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-gb-:
Hello and greetings from germany. I want to share  one thing which i think is important and is not understood in europe.

Here the Media and politics say: Don't wear the Mask, the mask doesn't protect you. only wear the mask if you are infected.

Yes, right, the mask doesn't protect you if you are not infected. But, the mask, even cheap and selfbuilt masks, protect others if you are infected and wear it.

But corona is transmitted absolutely mostly by peaple who do NOT feel sick and don't think they are infected. So they don't wear the mask.

But wehen everybody has to wear the mask, then automatically all those infected peaple who cannot know thar they are infected, would also wear the mask.

I think this is THE main difference between the west and asian countries like china and southkorea.

So wear the mask, even if you feel good, because you cannot know if you are transmitting the virus or not. You don't wear the mask to protect you, but to protect everyone else in case you are infected. So everyone should wear the mask.

And change the mask regularly. When you wake up, build yourself 5 or so Masks from kitchen roll paper and use the masks during the day. use them when you are with other people. and flush used masks in the toilette. (just the paper, not the string).

Just do it! Thank you! Sarry for my bad english. Stay well.

paulca:
Leave the masks for those people that need them most.  They are in seriously finite supply.

Best advice to sum what you should do up is this:

If you want to slow the spread of the virus you have to act as if you already have it.

-gb-:

--- Quote ---Leave the masks for those people that need them most.  They are in seriously finite supply.
--- End quote ---

Yes, build your own masks. The mask is not to protect you, so you don't need good expensive masks. Selfbuilt masks will protect others relatively good if you are infected and wear them.


--- Quote ---If you want to slow the spread of the virus you have to act as if you already have it.
--- End quote ---

Exactly! So ... wear the mask as everyone sould do who is infected. Wear selfbuilt masks like the people in china and southkorea are doing.

iMo:
Wearing masks (even DIY) is absolutely essential !!!
Who is saying it is not is an idiot !!!

https://fastlifehacks.com/n95-vs-ffp/

PS: an absolutely primitive DIY mask has an effectiveness (to stop droplets) of about 25%.
That is a pretty good number when talking statistics of random processes..

-gb-:
Here in Europe and in the US they are saying you shouldn't wear the mask because they will not PROTECT YOU.

It is NOT about protecting YOU. it is for protecting ALL OTHERS if you were infected.

Yes, there is a shortage. so build your own masks.

Please: Share the information, this thought.

Sidenote, why do you have a very good mask for protecting YOUSELF, but a selfbuild will be good enought to protect others from you?

If you want to protect yourself, you want the mask to filter out very tiny droplets with the virus. and you breath normal. Norman breathing is slow. so if the mask is not perfectly tight at the edges, the air gets sucked around the filter and with the air the droplets.

But if you are ill and cough and sneeze, you droplets get shot out very fast. not around your cheap selfbuilt mask, even if there is an airgap at the sides. the droplets get shot in the paperfilter from kitchenroll and get not in the air.

So build you masks. they are good to protect others from you. Behave as if you were infected even if you feel good.

Sidenote2:
I think there might be a mental difference between people in europe and asia. Here the society is very selfish. I think people don't want to wear the mask if it is not fro there own protection. In asia the society seems to me as a german very less egoistic but the whole people is more important. so the asien men/women is more likely to wear the mask because of the greater good to protect society.
This is just my feeling from germany where people still shake hands with the words "i don't feel ill, how likely can it be that I am infected?" But corona is exactly spread by this group of people. People who feel goot but are infected because they
a) are in the incubation phase or
b) have a very mild corona.

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