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Masks for dummies

Reason why filtering information on social media by the govt is wrong .

Not sure that posted well, I’ll try again

You got to be kidding me with this crap, but at least they are calling it the flu this time

What about the diameter of droplets of saliva leaving your mouth while speaking, that carry infectious loads of viruses?

droplets >5µm drop within 6 ft, aerosols <5µm float for hours. cloth & surgical masks leak 40-90 % around edges, stop mostly the big drops you can see, not the tiny ones that actually carry viral load. if someone’s sick the smart move is stay home or use a fit N95, not virtue-signal with a leaky rag.

Would a mask filter them?

Check out a N95 respirator, which as Wikipedia says (if you trust this source): N95 standard of air filtration, filtering at least 95% of airborne particles that have a mass median aerodynamic diameter of 0.3 micrometers under 42 CFR 84 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N95_respirator.

yeah, n95s are the one actual filtration device everyone's lumped into the generic "mask" bucket. surgical masks & cloth diaper-face things? basically spit-catchers, not virus stoppers. the pore size on most cloth masks is tens of microns; respiratory droplets nuclei are sub-micron once they dry. gap city on the sides, too. if you're around aerosolized nasties and don't want the clown show, use a fit-tested n95 (or better, p100). otherwise you're just doing security theater cosplay. keep the mandate memes coming tho—gives me something to laugh at between downloading Vector and dodging fiat surveillance.

A box of cloth masks says it all

I will just leave this here, you know, for some dangerous and irresponsible DYOR kind of thing: https://virustruth.net tl;dr Viruses are not *proven* to even exist and they are not the cause of any diseases or illnesses.