MASKS! Folks, let a surgeon of 30 years (a.k.a. me) teach you about MASKS. COVID 19 virus particle size averages 125 nanometers (0.125 microns); the range is 0.06 microns to .14 microns; one needs an electron microscope to see a COVID 19 virus particle. The hoarded N 95 mask filters down to 0.3 microns. So, N95 masks block few, if any, virions (virus particles). This is a simple fact, so you just cannot argue against it. Other surgical masks, home-made masks and kerchiefs do the following: 1) the(y) allow free passage both ways (in and out) of COVID 19 virions. 2) they become warm, damp or moist reservoir of COVID 19 particles in asymptomatic "carriers" (estimated to be 85% of all people tested). For surgeons, years of training, intimidation, and humiliation teach us to touch NOTHING but our surgical field. Lay people constantly touch, re-arrange, and manipulate their "masks", wonderfully inoculating thousands of virus particles onto their bare or (even worse, gloved) hands. So, these absurd masks ENCOURAGE the fomite transmission ('infected" articles-to-hand-to face transmission of the virus). So, go ahead and allow idiots to delude and mislead you to the false sense of security--and danger--of masks!
---Doc Graham (his Facebook account)
I understand very well the tiny size of the COVID-19 virus. That is he first argument against masks spread by the anti-mask people. The only thing is the virus needs a liquid transporter to make its way to its host. If the type of fabric used in a mask can filter aerosol sizes ranging from 10 nanometers to 6 micrometers using fabric fibers that can be electrostatically charged, such as natural silk and chiffon, you can have an efficient mask that will work to prevent exposure from you to others. I can give you the studies that prove it.
I might add, perhaps the political, anti-mask, rhetoric is designed to keep the pandemic alive as long as possible. Some will justify it as promoting herd immunity. If you have heard about COVID=19 parties, you know the extent of this idea. They don’t tell you that the sacrifice of human life to get herd immunity is not one we want to pay. However, there is another more insidious reason: The longer they prolong the plague, President Trump gets more blame and his chance for reelection lessened. They know what they are doing and I see through it even when they try to use the ideological mask to hide it.