Covid & Face Masks at VP

This opinion baffles me. It doesn't matter what other people do. You do what you feel you need to do to protect yourself, whether that be getting double jabbed or wearing a face covering. If you feel you need to do those things to protect yourself and do them then surely you should feel safe and secure? If you chose to believe the things you read in the media then that is your choice. If you are scared of other people, again, your choice.

95% of the face coverings worn do NOTHING to protect from the virus, even the triple layered ones are pointless. If you need a comfort blanket to go to the game then fair enough. It's not selfish to decide not to wear a face covering when a non mask wearer is no more of a threat to others than a mask wearer.

And before you start quoting the BS online, I worked in a laboratory for 3 years, dealing with nano particles, harmful chemicals, carcinogens etc. I wore a mask or respirator everyday. I used analytical machines that measured particle size. I know how small the virus particles are and believe me, a bit of cloth over your mouth and nose will do nothing to protect you or others.

 

Masks clearly do a great job if you've warn a mask but have still caught it.

The smallest holes in a triple layered fabric mask are still over 100 times bigger than the largest measured covid virus particle, but yeah carry on believing they give protection.

As I've said plenty of times before, they give the illusion of safety. People believe they are safer when wearing one but in reality they are nothing more than a comfort blanket. It's more about perception than actual safety.

 

You believed wearing a mask was protecting you when clearly that wasn't the case was it, because you've got it. Or am I missing something here?

I'll believe what I learned during my time working with nano particles, my training using a scanning electron microscope, the major health and safety lectures I attended regarding safety in the laboratory, using fume hoods when N95 masks weren't enough (due to particles being too small) etc. and you keep believing the bullshit science peddled to you that a bit of cloth over your face will protect you from a virus (despite you yourself contracting the virus while wearing said cloth).

No conspiracy here, just cold hard facts and experience.

 

He said he wore a mask....

 

Ah ok. So everyone has to wear one for them to work then? One on it's own isn't enough but when two are in the same vicinity of each there they become incredible covid shields, a superpower like when Eric eats a banana.

He may well have caught it from another mask wearer at school for all the use they are, of course he won't believe that for a second because masks are effective at preventing infection apparently.

Not a pop at you storck, I just find it baffling how people can think a bit of fabric protects them from a tiny virus.

 

This 'science' is flawed in so many ways. It is true that masks will prevent droplets from escaping, but the droplets are so dense that a non mask wearer would have to be centimetres away from someone else for them to be infected because the droplets are so big they don't hang around in the air they fall straight to the ground.

The 'science' suddenly changed about half way through last year. At the start of the pandemic we heard countless Government scientists saying face coverings weren't the answer, they weren't effective etc. etc. Then suddenly they work and we should all be wearing them.

The masks didn't change, the actual science didn't change. What changed was the pandemic was getting out of control and the government's had to be seen to be doing something. Suddenly, masks were the answer. Yet if you look at the figures, wearing of masks did nothing to prevent infections increasing, only lockdown did that.