Today’s coronavirus question is answered by Dr. Henry Raymond, an associate professor and epidemiologist at the Rutgers School of Public Health, and Dr. Amisha Malhotra, an associate professor of Pediatric Infectious Disease at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Q: Is a mask effective when people wear it just below their noses?
A: No. A mask is not effective if it is worn below the nose, because respiratory droplets come from sneezing as well as coughing. Nasal secretions can contain the coronavirus in an infected person, and covering the nose can help prevent transmission since the virus can infect an individual by entry through the nasal passages. This means that if you sneeze into the open air, you can put another person at risk of being exposed to your germs. Moreover, wearing a mask over your nose not only helps others from you potentially transmitting the coronavirus, but it decreases the risk of you — the mask-wearer — from contracting it as well.
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Do you think this is a stupid question ? Of course it is ! Is it effective if we wear it on the back of our heads , another stupid question , this post is for the people 15 to 25 years old . Dumb as a brick without the knowledge to wipe their butts without guidance . We now have to serve the antifa and blm people who don't know their a$$ from a hole in the ground.
ReplyDelete😂😂😂😂😂
DeleteMasks won’t make a difference. Everyone will be exposed. The hospitals are ready. If you’re worried stay home.
ReplyDeleteThese masks are useless. Libtard swamp people are making us wear masks because they are control fanatics and fools.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Resist their control. We have plenty of ventilators available.
DeleteWhy to surgeons wear mask. They don't wear n95 mask. They must do something.
DeleteWhat if I've already had the virus and have the antibodies and can no longer carry or contract it? Can I wear it like a hat then?
ReplyDeletePretty sure you can get it again and again. It's a virus. You won't build up immunity and as we do get some, maybe it will last for a month or 2. Then it will mutate. Let's hope it mutates away. If you watch the newly released video of Bill Gates talking about how we the people will listen better with this second wave then it is hard not to believe it has all been designed. I figure what is the point in living if we don't have freedom.
DeleteIt's Bullshit 8:48
Delete8:48
DeleteIn your case it would be more appropriate to use the mask as a diaper.
This obsession with mask just goes to show what a bunch of candy asses Americans have become.
ReplyDeleteMasks don’t work at all
ReplyDeleteVirus is microscopic in size and passes through a mask easily.
Get a clue: this is a Psyop
Stop believing the governments
They won't. It's so sad.
DeleteSure is. Seriously, wearing a mask to stop the spread of a virus is like wearing underwear to stop the spread of a fart. Nobody's using ANY critical thinking these days. It's like an army of brainwashed zombies out there. Ppl just can't accept the fact that we're being lied to so that long planned agendas can be implemented. Every bit of information to prove this is still out there and readily available for anyone who cares to look, but they'd rather be fed BS propaganda from their tellavision programming screens on the daily. Every time someone dons a mask they're assisting in the PERMANENT takedown of our nation and way of life. This is for all the marbles folks, take the time and do your own research.
DeleteIt is proven that the masks everyone is wearing will not prevent anything nor protect the person wearing them. It's been proven. So it's really very frustrating to have to wear a mask to go in a store when it's not protecting you anyway, and especially when you have breathing problems anyway.
ReplyDeleteBy "candy-asses", were you referring to the 132,000 American who have died because of this virus in the last four months?
ReplyDeleteThat's like a 9/11 level death event happening roughly every three days for the last four months.
'Murica!
935....
Deletelet's see the names of who died, their pictures and families
like they did for 911...
this Virus is all bullchit
Most of these people would have died from old age or overdoses or severe underlying health issues.
DeleteHoly cow 935, are you serious right now? CNN has got you by the a$$. Get with me, I got a bridge for sale.
DeleteNobody had the flu this past flu season
DeleteMask has been proven by the scientist / Fauci by their own admissions / facts that mask only stops about 2% - 3% of the virus.
ReplyDeleteWe are then breathing in 97% - 98% of this virus.
Just another Socialist scare tactic. If it was so dangerous then why are these socialist ANARCHIST continue / allowed to hold their riots.
Why is it all deaths are listed as the virus? Are there no heart attacks, strokes or natural causes? What a farce and scare tactic by these socialist including Fauci and these other so called disease control scientist that are paid for by the Democrats, Soros, Bloomberg and these HIGH TECH billionaires.
Where is your common sense people?
We have met the enemy, and they are us.
