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Turtle GOD DENG..... Are you really this slow? Good lord. You are right flu killed 675,000 in 1918. That is 1918 to 2018 is a hundred years.1918 flu killed 675,000 americans in one year (back when there were fewer people around)..........................It was a new flu then like the covid virus is new now--------more deaths always happen in the beginning as we build up herd immunity which slows the virus kill rate.Yo
Yes I made that up ......... but here’s the link to update your ignorance. At the same time Twitter and Facebook slapped that ignorant moron face like you the stupidity of this president.Have visited any of the hospitals where these patients had infected with this coronavirus? You don’t know what the hell you are talking about Dude.The critical thinking non biased people like me and you who understand corona is a hoax,that the numbers are highly inflated and the flu virus has killed five times more people this year than corona has,we get that because we don’t belive eveything the idiot box in the living room tells us as all the Trump haters do.lolCorrect, masks don’t workFirst of all the study was focusing on a hospital environment, not usage by the general public. There is a huge difference. The study was making a comparison N95 respirator masks and surgical masks, certainly not what the general public wears. The viral load in covid 19 wards is far far greater than that of your neighborhood grocery or local restaurants so the masks to be used by the public do not need to be same as in hospitals. Since the viral load in retail establishments is likely to very low, a mask with only 40% or 50% efficiently is sufficient to drop the concentration of the virus to such low level that infection becomes very unlikely. Anything the public does to reduce concentration levels of the virus in public places will reduce infection and save lives.Trump’s COVID-19 diagnoses is the consequence of a WH engaged in reckless, irresponsible behavior during a pandemic – where the wearing of masks was shunned, social distancing not practiced, and the health and safety guidelines ignored.
As a result of this administration’s willful ignorance and utter incompetence, the president has been hospitalized, other WH staff have been likewise infected, and scores of other individuals have been placed at needless risk.
Indeed, we continue to receive reports of individuals who have come into contact with Trump being infected with COVID-19.
This administration is clearly incapable of sound, responsible governance.
Really? Like Denmark shunned masks? Sweden shunned masks?
Surgical, Cotton Masks Equally Ineffective in Blocking COVID-19 Spread, Say Investigators
Investigators found greater SARS–CoV-2 contamination on the outer surface of the face masks than on the inner surfaces.www.infectioncontroltoday.com
You do realize that everything we know, suggests masks are not effective.... you know that, right?
Masks are not to protect the wearer. They are extremely useful in protecting people from the person wearing the mask. The most common means of transmission is frankly spittle. When you speak hundreds or even thousands of tiny droplets of spittle are launched. At least if you are human it is. The masks catch a hell of a lot of this spittle.
Still Confused About Masks? Hereâs the Science Behind How Face Masks Prevent Coronavirus
We talked to UCSF epidemiologist George Rutherford, MD, and infectious disease specialist Peter Chin-Hong, MD, about the CDC’s reversal on mask-wearing, the current science on how masks work, and what to consider when choosing a mask.www.ucsf.edu
Picture it this way. Omaha Beach on D-day. We have all seen the pictures and movies. We can barely imagine the horror of that day. Now imagine that day with half as many machine guns firing on our troops. More troops get off the beach alive right? So if everyone is wearing a mask the reduction in produced droplets of spittle infected with COVID is at least cut in half.
These are similar to the masks worn by the surgical team in a sterile environment trying to remove your head from your ass. Why don’t they shrug and say it is no use since the masks do not stop the virus particles?
Masks are not to protect the wearer. They are extremely useful in protecting people from the person wearing the mask.
Then you didn't read the article. The whole point of the article was that they tested a person who had Covid-19, and were sick, and they had the mask on.
What they found is that Covid-19 was still released into the environment. The masks did nothing. That was whole entire point of the article, if you had read it. There was zero evidence that even surgical masks prevented the spread, let alone the N95.
As for your link.... did you read your link? It's ridiculous. "but that nearly all these droplets were blocked when the mouth was covered by a damp washcloth."
Really? Damp washclothes? First, no kidding. Having a damp cloth over your mouth, like you are being water boarded, does reduce covid-19 dropplets being released.
