect to claim that as a result "they don't do anything beneficial". Citing a single statistic from schools in Florida is not a legitimate way of overturning worldwide, vast-N studies that support the efficacy of mask wearing.

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Re:Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced ... by distantaidenn on Thursday August 26, 2021 @02:58AM (#28311512)
In general, would you rather a person open sneezed at you with or without a mask?
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Re:Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced ... by swader999 on Thursday August 26, 2021 @08:53AM (#28314294)
In my entire life, no one has directly sneezed on me except for my own kids when they were little. I'd rather they cover with their elbow than us all wear a mask.

If they are covid infectious, I've already inhaled their particles before they sneezed if we were both wearing surgical masks. See that study I referenced.

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Re:Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced ... by PaulDavisThe1st on Saturday August 28, 2021 @06:49PM (#28342229)
You should watch some of those clever (thermal?) imaging videos of what happens when people sneeze when using various kinds of coverings (or none at all).

The aerosol spray from even an elbow-covered sneezed is something to behold.

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