Face Masks

[BlodwynPig]

Why don't you go and catch Covid x

I'll address this separately.

If you were in the room with me now, you'd be gummily masticating your one remaining tooth. You subhuman sick fuck.

[Marner and Me]

People of my ilk? So I am now being stereotyped?

[Marner and Me]

I'll address this separately.

If you were in the room with me now, you'd be gummily masticating your one remaining tooth. You subhuman sick fuck.

You've just told me to fuck myself. So I insult you back and you can't take it. As for taking my teeth out I'd like to see you try.

[BlodwynPig]

People of my ilk? So I am now being stereotyped?

No, you are a Grade A fuckwit. Banjo playing backwater rat. Pestilent gumball sucking dope. "Hyuk Hyuk, hey grand pappy, you going to give me some tummy rubs tonight?"

[BlodwynPig]

You've just told me to fuck myself. So I insult you back and you can't take it. As for taking my teeth out I'd like to see you try.

I will try if I ever meet you and you tell me to die from Covid.

You were insulted because you fucking deserved it. I fucking abhor your ILK.

[Marner and Me]

Go and have a lie down dear, you seem very stressed x

[BlodwynPig]

Go and have a lie down dear, you seem very stressed x

Very 2005.

[ollyboro]

Go and have a lie down dear, you seem very stressed x

Tell him you like The Beatles. Bezzies in no time.

[BlodwynPig]

Tell him you like The Beatles. Bezzies in no time.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken teeth and fly away

[jobotic]

More people die from cancer we don't mask up for that
More people die from heart disease we don't mask up for that
More people die from old age WE DON'T MASK UP FOR THAT

[ollyboro]

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken teeth and fly away

Can't fly with broken teeth, Blods. An aeronautical and dental fact.

[Jollity]

Perhaps we should mask up for the flu.

[earl_sleek]

Quite common in some countries to wear masks when in flu season, isn't it?

[BlodwynPig]

Can't fly with broken teeth, Blods. An aeronautical and dental fact.

I'm handing the aeronaut the broken teeth and they are flying away.

[Bazooka]

Quite common in some countries to wear masks when in flu season, isn't it?

In Asia, particularly Japan, Korea and China, often not to reduce the risk of catching it, but having a cold or flu and reducing spreading it.

[Dex Sawash]

Anti mask protest here at the farmers market this morning.

[Fambo Number Mive]

Was it a big protest? How did people respond?

[bgmnts]

In Asia, particularly Japan, Korea and China, often not to reduce the risk of catching it, but having a cold or flu and reducing spreading it.

Aye but they also just wear them generally in cities because the pollution is so high, don't they? I assumed it was just ingrained into the culture, regardless of flu or smoke.

[Dex Sawash]

Was it a big protest? How did people respond?

No news reports,  apparently.  I got it from my neighbo(u)rhood email list. Outside agitators, I reckon.

Unfortunately there were a group of older white protesters  there walking through the market without masks and refusing to leave. Then they gathered outside the market and unfurled A big American flag and sang the star spangled banner. They refused to mask and were  smug and hostile.   Several of us, including one of our neighbors, called the police but by the time I left the police had not come and they were dispersing.   

[Pearly-Dewdrops Drops]

More people die from the flu than they have Covid.

You've got to update your insane talking points now that Covid deaths have vastly exceeded yearly influenza deaths. This is mid-March talking point. Low energy!

[Bazooka]

Aye but they also just wear them generally in cities because the pollution is so high, don't they? I assumed it was just ingrained into the culture, regardless of flu or smoke.

In China yes, much less so in the others,but yes it's very much normal, in Korea I found it was generally only women that wore them.

[idunnosomename]

hmmm tempting...

at paranoia's poison door

[Cloud]

Face mask of the day today was a bloke in Tesco with a backpack tied around his face

[idunnosomename]

can we have more shitty face coverings of the day. to be fair most people in my parish have proper masks. I havent seen anyone doing the "POOOO!!! WHO FARTED!?!?!" approach of pulling your tshirt up

[Dex Sawash]

Saw a man going in a store yesterday wearing a polo shirt[nb]one of those knit shirts with just three buttons and a soft collar, dunno if that is what y'all call them or not[/nb] holding one side of neck opening up over his face. Going keep that held up there the whole time bud?

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

20,000 strong protest in Berlin yesterday, all mask snowflakes defending der freedums

[BlodwynPig]

Saw a man going in a store yesterday wearing a polo shirt[nb]one of those knit shirts with just three buttons and a soft collar, dunno if that is what y'all call them or not[/nb] holding one side of neck opening up over his face. Going keep that held up there the whole time bud?

won't stop the virus. Particles land on outside, he sucks the air through, bringing the virus through those large large pores.

[Marner and Me]

Surely the same happens on a cloth mask, lands on the outside and gets sucked through? I've heard it can enter the body easier through the eyes.

[BlodwynPig]

Surely the same happens on a cloth mask, lands on the outside and gets sucked through? I've heard it can enter the body easier through the eyes.

It depends on the grade of the mask, i.e. material, pore size, hydrophobicity etc. As for entering the eyes, yes it can. However, it is very less likely than through the airways. For sure, if you someone spat in your eyes there would be a high risk, otherwise you'd have to be very unlucky for a particle to pass onto the eye surface and infection to get through the natural barrier surrounding the eye. Rubbing virus contaminated eyes with your fingers is more likely, so don't do that. But the major route will always be mouth and nose, so wear a mask when in low volume, highly populated environments.

[olliebean]

A lot of the cloth masks come with pockets for filters, which presumably (assuming you use the right type of filter) would prevent the virus passing through. I haven't seen any guidance about what sort of filter to use, though. Some people have been using HEPA filters, or even coffee filters - just whatever they have around the house that has the word "filter" on it.