Please show me the number of people wearing damp face masks? I'll help you out. The number is somewhere below one.
No one is walking around with damp face masks, so using that as a reason to say masks work is idiotic.
Another study of people who had influenza or the common cold found that wearing a surgical mask significantly reduced the amount of these respiratory viruses emitted in droplets and aerosols.
Which begs a huge question if you read the data. According to this data, influenza is getting through the masks far more than Common Cold Covid. (notice they did not test Covid-19 specifically, just other corona illnesses).
So influenza is getting through the mask.... but influenza is far less contagious than Covid-19, which the mask prevents. Yet we already know Covid is far more contagious than influenza.
See a problem there sparky? Influenza is making it through the masks, but influenza is less contagious than Covid-19. That means one of two things... either the primary method of transmission is not through coughing and breathing, thus the masks are pointless, or the test is bad, and they are simply not detecting the virus being transmitted. Because we know for a fact that Covid-19 is far more contagious, and yet Influenza according to that research is more contagious.
A recent study published in Health Affairs, for example, compared the COVID-19 growth rate before and after mask mandates in 15 states and the District of Columbia. It found that mask mandates led to a slowdown in daily COVID-19 growth rate, which became more apparent over time. The first five days after a mandate, the daily growth rate slowed by 0.9 percentage-points compared to the five days prior to the mandate; at three weeks, the daily growth rate had slowed by 2 percentage-points.
Now this is ridiculous. This is just shockingly dumb.
You know what else happened at exactly the same time as the mask mandates? And I mean the EXACT SAME TIME....? The lock down. Stopping large meetings, and large social gatherings.
I don't know of a single state anywhere, that has zero lock down, zero restrictions, but promoted mask wearing alone.
So how do you even think you can tease out the effects of the lock down, and separate them from the effects of the mask wearing?
Of course you can't. Of course you can't! It is impossible. If they even attempt to claim they can, they are liars.
How do I know this? Denmark. Denmark actually discouraged use of masks. I don't see the Denmark had drastically higher death rates, or infection rates, than the rest of Europe, or the US.
So no. Dumb dumb dumb article.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The study upon which this article was based has since been retracted by the Annals of Internal Medicine. Here is the Retraction Notice.
The Mask wearing mantra, is the modern day equivalent to having child practice hiding under their desk in the 1960s for possible nuclear attacks.
Does absolutely nothing, but it's a nice placebo for ignorant people who want to freak out.
We can never recover from this crisis till people like you and ignorant Trump understand that this is a real epidemic.
Or do you have a friend ( if you have a friend) or relatives. That got infected or die with this virus?
You facts got it backwards. Coronavirus has killed more people here in America vs compared to 5 flu seasons.
Considering Flu deaths are partially statistically determined, I would like to see your source for that.
Coronavirus Has Killed More Americans Than the Last 5 Flu Seasons Combined
With more than 210,750 Americans dead from COVID-19 since March, the virus is killing people at an unprecedented rate, unlike any disease seen in over 100 years.
Yet an incorrect belief, that COVID-19 is no more deadly than the seasonal flu, continues to circulate on social media, frequently driven by President Donald Trump. On Tuesday, he dangerously tweeted that “sometimes over 100,000” people die of the flu each year and that Americans should not shut down their lives for COVID-19, which he claimed is “in most populations far less lethal.” Facebook removed a similar post from Trump — who is currently sick with COVID-19 — and Twitter flagged the tweet, saying that violated Twitter rules “about spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19.”
In truth, significantly fewer people die from the seasonal flu each year — between 12,000 to 61,000 Americans annually. There have been some years, such as the 2017-2018 flu season when an estimated 80,000 Americans died, that are more severe, but those are outliers — during the 2019-2020 flu season, an estimated 22,000 people died, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
This year is 2020. So in a hundred years that starts from 1920 to 2020. First recorded death of Covid-19 is 2020 with 200,000+ deaths and counting. Meaning the Coronavirus is the worst pandemic in a 100 years.
The good old corrupt CDC as evidence of the death count.priceless.