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Originally Posted by petegz28
I know you don't want to accept some facts but they are facts. Getting viruses through your ears (which open every time you swallow) and your eyes is not uncommon. And then as far as your precious mask...
"What we know about this disease is that there seems to be a lot of asymptomatic transmission going on," she said. "That’s coming from talking and breathing. Those are mostly smaller particles."
"Any filter that’s made out of woven material not designed to be a filter is not going to collect particles in an efficient way. It will collect larger ones with some efficiency but not smaller ones.
Brosseau said that infected individuals generate around 900 particles of the disease a minute when talking or breathing. Current theories, she explained, estimate that an individual needs about 1,000 particles to become infected by the virus.
"Cloth masks stop about 50 percent of particles," she said. "If it takes you two or three minutes to get an infectious dose, the mask may move the infection time up a little bit longer." The slight extension in the time it takes to become infected, she argued, would be insufficient to protect those in customer-facing service work like "retail, or someone driving a bus.""
All the mask is protecting you from is someone hacking all over you, imo.
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So even cloth masks help.
Got it.
And if you're social distancing like you're supposed to, even better.