Tell me again why we're all wearing masks?

squatting dog said:
Apparently from what I could glean from different articles, wearing it for prolonged periods of time was instead of exhaling your own bacteria, it was tapping it and allowing it to enter your airway and thereby infecting your own airway. Here's one snippet I found.

The bacterial count on the surface of surgical masks increased with extended wearing times; significant difference was found between the 4- to 6-hour and 0-hour to 2-hour groups, with the bacterial counts showing a significant increase in the 2-hours group.
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The problem with the question about whether face masks are bad for "the healthy" is that we don't know who "the healthy" are! Since the disease apparently is spread by lots of people with no symptoms (but who still have the disease), anyone in that category walking around without a face mask is probably spreading the disease to umpteen other people.
 
To all that refuse to wear masks take a look at the new numbers for new cases. Those new cases fill hospital beds so other people requiring hospital beds are refused treatment. I would like to have a colonoscopy but cannot get in our hospitals because new cases are rising weekly where I live.
 

fmdog44 said:
To all that refuse to wear masks take a look at the new numbers for new cases. Those new cases fill hospital beds so other people requiring hospital beds are refused treatment. I would like to have a colonoscopy but cannot get in our hospitals because new cases are rising weekly where I live.
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Yes. The only reason you're not getting your colonoscopy is because people refuse to wear masks.
 
win231 said:
Yes. The only reason you're not getting your colonoscopy is because people refuse to wear masks.
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We can get colonoscopies here, but I refuse to get one. Never again! 😂. The cases are rising in our state and the deaths as people pretend things are back to normal and go out, for the most part, without masks. We are at 12,066 and 121 deaths.

This not include our American Indian population who live on the reservations. Since they are on federal land, technically, they are not included in our totals. But they have been hard hit by the virus.
 
Sunny said:
The problem with the question about whether face masks are bad for "the healthy" is that we don't know who "the healthy" are! Since the disease apparently is spread by lots of people with no symptoms (but who still have the disease), anyone in that category walking around without a face mask is probably spreading the disease to umpteen other people.
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Correct. The wearing of the mask is not to protect the wearer. It is to protect others in the event the wearer is asymptomatic IOW has the disease and is contagious but is unaware of it and shows no symptoms. The mask is an attempt to keep people's own germs from spreading.

Until more facts are nailed down about this virus, anyone not wearing a mask when around others is showing blatant disregard for the safety of all.
 
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Can anyone come up with a better reason for the recent spikes in new cases other than lack of social distancing and lack of masks since Memorial Day, the reopening of businesses and mass protests by only a portion of the people earing masks? "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature."
 
asp3 said:
Once again, the WHO official who reported that asymptomatic spreading was rare has walked back from that position. According to the report in the NY Times scientists at other organizations objected to her statement and provided a link to another widely cited paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0869-5 published in April that estimated that 44% of new infections were from asymptomatic people.

I agree that that was April and we're in June now, so things may have changed. However with the walk back by the official I'll be waiting for more reports before relaxing my efforts to improve my chances of not spreading it and not getting it.

Science is often an iterative process and I myself am not bothered by statements which contradict previous statements. It's all part of the way we gain knowledge about new things and situations.
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What? I can’t even pronounce iterative for Alexa to find out what it’s definition is. God Lord, man, speak English. 😂
 
Aneeda72 said:
What? I can’t even pronounce iterative for Alexa to find out what it’s definition is. God Lord, man, speak English. 😂
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Sorry, I'm one of those mask wearing, coastal elites. The term was part of my schooling and work since I am a computer person.

The definitions I found online seem a bit focused on mathematical processes. However it means working with the information previously found (through computation in a mathematical process, but through the results of experimentation or investigation in a scientific process) and continuing to come up with closer approximations for a solution or result.

So to me it means that science is the process of learning new things and taking what we've learned to better be able to describe or define something or to more completely describe something.

For me when talking about Covid-19 we have to take what we know about viruses in general and the Covid-19 specifically to determine what we feel is a prudent response for ourselves and where we have a say for society in general, locally, state wide and nationally.
 
asp3 said:
Sorry, I'm one of those mask wearing, coastal elites. The term was part of my schooling and work since I am a computer person.

The definitions I found online seem a bit focused on mathematical processes. However it means working with the information previously found (through computation in a mathematical process, but through the results of experimentation or investigation in a scientific process) and continuing to come up with closer approximations for a solution or result.

So to me it means that science is the process of learning new things and taking what we've learned to better be able to describe or define something or to more completely describe something.

For me when talking about Covid-19 we have to take what we know about viruses in general and the Covid-19 specifically to determine what we feel is a prudent response for ourselves and where we have a say for society in general, locally, state wide and nationally.
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