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Koen:
Macron has always been vocal for a more integrated, more involved, more cooperating EU and this was a brutal "fuck you we got ours". Here's a french article on its reception by EU : https://www.europe1.fr/international/coronavirus-les-masques-de-protection-sement-la-discorde-a-bruxelles-3953847
jogri:

--- Quote from: james_s on March 24, 2020, 07:26:02 pm ---The mask craze is stupid anyway, wearing a mask may offer some marginal degree of prevention from spreading the disease if the wearer is already sick, but it's unlikely to protect you from others. From the perspective of something the size of a virus is a mesh of gigantic gaping holes.

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Kinda true, but since the virus doesn't appear as individual strains of RNA but inside of small droplets/mist from someone coughing/sneezing the particles a mask has to stop are a lot bigger than just a bunch of RNA. FFP2/3 masks do a good job of holding back an aerosol, they have to be capable of holding back 94/99% of particles bigger than 600nm (a virus is roughly 1-400nm big). Btw, such a mask will be quite terrible if its wearer has the virus as almost all of those masks have outlet valves without filters.
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