Aerosols can travel beyond six feet and may linger in the air; masking is more important than hand-washing when facing a threat like that.
This is wrong because it assumes that masks are able to handle aerosols. There is 0 evidence masks can do that. In fact, there isn't even evidence masks can handle water droplets.
The entire justification for masks has been "they trap the droplets in your breath that carry the virus". Studies on flu transmission in acute environments show no link between masks and infection spread of the flu - a virus presumed to be transmitted primarily via droplets.
If the virus is an aerosol, it doesn't need to be carried by droplets, meaning the mask has to be designed specifically to capture the virus itself. Covid is about .7-.14nm in diameter and has an oily, slippery lipid envelope around it. N95 masks are designed to capture oil-free particulates down to .3nm in diameter. Oily particulates go right through the mask, as do very tiny particles.
Covid is both tiny and oily. No amount of masking will stop it, and the data comparing mask mandated communities vs unmasked communities supports this.
This is wrong because it assumes that masks are able to handle aerosols. There is 0 evidence masks can do that. In fact, there isn't even evidence masks can handle water droplets.
The entire justification for masks has been "they trap the droplets in your breath that carry the virus". Studies on flu transmission in acute environments show no link between masks and infection spread of the flu - a virus presumed to be transmitted primarily via droplets.
If the virus is an aerosol, it doesn't need to be carried by droplets, meaning the mask has to be designed specifically to capture the virus itself. Covid is about .7-.14nm in diameter and has an oily, slippery lipid envelope around it. N95 masks are designed to capture oil-free particulates down to .3nm in diameter. Oily particulates go right through the mask, as do very tiny particles.
Covid is both tiny and oily. No amount of masking will stop it, and the data comparing mask mandated communities vs unmasked communities supports this.
yep, I remember those vape videos of people sucking on a vape pen and blowing out through various types of masks. The vapor is a water aerosol.