Viruses are some of the smallest particles on earth, they cannot be viewed without an electron microscope. I have serious doubts about cloth face masks being able to stop them.
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The virus travels on droplets of saliva and mucus. If you stop those you stop the virus. You don’t cough out pure virus.
Question: If mask don’t work the why do sugeons use them?
Nice try - this virus is a proven aerosol.
Spot on!
Maybe because they slice people open?
Great point. Next time I'm in the grocery store and come across somebody whose internal organs are exposed for all to see, I'll don my mask. And my elbow length rubber gloves. And my hair net. And my scrubs which I'll take off at the exit doors.
Great point. We should demand that all retail outlets wipe down all the shelves and products on the shelves with disinfectant and disinfect the walls and floors between customers.
surgeons use them to keep large body fluid particles out of the surgical field. They cannot take their hands off the sterile field to cover a cough or sneeze. Surgeons also wear the appropriately, discard after each use as intended, and NEVER touch their face once the mask is in place. They also combine the mask with sterile gown and gloves, hair covering and surgical drapes in a meticulously clean environment with everyone wearing hospital laundered scrubs Far cry from the politically correct snot rags worn ill fitting and incorrectly in the grocery store. Even at that there isn’t much evidence surgical masks are that effective in the OR except keep
spattered blood/body fluids off the surgeons face
Because viruses aren't the only problem for surgeons. There are bacteria, as well! And masks work against the spread of bacteria.
Regards,
“Question: If mask don’t work the why do sugeons use them?”
OMG. Are you in fourth grade?
Before the Wuhan Kung Fu Flu, did your GP wear a mask while listening to your heart just inches away from your face? Why not?
Surgeons do not wear masks to prevent virus transmission. No Dr who was suffering from a virus would be operating on any patient.
To help prevent the passage of bacteria from the surgeon's nose and mouth into the patient's wound and to protect the surgeon's face from sprays and splashes from the patient.
And for what it's worth, the largest virus is smaller than the smallest bacterium.........Here's a test for you....hold a mirror in front of your mouth then exhale on it and you will see it fog up with moisture from your lungs.
If you can inhale and exhale thru your mask then that moisture which may contain a virus is passing thru it too.......