Saw a bit ago that most masks can not restrict particle infiltration,.and that 70 percent of airborne droplets pass through.
One doesn't know what to believe anymore. I think the onerous is on those at most risk to adjust to their surroundings.

Mask wasn't required at Menards in Moorhead Mn today.

Maybe they could all wear burkas?

There is a reason i don't live back there. Too many people and too many libs.

Think of it this way if your expossed by passing someone that is a carrier and you don't have a mask that actually prevents the virus from getting through it you just trapped anything that did inside and almost guarente that you're going to inhale it and breathing into a cloth will moisten it so everything sticks to it eaiser.

But you do you and stay away from me. I only go to town once a week and i have as much right to protect myself as i see fit as anyone else.

I guarantee--it ain't only libs wearing masks.Also what the ---- is a burka?
Mnsota,if the health care workers wear masks--it seems like a good reason for me to also do so.
Tom

Google it

What a joke. I’ll put a mask on when there is a real epidemic!

Good reason for those most vulnerable is to self quarantine
Protocol for heath workers,.again with good reason,.highly contagious.
Do you wear a mask within your home environment ?

LOL,only my wife and I at home so no mask.Though she does wear a mask in our bed-- c pap machine requires a mask.
I had to go to Holiday and post office,so I did wear a mask. I just don't consider wearing a mask ,anything more than doing whats right for me and others.Heck I even wore a jock strap complete with cup,when playing ball.
NVwrangler--sorry I didn't know what a Burka was--Somali clothing isn't something I have been to concerned with.But sure glad you know what it is,just couldn't figure out why you couldn't explain to me what it was.
Tom

500,000 people in my county 873 cases equals a .0017 percent chance of even coming across an infected person. I think i had it the end of January when it went around work. All the symptoms and it was here then but nobody knew. I got a better chance of getting run over in the parking lot.
All most all the cases here can be traced to travel to a hot spot or relative who had it.

Bog its not a somli thing its a sharia law thing requiring all women to wear or be stoned.

LOL,only my wife and I at home so no mask.

but you went to Holiday and the post office,..what did you do with your mask?

Left my mask in the car when I got home.Any virus I would have encountered would be on the outside of the mask,and would then be dead within 48 to 72 hours--so the mask stays in the car.
Wrangler you entire state has 3 million people,the twin cities metro area of Minnesota has almost 3 1/2 million,so it is a tad more populated where I live.
Mnsota,are you married?
Tom

Any virus you may have encountered had a high likely hood of in- filtering said mask.
You would have been better off placing the mask on top of your car and letting sunshine disinfect it.

44 years this Sept....happy as a lark! Couldn't have asked for anyone better!

So 3.5 million and 870 cases as of 2 days ago equals .00024 percent infectious rate
The sky is falling the sky is falling

Well the sky has fallen for the 370 residents that died and also for the 60,000 plus whose sky has fallen nation wide--and it is nowhere near over,especially when it is such a grievance for mask wearing.
Mnsota--car is parked in front on the west side,so the sun in the morning inside the car will more than do the job.
43 years this sept for us.
Tom

Tom, I dont think the numbers nationwide are significant,..at least in our common sense of reasoning .
It has been said on here multiple times that deaths are being mis-represented and I agree.
Early in the season,predictions for a historic flu season was almost guaranteed . And observations went with that, but low and behold,when the China virus appeared,..
all of a sudden flu reports subsided.

Those of us of age or compromised can and should follow our own reasoning.

Heard yesterday that the virus has surpassed in 2 months,the flu deaths that took place in the last 6 months.
LOL now you know why I quit reading virus posts on hear--I made the mistake of reading this one,and reacted thusly.
Tom

Yep,if anything,.confusion is the common denominator intertwined with main stream media reporting.
What one thought yesterday,shown itself fragmented today. Back and forth (experts) leaves one oblivious.

Yep was at Menards yesterday. Made it to the door they asked for a $1 for a mask. Turned around and went to Home Depot. Problem solved.