It is not true that 99% or even 80% of people in the US are wearing masks. Trump and his minions have encouraged against wearing them and his mindless followers mostly believe him. That’s why the red states are now in the red zone of contagion. The coastal states are also hit but much less. Twenty percent of those who are infected are the spreaders. CDC says masks if double thickness protect others from you and you from them. Stay only in ventilated areas. Wear a goddamn mask.
August - 4 years ago
Elderly and compromised stay home. The rest go out maskless and go about normal business. masks in surgery are only for large droplets. covid will go right thru N95 pore size. Cases going up despite better mask compliance. Follow the stats, 50% of tests are false +. Herd immunity is a fact of pandemics, delayed by isolation...get it? All about instilling fear for control!
Lisa - 4 years ago
It is people eating indoors in restaurants that has caused the explosion of new cases. We all need to restrict ourselves to carry-out and do not mingle in large groups. So far my husband and I go nowhere - we won't even see our little grand-children unless we are outdoors. Wearing a mask is a
small inconvenience. It may take 6 more months before there are reliable vaccines available for us all.
Stay safe!!!
SeaAngel2 - 4 years ago
You don't believe masks work? The next time you go into surgery, tell the surgical team that you don't believe in masks and let them know they don't need to wear theirs during your surgery. I dare you!!
Geoffrey Rogg - 4 years ago
They do not protect the wearer, they entrap harmful bacteria and impair vital oxygen intake. Strict adherence to 2 m separation between non cohabitants and avoiding closed non ventilated environments offer the best protection.
J Bob - 4 years ago
Likely can't hurt. May help. Why's that a hard decision for anyone?
Patrick Alcatraz - 4 years ago
Debbie Hayes...Whoa! Whoa! Whoa, there filly! Whoa now. Whoa. Settle down, sweetheart. That beating heart pumped-up to 98% will not be kind to you. So, whoa! MASKS DO HELP. And wearing a mask while alone in a vehicle is a good move. Yes, the virus is not letting-up, but, downhome honeybun, ask yourself why not. Uh, it is airborne and still alive in the moving atmosphere, the one that circles the globe constantly. You think, doll? Giving up on a mask is not like giving up on a Man, Debbie. Stay with me now. Expressing fear is not a Loser's Hand, as they say in cards. Fear is what makes you pull the shower curtain all across the rod. Why do you do that? Fear is forking through a plate of cheese enchiladas. Why do you do that? No, I wouldn't want to be anywhere a non-fearing dame, as Mickey Spillane might say about here. Without a mask in public, well, you may as well be naked out there. As for ESTABAN MORENO, you must be some sort of Neo-Nazi here to impersonate a Mexican! Any Mexican with that name knows it is spelled ESTEBAN. But, as AMLO keeps saying these days, the PendejoVirus is out of control...
Debbie Hayes - 4 years ago
After nearly six months of wearing a mask and the covid numbers are still rising. Hmmmmm.......let's use some rational thinking here and realize that wearing a mask does not change the covid infection level. I certainly wish that there was more critical thinking among the masses. You grab a mask and put it on and then try to shame anyone not agreeing with you view that the mask will save the world. 98% survival rate........is that so hard to grasp? I have to laugh at so many of you that wear your little masks when you are alone in your car........you are mindlessly reacting to bad science. Wake up. It isn't working. I would be the first advocate if it did work........but it simply isn't. Estaban Moreno, "no one left to celebrate the Day of the Dead"........really? What part of 98% survival rate don't you understand?? How about another two weeks??? Some people are slowly catching on, but others are fear-mongering or if they are truly fearful.....they need to stay home......in bed.......awaiting the grim reaper.
Linda Densmore - 4 years ago
If you want to contribute to the problem... don’t wear a mask and risk killing loved ones around you. If you want to be helpful, until a reliable vaccine is developed, wear a mask, keep a little distance and wash your hands or used hand gel or wipes. Simple answers
Suzan - 4 years ago
Looking at these comments you'd think people were dropping dead in the streets. The CDC tells a different story. Turn off the damn television and do some reading. Fear is your worst enemy. Take control of your health and live
George - 4 years ago
Good grief. A lot of rules are thrust upon us, like it or not.
This is the worst pandemic since 1918. Put on the mask!
Wearing a seat belt in a moving car is mandatory, or face a penalty. Same for running a red light or exceeding the speed limit.
There are a lot of laws that many rant are violating our civil rights. You can’t cry falsely “fire” in a crowded theater. Amd so on.
