In the last 6 months as more men wear masks there has been a steep decline in prostrate surgery. There must be a link.
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Epidemiology director insists on mask-wearing to reduce spread, says many infected with Covid-19 do not show symptoms
Bullying?!?!? Oh Mike, you can have your 'safe space' with me, don't worry. My hugs were not of the bullying kind. I respect your pronouns and loudly condemn whatever sort of oppression you are suffering from.
Someone who thinks that there is a serious tone to the forums on DR1? And no bitching? Righty ho.
One of the first concepts I learned about HazMat/PPE at Texas A and M University in the 1980’s was routes of infection. Eyes are a confirmed route of exposure and infection to etiological agents, viruses, bacteria, etc. They are smaller membranes and the chances of contracting Covid through your eyes may be less than through your nasal passages, but the possibility exists. What JD is saying is true. This is not new knowledge gleaned from Covid research.
This is a custom fitted sealed neoprene full face mask with the required cartridges for entry into Covid infected environments. If properly maintained and worn, it is 100% effective, Obviously something like this is not readily accessible to the general public and medical responders but you get my drift. Layers of protection, N95 standard face masks combined with face shields afford a greater degree of protection but not 100%. Even homemade cloth masks provide a small degree of protection. Wear a mask. If your smart enough to use condoms to prevent STD’s, use the same logic for Covid.
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I do not think there is any misconceptions here. CV19 infections will still occur even if someone is wearing a decent mask does have their eyes covered and washes their hands often. We are trying to slow the rate of infection not completely eliminate it with these precautions. So to point out that infections will still occur is disingenuous. Many of us know this and are taking the flack for choosing to stay closer to our virus free zone at home more often. We do not have a perfect defense for any virus and I do not think anyone on this forum is suggesting anything different. Prudent precautions are just that - precautions to extend one's time without getting infected. Some choose to be more cautious than others. That in and of itself is a big reason why cases continue to increase and some of us are worried when we have to mix with the general population. We can only do what we can do and have the equipment to do.
No one is being " disingenuous. " ... ( a clever way of calling us Crack Pots )
We are trying to get at the TRUTH.. actually doing people a Favor .
IF you are at Risk ... PROTECT yourself as much as possible .
Someone said something very profound on the radio the other day
" I will protect YOU with MY Mask, if YOU promise to Protect me with your Gun, if I get into a Problem "
Hey if its all about the "Obligation" to PROTECT our Fellow Man ?!
same Logic ..
We are trying to get at the TRUTH.. actually doing people a Favor .
IF you are at Risk ... PROTECT yourself as much as possible .
Someone said something very profound on the radio the other day
" I will protect YOU with MY Mask, if YOU promise to Protect me with your Gun, if I get into a Problem "
Hey if its all about the "Obligation" to PROTECT our Fellow Man ?!
same Logic ..
The real question is more : is eye to eye contamination possible ?
If not, well wearing a mask when out and about will prevent one from japping their gums and spluttering out the virus into someone else's eyes, no ?
Olfactory transmucosal SARS-CoV-2 invasion as a port of central nervous system entry in individuals with COVID-19 - Nature Neuroscience
The authors demonstrate the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in the nasopharynx and brain, suggesting that the virus is present in the CNS and may enter through the olfactory mucosa, exploiting the close vicinity of olfactory mucosal, endothelial and nervous tissue.
www.nature.com
The above article was linked to a newspaper I read daily. So they carried a study during the autopsies of covid victims how to virus gets to your brain. This is the part that makes me personally the most concerned. You might have no symptoms as in fever etc (and then you may even classify yourself as being "negative"), but the virus may do long term damage...
We're not going out protecting our eyes, but we are also not touching our eyes when in the public, before washing hands... Just masks always on when in public...
I'm no medical expert, but droplets do exit from nose and mouth (flying), but the only things that come out of your eyes are tears, and usually those don't fly very far... So I'd think the contamination as is likewise possible with the liquid itself (tears), but I'm not sure how you would get someone else's tears on your eyes, so the risk would be quite minimum...
Also, I read somewhere and interesting point: For eyes infection, if someone sneezes or coughs, the natural reaction is to CLOSE your eyes, so this should eliminate some of the risk there...
It is impossible to sneeze without your eyes closing. In tandem also.
Contracting Covid through eye contact is possible through two scenarios. Walking unknowingly through a lingering Covid aerosol cloud in an enclosed area where there is no ventilation to disperse the cloud quickly and being adjacent to someone who is infected and sneezes. Aerosols released by sneezing spread further and faster than those released by normal breathing. In both cases the risk of infection by adsorption of the virus by your eyes( membranes) is possible. Wearing a mask will limit the aerosol spread during normal breathing. Sneezing, however, causes blowout through masks because of the energy created by sneezing. Watch anybody sneezing with a mask on during a cold day and you can see how quickly the sneeze is expelled through the sides of the mask. Contracting Covid through eye to eye contact is highly unlikely. Rarely do human eyes contact each other.
Reason it cannot be found it that it was removed from all the reputable websites debunked as a false misinterpretation.
At this point to deny the efficacy of masks is plain nuts.
Are the people who are arrested for not wearing masks then given masks to wear while incarcerated?
Perhaps one of our mask doubters could tell us.
You get a mask in the can?
Glad to see the DR strictly following the best science in making their best effort to slow the virus spread.
Pearls to swine. If they had an open mind and did any reading they would not be posting this stuff.Read this, maybe YOU can learn something instead of spreading your garbage here.
Still Confused About Masks? Here’s 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
It is a respiratory virus and primarily enters through the nose and mouth.
The eyes are always a pathway but it take a certain amount of viral load to cause infection.
Difficult to absorb sufficient virus via eyes.
Best and most complete protection includes eye covering
I am not Dolores but the site needs participants even ones like "them".
Under the theory that even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometime they might be right about something sometime