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Asia may have been right about coronavirus and face masks, and the rest of the world is coming around
CNN ^ | Wed April 1, 2020 | James Griffiths

Posted on 04/01/2020 12:15:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway

In the coming weeks, if they have not already, your government is likely to begin advising you to wear a face mask to protect against coronavirus.

For those living in Asia, such announcements will be a vindication of a tactic that has been adopted across much of the region since the beginning of the crisis and appears to have been borne out by lower rates of infection and faster containment of outbreaks.

In other parts of the world, this message may be confusing, coming after weeks of public health authorities, politicians and media figures confidently claiming masks do not help and urging people instead to focus on washing their hands and maintaining social distancing.

The tone of such claims ranged from condescending to frustrated, with the US Surgeon General Jerome Adams tweeting in late February -- in all caps -- "STOP BUYING MASKS!"

"They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can't get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk," he added, in a post that has since been retweeted over 43,000 times.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: asia; coronavirus; facemasks; masks; n95
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To: nickcarraway

This issue needs to be settled honestly. If it turns out that masks provide protection against Covid-19, then their use should be encouraged if not recommended. What is the problem with manufacturing a lot more of them? How difficult is it to make an effective face mask? Will homemade masks suffice?


21 posted on 04/01/2020 12:54:03 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: nickcarraway

More than that. Why don’t we have our front-line healthcare workers and cleaners, etc., wearing full hazmat suits?

I doubt China wrapped their workers up needlessly.


22 posted on 04/01/2020 12:55:12 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Gay State Conservative
Face masks have been a part of ordinary outside wear in the cities in China and Southeast Asia for years. There are two primary reasons. One is everybody drives scooters and the mask is protection against dust in the air and the other is that everyone is conscious of air pollution. Another reason goes back to the various influenzas that have emanated from China. In Việt Nam the popular wisdom is, "Vũ Hàn. Here it comes again."
23 posted on 04/01/2020 12:56:58 PM PDT by ThanhPhero
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To: LS
Just got back from the store. Saw one woman wearing a mask with her nose poking out. 🙄
24 posted on 04/01/2020 1:04:36 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Progressives" (elitist Communists) "Love you to death".)
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To: nickcarraway

“How come white, black, and Hispanic people don’t want to wear masks?”

FluBro Response: They don’t fit over faces of people who don’t have slanty eyes.


25 posted on 04/01/2020 1:06:01 PM PDT by BobL
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To: LS

“One NY hospital doc said, “This is not aerolsol-ized. You can’t get it in the air unless someone coughs right in your face.””

LOL - good one!


26 posted on 04/01/2020 1:08:03 PM PDT by BobL
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To: GulfMan

Not what any docs say. Only coughing directly. Otherwise it’s surface contact.


27 posted on 04/01/2020 1:13:52 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: dfwgator

I just leave my cell phone sitting next to a radio tuned to Spanish stations so that Google will waste all of their time beaming ads to me in a language I don’t speak.


28 posted on 04/01/2020 1:21:26 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: nickcarraway

98% of people in Hong Kong wear masks when going out. The other 2% are mostly western expats.


29 posted on 04/01/2020 1:22:03 PM PDT by oincobx
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To: All

So says the propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist Party.


30 posted on 04/01/2020 1:24:47 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: nickcarraway

Because there is NO WAY you can get the masks!!!! Just like hand sanitizer, etc.!

PHOOEY!!!!


31 posted on 04/01/2020 1:42:43 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: LS

This is nonsense.

It HAS been shown to spread very well in droplet and AEROSOL form. Aerosol particles can hang in the air for 30 minutes and contaminate several meters away. These are FACTS at present.

If everyone wore a mask in public we could cut transmission by as much as 80%.


32 posted on 04/01/2020 1:44:16 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: Kozak

A hospital in europe handling exclusively corona patients has had ‘zero staff affected’...they even separated the hallway into lanes so those working with patients directly and those assisting outside their room walk in opposite lanes. Those working directly with the patient are completely covered which look like hazemet suits. Other nurses prepare injections and whatever the Dr. needs outside the rooms.


33 posted on 04/01/2020 1:53:10 PM PDT by caww
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To: BobL

“How come white, black, and Hispanic people don’t want to wear masks?”
= = =

Give me all your money!

My mask is for the virus.


34 posted on 04/01/2020 1:55:23 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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To: Honorary Serb

I saw people in the grocery today wearing plastic bags on their hands and scarfs over their faces for the first time. Others wore turtle neck sweaters and just pulled the neck area up over their mouth and noses. Another gal wore her winter gloves.

The idea is to protect yourself with what you’ve got....or stay home...which is your best bet.


35 posted on 04/01/2020 1:59:33 PM PDT by caww
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
I expect to see plastic Halloween masks being used, just plug up the nostril area and enlarge the eye area.
36 posted on 04/01/2020 2:04:37 PM PDT by caww
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To: nickcarraway
I think if we can persuade the Chinese to ban their primitive meat markets where live bats, pangolins, foxes, wolves and other wild animals are available for slaughter, it would be a lot more effective than asking everyone around the world to wear masks while we wait for the next disease outbreak from China.


37 posted on 04/01/2020 2:07:12 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: nickcarraway
"They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can't get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk,"

Right - they won't prevent YOU from catching coronavirus, but we do want healthcare providers to wear them or they'll catch coronavirus.
38 posted on 04/01/2020 2:09:03 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: nickcarraway
I've seen all races wearing them here.

Rural area with a low number of cases but it is here.

I know of 4 people that have tested positive.

39 posted on 04/01/2020 2:31:54 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: nickcarraway
"How come white, black, and Hispanic people don't want to wear masks?"

Vanity, and for those who imply penalties against employees for wearing masks, the criminal minded kind of greed. Style at the expense of utility really makes those overly concerned about style put their stupidity on display.

40 posted on 04/01/2020 3:08:23 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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