Put on the damn mask to help save lives.
Jan Schnell - 4 years ago
I have no problem wearing a mask in enclosed areas or in a position where you cannot social distance. Also, I am a person that likes to walk on a daily basis, if possible, wearing a mask would make that impossible!
Mary Morley - 4 years ago
Steve: There have been numerous studies around the world by doctor groups, researchers, scientists, and health care workers. Masks rage from minimal to top protection. Several engineers have come up with mask designs, which can be sewn, customized for the person's fit, and the amount of protection offered. Read JAMA and learn.
Maria - 4 years ago
All the ones who are refusing to wear the mask Feel your boots Do not tell the rest of us not to
Your medical care once you are sick should be ignore Sure you will not care since you will be dead
robert corkrum - 4 years ago
O.K. because the Republican president TRAMP has 10 doctors and 2 of the best hospitals where everyone wears a mask it isn't necessary.I think anyone who does not to wear a mask should get together and party.Their health insurance should be cancelled,as I am sick of people who want to do nothing but be taken care of.My taxes pay for Tramp and his buddies who got the virus.Since he pays no taxes to support our troops etc.etc..The U.S.A. is now a big debitor nation! He is another freeloader.Mexico can be better if we learn.The U.S.A. has the highest DEBT in history since Tramp took office and they have the worst performance in the world of covid cases.10 million cases and working toward 250 thousand died .In Texas 1 out of every 30 people have the virus! A little didcomfort might be smart.
Dwyer Worrell Peri - 4 years ago
WHO and CDC guidelines BOTH recommend masks only indoors and when social distancing cannot be maintained.
The research shows that wearing a mask reduces your risk of TRANSMITTING the virus by about 25% IF you are contagious—the majority of asymptomatic, contagious infected have been exposed within 1-7 days previously and are contagious for 1-3 days prior to becoming ill.
Being outdoors with a breeze, or even in a well-ventilated open area, reduces the risk of transmission to virtually nil. Unless you are in a crowded situation where people are shouting, the chance of catching the virus outdoors is minuscule.
The absolute risk of you having unknowingly been exposed and being in the window of time when able to transmit the virus is very small. Reducing a risk from 1/50,000 to 1/62,50 is not worth the heat illnesses, alienation, hypoxia, skin and nasal infections, and general discomfort of wearing masks at all times and places.
Lee Caflisch - 4 years ago
NO masks are being worn in our tourist beach town!!
Patrick Alcatraz - 4 years ago
Of course the mask is political! Duh!!! But you'd better wear one before your dumbass, blowhard ballyhooing accompanies your ride to the grave. The hollow, mindless commentary here is beyond baffling, although the question itself sets you up for making a choice not unlike one makes in picking the ugly one over the semi-ugly at the bordello. Wear your mask! One more time: The virus is airborne and not wearing one brands you a doofus/moron looking at it strictly from a political angle. Nothing is ever that simple. The mask alone will not save you. Why do Mexican wrestlers wear masks? To keep from being identified. Does it work for that use? Yes!!!! Same for the cruel and heartless Covid-19 attack mask. This is now clear, Fauci or no Fauci. Dare to use your brain, Rubes! Chasing the news media is a hoot, but not the sole decider in what smart people do. As for Gates, well, Kevin James, this is most certainly NOT one of those follow-the-money mysteries, lad. Americans have made money every which way, during every what catastrophe. Disasters are astonishing cash producers. Look elsewhere for your self-invented demons, for your ridiculous suspects. It appears that you have talked yourself into giving up, or are you merely impaired?...
Robert James Palmer - 4 years ago
99% of the public are wearing them...wow i think you need some glasses sir!
