eugyppius

An amazing thing about ZeroCovid, is how so much of what they argue means the opposite of what they think it does Take aerosolised transmission. The are whole corners of twitter that rant about this all the time because they think it means we have to be THAT MUCH MORE CAREFUL...

Yeah, for me masking is the most obvious example of this. Whenever I see scientists adamant that SARS-2 spreads via aerosol, and yet they're wearing two masks in their profile pic, I can't help but laugh at the irony

it‘s just ridiculous. like WWI soldier pulling a bandana over his nose in the face of chlorine gas attack.

To be fair viral load does have an influence of getting it, reducing exposure to it reduces viral load and reduces infection.

If aerosols are primarily how Corona spreads, masks aren’t going to reduce viral load. Maybe ventilating rooms would have a hope of this, but even here the way it’s enacted seems unlikely to do much. And indeed neither of these measures seem to do anything to the curve.

I think masks at best can slow that buildup in a room so what would take, say, 10 minutes of being in a room w/o mask to build up a high enough dose for transmission might take 15 minutes with a mask. But open enough windows and there will be no build up to make masks worthwhile.

The volume of air that is exhaled / inhaled is the same though, right? With a mask or without it Only a sealed n95/ffp2 mask would have this effect, but if there is no seal (and the ffp2 masks we have here, do not seal at all), the air you breathe is almost totally unfiltered.

Eh Ive done plenty jobs ripping up interiors with dust flying out, around open flames with smoke, spray painting, etc never had an issue inhaling the wrong thing despite having on whatever N95 I had, they work. Cloth though you're only catching little bits of spit that fly out