Are masks mainly of benefit. . .

[Conager]

. . .to unattractive people? Is less, more for many posters here?

I have noticed that when you only see their eyes, I see a lot more "attractive" people out and about in my travels. Would a mask improve Lyle Lovett's look? Adam Schiff?

A thread for both discussion and the posting of your sexiest nasked pictures!

 

[Mal_Huevo]

https://i.redd.it/6gts4r26cn151.jpg

 

[Conager]

Just to be clear, this thread is not just designed to attract the unattractive. Pretty people are welcome to post as well. Post your favorite masks, yours or others.


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[Emerson40]

As Businesses Re-Open, Experts say it's Crucial We Wear Masks


May 27, 2020 11:45 a.m. — In a perspective piece published today in the journal Science, UC San Diego experts describe in detail the growing evidence that SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, can be spread by asymptomatic people via aerosols — a reality that deeply underscores the ongoing importance of regular widespread testing, wearing masks and physical distancing to reduce the spread of the virus. Here’s what they said:

Asymptomatic people spread virus in aerosols. Mounting evidence suggests that SARS-CoV-2 is silently spread in aerosols exhaled by contagious infected persons displaying no symptoms. A recent study estimated that a single minute of loud speaking might generate between 1,000-100,000 virion-containing aerosols or virus particles suspended in the air. Due to their small size, aerosols can remain airborne for hours and travel long distances. Small, virus-containing aerosols can also penetrate more deeply into the lungs, bypassing the immune system, which can lead to more severe cases of COVID-19.

Traditional measures target droplets, not buoyant aerosols. Traditional respiratory disease controls based on physical spacing are designed to reduce transmission from large droplets produced in the sneezes and coughs of infected individuals. However, a large fraction of the spread of COVID-19 appears to be occurring through airborne transmission of smaller aerosols produced by infected but asymptomatic individuals during breathing and speaking. Droplets settle to surfaces within six feet and spread via contact. Contrarily, infectious aerosols can accumulate in indoor, uncirculating air for hours, where they can be more easily inhaled deeply into the lungs.

Infectious aerosols can travel further than six feet. Given how little is known about the airborne behavior of infectious aerosols, it’s difficult to define a safe distance for physical distancing. However, a six-foot perimeter indoors without a mask is likely not enough if an asymptomatic person is actively shedding the virus, researchers say. A good comparison is exhaled smoke: The distance from a smoker at which you can smell smoke indicates the distance at which you might also inhale infectious aerosols. Many factors affect aerosol spread indoors and outdoors, such as air flow and ventilation, number of people in the space, time of exposure, sunlight, temperature and humidity.

Masks are essential. Properly fitted masks provide a critical physical barrier, reducing the number of infectious viruses in the exhaled breath of asymptomatic individuals. Countries that have been most effective in limiting the spread of COVID-19 have implemented universal masking. For example, Taiwan (population 24 million), where masking orders were universal and quickly enacted, did not implement a lockdown during the pandemic; yet it maintained a low incidence of approximately 441 cases and 7 deaths. By contrast, New York State (population 20 million) has had more than 353,000 COVID-19 cases and 24,000 deaths.

SOURCE

Authors of the above and linked:

Kimberly Prather, PhD, is Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Her group performs studies worldwide determining the airborne transport, sources and reactivity of aerosols. Her research group is currently investigating which viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, can be detected outdoors in coastal sewage and the air along the San Diego coast. She is the founding director of the National Science Foundation Center for Aerosol Impacts on Chemistry of the Environment (CAICE), which focuses on understanding the impacts of ocean microbes on climate, air quality and human health.

Robert Schooley, MD, is a professor of medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine and an infectious disease expert. His research interests are in global health and the diagnosis, pathogenesis and therapy of viral infections. He co-leads the UC San Diego Return to Learn Program, an effort to broadly test students, faculty and staff on campus on a recurring basis for presence of SARS-CoV-2. This program, which includes plans for contact tracing and isolation housing for on-campus resident students who test positive for the virus, is intended to better position UC San Diego to resume in-person activities when fall classes begin in September 2020.