Kevin James - 4 years ago
Boy those masks are working so well when 99% of the public in the U.S.A. are wearing them now for the last month or so and cases are skyrocketing! The masks are a political statement made by the democrat party and the Biden campaign. Those of you who can remember may remember the slogan: ''We're all in this together'' wearing the mask I remember that slogan I think started by the Cdc and the next day the Biden campaign started using it and Joe went into hiding with his mask on to target the fearful who needed something tangible to feel safe like wearing ''the mask''! I know slogans and how they work in advertising and political campaigns I have owned an Advertising Agency since 1986 and have done a political advertising campaign myself. Another interesting fact Dr. Fouci said masks don't work in June and than a month ago says they help and now I read in an email that Fouci and Bill Gates are doing seminars on how to make money during the virus pandemic, read that last week on my Yahoo account. You don't think the mask is political that yahoo email proved it to me the masks and the virus is political and about money! Shame on Fouci and Bill Gates. The sheep have been duped again! Keep your distance gets lots of Vitamin D and make sure your T cells are good and don't let anyone indoors spit talk in your face for any length of time and you will be fine like me!! I wear them nowhere did weasr one in a casino and took in more smoke into my lungs than ever before. Also read the fine print on mask box, what's it say it does for you? Pretty much nothing worth wearing it for unless your doctor or surgeon operating with an cut or wound and your communicating with a nurse than the mask works to help prevent big saliva droplets from dropping into a cut or wound to help prevent bacteria. Live life follow my suggestions and you'll be fine!!
Kevin Jamerson - 4 years ago
No cause masks don't work read the research the virus is 0.10 microns in size masks only begin to work at 20.0 microns in size. Quit fooling yourself! Every medical employee I know got the virus with the mask on by someone with the virus and a mask on.
James R Cook - 4 years ago
Wearing a mask isn't a political statement. It is an IQ test. The mask is more about protecting others from the wearer than about protection of the wearer, although it can help with that too. When someone refuses to wear a mask, they are telling me that they don't care if they infect me and I die. I have no use for such irresponsible morons.
-El Codo- - 4 years ago
I started wearing a colloidal silver soaked mask last February. 1,500 PPM, spray soaked from the inside. 5 spray coats. What was taking the National Institute of Health so long to catch up? Finally in Sept ca,e their white paper which was peer-reviewed. Irrefutable evidence. Colloidal Silver is a POTENT ANTIVIRAL. The slightest touch of a virus to the silver killed the virus within 15 minutes. This won't work with standard 1 layer cloth masks but the N95 has 5 layers. Soaking three of the 5 guarantees few if any virus passage without contact. As a graduate virologist, I am not prone to making rash statements. The prophylaxis does radically reduce effectively virus transmission rates/
Carole Sheaves - 4 years ago
We love Mexico.???????????????? Por favor, wear a face mask. We want to return to our Mex. Amigoes, but not attend your funerals. We wear masks in Canada except for the uneducated!!!Love you, stay safe, stay well & we will see you in 2022.????????????????
Debb Tannenbaum - 4 years ago
Not one more death!
Wear a mask!
Distance!
Masks for all!
Steve rankin - 4 years ago
There exist exactly zero studies that show masks to be of any benefit. In
Carmen Galván - 4 years ago
I dislike wearing a mask as much as a lot of people but I strongly feel that if we don’t comply we will never see an end to this pandemic.
Estaban Moreno - 4 years ago
Otherwise there will no one left to celebrate the Day of the Dead
It is not true that 99% or even 80% of people in the US are wearing masks. Trump and his minions have encouraged against wearing them and his mindless followers mostly believe him. That’s why the red states are now in the red zone of contagion. The coastal states are also hit but much less. Twenty percent of those who are infected are the spreaders. CDC says masks if double thickness protect others from you and you from them. Stay only in ventilated areas. Wear a goddamn mask.
Elderly and compromised stay home. The rest go out maskless and go about normal business. masks in surgery are only for large droplets. covid will go right thru N95 pore size. Cases going up despite better mask compliance. Follow the stats, 50% of tests are false +. Herd immunity is a fact of pandemics, delayed by isolation...get it? All about instilling fear for control!
It is people eating indoors in restaurants that has caused the explosion of new cases. We all need to restrict ourselves to carry-out and do not mingle in large groups. So far my husband and I go nowhere - we won't even see our little grand-children unless we are outdoors. Wearing a mask is a
small inconvenience. It may take 6 more months before there are reliable vaccines available for us all.
Stay safe!!!
You don't believe masks work? The next time you go into surgery, tell the surgical team that you don't believe in masks and let them know they don't need to wear theirs during your surgery. I dare you!!
They do not protect the wearer, they entrap harmful bacteria and impair vital oxygen intake. Strict adherence to 2 m separation between non cohabitants and avoiding closed non ventilated environments offer the best protection.
Likely can't hurt. May help. Why's that a hard decision for anyone?
