You're wearing your mask wrong if...
Very funny! I love the sponge, #7.
Idiots abound.
There is a woman working at my local Walmart that has never worn her mask correctly. It always below her nose, and when she talks she pulls it down even further. I would think she would know the correct way to wear it since she works at the pharmacy.
I reported her to management since it's mandatory that she wears one, plus her job is to work around sick people. Last time I picked up my prescriptions I didn't see her there.
Have to laugh as the first one I often use. I wear a mask all the time especially now as it helps against the high pollen levels. When in the car it gets put into the droopy ear mode in prep for getting out and reattaching. (It also protects my nose from the usual summer burn.
The virus doesn't walk about on it's own. It would never spread that way, it would die in transit.
Now, in an environment where you KNOW the virus is present, and at saturation levels, say a room at a hospital with multiple patients of the disease, then having a higher grade mask could be seen as a necessity, mostly because you want to protect those working in that environment to the best of your ability.
The virus is spread on water droplets from breathing, talking, coughing, shouting, or sneezing. The water droplets are easily stopped by pretty much any mask.
Think it through.
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And yes, I get that this is humor, and that the masks improperly worn are ineffective.
But, there is a lot of misinformation floating around.
COVID-19 spreads through respiratory droplets spewed when people breathe hard, talk, sing, shout, sneeze, cough, etc. Runners leave a cloud of infectious respiratory droplets that lingers for up to 60 feet behind them.
Masks protect other people.
Over 20% of coronavirus infections are asymptomatic. With CT scans, doctors found 60% of asymptomatic COVID-19 patients had permanent lung damage from the virus. They can infect others.
@LiterateHiker is it me, or are we in "violent agreement"?
The only ones that protect you are the N-95. If what your wearing isn't rated as a N-95 the only thing you're doing is protecting someone else, however, if they are not wearing a mask of any kind then you're screwed.
... and if two people are wearing non-N95 masks they are protecting each other. Which means that the more people wearing them the more people that are protected. I think that's the point.
Even if it's not N95, a simple layer of cloth can catch and stop the droplets before you breath them in.
Is it perfect? No. Is it a lot better than nothing? Yes. That's what I emphasize to my "clients" who seem to think that, since they tested negative, they don't have to wear the masks any more. (Idiots.)
I stand correct.