Is someone a germaphobe if they wash their hands after using the bathroom?
Two men are taking a piss in a public restroom. One finishes first and with a smug look strolls over to the sinks. "My father was a surgeon," he says, "He taught me the proper way to wash my hands. You see, most people just get a quick lather with soap then carelessly rinse it off, but most people are fools. I know better. First I wait for the water to get hot and take off all my rings and watch. Then with lathered soap I scrub under each individual fingernail. I then watch the clock to time washing each individual finger on each side. This takes no less than two minutes. Then, with hands raised above my elbows so that dirty water doesn't slide down them, I scrub each of my arms. After I am fully scrubbed to within an inch of my elbows, I rinse. But I don't rinse carelessly of course. First I rinse my fingertips, making sure to keep them above my elbows when I do so. I then rinse down my hands and arms, never backtracking and being careful to never let water run down my arms towards my hands, for that would soil my hands and I would have to start from the beginning again. With this technique, I can be sure my hands are truly clean." The other man zips, smirks, and walks out of the room. "My father taught me not to piss on my hands."
Jokes aside, do you wash your hands normally like 99% of the public, or do you do the full surgeon scrub each time? Still wearing a mask in late 2023 is like the full surgeon scrub, most people don't bother with that.
I'm currently dating a 6th grade school teacher. She said when they returned to school with masks the kids were for sure more lethargic and even woozy more often than she had ever seen in her 10 years teaching. As masks were removed over time, it went away more and more.
There are lots of other explanations for that. For example, it could be confirmation bias. It could also be that a lot of the kids had long COVID and the effects are wearing off over time.
Makes sense, since we have zero proof of any real reason, let's go with the ones with even less obvious explanations.
Children and long covid? Children barely got covid in the first place... Long covid? In so many kids a teacher could notice? Give me a break.
"It absolutely reduces your ability to take it oxygen easily." This is absolutely false. There is very strong evidence that masks do not effect gas exchange. One example of many: https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/face-masks-may-inc... Masks do make your lung muscles work slightly harder, but there's nothing wrong with that.
This is only talking about low oxygen demand scenarios. "Each participant performed a six-minute walk test" I've personally tested (out of curiosity) bicycling performance while wearing a half-face respirator that's barely noticeable during walking. Both measured speed and subjective difficulty were severely affected during high intensity exercise.
It occurred to me that cycling primarily involves heart, lungs, and legs. You train all of them simultaneously, so they'll naturally have balanced performance. If you selectively impair one of the three, it will become a bottleneck. However, it seems to me that the lungs have the easiest job (e.g. cycling is easier than tasks like inflating balloons), so it should be possible to recover almost all the lost performance by training with the respirator on, bringing the lungs back into balance with the heart and legs.
This is only talking about low oxygen demand scenarios. "Each participant performed a six-minute walk test" I've personally tested (out of curiosity) bicycling performance while wearing a half-face respirator that's barely noticeable during walking. Both measured speed and subjective difficulty were severely affected during high intensity exercise.
It occurred to me that cycling primarily involves heart, lungs, and legs. You train all of them simultaneously, so they'll naturally have balanced performance. If you selectively impair one of the three, it will become a bottleneck. However, it seems to me that the lungs have the easiest job (e.g. cycling is easier than tasks like inflating balloons), so it should be possible to recover almost all the lost performanc…
What's the point of that when there's no need to wear a respirator in the first place?
It occurred to me that cycling primarily involves heart, lungs, and legs. You train all of them simultaneously, so they'll naturally have balanced performance. If you selectively impair one of the three, it will become a bottleneck. However, it seems to me that the lungs have the easiest job (e.g. cycling is easier than tasks like inflating balloons), so it should be possible to recover almost all the lost performanc…
What's the point of that when there's no need to wear a respirator in the first place?
The point is to acknowledge a limitation of my testing.
Right, and if you read the data they use to make this claim, you see that it supports the fact that vaccinated shed as much as unvaccinated. If you restrict your claim to "vaccinated don't get severe symptoms, and therefore don't have the highest shedding," I agree with you. What you cannot claim, is that vaccinated shed less. At the 95% CI of the data, vaccinated is actually higher for the sample size they have here…
Bonjour. It is clear the proverbial horse does not want water.
Am I misstating the data? Which literally shows more virus exhaled by 95% of all vaccinated versus 95% of unvaccinated?
And where do they state that vaccinated exhale less than unvaccinated? Specifically, where do they say that? They show the total range of exhaled values is larger for unvaccinated, but the 95% range is higher for vaccinated.
It looks dangerously like you are forcing the reading for what you want the truth to be. Not for what the data supports. Note that i want that same value for the truth. I just don't see the data supporting it. And the paper seems to agree, as they are not making as strong of a claim as you are.
Very few people are dying of COVID-19 anymore. There's no valid reason to change human culture and social behavior just because we now have five endemic coronaviruses instead of four.
I’m not sure why you think this. It’s on track to kill another 200K people this year. Before it’s emergence, this would’ve been considered quite bad for any other disease: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_totaldeaths...
It's on track to kill 200 thousand people this year in the United States alone. It's likely that millions will die this year worldwide, and tens of millions will become disabled to some extent by long covid. The usual response is "this is a small number compared to the total population," but it's still millions upon millions of people. Health care systems around the world are already stretched thin, and the increased burden caused by covid will only make things worse.
I know a guy who still wears a half-face respirator every time he's in public even for just a second. I think at this rate he'll be wearing it for the rest of his life, unable to accept a new level of risk and move on with his life. I'd like to help him but I see no possible way, he's convinced that I and 99% of the rest of the public are suicidally insane like people who play literal russian roulette.
There is no living with it. None. There's no immunity. Only continued sickness and damage. Masking is a protection to help stop the spread and if you are not helping, you're in the way of us trying to live without it.
There is immunity in the sense of "the body is able to mount an immune response due to previous exposure." Early claims of immunity to infection didn't pan out, especially post-Delta. There are benefits to having immunity, but I believe they are often overstated. (I say this as someone who is currently wearing an N95 respirator around others 100% of the time, including around my partner and family).
Is someone a germaphobe if they wash their hands after using the bathroom?
Two men are taking a piss in a public restroom. One finishes first and with a smug look strolls over to the sinks. "My father was a surgeon," he says, "He taught me the proper way to wash my hands. You see, most people just get a quick lather with soap then carelessly rinse it off, but most people are fools. I know better. First I wait for the water to get hot and take off all my rings and watch. Then with lathered s…
Perhaps most men don't actually scrub. Which is always gross to think about.
I’m not sure why you think this. It’s on track to kill another 200K people this year. Before it’s emergence, this would’ve been considered quite bad for any other disease: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_totaldeaths...
It's on track to kill 200 thousand people this year in the United States alone. It's likely that millions will die this year worldwide, and tens of millions will become disabled to some extent by long covid. The usual response is "this is a small number compared to the total population," but it's still millions upon millions of people. Health care systems around the world are already stretched thin, and the increased…
Completely agree. Compared to the response to other diseases that have killed far fewer people, its quite wild how much this has been normalized.