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Covid 19 virus
paulca:
If you have the virus or symptoms mask or not stay the fuck home and away from others. It's not rocket science.
Do we need governments to declare marshal law and arrest people for being morons?
GlennSprigg:
--- Quote from: imo on March 17, 2020, 12:47:34 pm ---Wearing masks (even DIY) is absolutely essential !!!
Who is saying it is not is an idiot !!!
https://fastlifehacks.com/n95-vs-ffp/
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It makes me chuckle when everyone wears masks. Like a surgeon operating on someone, the mask stops them breathing ON to the patient/surgical-opening, not the other way around. Unless it is a 'specialized' mask, that virtually hermetically seals around the wearers nose/mouth, they are breathing in general 'air' all around the masks edges!!.... but I guess it's better than nothing...
MY MAIN reason for commenting here though, is that I'm sure I've missed a lot of points in the last 17 pages, but WHY was/is Italy hit so hard??? It seems disproportionate regarding the vast number of deaths there, compared to the rest of the world?? Were they totally UN-prepared, didn't take it serious, didn't have the resources??? I don't understand!!
iMo:
The attitude changes from day to day (an EU capitol city here).
A week back people where watching others with masks with a suspicion ("OMG, are they infected??")
I've just returned from shopping (groceries full of people and goods, incl TP) and I've seen maybe 2 people not wearing masks. Interestingly many were wearing gloves as well.
PS: you are required to wear a mask when entering a bus, train, tram here, btw.
-gb-:
--- Quote ---If you have the virus or symptoms mask or not stay the fuck home and away from others. It's not rocket science.
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It seems you don't understand.
Corona has a very long incubation time and even after this incubation time many people with corona don't feel ill. So there are many people who don't knot that they are transmitting the virus because they CAN'T know.
The ill corona pations are not transmitting because they stay at home or are in hospital. It is EXACTLY the people who feel fine but are infected who are transmitting the virus.
The sould wear masks of course and to archive that, EVERYONE has to wear a mask. ever if it is selfbuilt. Because if everyone wears the mask, then automatically everyone who is feeling goot but is actually infected would also wear the mask.
so wear the mask, even if you feel good because you cannot know that you are not infected. behave as if you were infected.
-gb-:
--- Quote ---Like a surgeon operating on someone, the mask stops them breathing ON to the patient/surgical-opening, not the other way around.
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Exactly this is why everyone should wear the mask. you should not wear the mask for your own protection, but because you might be infected. with corona you cannot know that you are currently not infected and transmitting, even if you feel good. so wear the mask to protect others from you.
--- Quote ---PS: you are required to wear a mask when entering a bus, train, tram here, btw.
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Not here in southern germany. and not in the US.
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