Fauci really isn't to be trusted for a bunch of reasons, but he eventually claimed that he advised against masks for the general public in order to save them for healthcare workers, since there was little value in healthy people wearing them. Which itself seems like quite a reasonable position, with a few key adjustments. Do you deny tha…
Fauci really isn't to be trusted for a bunch of reasons, but he eventually claimed that he advised against masks for the general public in order to save them for healthcare workers, since there was little value in healthy people wearing them. Which itself seems like quite a reasonable position, with a few key adjustments. Do you deny that masks have worked well for healthcare workers treating COVID patients? If I had to bet my life on it, masks do work but they are UNNECESSARY in almost all situations.
Fauci was saying privately over email that the masks do not work (this came out in a FOIA). I think they really do not work as a public health measure against an aerosolized virus like the flu or Covid. Thanks for your comment. Also, I agree about the unnecessary part.
A friend who is a pharmacist facing the sick public full-time the entire epidemic just got Cov for the first time in Dec. 2022. She is a faithful N-95 wearer and knows how to wear it pinched around the nose so that the air is actually being filtered.
Question, while it's contagious for sure, don't you think it's far LESS contagious than we have been led to believe? Just look at even the most inflated COVID case counts since March 2020 onwards, through over-testing, etc. The case counts don't seem to be even minutely consistent with "aerosols staying in the air of a room for several hours" having much practical/clinical relevance at all. "Asymptomatic spread" also seems to have a very minimal role in the transmission of this virus. It's not just the case counts being very low, common sense says so as well. If these sorts of "fear porn" were true, the world would have been a very, very different place the last 3 years. Don't you think?
Yes, this matches what I have seen as well- nothing is 100% but they clearly seem to work well for healthcare workers. And almost all of the few people I know who haven't yet caught COVID (as of recently) but spend lots of time around others use masks to some degree. Curious, did your friend catch it at work, in public, or at a social event?
The big problem with masking (aside from its many obvious downsides) is that it's a very impractical strategy: I know multiple people who religiously masked at very low risk places like the grocery store, and then caught a serious case of COVID at a family gathering, birthday party, etc. with people they "trusted" (which usually means "vaxxed to the max"). I agree with the sentiments here that for almost all of us, masking is simply not worth it (unnecessary) almost all of the time, but I definitely believe masks work in acute situations.
An Irish doctor Anne McCloskey spoke out about masks for the general public being mostly useless in every day life. She was fired as a result. They have their place in a surgical setting when you dont want the surgeons sweat dropping into your internal organs. But for stopping a virus mostly useless.
Nothing is 100%, not even 95%, especially when those N-95s are cheaply-made imports.
I didn't ask her how she thought she caught it - likely holiday family gatherings as you say.
Good use of quotes in "trusted". (Thinking here of a story I heard recently, someone's family members show up to large group dinner with flaming positive test, which they mention at the end, after having also spent the day at Disneyworld because it was this adult's birthday and they deserved not to have to cancel plans.)
Fauci really isn't to be trusted for a bunch of reasons, but he eventually claimed that he advised against masks for the general public in order to save them for healthcare workers, since there was little value in healthy people wearing them. Which itself seems like quite a reasonable position, with a few key adjustments. Do you deny that masks have worked well for healthcare workers treating COVID patients? If I had to bet my life on it, masks do work but they are UNNECESSARY in almost all situations.
Fauci was saying privately over email that the masks do not work (this came out in a FOIA). I think they really do not work as a public health measure against an aerosolized virus like the flu or Covid. Thanks for your comment. Also, I agree about the unnecessary part.
A friend who is a pharmacist facing the sick public full-time the entire epidemic just got Cov for the first time in Dec. 2022. She is a faithful N-95 wearer and knows how to wear it pinched around the nose so that the air is actually being filtered.
What a miserable life to live.
Sounds like it didn't work after all.
There's no "hiding" from a highly contagious respiratory disease.
Maybe it was the plexiglass that "protected" your friend so long?...lol
The theoretical creators of a contagious biolab anti-fertility virus would probably support our freedom to spurn masks. ;)
I have a magic rock. Does that count?
Absolutely: one for each nostril.
Question, while it's contagious for sure, don't you think it's far LESS contagious than we have been led to believe? Just look at even the most inflated COVID case counts since March 2020 onwards, through over-testing, etc. The case counts don't seem to be even minutely consistent with "aerosols staying in the air of a room for several hours" having much practical/clinical relevance at all. "Asymptomatic spread" also seems to have a very minimal role in the transmission of this virus. It's not just the case counts being very low, common sense says so as well. If these sorts of "fear porn" were true, the world would have been a very, very different place the last 3 years. Don't you think?
Whatever the PHA say I believe the opposite.
So, after reflection, I agree after reading your comment!...:)
Yes, this matches what I have seen as well- nothing is 100% but they clearly seem to work well for healthcare workers. And almost all of the few people I know who haven't yet caught COVID (as of recently) but spend lots of time around others use masks to some degree. Curious, did your friend catch it at work, in public, or at a social event?
The big problem with masking (aside from its many obvious downsides) is that it's a very impractical strategy: I know multiple people who religiously masked at very low risk places like the grocery store, and then caught a serious case of COVID at a family gathering, birthday party, etc. with people they "trusted" (which usually means "vaxxed to the max"). I agree with the sentiments here that for almost all of us, masking is simply not worth it (unnecessary) almost all of the time, but I definitely believe masks work in acute situations.
An Irish doctor Anne McCloskey spoke out about masks for the general public being mostly useless in every day life. She was fired as a result. They have their place in a surgical setting when you dont want the surgeons sweat dropping into your internal organs. But for stopping a virus mostly useless.
Nothing is 100%, not even 95%, especially when those N-95s are cheaply-made imports.
I didn't ask her how she thought she caught it - likely holiday family gatherings as you say.
Good use of quotes in "trusted". (Thinking here of a story I heard recently, someone's family members show up to large group dinner with flaming positive test, which they mention at the end, after having also spent the day at Disneyworld because it was this adult's birthday and they deserved not to have to cancel plans.)