‘Histories of the surgical mask offer some clues about our contemporary risk profile, a profile that is, according to the nature of risk, future-oriented. The birth of the mask came from the realization that surgical wounds need protection from the droplets released in the breath of surgeons.
3,
4 The technology was applied outside the operating room in an effort to control the spread of infectious epidemics. In the 1919 influenza pandemic, masks
were available and
were dispensed to populations, but they had no impact on the epidemic curve.
3At the time, it was unknown that the influenza organism is nanoscopic and can theoretically penetrate the surgical mask barrier. As recently as 2010, the US National Academy of Sciences declared that, in the community setting, “face masks are not designed or certified to protect the wearer from exposure to respiratory hazards.”’
‘In an annex to the Canadian pandemic influenza preparedness plan covering public health measures,
9 the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) does not recommend the use of masks by well individuals in pandemic situations, acknowledging that the mask has not been shown to be effective in such circumstances.’
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This was posted BEFORE covid, in 2016.
Part of why I never thought masks work is that they didn’t seem to help with other viral transmissions, as has been said before covid was even a thing.
Surgical masks are made to catch water droplets or larger size particles, like from a sneeze, during surgery. Virus particles are too small to be capture by the filter material, as the strands of cloth are too far apart to actually catch the extremely small viral particles, especially when it comes to covid, because covid is aerosolized, so it’ll float right through the masks, just like a pebble can be thrown through the gap of a chain link fence.
They know masks don’t work. People who wear it out of fear are like babies crying without a pacifier.
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