Science Journal piece referenced in the UC San Diego Health Sciences article above:

Reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2

Science 27 May 2020:

Abstract : Masks and testing are necessary to combat asymptomatic spread in aerosols and droplets


Respiratory infections occur through the transmission of virus-containing droplets (>5 to 10 μm) and aerosols (≤5 μm) exhaled from infected individuals during breathing, speaking, coughing, and sneezing. Traditional respiratory disease control measures are designed to reduce transmission by droplets produced in the sneezes and coughs of infected individuals. However, a large proportion of the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) appears to be occurring through airborne transmission of aerosols produced by asymptomatic individuals during breathing and speaking (1–3). Aerosols can accumulate, remain infectious in indoor air for hours, and be easily inhaled deep into the lungs. For society to resume, measures designed to reduce aerosol transmission must be implemented, including universal masking and regular, widespread testing to identify and isolate infected asymptomatic individuals.

Humans produce respiratory droplets ranging from 0.1 to 1000 μm. A competition between droplet size, inertia, gravity, and evaporation determines how far emitted droplets and aerosols will travel in air (4, 5). Respiratory droplets will undergo gravitational settling faster than they evaporate, contaminating surfaces and leading to contact transmission. Smaller aerosols (≤5 μm) will evaporate faster than they can settle, are buoyant, and thus can be affected by air currents, which can transport them over longer distances. Thus, there are two major respiratory virus transmission pathways: contact (direct or indirect between people and with contaminated surfaces) and airborne inhalation.

In addition to contributing to the extent of dispersal and mode of transmission, respiratory droplet size has been shown to affect the severity of disease. For example, influenza virus is more commonly contained in aerosols with sizes below 1 μm (submicron), which lead to more severe infection (4). In the case of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), it is possible that submicron virus-containing aerosols are being transferred deep into the alveolar region of the lungs, where immune responses seem to be temporarily bypassed. SARS-CoV-2 has been shown to replicate three times faster than SARS-CoV-1 and thus can rapidly spread to the pharynx from which it can be shed before the innate immune response becomes activated and produces symptoms (6). By the time symptoms occur, the patient has transmitted the virus without knowing.

Identifying infected individuals to curb SARS-CoV-2 transmission is more challenging compared to SARS and other respiratory viruses because infected individuals can be highly contagious for several days, peaking on or before symptoms occur (2, 7). These “silent shedders” could be critical drivers of the enhanced spread of SARS-CoV-2. In Wuhan, China, it has been estimated that undiagnosed cases of COVID-19 infection, who were presumably asymptomatic, were responsible for up to 79% of viral infections (3). Therefore, regular, widespread testing is essential to identify and isolate infected asymptomatic individuals.


SOURCE and further reading

Authors of the linked piece:

Kimberly A. Prather1, Chia C. Wang2,3, Robert T. Schooley4
1 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
2 Department of Chemistry, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 804, Republic of China.
3 Aerosol Science Research Center, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 804, Republic of China.
4 Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

 

[Conager]

Reminder: no matter his attractive you are, facial coverings worn as Barbara Eden is demonstrating here are ineffective. It must cover both your mouth and your nose!

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[Mal_Huevo]

https://i.redd.it/k6sq89czlq151.jpg

 

[Conager]

Another celebrity as a cautionary example:

https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/john-wayne.jpg

No, Duke, no. Gotta cover your mouth and nose.

 

[Conager]

TV sets a lot of bad examples.

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Wandering around a hospital full of exotic, communicable diseases unmasked seems like a bad idea, no matter how attractive you may be.

 

[Em_1]

http://i.imgflip.com/3vfqrm.jpg

 

[Conager]

Huh. I didn't expect to be shown to be correct so quickly.

So far the only attractive people in the thread are unmasked celebrities and myself, your congenial and attractive host.

I am having difficulty maintaining social distancing from the onslaught of unfortunate uglyness.

