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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Getting medical advice from a surgeon is always iffy, just ask any medical doctor or a nurse. Yes a virus is small, but we aren't talking about an individual virus being transferred, we are talking about aspirated droplets, which are orders of magnitude larger and are captured and fabrics and N95 masks. Otherwise, they'd wear something else in hospitals. Masks also keep you from finger banging you nose and mouth with you bugger puller that just touched everything that everyone else touched in the store. Wash or sanitize your hands after removing the mask and before you have a chance to infect yourself.
Is Doc Graham from 'Doc Hollywood' actually still around.


Actually, we wear masks in the O.R. to contain "fomites", i.e. spit blobs, hairs, whiskers, boogers, skin flakes, you get the idea. If they fall into the wound, things can go south. No surgeon like post-op infections. As for mask filtering virus particles, not so much. They might offer some protection, but you don't see the researchers in Level 4 hot rooms running around in masks only. Masks WILL protect your respiratory tract from fomites to a large degree and most bacteria (N95 - N99) IF fitted and worn properly.

An interesting study was reported in which med students were asked to wear mask for an extended period of time. The mask wearing kids touched their faces a great deal more often than the non-masked kids. So there's that as well.

As for taking advice from a surgeon, you just did.

RMD

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Masks do, however, make you touch your face much more often and cause you to rebreathe co2, which causes your cortisol (hormone) levels to rise, which weakens your immune system. He's also right about the porosity size. Your droplet of virus laden spittle can seep to the outside of the mask and spread shit there. The whole thing is an over-hyped hoax, anyway. You don't quarantine healthy people.

Agree.

If masks were so effective, why did they release prisoners from jail instead of giving them mask???

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Ammunition and bullets are different things.
So, no “AMEN” for you.....
Without bullets, you have no ammunition. Don’t be so tiring.

Besides, if you called it the 5 A’s of life: andouille sausage, ale, aureolas, ammunition and asses just doesn’t have the same ring to it, now does it? Plus, you miss bacon and that just ain’t American.
 
Actually, we wear masks in the O.R. to contain "fomites", i.e. spit blobs, hairs, whiskers, boogers, skin flakes, you get the idea. If they fall into the wound, things can go south. No surgeon like post-op infections. As for mask filtering virus particles, not so much. They might offer some protection, but you don't see the researchers in Level 4 hot rooms running around in masks only. Masks WILL protect your respiratory tract from fomites to a large degree and most bacteria (N95 - N99) IF fitted and worn properly.

An interesting study was reported in which med students were asked to wear mask for an extended period of time. The mask wearing kids touched their faces a great deal more often than the non-masked kids. So there's that as well.

As for taking advice from a surgeon, you just did.

RMD

<Edit> I can't type worth a shit!
One of my programs I managed for 25 years in a fortune 50 company was respiratory protection. Three key elements.. Filtration efficiency, particle size and PROPERLY FITTED!! Without a proper fit test you might as well not wear it. What I see out there now makes my skin crawl..and they all feel safe..