Schools without mask mandates are more likely to have COVID-19 outbreaks, CDC finds
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What I am talking about is the guidance the CDC had on masks for 75 or so years on whether masks were effective at stopping virus particles, and then they changed this during COVID. So either you believe that masks were effective at stopping virus particles all along, and the CDC just figured it out in 2020 (before backtracking somewhat in 2021) or you believe that the C19 virus particulates behave differently than other virus particulates.
I'm trying to get clarification from you which you believe.
masks were recommended going as far back as the 1918 Flu outbreak...
what exactly are you trying to say... that the CDC said masks were useless until 2020 when COVID appeared?
Anything that can trap airborne particles except loose fitting cloth or gauze can reduce the transmission of any virus from flu to COVID to whatever else.
I'm not sure why it is so hard for you to answer the simple question, nor why you keep asking me what I'm trying to say.
You responded to me about N95 masks being the gold standard. But that wasn't what the study I was talking about mentioned. It was non-N95 masks. You said they provided effectiveness in protection.
I then asked you if you believed the CDC before 2020 March that said masks don't provide protection:
Or whether you believe the CDC after March of 2020, but before they mentioned that cloth masks really don't provide any protection in 2021.
Its a simple question. Before or after? Can't be both because they are contradictory.
And then when you said
You insinuated that COVID might behave differently than other virus particulates. As if the coming of COVID is what changed the CDC to rethink the "science".
So then i asked you whether COVID behaves differently than other viruses. You don't seem to want to answer that either. It's wierd.
So you quote information from the very early days of the pandemic at a time it was thought Covid-19 was picked up from touching surfaces -- instead of traveling through the air. You do recognize that public guidance gets updated as science evolves, eh.
But we're not talking about surfaces. We're talking about mask effectiveness. Are you suggesting the "science" on mask effectiveness changed over the last 75 years to one stance, only to change back again a year later?
Your assertions are laughable.
Bottom Line: Masks have been proven to be effective in multiple studies in stopping the spread of Covid.
There's a reason why most hospitals use N95s during surgery along with a face shield. after thoroughly scrubbing their hands with a special antibacterial soap. Those that don't believe in the mask in stopping the spread of a contagious disease...
Just tell your Doctor and nurse assistants prior to surgery not to wash their hands and not to wear their N95 mask with face shield. Next, sign the documents that they're not liable for infecting a Covidiot with any contagious diseases that you may have acquired during the surgery.
During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic...Doctors and Nurses didn't really have face masks. Instead, they wrapped their face (mouth/nose area) with gauze about 3 or 4 times.
After the Pandemic, they then realize it didn't work due to the fact they typically worked in high viral load infectious areas plus it was later discovered (not talked about today)...
- Airborne viruses have another route of entry to cause infection...our eyes.
Upon exit of my room...there was special contamination disposal that they took off their face mask, medical gloves, and the hospital garment...tossed them in the special garbage with the infectious sign on it.
Googles and face shield was sent somewhere for special cleaning.
There have been some schools that require face shields plus any type of face mask wear (e.g. the not reliable cloth or handkerchief). Yet, I don't know how these schools been doing so far in this Pandemic.
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What assertions are laughable. That the CDC said masks don't work before, then they said they did, then they said they mostly didn't? Those assertions? I just showed you the tweet - still active - from the CDc.