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Re: Face masks and the spread of contagion.
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I notice pictures on the news of people wearing face masks, seemingly of the sort used against dust, in areas affected by the Swine Influenza (H1N1) outbreak. I wonder how much protection these people think masks give - I'd say none, approximately.
I'd really have to disagree here, Bill. I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis about ten years ago, which is an autoimmune-runaway disease. Because of that, I take auto immune suppressors and I have to be VERY careful not to get infected.
Now...I work at a school. A bacteriological battlefield if I ever saw one!
When my doctor suggested that I make sure to use a mask when working with sick children, I had to laugh. (On any given day, that's at at least a quarter of the kids I work with which averages out to about 40-50 sick kids.) But when he told me the consequences of getting sick with no immune system, I had no choice. At first I felt goofy, and of course the children thought it was a gag. But I noticed something. I stopped getting sick.
Totally. I haven't caught a cold or the flu in four years. Nothing at all.
I swear by them now. If you have to get right up in the face of a sick person, use one, you'd be amazed. It only takes a second to put on, it isn't obtrusive or confining. Oxygen flows smoothly through it, but bacteria and viruses don't. It is treated (I think) with something that kills most of them anyway.
It's a new day, there are new protocols, adapt. Get used to it. In a world rapidly becoming overpopulated, we'll all have to change our ideas and thoughts about behavior in public.
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Re: Face masks and the spread of contagion.
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Originally Posted by Bill Sikes View Post
I notice pictures on the news of people wearing face masks, seemingly of the sort used against dust, in areas affected by the Swine Influenza (H1N1) outbreak. I wonder how much protection these people think masks give - I'd say none, approximately.
I'd really have to disagree here, Bill. I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis about ten years ago, which is an autoimmune-runaway disease. Because of that, I take auto immune suppressors and I have to be VERY careful not to get infected.
Now...I work at a school. A bacteriological battlefield if I ever saw one!
When my doctor suggested that I make sure to use a mask when working with sick children, I had to laugh. (On any given day, that's at at least a quarter of the kids I work with which averages out to about 40-50 sick kids.) But when he told me the consequences of getting sick with no immune system, I had no choice. At first I felt goofy, and of course the children thought it was a gag. But I noticed something. I stopped getting sick.
Totally. I haven't caught a cold or the flu in four years. Nothing at all.
I swear by them now. If you have to get right up in the face of a sick person, use one, you'd be amazed. It only takes a second to put on, it isn't obtrusive or confining. Oxygen flows smoothly through it, but bacteria and viruses don't. It is treated (I think) with something that kills most of them anyway.
It's a new day, there are new protocols, adapt. Get used to it. In a world rapidly becoming overpopulated, we'll all have to change our ideas and thoughts about behavior in public.
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