On Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 6:28:35 AM UTC-4, FromTheRafters wrote:
micky formulated on Wednesday :
The radio has been saying for weeks that masks only protect the people
who are not wearing them, and a mask wearer is protected by others'
wearing masks.

And I posted here a few days ago that I didn't believe that.

Tonight on a radio show where they give 4 different doctors 15 minutes
each to answer questions one of the said the N95 masks, like I have,
work in both directions, and the other masks work only outbound.

Right again!

They work better inbound than outbound.

The mask worn by the reporter whom Yamiche Alcindor deferred to (which
prompted King Trump to walk away from the podium) only worked one way -
inbound. She was wearing the wrong kind of mask. Then, she dropped it
down to her chin (so she could make his comment more obviously racist)
making it even less effective at protecting anybody.

Of course one should still stay 6 feet away. I guess oral spray goes 3
or 4 feet and the next 2 feet are the safety zone.

It's all about probabilities, not absolutes. Just because they don't
work perfectly does not mean they are not effective.

Don't confuse Trump and the trumpets with basic math and science.
They obviously can't understand probabilities. Even worse, Trump the
moron looks at an event and draws exactly the wrong conclusion.
A WH staffer tests positive, is quarantined, prevented it from spreading
in the WH and possibly killing Trump. Trump conclusion from that is that
testing doesn't work, because she was negative until the test showed she
was positive. Like Tillerson said, he's a f**** moron.