ReplyDelete8:08 you conveniently left out the original protesters. You know the ones who traveled down here from Frederick County in Khol's parking lot protesting opening up the country where no one was wearing masks including the little white children they had with them. How about the people who stormed the state house armed with guns yelling in the faces of police without masks on. How about all the white kids flocking to the beaches, pool parties and bars? Lemme guess, it's different when the hillbilly protesters are white? Let's get this straight, the spread is coming from the WHITE population. The people who feel too privileged and entitled to wear a mask in public. The US leads in confirmed corona cases but that's a hoax? The EU is banning American traveler because your orange GOD is a pos and couldn't lead us out of a paper bag with a flashlight. Keep holding on the your stupid views about others who look differently from you while killing yourself and your kind. Trust me....we welcome it.
ReplyDeleteThere are more and more people not keeping their noses inside their masks. This is aimed at them to prove them wrong. Also, to discourage any others thinking about exposing their noses. It’s gotten very bad since summer is here.
ReplyDeleteIt has ??
Delete8:36. You couldn’t be more wrong. Maybe you don’t mind exposing your loved ones, we do.
ReplyDeleteKeep them trapped at home like little animals then. We're all going back to living our lives. I guarantee you don't know one person that actually died from this. Because they didn't. Stop being a little sheep.
DeleteWe’ll arrange for a field hospital just outside your trailer park.
Delete@8:08 You're bitching about young people not wearing masks when Gen Z and Millenials by and large are being more responsible about COVID than older generations. It's the 40+ year old crowd that's causing scenes in stores over mask policies and generally ignoring it.
ReplyDeleteOn top of that, not sure why you had to drag BLM (and the fake Antifa boogeyman) into this, but protests are full of people wearing masks and taking precautions. That's why there haven't been any COVID spikes in cities where protests took place.
you really are a tard
DeleteUummm, yes there has silly.you and your grandparents that raised you all are a bunch of dirty hippy spreaders.
Delete10:08 The 40 + year crowd have the ability to think for themselves
Delete9:56am, And if you remember when this started, the famed Dr. Faki, told us that the hot, warm, summer air would kill the virus yet it has supposedly spiked. I sure don't believe that nut. Way back in January he even told us, this virus was nothing to worry about.
ReplyDeleteSame with Donald
DeleteNorthwest Woodsman: I agree with those who think that the masks are worthless and are required as a means of demonstrating a form of control over our behavior. They are only good for one thing and that is to increase your chances of contracting bacterial pneumonia from rebreathing moist, bacteria filled, warm carbon dioxide laden air from your lungs. It also reduces the amount of oxygen that you intake because of the restricted flow of air. What I particularly find amusing are the fools who are driving around in their private vehicles with the windows up and wearing a mask. I’d be willing to bet that those fearful bedwetters wear them when they go to bed at night.
ReplyDeleteNO masks, NO VAX!!!
ReplyDeleteOnce again, I wear a mask to protect YOU.
ReplyDeleteYou wear a mask to protect ME.
You're delusional 12:02
DeleteAnonymous Anonymous said...
ReplyDelete8:08 you conveniently left out the original protesters. You know the ones who traveled down here from Frederick County in Khol's parking lot protesting opening up the country where no one was wearing masks including the little white children they had with them. How about the people who stormed the state house armed with guns yelling in the faces of police without masks on. How about all the white kids flocking to the beaches, pool parties and bars? Lemme guess, it's different when the hillbilly protesters are white? Let's get this straight, the spread is coming from the WHITE population. The people who feel too privileged and entitled to wear a mask in public. The US leads in confirmed corona cases but that's a hoax? The EU is banning American traveler because your orange GOD is a pos and couldn't lead us out of a paper bag with a flashlight. Keep holding on the your stupid views about others who look differently from you while killing yourself and your kind. Trust me....we welcome it.
July 6, 2020 at 9:54 AM
And you think crazy and sleepy Joe would even know what day it is or where he is, let alone try to get us out of a brown paper bag. Trump 2020!!!
@10:08 there are spikes of COVID where the protests were because those people don't live there, so when they start feeling bad they are tested in their own areas! Remember the REOPEN MARYLAND protest - ask the organizer how he is feeling right now! He tested postive in his own area, so the number counted there not where he had his protests!
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DeleteDo these sheep sleep with you?
DeleteYou people wearing masks are idiots.
ReplyDeleteEducate yourselves!
You are inhaling your own CO2 and any virus you have in your lungs.
Thereby increasing the amount of virus in your own body.
Eventually you will succumb to a self-imposed poisoning of your own body!
Wake up.
You have an inalienable right to breathe fresh air.
It is the very most basic right and freedom.
