Lovely discussion I just had about facemasks
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This makes the assumption pants are capable of stopping or slowing down liquid which is true. No easily available mask like an N95 is capable of slowing or stopping an airborne coronavirus. They are three times smaller than its best filter rating.
The virus doesn't just float through the ether. Let that sink in.
It's embedded in water droplets that exit the body with the most force via sneezing/coughing. And those masks will absorb most of the water droplets.
I'm still not worried about the Rona because I'm not a fat diabetic, but you need to understand how these things work.
Show me the evidence to support that statement.
Here is evidence that says the opposite. This is the only study that I have seen that ACTUALLY looks at viral transmission (people getting sick) through various types of masks.
While this sounds like it makes sense, without actual evidence, such statements are meaningless from a scientific perspective, and harmful if used to control a societies actions.
The truth is, viruses can exit through breath without having a large water droplet envelope and evidence suggests that is their primary mode of transmission for these types of viruses. In other words, the evidence suggests they exit as just viruses, and viruses are thousands of times smaller than the pore size of the finest "approved" mask.
Aerosolization (the ability to travel far) is also dependent on size, so those viral particles that pass easily through masks, also get caught in air currents and travel the furthest, so social distancing is also complete bunk.
The only "scientific" mask studies that show they work, show only that they work on water droplets FAR larger than the size of the virus. They never measure actual viral transmission (is someone getting sick?) they only measure the effects of the hypothesis you stated. They never test the hypothesis itself.
It seems like we're both right. Initial dispersion is with water droplets, but the water can evaporate and leave the virus to disperse through the air on its own.
https://www.tmc.edu/news/2020/07/can-the-coronavirus-spread-through-the-air/#:~:text=Once%20the%20aerosols%20are%20airborne,an%20extended%20period%20of%20time.
So a mask will help protect people if the virus is still airborne via droplets (however there's no way for us to observe this outside of a lab,) which will increase the amount of viral load required to infect a person. I'm curious if a mask with enough condensation from exhalation would be still more effective.