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Author Topic: Here's your Mask Protocol  (Read 71514 times)

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Re: Here's your Mask Protocol
« Reply #60 on: January 05, 2021, 02:04:07 PM »
Masks block 99.9% of large Covid-linked droplets: study

The study focused on particles larger than 170 microns in diameter -- roughly two to four times the width of a human hair.
Aerosol particles, which tend to follow currents in the air, are generally described as smaller than 20 or 30 microns.


Study is worthless. 
Corona virus is aerosolized and can survive up to 30 feet.  Masks cannot save you. 
Corona has set you up the bomb. Make your time now.




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Re: Here's your Mask Protocol
« Reply #61 on: January 05, 2021, 03:35:06 PM »
The masks are just a trial run for us to accept this:

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Re: Here's your Mask Protocol
« Reply #62 on: January 05, 2021, 06:03:55 PM »
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Corona has set you up the bomb. Make your time now.
A Despair-inducing and Esoteric-sounding sentence ~ please elucidate!

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Re: Here's your Mask Protocol
« Reply #63 on: January 06, 2021, 02:23:06 PM »
Question, how many here have had COVID or know someone that has had it?

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Re: Here's your Mask Protocol
« Reply #64 on: January 06, 2021, 03:06:26 PM »
I know 11 that have tested positive (and had symptoms)...some others were maybes earlier this year but couldn't get tested.
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Re: Here's your Mask Protocol
« Reply #65 on: January 06, 2021, 03:38:22 PM »
As an "essential" worker, I've had it (in fact I was the first person to contract it at my plant). That was in June, and since then 76 people here at the plant have been infected with various outcomes. So far we have had no deaths but about 1/2 dozen hospitalizations. I myself had minor flu like symptoms (fever, body aches, bad headache and a few chills. For reference, I am 55 and have no real underlying health issues aside from being overweight). I contracted it from my brother (another essential worker) who was exposed at his job.
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Re: Here's your Mask Protocol
« Reply #66 on: January 06, 2021, 05:21:10 PM »
Question, how many here have had COVID or know someone that has had it?
On a personal level, know several people that have had it and one that has died. If you include professional contacts, those numbers are both considerably higher, but as I'm a nurse, that's not likely to be surprising (unless you're one of those nutters that's in total denial about COVID).

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Re: Here's your Mask Protocol
« Reply #67 on: January 06, 2021, 11:22:16 PM »
Question, how many here have had COVID or know someone that has had it?
Several immediate family members, a few more distant relatives, and a close family friend who's still in the step down unit after spending more than 4 weeks on a ventilator. Professionally, surprisingly few given I'm healthcare-adjacent.

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Re: Here's your Mask Protocol
« Reply #68 on: January 07, 2021, 08:08:53 AM »
Question, how many here have had COVID or know someone that has had it?
Several immediate family members, a few more distant relatives, and a close family friend who's still in the step down unit after spending more than 4 weeks on a ventilator. Professionally, surprisingly few given I'm healthcare-adjacent.
This bug acts like it rolls on an RPG table for effects. One person will get it and never even notice, another gets mildly sick. a third winds up in the hospital, and a fourth keels over.

It's why I can't shake the notion that it was engineered specifically to cause paranoia and chaos. I know, I know, tinfoil hat, but damn.

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Re: Here's your Mask Protocol
« Reply #69 on: January 07, 2021, 08:57:22 AM »
Mother nature can be a big evil troll when it comes to viruses. Sometimes out to kill us, other times rolling on the random effects chart to see what happens. Plus, more encouragement not to eat strange stuff from the local market anymore.

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Re: Here's your Mask Protocol
« Reply #70 on: January 07, 2021, 12:49:07 PM »
Question, how many here have had COVID or know someone that has had it?

I have not had it, nor do I know anyone who has. But there is very little COVID in my neck of the woods, so not surprising.

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Re: Here's your Mask Protocol
« Reply #71 on: January 10, 2021, 02:06:21 PM »
Question, how many here have had COVID or know someone that has had it?

I have not had it, nor do I know anyone who has. But there is very little COVID in my neck of the woods, so not surprising.

In fact, after posting mostly single-digit daily new cases through the second wave, we just posted our first zero-new-cases day since November. Hopefully we can continue that trend.

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Re: Here's your Mask Protocol
« Reply #72 on: January 10, 2021, 04:08:17 PM »
Question, how many here have had COVID or know someone that has had it?

I know zero people who have had it, the closest link between me and it is that the teacher of a different class of my secretary's daughter's kindergarten has it so her family is all home for a government-enforced quarantine.

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Re: Here's your Mask Protocol
« Reply #73 on: January 11, 2021, 11:01:48 AM »
Question, how many here have had COVID or know someone that has had it?

I have not had it, nor do I know anyone who has. But there is very little COVID in my neck of the woods, so not surprising.

My boss got it.  Same age as me (40) but healthier (although he always gets a bad flu every year) and he said it was the worst flu he's ever had but he didn't even need to go to the hospital.

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Re: Here's your Mask Protocol
« Reply #74 on: January 11, 2021, 12:29:14 PM »
Over a fucking virus with a 99.8% survival rate for most of the population.
(Emphasis mine)

My understanding is actually that 99.8% is the absolute worst survival rate, exhibited only in the 80-and-over age category (with an average of 2.5 co-morbidities). Everyone else's survival rate is significantly higher.
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