The ability to breathe fresh air.
Wake up.
Please. Stop enslaving yourselves.
Preaching rights eh? No rights have been removed. Go into a private establishment and you abide by there rules OR you don't get anything. Period.
DeleteSee how far that gets u...unless your antics get on social media and then we will all laugh at your stupidity.
Sure you don't work at Ocean City's City Hall?
Hahahahahahabaha
You might not be able to recognize the person who wears the mask UNDER their nose, but you can recognize that they are a dumb ass.
ReplyDeleteWhat if I've already had the virus and have the antibodies and can no longer carry or contract it? Can I wear it like a hat then?
ReplyDeleteJuly 6, 2020 at 8:23 AM:
If you are walking around without a mask, and can prove what you say to the ones around you whom you are exposing yourself to, then wear it on your ass for all I care. But, otherwise you are a risk to the public, as long as the virus is with us.
Masks don't fill up hotel rooms for Rickie either.
ReplyDeleteKeep those rooms at a high priced level, keep having those rooms empty mid week, using the same business practice when the world is upside down is insanity Rickie Beerinhan.
Lather/rinse/repeat until Election Day bub.
Hey 1:18, wouldn't want -you know - science or facts to get in the way of your CNN rant...
ReplyDeletehttps://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
I guess Johns Hopkins is in on it too and out to get you!
As I said, 'Murica!
As long as you have a mask on I don’t need one.
ReplyDeleteIf the election was tomorrow and Biden won this virus would disappear as fast as the sun comes up.
ReplyDeleteHow is it S Korea and Sweden and everywhere else for that matter have hardly have any cases but in the US it’s spiking everywhere it’s because it’s BS spread by leftmedia.
ReplyDeleteCivid 19 is all bull$hit , political move to oust Trump. I had the virus , I' almost 80 , had a fever , a cough , and was uncomfortable for a week , big deal , just another flue. Wake up people , stop this crap now.
ReplyDeleteI figure what is the point in living if we don't have freedom.
ReplyDeleteJuly 6, 2020 at 8:48 AM:
I don't see everyone in Communist countries killing themselves because they "haven't any freedom." You place much too high of a value on freedom, and not on the will to live. That quest for "freedom" is how our leaders, who ironically don't even believe in freedom, rather only power over the masses, how they get citizens to fight their wars. Just tell us we are fighting for "freedom." Most likely it is for the freedom for the leaders to maintain their power. Our founding fathers saw freedom as coming from a higher power, but our leaders see freedom as something only they control, and the people will only get as much as the leaders allot. Somewhere along the way, you have bought into the freedom propaganda that controls you.
WOW the freedom propaganda that controls you.
DeleteYour a psycho, but I'm sure you have been told this many many many times
You want to get an idea of the effectiveness of wearing these masks?
ReplyDeleteHave you wife or husband put on some cologne. Put the mask on and follow them through a store.
If you can smell the cologne, even a little bit, then the mask is ineffective against whu flu.
The mandate to wearing a mask is designed to condition everybody in to thinking that we need lock downs and restrictions that will last all the way up to November 4th when is will magically be discovered that whu flu isn't as bad as reported.
Mask does not protect you if you are the one wearing it. Better yet, get sick, develop the antibody, and get on with life.
ReplyDeleteOr death.
DeleteMasks don’t work
ReplyDeleteWash your hands.
ReplyDeleteShame, violence, remove current law enforcement and replace with your own, more shame, attack the church and financially cripple anyone that speaks out and silence them... that’s how he got Cuba.
ReplyDeleteMasks are as effective as the persons wearing them are conscientious about wearing them!
ReplyDeleteIntelligent people understand the concept and wear/use them properly so they are actually breathing
THROUGH the mask not around the edges or over the top.
These people will be MUCH less likely to inhale the atomized COVID-19 droplets someone else has expelled from
inside their lungs and nasal cavities.
They are more likely to wash their hands frequently and be more proactive about contact and interaction than lesser intelligent people therefore reducing the risk of contracting this disease.
DARWIN.
All the "Patriots" out here saying they can't be forced to wear a mask but I wear an N95 almost every day for 12 hours shifts. You're not a patriot, a patriot would protect their fellow Americans and the well being of their country. You're just an ignorant fool.
ReplyDeleteA mask is like a diaper. There are many different kinds. In the end like a diaper it needs to be changed. In the current environment and the way they are being used, provides more psychological support than anything. Therefore, it becomes an adult “blankie”.
ReplyDeleteIt's not effective no matter where you wear it.........either end!
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