CDC announcing possible new masking guidelines due to Delta variant

Sunny said:
Some of the advice we've been getting is totally unusable to the average person. How are we supposed to know what a "high transmission area" is? How much is "high?" They give no guidance, not even naming states, they just sound like we are expected to know the statistics about transmission.
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I think it is the color of the area on the map that CNN shows. Utah, the entire state,appears red so we are in high transmission area. Other states have various colors so I guess you need to lay close attention to figure it out. A lot of the ”red” political states are red virus states.

I suppose everyone must draw their own conclusions about the linkage between the two issues 😂.
 

Brookswood said:
OK, I admit the middle school comment was out of line. My apologies.

But, I do think anonymous sources are of little use in convincing others of anything.
My 2 cents.
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Perhaps you don't enjoy having good sources of information. Regarding the issue you took umbrage with, my source was spot on. This, is from yesterday's NY Post on the subject of why the CDC opted back in for masking.

It (the CDC) examined breakthrough infections in 100 Indian health-care workers and found higher viral loads in Delta infections compared with non-Delta infections, leading to increased transmission. But — some say crucially — this small study used an Indian version of the AstraZeneca vaccine which is not used in the US. It may have limited relevance to the mRNA vaccines used here.​
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As was suggested earlier, just stick to the MSM, be happy and try not to criticize those of us who have and rely on other sources. Sometimes our sources are really quite good. Also, as I said earlier, I wasn't trying to convince your or anyone else - just sharing what I'd learned.
 
Sunny said:
Some of the advice we've been getting is totally unusable to the average person. How are we supposed to know what a "high transmission area" is? How much is "high?" They give no guidance, not even naming states, they just sound like we are expected to know the statistics about transmission.
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Sadly, I must agree. The CDC continues to be so very general with their comments
 

chic said:
They are going to be required in NYC., LA. San Francisco, St. Louis, Savannah, and Provincetown which already has reinstated the mandate.
What is the motivation to get vaccinated if even the fully vaccinated are subject to the same restrictions.
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This is an interesting article on how N95 masks work. Needless to say it must be properly fitted. I have some N95 masks made in Switzerland and they are by far the easiest to securely fit.

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The COVID-19 virus itself is indeed smaller than the N95 filter size, but the virus always travels attached to larger particles that are consistently snared by the filter. And even if the particles were smaller than the N95 filter size, the erratic motion of particles that size and the electrostatic attraction generated by the mask means they would be consistently caught as well.
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“N95 have the worst filtration efficiency for particles around 0.3,” Marr said. “If you’re smaller than that those are actually collected even better. It’s counterintuitive because masks do not work like sieving out larger particles. It’s not like pasta in a colander, and small ones don’t get through.”

N95 masks actually have that name because they are 95% efficient at stopping particles in their least efficient particle size range — in this case those around 0.3 microns.
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