Originally posted by Hottie2.0
The type of masks most of us wear are NOT STOPPING ANYTHING from getting into your lungs except the right amount of oxygen !!!!! If those things stopped COVID19 from getting to you then answer me this...... Why couldn't the families of the people that were almost dead or could not be saved kept out ?? Think on that one. Originally posted by Theo Wizzago
Hottie... the masks aren't to protect YOU from the virus... they're to protect others in case YOU have the virus, luv.
TBPH, if you were wearing your mask and you ran into someone not wearing theirs... and they have the virus... there's a pretty good chance you'll get the virus from them. Reverse the situation... you no mask, they have mask and virus, then you stand a real good chance of not catching the virus.
What makes this the way it is is the fact you can HAVE the virus and not know it. Not everyone presents symptoms... not everyone gets sick from it. But everyone that has it can (and does) spread it.This, this, this, A THOUSAND TIMES THIS.
EVERY. SINGLE. PERSON. who has given me grief about wearing masks has told me the same damn thing: "Wearing some stupid cloth mask isn't going to keep me from getting the virus!" And they're right.
But that's not why you wear a mask.Ask yourself this question, Hottie: do you have Covid-19 right now? Unless you've been tested in the past day or two,
you have no way of knowing. You could be one of the people who gets the virus but never shows any outward symptoms. Or you could be one of the people who gets the virus but doesn't show any symptoms for the first few days. But if you have the virus in your system, you're contagious and could easily have no idea -- and you can spread it to other people through the tiny almost-invisible spray that comes from your nose and mouth every time you exhale. That spray can spread anywhere from 6 to 10 feet out from your face...
...unless you're wearing a mask.Wear a mask, and that 6-to-10-foot "spray radius" gets reduced to 6 inches. And THAT is why you wear a mask. It really doesn't do much to protect you... but if you're an asymptomatic carrier and have no idea you are one, it does A LOT to protect everyone around you.
(And by the way, being "asymptomatic" doesn't mean you're not sick. There have been quite a few cases of people who tested positive, never showed outward symptoms, and were later found to have suffered heart damage from the virus. This thing is not "just the flu." Just wanted to mention that too.)
So, PLEASE keep wearing your mask. Put whatever you want on it. I ENCOURAGE people to wear masks with "Trump 2020" or "Fuck Fauci" or confederate flags or swastikas or pentagrams or the Nickelback logo or whatever. Whatever makes you feel comfortable with wearing a mask... and quite frankly, if some anti-masker sees you wearing a Trump 2020 mask, they might just realize, "Oh, hey, he's a Trump guy too and he's wearing a mask... maybe it's okay if I wear one also."