In hindsight, the mask mandate was better than the faulty lockdowns. But it has been just as inconsistent, and the fact that people are using masks designed for surgery or masks that don't meet any medical standard presents another glaring problem.
If the virus sits in the air for hours these homemade masks are useless. I read something along the lines of within minutes the mask is reduced to being ineffective. Because so much completely unfiltered air gets in.
It would depend on the size of the particle. For something that is an airborne droplet, I would think a surgical mask is about as effective as a condom is at preventing pregnancy.
so you would reduce your chances of breathing something that remained in the air by about 70%.
you would reduce the chance of breathing it into the air if you were sick or symptomatic by a higher percentage. Maybe 90%.
a 70% reduction in new cases contracted by breathing air that still contains the virus, would mean seeing new cases drop to about 25% of what they were.
increasing the rate of new droplets into the Air at 10% by the group wearing the masks who were positive would further reduce the risk of contracting the virus by breathing it in the air.
it would still take around 6 weeks for these numbers to get to zero, but in theory it wouldn’t require a lockdown like we have. Except for stuff that requires water. Summer is coming and it is getting hot and this whole thing has basically ruined water stuff in the summer.
it would seem that people smarter than me and making more money than me could have reasonably seen something like this sooner.
It has all been going by so fast, but somehow I remembered the articles from March about how long this stays in the air and started connecting dots. I think we could be much further along in this whole process because no matter how you look at it, this idea of herd immunity means more deaths. It doesn’t matter if the percentage is comparable with the flu or not.
there is a direct correlation to the number of positive cases per million to a higher number of deaths per million. So ideally, we would have had a smarter way to isolate this, but like I said in this thread before. We are not really as advanced technologically as we make it seem in a place that talks about ai, transhumanist whatever. there is a connection between this and the way we have responded.
or the way we were dependent on the response of our “leaders”. There are many angles to look at what our true level of technology is at the moment I guess.
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