Debbie Hayes...Whoa! Whoa! Whoa, there filly! Whoa now. Whoa. Settle down, sweetheart. That beating heart pumped-up to 98% will not be kind to you. So, whoa! MASKS DO HELP. And wearing a mask while alone in a vehicle is a good move. Yes, the virus is not letting-up, but, downhome honeybun, ask yourself why not. Uh, it is airborne and still alive in the moving atmosphere, the one that circles the globe constantly. You think, doll? Giving up on a mask is not like giving up on a Man, Debbie. Stay with me now. Expressing fear is not a Loser's Hand, as they say in cards. Fear is what makes you pull the shower curtain all across the rod. Why do you do that? Fear is forking through a plate of cheese enchiladas. Why do you do that? No, I wouldn't want to be anywhere a non-fearing dame, as Mickey Spillane might say about here. Without a mask in public, well, you may as well be naked out there. As for ESTABAN MORENO, you must be some sort of Neo-Nazi here to impersonate a Mexican! Any Mexican with that name knows it is spelled ESTEBAN. But, as AMLO keeps saying these days, the PendejoVirus is out of control...
After nearly six months of wearing a mask and the covid numbers are still rising. Hmmmmm.......let's use some rational thinking here and realize that wearing a mask does not change the covid infection level. I certainly wish that there was more critical thinking among the masses. You grab a mask and put it on and then try to shame anyone not agreeing with you view that the mask will save the world. 98% survival rate........is that so hard to grasp? I have to laugh at so many of you that wear your little masks when you are alone in your car........you are mindlessly reacting to bad science. Wake up. It isn't working. I would be the first advocate if it did work........but it simply isn't. Estaban Moreno, "no one left to celebrate the Day of the Dead"........really? What part of 98% survival rate don't you understand?? How about another two weeks??? Some people are slowly catching on, but others are fear-mongering or if they are truly fearful.....they need to stay home......in bed.......awaiting the grim reaper.
If you want to contribute to the problem... don’t wear a mask and risk killing loved ones around you. If you want to be helpful, until a reliable vaccine is developed, wear a mask, keep a little distance and wash your hands or used hand gel or wipes. Simple answers
Looking at these comments you'd think people were dropping dead in the streets. The CDC tells a different story. Turn off the damn television and do some reading. Fear is your worst enemy. Take control of your health and live
Good grief. A lot of rules are thrust upon us, like it or not.
This is the worst pandemic since 1918. Put on the mask!
Wearing a seat belt in a moving car is mandatory, or face a penalty. Same for running a red light or exceeding the speed limit.
There are a lot of laws that many rant are violating our civil rights. You can’t cry falsely “fire” in a crowded theater. Amd so on.
Put on the damn mask to help save lives.
I have no problem wearing a mask in enclosed areas or in a position where you cannot social distance. Also, I am a person that likes to walk on a daily basis, if possible, wearing a mask would make that impossible!
Steve: There have been numerous studies around the world by doctor groups, researchers, scientists, and health care workers. Masks rage from minimal to top protection. Several engineers have come up with mask designs, which can be sewn, customized for the person's fit, and the amount of protection offered. Read JAMA and learn.
All the ones who are refusing to wear the mask Feel your boots Do not tell the rest of us not to
Your medical care once you are sick should be ignore Sure you will not care since you will be dead
O.K. because the Republican president TRAMP has 10 doctors and 2 of the best hospitals where everyone wears a mask it isn't necessary.I think anyone who does not to wear a mask should get together and party.Their health insurance should be cancelled,as I am sick of people who want to do nothing but be taken care of.My taxes pay for Tramp and his buddies who got the virus.Since he pays no taxes to support our troops etc.etc..The U.S.A. is now a big debitor nation! He is another freeloader.Mexico can be better if we learn.The U.S.A. has the highest DEBT in history since Tramp took office and they have the worst performance in the world of covid cases.10 million cases and working toward 250 thousand died .In Texas 1 out of every 30 people have the virus! A little didcomfort might be smart.
WHO and CDC guidelines BOTH recommend masks only indoors and when social distancing cannot be maintained.
The research shows that wearing a mask reduces your risk of TRANSMITTING the virus by about 25% IF you are contagious—the majority of asymptomatic, contagious infected have been exposed within 1-7 days previously and are contagious for 1-3 days prior to becoming ill.
Being outdoors with a breeze, or even in a well-ventilated open area, reduces the risk of transmission to virtually nil. Unless you are in a crowded situation where people are shouting, the chance of catching the virus outdoors is minuscule.
The absolute risk of you having unknowingly been exposed and being in the window of time when able to transmit the virus is very small. Reducing a risk from 1/50,000 to 1/62,50 is not worth the heat illnesses, alienation, hypoxia, skin and nasal infections, and general discomfort of wearing masks at all times and places.
