ABikerSailor
Diamond Member
Starting Friday, any worker in any establishment in LA can refuse you service if you're not wearing a face mask.
Gosh, and here I thought the Democrats were all about "My body, my choice". But that's only human life that grows in a woman's body that is not ACTUALLY her body, but has separate DNA and everything. When it comes to your ACTUAL body, yes, the Democrats want to boss that around too.
As my daughter would say, "We been knew".
L.A. orders customers, workers to wear face coverings as coronavirus protection
Effective Friday, residents must wear a covering over their noses and mouths when in several essential businesses, including grocery stores, pharmacies and restaurants.www.latimes.com
First, we are told that the home made , less than N95 masks will do next to noting to block the virus.
So, what sense does it make to mandate them, anyway?
My understanding is that most masks would not prevent a person from getting the virus in many situations, because of the way it travels. The concern involved droplets, touching one's face, things like that. The masks can prevent those droplets from spreading if one is sick, however. So a mask won't help if you touch something with the virus and then touch your face, but they will help keep the virus from traveling from your mouth/nose to another surface that someone else might then touch.
I understand the thought / idea.
"Something is oft times better than nothing"
However, it defies logic.
A home-made mask is not going to block the virus traveling in either direction. Especially considering the forces behind a cough or sneeze and the velocity of the particles being expelled.
The physics do not support the claim that a low grade mask will have any significant deterrent affect on a sick person's ability to infect others.
You know, when it started to get a bit worse here in Amarillo, my roomie (who used to work at a hospital in the surgery suites), said that I needed to start wearing a mask when I went for groceries. She suggested a cloth one, and I told her no, because cloth won't filter very well. So, she looked around the house, and came up with a paper towel folded like a surgical mask, with another layer of kleenex behind the paper towel, taped the sides and used twine for the earholders. When I saw that one, I agreed to wear it.
Then, I came home, happy about my mask because it even blocked the pollen (I have really bad hayfever), and posted on here how to make one. Then, a member on here who likes to troll me got on the thread and started to make fun of them, saying they would never work, so I did some Google-fu and researched it.
The filtration ability of the most densely woven cloth goes down to only 1 micron, with many cloths being 10 microns or larger. No, cloth doesn't filter very well.
The filtration ability of paper towels is actually 0.3 microns, meaning it's gonna catch a whole bunch of stuff.
Kleenex (which was made for sneezes and viruses) is made like felt cloth, and the filtration ability for it is down to 0.1 microns. Incidentally, it also carries a static charge that causes viruses to stick to it and not go further.
The size of the virus is 0.1 microns. It can be filtered out by Kleenex.