cloth and surgical masks offer next to no protection against virus-sized particles or small aerosols’

Your cousin's an idiot. Shall we list all the things supposedly brilliant physicians have prescribed over the years that have killed people? The only difference between a doctor and a skilled Electrician, is that Electricians never tell you to touch the positive and negative wires attached to a power supply at the same time. Doctors often do the medical equivalent.

It's a RARE doctor that keeps learning after graduating medical school. Well, they rarely keep learning about MEDICINE after school. They spend their time learning about investing, buying boats and airplanes, etc...Not all, but MANY doctors have little medical knowledge they didn't have when they got their diploma. I've seen this first hand.

Here's a test:

Take a long drag on a cigarette (if you don't have one, ask a doctor, they probably have a pack handy), put on an N95 mask and exhale.

You'll see SMOKE coming through the mask. Do you really think that a VIRUS is BIGGER than a particle of smoke? Smoke particles are THOUSANDS of times bigger than a virus. What makes you think it's going to stop a virus? On the rare occasions I go to a grocery store these days, I wear a mask, not to be safe or to keep others safe, but just so I don't have to talk to Karens who are suffering from oxygen deprivation and want to hassle people.

Surgeons don't wear masks during surgery to stop viruses. They wear them to stop PARTICULATES from transferring from the patient to the doctor. When they're rooting around in someone's open abdomen, they don't want stuff splashing into their face. They're also to stop PARTICULATES from passing from the doctor's mouth to the INSIDES OF THE PATIENT.

Jeez. The stupidity of people astounds me. The stupidity of doctors hardly makes me look twice, these days.

Mark my words, numbnuts. Making kids wear masks for entire school days WILL have consequences. In 10 years, you will absolutely see lower IQ scores, caused by oxygen deprivation when the kids were young.

One day, Fauci and his family will be showing the videos of him saying "DON'T WEAR MASKS," which he said early in the "pandemic." They'll be trying to divert attention away from his culpability. He will be the figurehead blamed for the myriad of problems this whole farce has caused, and will be on considered the equivalent of a war criminal. He does deserve it, of course. After all, he's the one drunk on power, who gets up and says whatever keeps him in the limelight, and that will be his undoing. People will not forget his role in this crime against the American people.

I only wear N95 or N100 masks. I wear them to protect myself, regardless of what the others around me are wearing. Most people don't realize that a simple surgical mask will not protect you from others. The surgical mask is to protect others from your droplets when you breathe, talk, cough, and so forth. If everyone is wearing a surgical mask properly, then we all have some protection from the droplets, but it only takes one person not wearing or improperly wearing a mask, to put all of those wearing a surgical mask at risk.

NO KIND OF MAASK GONNA STOP PARTICLES MEASURED IN MILLIMICRONS ALL THEY DO IS STOP SNEEZE COUGH DROOPLETSFROM GETTING ON STORE SURFACES SPREADING LKIE THAT6

Of course. Everyone knows this.

The mask agenda isn't about keeping you safe, it's about compliance.

3 micron holes don't block .7 micron virus particles. Electrostatic doesn't work when moist, you you exhale moist air?
Military grade canisters would work with limited hours.

I only wear N95 or N100 masks. I wear them to protect myself, regardless of what the others around me are wearing. Most people don't realize that a simple surgical mask will not protect you from others. The surgical mask is to protect others from your droplets when you breathe, talk, cough, and so forth. If everyone is wearing a surgical mask properly, then we all have some protection from the droplets, but it only takes one person not wearing or improperly wearing a mask, to put all of those wearing a surgical mask at risk.

That is incorrect. They provide little protection for yourself. The main purpose of masks is to protect others from yourself. Masks absorb the virus-carried drops of water vapour in the exhaled breath before they reach others. They do not absorb free viruses because the latter are too small to be trapped. That is why you will still breath in such free viruses even if you are wearing a mask. It is vital therefore that the other people around you wear masks in order to reduce as much as possible the concentration of virus-carried water droplets that they exhale so as to MINIMISE (not stop altogether) the chance of you breathing in these particles.

The trouble with you anti-maskers is that you are using the wrong argument, for you failed to understand that wearing masks is meant to help everyone else, not YOU!

Idiot did you even read my post!