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On 4/28/2020 8:08 AM, Tim wrote:


And just found that out by losing a law suit against down state representative Darren bailey.

Pritzker is finding that he’s not as well loved as he thought he was.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/loca...ports/2262560/



Some of this stuff is getting a little out of hand, IMO.

Our town just issued an "order" requiring everybody over 2 years old to
wear a mask when going to an "essential" store ... grocery, convenience,
gas stations, home improvement outlets, etc. Failure to obey can result
in fines.

The town's order also says you can't use N-95 or surgical type masks.
You are required to use a cloth mask that I guess you are supposed to
make yourself. I had dug up half a box of "procedural" masks that I
bought about 3 years ago at CVS for use when mowing the lawn. Now the
town says I can't use them because a procedural mask is considered a
surgical mask.

I have no problem with cooperating with this but it's not necessary to
issue an "order" enforceable with fines.

Wearing a mask is a commonsense courtesy to others. It doesn't protect
*you* ... it protects others if you are in close proximity and you
sneeze or cough.

When this whole thing started the public was asked to voluntarily
practice social distancing and limiting contact with others. For
us old farts, we were asked to voluntarily go into hibernation.

The whole purpose of this was to "flatten the curve" to prevent
hospitals from becoming overwhelmed with covid-19 cases.
That's all.

The public voluntarily responded and hospitals were never overwhelmed
even in places like NY and NYC. In fact, many now have empty beds and
hospitals are laying off medical staff.

We need to resist having local state governments issuing "orders"
enforceable by fines, especially when the voluntary efforts
of the public are working. Slippery-slope kind of thing.

All we need to do is to continue applying commonsense.


I am waiting to see a whole class of Covid related charges tossed as
soon as they get to court.
The mask thing will probably go first because there is absolutely zero
proof the bandanna mask does anything.
Even Fauci started out saying that and then I imagine he was prodded
into saying they *might* help. How are you going to tell thousands of
"Nannas" that they are wasting their time making masks.
I bet you don't see medical professionals wearing a home made mask.

Just think about it a minute. This is a porous material that you are
breathing through so it is collecting saliva. For an employee in a
store that is for hours. It is probably soaking wet. (I know my N-95s
won't last an hour in the shop until they are soaked).
Now I have this wet rag on my face, collecting all of my germs along
with any other germs that were in the air. There is zero filtering
capability for anything much bigger than 50-60 microns, even if the
rag is dry, wet it is a conduit. (Covid is 0.3 microns) I am
breathing the contamination in and if I sneeze, the germs are going
for a ride, infecting anyone or anything within range. How is that
helping anything.
All of that assumes you handle the mask properly and it doesn't become
a worse vector when you take it off and shove it in your pocket.


Try spitting through a mask.

Put some food coloring on the mask and sneeze through it. Don't do it
near anything expensive.

Wrong. Put the food coloring in your mouth. Then sneeze through it. Now do the
same without the mask.

Common sense rules.

We are talking about what happens to the contamination ON and IN the
mask when you sneeze through it., If you are wearing a mask for any
length of time on a warm day it will be soaked with sweat, saliva and
condensation. Now blow air through that. A T shirt is not going to
stop anything. It might slow down the range a little but you are still
contaminating any surface nearby and surface contamination seems to be
the main vector for this disease.

I probably have as much experience with masks, real N-95 masks, as
anyone here, just because of the amount of grinding and spray painting
I do. They are DONE in an hour or two. That is not anywhere close to
the ineffective do rags people call a mask these days.
I say again, wear your mask for an hour or so outside (until it gets
pretty moist), spray a little food color solution on it, inside or
out, it really doesn't make much difference, then blow air through it.
See what comes out.

Next, what do you do with your mask when you take it off? Shove it in
your pocket for next time? Throw it away?
Same with your gloves if you go that far.
Most of this crap is politically motivated feel good gestures having
nothing to do with proper sanitation. My nurse relative says that.



Greg, I don't think the CDC or local governments think people are
wearing a mask all day long and certainly not grinding or painting.




Yeah they aren't trying to stop particles that are 50 or 100 microns,
they think you are stopping a 0.3 micron virus with that do rag.
The CDC/NIH made a 180 turn on this in a couple of weeks bowing to
political pressure to be able to say we are doing something.


Greg, I think the early spring heat and humidity in Florida
has affected your thought process. Either that or you live
in an alternate universe.

The cloth "do" masks are *not* intended to stop a .3 micron
virus. They are intended to stop *your* aerosol spray from
a sneeze or cough from landing on other people or surfaces.

Even the HEPA filters used in airplanes
that filter and exchange all the cabin air every few minutes
won't filter a virus. A virus is typically smaller than .3
microns. Those filters are for airborne bacteria which is
much larger than a virus.

Nobody is saying you need to wear a mask all day anyway.
Only time you need to put one on is just before you enter
a store and you can remove it once you get back in your
vehicle.

Then you are handling a contaminated mask several times unless you
have a sterile bag of them and another bag to store the dirty ones.
The reality is as soon as you get away from Miami/Ft Lauderdale, the
virus is not really much of an issue and even with that big hot spot,
our numbers are a fraction of the Acela corridor, per capita, in every
category. If you toss that area, we look more like Texas or Utah.
We got a big data dump tonight from Tallahassee and it debunked a lot
of scary stuff we were hearing. It was why DeSantis decided to loosen
up the choke hold on our economy.







If I wear a mask once a day or once every two days for about 5 minutes
each time while I stop at a store, am not sneezing or coughing ... not
even talking really ...
do you really think I need to worry about it being "contaminated"?

It's not like I am performing surgery or something. :-)



So why bother? This is a politically correct gesture that is described
as "better than nothing" at best and with absolutely no science behind
it.
Fauci said they were useless until the PC police told him people want
to THINK they are doing something.


Greg, if I were carrying the covid-19 virus but didn't know it because
I was asymptomatic (at least for the moment) would you like me to
sneeze or cough on you? Or even near you?

I would be ****ed if you sneezed on me last year, maybe to the point
that snot might not be the only thing coming out of your nose if I
thought it was intentional but I digress.
Didn't we all learn to cover our mouth when we cough or sneeze 65
years ago? They even started teaching us not to use our hand 20 years
ago. That was just colds and Flu but the same principles still apply.
Why is that so hard?


Fauci initially said wearing a mask was not needed until further data
indicated
the virus could be transferred from person to person via sneezing,
coughing or even singing (in a group). No one is claiming that a
mask will 100% protect against this but it reduces the travel of
the wet sneeze or cough which is carrying the virus. This virus has
proven to be far more contagious than others and anything to reduce
the risk of spreading it is worthwhile, not only to the politically
correct but also to the medical experts, including Fauci.

He Read this:

https://www.livescience.com/how-covid-19-spreads-transmission-routes.html

Sounds like a lot of "we don't know" to me. That pretty much sums up
the science on this thing. They really don't know.

At a certain point we are going to be resolved to the fact that this
virus is out there and it isn't going away. You can run and you can
hide but if you want to have a life, you are probably going to be
exposed sooner or later. Now they are hedging on whether the vaccine
will even work and whether having antibodies makes you safe.



I see. To quote the troll, "Do nothing".

I have a wife I am concerned about, three adult kids and seven
grandkids. I'd like to see them once in a while.



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