Idahodutch
Bronze Member
One again - the homemade non P95 masks don't stop you from catching the virus BUT it does keep down the amount of spit that flys out of your mouth. The larger drops have a higher viral load and stay wet longer which means higher chance to touch those droplets and infect yourself. The smaller droplets linger in the air longer and farther but dry faster with a smaller viral load. I don't care if you wear a mask or not AS LONG as you stay out of public spaces but when you don't respect my right to live why would I respect your right to wonder around unmasked in public? The governor of Michigan didn't stop the closing of all the flower/paint shops just the ones in the big retail stores because people were just wondering around the store because they were bored. The small shops were still open and by being small businesses they could use your help! These temporary rules were put in place because there weren't enough PPE to protect the first responders and medical staff so that they could stay safe and not die! What do you not get about that? If these measures were not taken there would be tens of thousands of more deaths with many of those being the medical staff and then where would we be? When a vaccine is developed who would be around to administer them if they are all dead or too sick to work? If you can't think of someone else's health for just a year what kind of person are you?
I read that being a smoker of tobacco somehow makes it harder to catch cv.
Something like over 95% of cv cases are folks that don't smoke, or are ex-smokers.
Reasons were not part of the article, just results.
Maybe we should all smoke while out in public, and do our part to be helping.