 

[OldJourno]

New England Journal of Medicine

You can skip the mask:
The NEJM report in question is "Universal Masking in Hospitals in the Covid-19 Era, which regards the efficacy of requiring all medical staff in hospitals to wear protective masks. I will leave that debate to the medical professionals, though suffice it to say, every physician and nurse among our family and friends believes that masking in hospitals is an important safety measure.
But what in this report should be of interest to everyone regarding the use of masks outside of hospitals is the second paragraph, where the authors note: "We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or even 30 minutes). The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic."

Sorry, I know it's a repeat of a C&P.

 

[HisArpy]

It's a tough job but somebody's got to do it.

Carry on.

 

[Rightguide]

The policy is designed to maintain an atmosphere of fear in support of the all but disintegrating Virus narrative supported by blue state totalitarians and their enablers in the national media.

 

[Mal_Huevo]

The policy is designed to maintain an atmosphere of fear in support of the all but disintegrating Virus narrative supported by blue state totalitarians and their enablers in the national media.

Lol, the sad part is that you believe it.

 

[Conager]

You can skip the mask:
The NEJM report in question is "Universal Masking in Hospitals in the Covid-19 Era, which regards the efficacy of requiring all medical staff in hospitals to wear protective masks. I will leave that debate to the medical professionals, though suffice it to say, every physician and nurse among our family and friends believes that masking in hospitals is an important safety measure.
But what in this report should be of interest to everyone regarding the use of masks outside of hospitals is the second paragraph, where the authors note: "We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or even 30 minutes). The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic."

Sorry, I know it's a repeat of a C&P.

That is pretty much what Fouci, an actual epidemiologist said months ago, and nothing has changed about how diseases are spread or prevented from spreading in the last couple of months.

It's what I have been saying even before masks became available and I actually observed how poorly people use them.

Whether it occasionally provides a barrier to delay the day a particular person is inevitably exposed, it does seem 100% effective at covering ugly:

Let's not concentrate on the stupid and the ugly, let's keep.it fun and light rather than focusing on the silly politicisation and virtue-signaling it has devolved to!

 

[Mal_Huevo]

https://i.redd.it/og2te14icq151.jpg

 

[Tryharder62]

I am saving a lot of money on makeup!

 

[HisArpy]

I am saving a lot of money on makeup!

Hang in there, eventually the cravings will wear off and you can say that you've finally kicked the habit.

 

[doowdniw]

https://i.redd.it/og2te14icq151.jpg

His wouldn't be able to cover both his mouth and nose at the same time with the one made for tiny peckers. (According to a porn star who he paid $$$$ for her "opinion".)

 

[Conager]

I am saving a lot of money on makeup!

You see?

Ax-cent-choo-ate the positive!

I snapped a pic.

Though still attractive, obviously, just not as noticeably handsome. I feel that unattractive people are going to benefit disproportionately from masking.

 

[renard_ruse]

I see Rory has made a bunch more alts in the years I was gone from this pathetic board. Not sure who widdle roarwee thinks she's fooling with these alts.

 

[jaF0]

Masks are only a benefit to the people selling them.

 

[renard_ruse]

The policy is designed to maintain an atmosphere of fear in support of the all but disintegrating Virus narrative supported by blue state totalitarians and their enablers in the national media.

Its a ritualistic forced submission to the new world order. Its a symbol of the globalists total control over the people. It seeks to dehumanize us as individuals, making us "faceless" interchangeable sheep.

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

Old lady (ancient really) in front of me yesterday was wearing a mask but bought cigarettes. So either she doesn't think smokes are harmful or she thinks she can smoke through a mask or she will take off the mask to smoke. None of the possibilities are signs of intelligent life.

 

[DeluxAuto]

You see?

Ax-cent-choo-ate the positive!

I snapped a pic.

Though still attractive, obviously, just not as noticeably handsome. I feel that unattractive people are going to benefit disproportionately from masking.

You're sportin' a spankin' new hat and kerchief against a prepared backdrop.

Are you a 12 year old girl just back from the mall?