TheMadPenguin
Senior Airman
This illustrates American PARTISANSHIP, more than Politics. I meet partisanship all over the web; I meet very little politics anywhere.
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That is a problem everywhere my friend. Modern news media is a business. It is not here to simply report the news anymore. It is all opinion based, and distorted sensationalized alternative facts to increase ratings and profit.
Below is not meant to he political. Please do not take it as such. It just explains how media in the US has become.
What actually happened:
A commercial airliner suffered a structural failure and broke apart over the Atlantic ocean. 310 people died.
How CNN reports it:
A commercial airliner crashed over the Atlantic. 310 people are dead. Our panelists here are telling us that this likely occurred because President Trump did not do anything. We need to increase the tax on gasoline.
How Fox News reports it:
A commercial airliner crashed over the Atlantic. 310 people are dead. Trump is telling us that this is all Obama's fault. It's true. We need to bring God back to the airlines.
Choose your poison...
If I am calculating it right, the average per capita daily death rate for Minnesota has just passed that of Italy.
Yeaatchh! KOOLAID tastes better!
What's the difference, heh? Partisanship & Politics Promote Pissed-off People. Consensus Deteriorates Catastrophically.This illustrates American PARTISANSHIP, more than Politics.
Understanding how a mask works helps keep some people from looking like an ass.Yeaatchh! KOOLAID tastes better!
A specialist here said that masks prevent 10 to 40% of the virusses to reach the nose or mouth. With other words, it'll do nothing.Understanding how a mask works helps keep some people from looking like an ass.
An N95 (NIOSH) mask has filtration that prevents passage of pathogens.
ANYTHING else is either ineffective or harmful. A cloth mask, for example, captures moisture from a person's breath and attracts microbes/bacteria and creates an environment favorable to pathogens.
In addition, every single time a person wears a mask, it must be properly disposed of after wearing, not placed on the counter, car seat, in a purse, at cetera - no one follows this rule because no one cares enough to educate the public.
People who should wear a mask are people at risk with compromised immune systems, people who are sick (with the virus, etc.) and people who work around others that may be compromised.
Otherwise, a mask is not nessecary for a healthy peraon and is both a placebo and a waste of a mask that otherwise could be useful to someone who really needs it.
The Surgeon General of the U.S. has been trying to tell people about this very thing and it appears no one is paying attention...
Not according to what I've read. A mask doesn't exist to protect the wearer, but to protect others from the wearer. Even a cloth mask with a removable paper towel liner is effective for this if it's properly sanitized and liner replaced after use. Given the idiosyncrasies of this virus, nobody is known to be non-infectious, even if they're ostensibly "healthy".Otherwise, a mask is not nessecary for a healthy peraon and is both a placebo and a waste of a mask that otherwise could be useful to someone who really needs it.
Politics (in the national or state sense) is a mechanism or system used to achieve an outcome oriented toward management of a social group
We all know the definitions. The point is they're equally effective at creating divisiveness, closed mindedness, and weaponized personal interactions. Leading, at best, to functional paralysis and at worst to outright warfare.Partisanship is promoting one idea over another
Understanding how a mask works helps keep some people from looking like an ass.
An N95 (NIOSH) mask has filtration that prevents passage of pathogens.
ANYTHING else is either ineffective or harmful. A cloth mask, for example, captures moisture from a person's breath and attracts microbes/bacteria and creates an environment favorable to pathogens.
In addition, every single time a person wears a mask, it must be properly disposed of after wearing, not placed on the counter, car seat, in a purse, at cetera - no one follows this rule because no one cares enough to educate the public.
People who should wear a mask are people at risk with compromised immune systems, people who are sick (with the virus, etc.) and people who work around others that may be compromised.
Otherwise, a mask is not nessecary for a healthy peraon and is both a placebo and a waste of a mask that otherwise could be useful to someone who really needs it.
The Surgeon General of the U.S. has been trying to tell people about this very thing and it appears no one is paying attention...
Not according to what I've read. A mask doesn't exist to protect the wearer, but to protect others from the wearer. Even a cloth mask with a removable paper towel liner is effective for this if it's properly sanitized and liner replaced after use. Given the idiosyncrasies of this virus, nobody is known to be non-infectious, even if they're ostensibly "healthy".
I lucked out and stumbled on a package of N95s tucked away in my wood shop. Gave one to my lady friend, kept one for myself, and gave the rest to my local health center. Mine has lettering on the front: "My mask protects YOU. YOUR mask protects me. WHERE IS IT??"
I expect mask wearing will become the new normal and go on indefinitely, as will social distancing and a downsized economy. This thing isn't going away anytime soon.
Cheers,
Wes
Exactly! Wearing a mask doesn't protect the wearer from infection but even a cloth covering over the mouth and nose will prevent the escape of droplets. A large proportion of people infected with COVID-19 are asymptomatic or only suffer very mild symptoms, which means they could be (and almost certainly are) spreading the virus unknowingly to their friends, neighbours, work colleagues etc. Wearing masks will help slow that innocent transmission.