Almost every report on masks in favor of masks looks at transmission of water droplets of various sizes. I have read quite a few of them, and they all stop at sizes far above the size of the virus itself. I have found no actual scientific experimental evidence that the primary mode of viral transmission occurs within the droplet sizes that are being studied in these papers. Without that key element of inquiry, these papers by themselves are completely useless.
The only real scientific study on a real group of people that I could find of actual cloth and surgical mask viral transmission is this one.
This paper suggests that wearing a mask may be more harmful than wearing nothing at all. How could that be?
Dr. Fauci wrote a paper back in 2008 that said quite plainly that in all pandemics for which there is available data (since the Spanish Flu ~1918) pneumonia has been the leading cause of death. It also happens to be the time when wearing masks became fashionable.
Please note I am talking about the type of masks most people use and the way they wear them: people put them on, take them off, set them down on the counter, set them down in the car, put them in their pocket, put them back on, put them by their bed at night, put them back on when they leave, etc. Even if people wash them, unless they are using an autoclave they are almost certainly harboring a ton of bacteria, including the bacteria that causes pneumonia. This article is an excellent exposition on masks.
Almost every report on masks in favor of masks looks at transmission of water droplets of various sizes. I have read quite a few of them, and they all stop at sizes far above the size of the virus itself. I have found no actual scientific experimental evidence that the primary mode of viral transmission occurs within the droplet sizes that are being studied in these papers. Without that key element of inquiry, these papers by themselves are completely useless.
The only real scientific study on a real group of people that I could find of actual cloth and surgical mask viral transmission is this one.
This paper suggests that wearing a mask may be more harmful than wearing nothing at all. How could that be?
Dr. Fauci wrote a paper back in 2008 that said quite plainly that in all pandemics for which there is available data (since the Spanish Flu ~1918) pneumonia has been the leading cause of death. It also happens to be the time when wearing masks became fashionable.
Please note I am talking about the type of masks most people use and the way they wear them: people put them on, take them off, set them down on the counter, set them down in the car, put them in their pocket, put them back on, put them by their bed at night, put them back on when they leave, etc. Even if people wash them, unless they are using an autoclave they are almost certainly harboring a ton of bacteria, including the bacteria that causes pneumonia. This article is an excellent exposition on masks.
Meanwhile on Reddit:
"YoU cAnT gEt PnEuMoNiA fRoM a MaSk"