On Sunday, October 18, 2020 at 1:31:18 PM UTC-4, Bob F wrote:
On 10/18/2020 9:26 AM, Muggles wrote:
On 10/18/2020 1:04 AM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 17 Oct 2020 21:21:00 -0400, Ed Pawlowski
wrote:

On 10/17/2020 8:34 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 10/16/2020 2:53 PM, Jim Joyce wrote:
You don't really have to wear a mask in order to watch Trump on TV,
although I understand the feeling.

You don't NEED to wear a mask to live a normal life. Lot's of people
don't see any need to wear a mask, and we're fine.


Yes, you are correct. Unfortunately, this is not a normal life since
there is an easily transmittable virus traveling around.

I don't wear on at home, only when there is a danger of getting/giving a
deadly virus. It can save people from getting sick at places like the
White House, supermarket or a Trump death rally.



She sounds like she's willing to kill people, just for... I don't know
what she gets out of not wearing a mask, but whatever it is, it's enough
to make her willing to kill people.

What a moron you are. There's no stopping anyone from getting sick.
Nothing YOU or anyone does by wearing a mask prevents anyone from
catching a virus. The mask just makes YOU feel like you're doing
something to help other people, but you AREN'T helping other people by
wearing masks. Masks don't stop anything from happening, and in fact,
wearing masks help spread the virus and masks by themselves make people
sick.


This is pure nonsense. Masks make a big difference in transmission.
That's why doctors have worn them for surgery for decades. The mask
prevents infections in the patients.

"It was mainly the use of the mask to cover the mouth and nose (and
beard) during the Manchurian plague of 1910€“11 and the influenza
pandemic of 1918€“19 that turned the face mask into a means of protecting
medical workers and patients from infectious diseases outside of the
operating room. During the 1918€“19 influenza pandemic, wearing a mask
became mandatory for police forces, medical workers, and even residents
in some US cities, although its use was often controversial. Yet in
cities like San Francisco, the decline in deaths from influenza was
partly attributed to the mandatory mask-wearing policies. At this point,
the rationale for wearing masks moved beyond their original use in the
operating theat they now also protected the wearer against infection.
Meanwhile, masks continued to be developed in medicine. Although medical
practitioners agreed on the general function of the mask, in the first
decades of the 20th century they attempted to determine the most
efficient type of masks and there were patents on various designs. Masks
were usually made of several layers of cotton gauze, sometimes with an
additional layer of impervious material, held by a metal frame. Their
main goal was to prevent respiratory droplets from being transmitted
from and to the wearer, as Mikulicz and Flügge had suggested for the
operating theatre. Most masks were washable and the metal parts could be
sterilised and €œthus permit the use of the mask for a long time€�, as one
US inventor explained, who had a medical mask patented in 1919."

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/l...207-1/fulltext

Good find, Muggles and the Trumptards aren't even living in the last century.