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Not that this will settle anything. Anecdotally, I've not gotten even a slight cold while being socially distanced while consistently masked.
My 2yo would like to sneeze on you and flip that anecdote on its head.
To the parent comment's point though, I haven’t had any colds in the last year where my daughter wasn’t sick first
Not that this will settle anything. Anecdotally, I've not gotten even a slight cold while being socially distanced while consistently masked.
My 2yo would like to sneeze on you and flip that anecdote on its head.
>Surgical masks with particle collection efficiencies around ~50% cannot prevent the release of millions of particles per person and their inhalation by others (green dots in Fig. 1, B and D). In other words, the human-emitted respiratory particle number is so high that we cannot avoid inhaling particles generated by another person even when wearing a surgical mask So the entire premise of the modeling in the paper r…
I’m a software engineer, I work scientifically, but I don’t own the truth. I own the thought process which works on top of assumptions. But I don’t want my own work to feel like magic, and to avoid that, I observe and try to understand it. But at the end of the day I have to say: „I assume that my program is bug free because I have observed many test runs in which the program behaved correctly. I belief it will work well at the customer.
Same has to be said for above study. Otherwise we wouldn’t find studies which even claim the opposite. These other studies are just based on different assumptions and belief systems.
Not that this will settle anything. Anecdotally, I've not gotten even a slight cold while being socially distanced while consistently masked.
anecdotally, I have very little social contact normally anyway, I've worked from home since before winter, and always wear masks in closed public spaces - have had 3-4 colds in that time. I do have kids though.
like take a piece of paper in front of your face and breath with mask and without
In Australia we were very lucky with the COVID situation. And purely annecdotal, but I know many people who haven't been sick at all during the pandemic. But as we approach winter here and perhaps no longer hand sanitize appropriately, many of these people are becoming "the most unwell [they] have been in years".
I wish the media and government would have spent more time in educating people in things like how N95 masks work and that it isn't like a coffee filter. Even thought the pores are larger than a virus the masks are statically charged causes smaller things to get trapped. Many people don't know this but probably had an interaction with static electricity sometime in school and would understand it if someone explained it. Instead people get put in a bucket and no dialog is possible.
Education is key to understanding. You can't reach everyone most.
>Surgical masks with particle collection efficiencies around ~50% cannot prevent the release of millions of particles per person and their inhalation by others (green dots in Fig. 1, B and D). In other words, the human-emitted respiratory particle number is so high that we cannot avoid inhaling particles generated by another person even when wearing a surgical mask So the entire premise of the modeling in the paper r…
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/30/science/wear-...
N95/FFP2 seem to be very effective. I wish the media and government would have spent more time in educating people in things like how N95 masks work and that it isn't like a coffee filter. Even thought the pores are larger than a virus the masks are statically charged causes smaller things to get trapped. Many people don't know this but probably had an interaction with static electricity sometime in school and would…