Pat @Pat@qoto.org

#masks #respirator #COVID19 #vaccine #Fauci

What type of face mask do you wear?

Since the pandemic started, the US healthcare industry has lost 684,286 customers.

The death rate in the US is now equivalent to a 9/11 attack happening everyday.

#CoVID19 #respirator #vaccine #mask

This mathematical model says that respirators could have stopped COVID-19 in the US...

This study by researchers at Harvard Medical School and other institutions says that if just 40% of the population had worn N95 respirators at the beginning of the outbreak in the US, then the epidemic would never have become established.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.210699

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This is an elastomeric respirator. These respirators provide the best protection and fit (other than units that provide a separate air supply, like SCBA (self-contained breathing aparatus) or PAPR (powered air-purifying respirator)). Elastomeric respirators are designed for reuse and the filters are replaceable. The most effective filters for these respirators are rated N100 or P100 (or P3 in Europe). The respirators usually have an exhalation valve to make breathing easier. If source control is desired, then the exhalation valve should be covered with separate cloth or filter material. (Being careful not to excessively impede breathing.)

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(This pic is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic license.
Attribution: Ryssby at English Wikipedia)

This is a respirator, also known as an N95 mask. These respirators have the filter built into the mask and are usually designed for limited use and disposal, although when supplies are short they can be reused as long as they still provide a good fit and are not clogged so as to make breathing difficult. They sometimes have an exhalation valve that allows exhaled air to escape directly without being filtered so as to make breathing easier. The unit in this picture also provides source control.

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Pic: Astronaut Kate Rubins wearing a respirator.

This is a surgical mask. It is designed to provide some level of source control, but is not designed to protect the wearer from airborne pathogens because it does not fit tightly to the face and allows some air to flow around the mask. The mask material is made of non-woven fabric, like melt-blown media, which can often filter smaller particles better than a simple cloth mask.

However, if you want to protect yourself from COVID-19, you must wear a respirator, like an N95 mask (or even better, N100).

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Happy Constitution Day!

The American Revolution and the (imperfect) Constitution we created from it was an outlier among political revolutions in history. Although some among the founders were in it for a power grab, most were sincere and we won freedom.

Here's how revolutions typically play out...

Revolutionary leader says, "oppressed, blah, blah, blah, injustice, blah blah, blah, corrupt, blah, blah, incompetent, blah, blah...<insert list of contemporary grievances> ... Therefore, give me absolute power because only I can fit this..."

(Sometimes that last part is disguised as, "power to the people and I'll decide what the people want." )

#USA #Constitution #amendment #potus #congress #scotus

#PoliticalScience - because this is a science instance, right?

I just blocked a qoto user who was promoting violence.

Thea Van Harbou was not licensed to practice medicine in Argentina.

#metropolis #medicine #doctor #Dr #health #AI #silentfilm #scifi #sciencefiction

#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)

This ape is smarter than I am...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkNV0rSndJ0

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50,882

Last Saturday marked 100 days since the CDC relaxed their guidelines for mask-wearing. Since that time, 50,882 Americans have been killed by the virus. All of those deaths were preventable. 100%.

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Every 18 minutes, 17 Americans are killed by COVID-19.

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Those who deny the pandemic, who refuse to get vaccinated, refuse to wear a mask and take other precautions to prevent the killing -- those people desecrate our mourning for those who have died.

#COVID-19 #pandemic #masks #mask #vaccine #vax #CDC #virus #terrorists

The strangest video I've seen today (so far)

(sorry, video wasn't public in original toot -- retooting)

#Sabine #Hossenfelder #musk #neural #neuralink #tesla #brain

Play video: https://video.qoto.org/videos/watch/245e53dd-c63e-482f-9d0c-b47f4de88b56

I just blocked a racist who used the N-word.

copying this to the local timeline...

A poster was criticizing COVID-19 vax policy and said, "Go back and read the founding documents of this country."

So I did. (nibble)

Yes. There it is. Right there in the old DOI:

“…He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has forced us to submit of the penetration to our flesh, the inoculant necessary to subdue the plague. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation…”

#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)
#TruthBeTold #history #DeclarationOfIndependence (#DOI) #USA #COVID19 #vax #vaccine

#abbreviation #Disambiguation

FYI

PLC = Pityriasis lichenoides chronica

(FYI = for your information)

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You need to type in the phrase in the English side of the translator without quotes...

I have a run in my stockings

Then chose the language on the other (right) side. Use Simplified Chinese, not traditional.

If folks can't figure it out, I'll post the translations here, but it's more fun to watch them pop up in Google's translator.