"Masks don't work. There is not one piece of available data that shows masks are effective at stopping the spread of respiratory viruses. Not one."
If memory serves, the C-19 virus is roughly 2 microns in diameter. The N-95 mask gets its name from blocking 95% of particles larger than 5 microns.
What portion of 2 micron particles will it block? Certainly less than all, and perhaps not more than some. Maskaholics won't say.
How many C-19 virions does it take to cause an infection? Maskaholics won't say.
If C-19 is transmitted via aerosolized particles, then N-95 masks cannot work, full stop. No studies required, any more than to conclude that Thompson submachine guns are not particularly effective against mosquitos: the ability to grasp the glaringly obvious is sufficient.
"By misleading them into believing they're protected when they're not, immunocompromised people like Taylor Lorenz may engage in riskier behavior than they otherwise should."
This needs to be hit harder. Any claim of effectiveness greater than reality by definition would cause mask wearers to expose themselves to more risk than they knew, and more public activities than they would otherwise choose.
Yet our public health geniuses couldn't figure out this perverse consequence for themselves.
(When I first read that quote, I scanned "immunocompromised" as "intellectcompromised." I know, I am a bad man.)
You will notice, though, that the mainstream media is now hemorrhaging writers and staff. Maybe lying about masks, and literally everything else in the world, is finally catching up to them.
"Masks don't work. There is not one piece of available data that shows masks are effective at stopping the spread of respiratory viruses. Not one."
If memory serves, the C-19 virus is roughly 2 microns in diameter. The N-95 mask gets its name from blocking 95% of particles larger than 5 microns.
What portion of 2 micron particles will it block? Certainly less than all, and perhaps not more than some. Maskaholics won't say.
How many C-19 virions does it take to cause an infection? Maskaholics won't say.
If C-19 is transmitted via aerosolized particles, then N-95 masks cannot work, full stop. No studies required, any more than to conclude that Thompson submachine guns are not particularly effective against mosquitos: the ability to grasp the glaringly obvious is sufficient.
"By misleading them into believing they're protected when they're not, immunocompromised people like Taylor Lorenz may engage in riskier behavior than they otherwise should."
This needs to be hit harder. Any claim of effectiveness greater than reality by definition would cause mask wearers to expose themselves to more risk than they knew, and more public activities than they would otherwise choose.
Yet our public health geniuses couldn't figure out this perverse consequence for themselves.
(When I first read that quote, I scanned "immunocompromised" as "intellectcompromised." I know, I am a bad man.)
You will notice, though, that the mainstream media is now hemorrhaging writers and staff. Maybe lying about masks, and literally everything else in the world, is finally catching up to them.