"Fact" More people touch their faces with a mask on. Therefore infecting themselves, then passing it on to others by touching an object before others. offsetting the effectiveness of the mask.
You need to show some proof of your claim that 80% 'misuse' a mask, I just do not believe that at all. Even if people touch their mask, or touch their face, the odds of them contracting the virus doing that is very low since the virus is predominantly transmitted by aerosol particles inhaled in the air. Touching the face and mask is less likely infectious since it would require their hands or fingers coming in direct contract with contaminated surfaces and the virus is far less transmissible through contract contamination than through inhalation.
If someone is tested for covid 3 times and only 1 out of the 3 test positive what were the other two? If there are 330,000,000 people living in the US and only 2,000,000 have supposedly died or have had complications then you have .08%.
Look around, pay attention to what people do with a mask on, and how germ infected that mask must be? Then tell me that it's not fact.
https://covid19.nj.gov/faqs/coronavirus-information/slowing-the-spread/can-the-coronavirus-spread-through-sweat said:
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And you got this fact from where?
Question? Can covid be spread from someone touching a surface and then passing it to someone else touching the same one? If not then why are so many people vigorously whipping down surfaces?
Actually no. See the links in my above post. While it won't go through the skin, if you pick it up from another surface and then touch a membranous part, such as eyes, nose and mouth, it can then be absorbed into the body. Hence the warning against touching your face. A mask barrier can aid in the unconscious inadvertent touching of these areas. The main purpose of the mask, however is to prevent the particles from getting to the other surfaces for people to touch. It's a spread risk reduction as opposed to a contracting risk reduction.
I live in Ct. and we were the second state to become a hot spot since we are the state next to New York and many of our residents commute to NY daily. In the beginning of March, when it was raging and people were dying by the hundreds daily, the virus was extremely virile and highly transmissible. The W.H.O. and C.D.C. offered little advice because they just didn't have the facts themselves at that point. Precautions had to be taken that would cover every and all possible modes of transmission, including contact transmission because there just simply wasn't any proof this was not a primary method of transmission. Yes, we wiped everything down with a disinfectant before bringing it into our homes. We went absolutely overboard with our methods of protection. As the weeks went by, it was clear that the primary source of infection was aerosol transmissions from being in close contact/proximity to an infected person. The notion of it being highly transmissable through contact was more or less abandoned for the most part simply because the risk was lowered and by April it had been pretty well established that the virus doesn't live on inanimate surfaces as long as they first guessed it did. Transmission through the mucousa of the eye was also shown to be a less likely mode of transmission.
Quite the opposite. People in this country became more aware every day when told by scientists and epidemiologists that masks are at the front line of defense against contracting Covid-19. More and more people got smart and started wearing masks. Social distancing became regulated by individual states, so that created a double protection. The short answer is that the increased numbers of people wearing protective masks has directly affected the numbers of new cases.
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Contact transmission depends entirely on the length of time that aerosolized particle has remained on any surface. he duration of viral ‘survival' on nonliving surfaces depends on several factors: porosity, temperature, humidity, chemical composition and environmental exposure to UV light being the most important. Survival of this virus outside the body is very time limited. Contracting the virus through air particles inhaled through the nose or mouth directly from an infected person is the most common way this virus is spread. Soap inactivates the virus by dissolving the fatty bubble, 70% ethanol works by dehydrating via osmosis. Frequent hand-washing is part of the routine for us here in New England.
Germs and viruses are two different things.
Question? If you have a virus on your hands and touch your mask will it adhere to that mask and if so can you inhale it? Find out and let me know, please?
Even in 1918, without social media, television and telephones, Americans were smarter than they are today.
Sorry to hear about your wife, glad she is ok! God, I hate to be blunt, but I don't know her and do not know of her like many who have had covid. I do not know their health history and should not. Not saying that your wife is not healthy because I am sure that this can affect healthy people as well, although rare. Like other viruses.
