Leftists believe masks are magic, because masks hide their craven physiognomy. Rightists believe masks don't work, because manly courage disdains a muzzle. Both are wrong, which helps perpetuate the eternal conflict by which the oligarchy prospers.
Masks work, physically. That is why your breath feels hot and damp on your face. That is why CO2 level rises when wearing one. Less of your hot breath and fewer of your hot germs reach your neighbor. This reduces r0, in theory.
In practice, masks are ineffective in Western countries but effective in authoritarian East Asian countries (AEACs).
Why are masks effective in AEACs?
- Short East Asian nose and flat face makes disposable surgical mask comfortable.
- Masks slow spread, improving effectiveness of contact tracing and quarantine in dense urban environments.
- Ethnic homogeneity and high compliance.
In general, COVID19 has less impact on East Asians for several reasons, such as:
- China's COVID19 vaccine is far less harmful than Western mRNA pseudo-vaccines.
- Better diet and less obesity.
- Variants before Omicron targeted Ashkenazi and East Asian ACE2 receptors least.
Thus it is feasible for China to actually prevent entire COVID19 variants from sweeping to natural herd immunity. This has benefits, especially for the elderly, since COVID19 can cause long-term organ damage. The leadership of the CCP just happens to be elderly.
(COVID19 is a minor problem in Southeast Asian countries, due to abundant sunshine and ubiquitous Ivermectin. Same for Africa.)
However, masks are ineffective in white countries:
- Large noses make surgical masks less comfortable.
- Pre-Omicron COVID19 targets white ACE2 receptors.
- Low compliance and ethnic heterogeneity render preventing variant sweep impossible.
- Compromised immune response due to harmful mRNA vaccines.
Rightists are correct about some of the harms of masking:
- In practice, your mouth is a festering rotten hole in your head, and making that worse is a very bad idea.
- We are already breathing too much CO2 thanks to fossil fuels, and it is making us dumber.
- Reducing social transparency via masking favors Communist bugmen and damages children.
Rightists believe masks are bad because they don't block all the germs. Actually, the worst thing about masks is that they wipe out the benign respiratory viruses. These are the colds that only make us a little bit sick. Our immune system is well-adapted to fight them. They don't do much damage. They've been with us longer than civilization, always evolving new variants but never achieving more than killing a few elderly.
However, since the body's defense against respiratory infection is broad-spectrum, these benign infections actually defend us against threats such as COVID19. We develop partial immunity via recent infection with other coronaviruses.
Because their r0 is lower, these benign viruses get wiped out first by masks. This leaves the population suddenly vulnerable to high r0 virii such as COVID19. If the population is further immune-compromised by a faulty-vaccine that prevents natural herd immunity, then suddenly COVID19 becomes a persistent bioweapon capable of crippling economies, instead of just another Swine Flu or SARS.
It's almost like somebody tried this a few times before getting it right. Someone who believes depopulation and emissions reduction are moral imperatives, for example. Someone who's been using vaccines to sterilize 3rd world populations. I'll call this hypothetical mystery man Brill Yates, inventor of the reliable government spyware Wicrosoft Mindows. Wouldn't it be wild if his wife divorced him for being friends with Effrey Jepstein?
Crazy sci fi story there. I'd call it, "Culling Idiocracy: My life as the world's foremost antivirus and virus salesman."
Anyway, when I need to wear a mask, I just pull up my neck gaiter, which conveniently also conceals my identity from CCTV should I need to engage in criminal activities such as misgendering a peeping tom or preemptive self defense. Whether I leave my nose out depends on what I think I can get away with. Once I'm too many paces away to be worth yelling at, I pop my noble beak back out into God's beautiful atmosphere.
The funniest way to deal with deranged maskers is to pretend you can't understand what they're saying. "What?" Then they have to yell while choking on their exhaust.
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crashdaddy
preemptive self defense
This is the kind of legal expertise that could get a sodomy charge reduced to "following too closely."
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What's a molecule?
FishyMan420
Cloth masks do not stop the tiny aerosol particles that contain viruses including covid. Carbon dioxide is bigger, and more numerous when exhaling, which is why that so obviously builds up.
Your statement is ignorant of basic physics. CO2 is a gas. H2O is a liquid. Liquid droplets are vastly larger than gas molecules.
A CO2 molecule is 0.33nm diameter. When we speak we produce droplets between 20 and 2000µm (micrometers) in diameter. Note that a micrometer is a thousand times larger than a nanometer!
Small particles do not fly straight through materials, but instead follow brownian motion, resulting in them coming in contact with a material even when the material weave is larger than the particle.
There are more errors, but basically you should refrain from thinking about this subject.
Only in some stupid and well-paid "theory". In theory that span only on tiny part of whole process and does not account tons of additional factors that involved in whole process. It's like having a thorougly paid theory that stones definitely could levitate based on tiny part of throwing stones process. "Hey, look, at that milliseconds that stone definitely don't change its height in clear air without any support! You see? Stones could levitate!"
What happen after a droplet with pathogen stick to mask fabric fiber? What happen when that droplet continuously blow in and out during breathing? What happen when pathogens released from masks of others and traveling with dust or fog stick to the wet fibers of mask fabric? What happens if human instead of venting down all pathogens, it already get rid of, will breath good part of them back? How many bacteria will eventually stick to wet mask fibers and what will be their grow rate in that warm and wet bacteria paradise? Why you concerned about CO2 concentration which is not very important for humans that breath out 40000ppm, 100 times more than in atmosphere, but completely omit oxygen deprivation (even 1.5% lower level is already at minimum allowed level - 19,5%, at least by Russian stadards) humans very sensitive to?
And so on.
Your point about restricted natural microbiota is not valid too - that microbiota perfectly stick to wet mask and finally find its way into human body, possibly in highly increased amount due to perfect for grow conditions.
Wearing masks "to protect others" in crowded places is literally like licking your own pee from the dirty bar toilet floor.
Masks can't work as was lied to public by coronahoax perpetrators. Not even in theory. The only purpose of surgical mask is to keep the surgeon's spit and snot from accidental falling into open incision during surgery and that's all. There can't be any other purpose of surgical mask.