NO masks are being worn in our tourist beach town!!
Of course the mask is political! Duh!!! But you'd better wear one before your dumbass, blowhard ballyhooing accompanies your ride to the grave. The hollow, mindless commentary here is beyond baffling, although the question itself sets you up for making a choice not unlike one makes in picking the ugly one over the semi-ugly at the bordello. Wear your mask! One more time: The virus is airborne and not wearing one brands you a doofus/moron looking at it strictly from a political angle. Nothing is ever that simple. The mask alone will not save you. Why do Mexican wrestlers wear masks? To keep from being identified. Does it work for that use? Yes!!!! Same for the cruel and heartless Covid-19 attack mask. This is now clear, Fauci or no Fauci. Dare to use your brain, Rubes! Chasing the news media is a hoot, but not the sole decider in what smart people do. As for Gates, well, Kevin James, this is most certainly NOT one of those follow-the-money mysteries, lad. Americans have made money every which way, during every what catastrophe. Disasters are astonishing cash producers. Look elsewhere for your self-invented demons, for your ridiculous suspects. It appears that you have talked yourself into giving up, or are you merely impaired?...
99% of the public are wearing them...wow i think you need some glasses sir!
Boy those masks are working so well when 99% of the public in the U.S.A. are wearing them now for the last month or so and cases are skyrocketing! The masks are a political statement made by the democrat party and the Biden campaign. Those of you who can remember may remember the slogan: ''We're all in this together'' wearing the mask I remember that slogan I think started by the Cdc and the next day the Biden campaign started using it and Joe went into hiding with his mask on to target the fearful who needed something tangible to feel safe like wearing ''the mask''! I know slogans and how they work in advertising and political campaigns I have owned an Advertising Agency since 1986 and have done a political advertising campaign myself. Another interesting fact Dr. Fouci said masks don't work in June and than a month ago says they help and now I read in an email that Fouci and Bill Gates are doing seminars on how to make money during the virus pandemic, read that last week on my Yahoo account. You don't think the mask is political that yahoo email proved it to me the masks and the virus is political and about money! Shame on Fouci and Bill Gates. The sheep have been duped again! Keep your distance gets lots of Vitamin D and make sure your T cells are good and don't let anyone indoors spit talk in your face for any length of time and you will be fine like me!! I wear them nowhere did weasr one in a casino and took in more smoke into my lungs than ever before. Also read the fine print on mask box, what's it say it does for you? Pretty much nothing worth wearing it for unless your doctor or surgeon operating with an cut or wound and your communicating with a nurse than the mask works to help prevent big saliva droplets from dropping into a cut or wound to help prevent bacteria. Live life follow my suggestions and you'll be fine!!
No cause masks don't work read the research the virus is 0.10 microns in size masks only begin to work at 20.0 microns in size. Quit fooling yourself! Every medical employee I know got the virus with the mask on by someone with the virus and a mask on.
Wearing a mask isn't a political statement. It is an IQ test. The mask is more about protecting others from the wearer than about protection of the wearer, although it can help with that too. When someone refuses to wear a mask, they are telling me that they don't care if they infect me and I die. I have no use for such irresponsible morons.
I started wearing a colloidal silver soaked mask last February. 1,500 PPM, spray soaked from the inside. 5 spray coats. What was taking the National Institute of Health so long to catch up? Finally in Sept ca,e their white paper which was peer-reviewed. Irrefutable evidence. Colloidal Silver is a POTENT ANTIVIRAL. The slightest touch of a virus to the silver killed the virus within 15 minutes. This won't work with standard 1 layer cloth masks but the N95 has 5 layers. Soaking three of the 5 guarantees few if any virus passage without contact. As a graduate virologist, I am not prone to making rash statements. The prophylaxis does radically reduce effectively virus transmission rates/
We love Mexico.???????????????? Por favor, wear a face mask. We want to return to our Mex. Amigoes, but not attend your funerals. We wear masks in Canada except for the uneducated!!!Love you, stay safe, stay well & we will see you in 2022.????????????????
Not one more death!
Wear a mask!
Distance!
Masks for all!
There exist exactly zero studies that show masks to be of any benefit. In
I dislike wearing a mask as much as a lot of people but I strongly feel that if we don’t comply we will never see an end to this pandemic.
Otherwise there will no one left to celebrate the Day of the Dead