AusGeoff wrote on Nov 13
th, 2022 at 9:21pm:
Baronvonrort wrote on Nov 13
th, 2022 at 10:33am:
...There is no evidence masks work with flu virus which is also airborne so masking is bullshit from politicians trying to give the appearance they're doing something.
Not so...
Masks can block 99.9% of COVID-linked droplets. Research shows they
are ‘highly effective’ at reducing spread of respiratory droplets.
As these droplets are likely to be the main driver of COVID transmission,
our data suggest that the wearing of masks can substantially reduce the
probability of an infected person transmitting the virus, Lucia Bandiera et al
wrote in
The Royal Society, Open Science.
The researchers estimated that a person
standing 2m from someone
coughing without a mask is exposed to more than 10,000 times
more respiratory droplets than from someone standing 0.5m away
wearing a basic single-layer mask.
"The simple message from our research is that face masks work", researcher
Professor Paul Digard said. "Wearing a face covering will reduce the probability
that someone unknowingly infected with the virus will pass it on".
—I just don't know how often we have to hammer this sort of clinical research
and its results into the heads of the anti-vaxxer brigade before it sticks. And
this explains in large part why the unvaccinated are dying at here in Australia. [
ABC News, 12 Apr 2022.]
I doubt that anyone with a few working brain cells would disagree, that if someone coughs or sneezes in your unprotected face, that this would increase your chances of becoming infected to almost a certainty. Assuming of course, that the person is infected with this virus in the first place. But lets look at the science in more detail.
In a cough there can be up to 3,000 droplets produced. In a sneezed, there can be up to 20,000 droplets produced. There are up to 10^8 virions in 1 ml of droplets. So a mask with a 99.9% protection rating, would still allow up to a 100K virions to get through its pores(it only takes 100-200 virions to infect any human).
You would need a mask with a 99.9999% protection rating to actually protect you from becoming infected. No such mask exist with this level of protection.
Also, masks can't protect you from the droplets that land on different surfaces. And, you can't washaway most of the virions in/on your skin(not just on/in your hands).
Will wearing masks reduce the chances of you becoming infected? YES. Will mask prevent you from becoming infected? NO. Do masks reduce the spread of respiratory virions? YES. Do masks prevent the spread of respiratory virions? NO. Will vaccines reduce your chances of dying? NO. Only the condition of our immune system can do this. Will vaccines reduce the severity of the symptoms of this disease? YES.
You stated that "something" explains why unvaccinated people are dying at 3 times the rate as vaccinated people. What explains this? The actual comment from your reference is,
"
South Australian health authorities have released COVID vaccination statistics showing people who are unvaccinated are more than three times AS LIKELY to die from the virus than those who've had THREE doses.".
So these deaths included not only unvaccinated people, but also people who have had 1 and 2 doses of this vaccine(vaccinated). Looks as though they just changed the goal post to give this false perception. I think this is just more clever wording by the media, to allow some people to hear exactly what they want to hear.
I'm curious. Do you think the unvaccinated don't wear masks or practice safe distancing? Or, do you think that some people just don't want to inject themselves with anything that will force normal muscle cells, to start producing viral spike proteins? I think the latter is more plausible.
So these deaths included not only unvaccinated people, but also people who have had 1 and 2 doses of this vaccine(vaccinated).
>3 X more likely than the 3 doses of vaccine.
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