MorningAngel
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Paper and fabric masks do stop the bigger droplets.As someone who uses military NBC training as the main source of information... this is a virus where air filtration is needed to ensure safety. Paper masks don't do that.
At any rate, the US CDC used to have figures on their website about the lethality of Covid-19.... Less than 1% and this is NOT factoring out the cases where it's someone listed as a Covid Casualty solely because they were exposed before they died. So the actually figures would be even lower. At that point the figures showed around half the population to get exposed were in fact passive carriers of it, and most of the rest had weak symptoms. Then you add in how we don't actually know the ratio of deaths that are actually due to Covid because the official figures include people who didn't even die of illness.
Sure it's a real virus, and might kill people, but... personal anecdote? More people close to my family have died of the vaccine than the virus. :/
‘One category of evidence comes from laboratory studies of respiratory droplets and the ability of various masks to block them. An experiment using high-speed video found that hundreds of droplets ranging from 20 to 500 micrometers were generated when saying a simple phrase, but that nearly all these droplets were blocked when the mouth was covered by a damp washcloth. Another study of people who had influenza or the common cold found that wearing a surgical mask significantly reduced the amount of these respiratory viruses emitted in droplets and aerosols.’
Taken from here you might want to read it
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/4...s-heres-science-behind-how-face-masks-prevent