Wearing Masks Isn’t “Defiant” #shorts
3,692Masks on airplanes are now optional! If you still wish to wear one, go ahead, but don’t claim defiance while doing so.
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LINKS:
-- Masks --
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20211229/cloth-masks-vs-surgical-n95-what-to-know
Recommendations to opt for N95 and 3-ply surgical masks over cloth masks are nothing new, says Leana Wen, MD, an emergency doctor and public health professor at George Washington University.In fact, public health experts have been urging stronger mask protection for months.
“It’s not just with Omicron that we need better masks, it was with Delta, it was with Alpha before that,” Wen says. “We have known for many months that COVID-19 is airborne, and therefore, a simple cloth mask is not going to cut it.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/01/05/cloth-masks-not-effective-omicron-covid/9091574002/
"Cloth masks are not going to cut it with omicron," says Linsey Marr, a researcher at Virginia Tech told NPR. Health experts are urging the public to opt for three-ply surgical masks, KN95 masks or N95 masks, which offer more protection against the highly contagious variant.
https://twitter.com/MartinKulldorff/status/1435573902789464065
Cloth masks decreased confirmed symptomatic COVID disease by 5% while surgical masks decreased it by 11%
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27531371/
“only marginally beneficial in protecting individuals from particles less than 2.5 μm [like SARS-CoV-2]”
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/commentary-masks-all-covid-19-not-based-sound-data
“cloth masks exhibit very low filter efficiency”
“Wearing a cloth mask or face covering could be better than doing nothing, but we simply don’t know at this point.”
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/rmv.2336
-- Mask Mandates --
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/18/florida-judge-overturns-cdc-mask-mandate-for-public-transit-planes.html
https://twitter.com/ValerieJarrett/status/1516451750852575243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/ThePowersThatBe/status/1516581148020912132
https://twitter.com/mhdksafa/status/1517902709952765953
https://twitter.com/LindseyCreated/status/1516208669637189644
https://twitter.com/YUNGSADISTlC/status/1516454441532084228
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