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A properly worn respirator is the most effective way to prevent infection and spread of COVID-19 disease.
The most effective respirator at a reasonable price is an elastomeric respirator with detachable filters. The best filter is N100 or P100. These filters are at least 99.97% efficient at filtering out the tiny particles that carry the virus.
Respirators are effective against all variants of the virus. They are also effective against other respiratory viruses and pollen.
The respirator should be NIOSH-approved.
Make sure you do a seal check each time you wear the respirator so that no air leaks around the mask.
Make sure the filter material doesn’t get wet because it won't work as well when it is wet.
Don't ever remove the respirator when you are around other people or are where other people have been recently. Don't even remove it to eat. Find a safe place to eat away from other people who might be infected.
(Image: A cop wearing an elastomeric respirator, lic. CC-BY-AT-2.5. Attribution: Ryssby at en.wikipedia)
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@Pat I think we can agree at this point covid is here to stay forever... so whats the game plan for you personally, just wear a resperator for the rest of your life anything you interact with someone?
If I get COVID-19, I'm mostly likely dead, so yes all those fuckheads who can't be bothered to wear a fucking mask in order to save the lives of million people are causing of all us who are old or immuniocomprised to have to continue to wear protection.
So what, exactly, is your motivation to want cause more people to die from COVID-19? Are you just sadistic? Does your Pfiser stock go up a half point every time a million more people die? Why do you want to kill more people?
Don't answer right now. Think about it. Talk it over with your priest or your rabbi or your therapist or your accountant first.
Then come back explain why it is so important to you to cause more people to die.
@Pat You could argue tthat about flu and other common diseases... there are always a rare few people who will be at high risk.
But again my question is, knowing what you said to be true, what is your end game here.. is the proposal that no 2 humans should ever interact again without a resperator? If the risk is so dire that means even sleeping with one if your married... is that the end game?
We've had this convo a dozen times now. If just a majority of peolpe wore a respirator, the epidmeic would end and we wouldn't have to wear masks anymore.
But because of greed or graspingness or ignorance, those who control public health policy and the media want the pandemic to continue, even if millions more die.
@Pat But thats not how it works... if every last person wore resperators the virus would slow to minimal numbers, but then they would immediately spike again when people wore them... Compound that with the fact that we arent likely to get everyone tto wear them anyway the fact will remain no matter what we do you will always have the virus and always need the resperator.
So my question is this... if we all played along and you found out that what i said was right... the virus never goes away... whats the next step, take them off and let people die, or where them forever?
We've already gone over this. With the original variant just 40% compliance would end the pandemic. With the current variants it would require a substantial majority, but not everyone. Once the virus is eliminated in the country, then masks off, and contact-trace any localized outbreaks, and when necessary masks back on again if it gets out of control again.
Asia has been doing that ever since SARS I.
@mathlover @Pat I am head of the entire company working on COVID... we have hundreds of samples in our lab and work with COVID daily, my career is centered around COVID... trust me when i say, you dont "get rid of" a virus like this... you can reduce it to the pointt where it will be background noise and then it will resurge again later, but it never goes away.
Having read further I can see you brought up reducing it to the background. I'm still not good at finding everything in a thread of responses here! So take what I said about comparing it to measles and pretend I was agreeing with this statement :)
In the end, even a flu-like amount of infection(2 infections a decade on average) might not be so bad for your health. The jury's still out on that. Getting it multiple times a year is simply not a viable way forward. Agree to disagree there, but I'm near 100% certain that the issues with that path forward will continue to bring about unfortunate health events for the majority of people, not a minority.
