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"CDC advises Americans to don facemasks, though Trump says he won’t wear one
"...The new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention encourages people, especially in areas hit hard by the spread of the coronavirus, to use rudimentary coverings like T-shirts, bandanas and non-medical masks to cover their faces while outdoors.
...Adams, who had repeatedly and publicly advised against the need for face coverings, said Friday that although and he other public health experts initially believed wearing a mask would not have a substantial impact on curbing the spread, the latest evidence makes clear that people who don’t show any symptoms can nonetheless pass on the virus.
“We have told you that from the beginning that we are evolving our recommendations, and new recommendations will come as the evidence dictates,” Adams said.
...First lady Melania Trump embodied the contradictory messaging with a tweet endorsing the new guidance even as her husband chooses to disregard it.
“As the weekend approaches I ask that everyone take social distancing & wearing a mask/face covering seriously,” she tweeted.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/wor...s-to-don-facemasks-though-trump-says-he-wont/
"...The new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention encourages people, especially in areas hit hard by the spread of the coronavirus, to use rudimentary coverings like T-shirts, bandanas and non-medical masks to cover their faces while outdoors.
...Adams, who had repeatedly and publicly advised against the need for face coverings, said Friday that although and he other public health experts initially believed wearing a mask would not have a substantial impact on curbing the spread, the latest evidence makes clear that people who don’t show any symptoms can nonetheless pass on the virus.
“We have told you that from the beginning that we are evolving our recommendations, and new recommendations will come as the evidence dictates,” Adams said.
...First lady Melania Trump embodied the contradictory messaging with a tweet endorsing the new guidance even as her husband chooses to disregard it.
“As the weekend approaches I ask that everyone take social distancing & wearing a mask/face covering seriously,” she tweeted.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/wor...s-to-don-facemasks-though-trump-says-he-wont/
"Tam offers new advice: wear a non-medical mask when shopping or using public transit
Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer has new advice for Canadians: wear a non-medical face mask to help cut down the spread of the novel coronavirus when they are in situations where they can’t ensure proper physical distance from strangers.
Dr. Theresa Tam said this would help in scenarios such as shopping in the grocery store or riding public transit.
“Canadians can take this additional measure [in] instances where social distancing is difficult to maintain,” she told a noon briefing in Ottawa Monday.
Dr. Tam offered advice on how to make a non-medical mask, saying Canadians could use a cotton shirt for instance, combined with rubber bands.
“We’re talking about things that are readily available in people’s homes,” she said. “Things like cotton shirts, sheets, bandanas.”
“If you can get a cotton material like a T-shirt, you cut it up, you fold it and put elastic bands around it – this is a non-medical facial covering.”
Dr. Tam said this measure is now being advised to help cut down on transmission by Canadians who are infected by the virus but are asymptomatic or presymptomatic.
“Our collective scientific knowledge of COVID-19 continues to grow,” she said.
“It is clear that transmission of the virus is happening more often than previously recognized from infected people right before they develop symptoms,” she said. “This is called presymptomatic transmission.”
She said the same goes for people who never develop symptoms: the asymptomatic.
“A non-medical mask can reduce the chance of your respiratory droplets coming into contact with others or land[ing] on surfaces,” Dr. Tam said.
The announcement Monday represents a new decision from medical experts in Canada. Dr. Tam said the Special Advisory Committee – which includes her and provincial and territorial chief public health officers – made it together.
“With this emerging information, the special advisory committee on COVID-19 has come to a consensus that wearing a non-medical mask, even if you have no symptoms, is an additional measure that you can take to protect others around you in situations where physical distancing is difficult to maintain.”
Public health officials were pressed Monday to explain why they’re only advising these makeshift masks now, a number of weeks after Canada began fighting the pandemic.
Dr. Tam said the evidence about presymptomatic and asymptomatic cases only accumulated in the last 10 days or so.
“These are very recent studies … so we very rapidly try to integrate that latest science,” she told reporters.
“Just before they develop symptoms, [people] have high viral loads,” she said. “And so that tells us the possibility is there they can transmit.”
Dr. Tam said public health officials in Canada still don’t know exactly how important transmission from presymptomatic or asymptomatic cases are driving this epidemic.
The Chief Public Health Officer emphasized this new advice does not confer better protection on the mask user, but is recommended to protect others.
She said this advice is a “permissive statement” offered to help reduce transmission and does not constitute an official recommendation.
The Chief Public Health Officer said as of Monday morning there were 15,822 COVID-19 cases in Canada and 293 deaths.
She said “most concerning” are the new outbreaks in hospitals and long-term care facilities in several provinces.
“As well, we are hearing of young people being hospitalized due to COVID-19 and people as young as in their 20s dying of the disease,” she said.
Dr. Tam urged Canadians not to turn to medical masks for this preventive measure recommended Monday.
More than 339,000 people in Canada have been tested to date with about 5 per cent confirmed as positive, she said Monday.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/can...ar-a-non-medical-mask-when-shopping-or-using/
Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer has new advice for Canadians: wear a non-medical face mask to help cut down the spread of the novel coronavirus when they are in situations where they can’t ensure proper physical distance from strangers.
Dr. Theresa Tam said this would help in scenarios such as shopping in the grocery store or riding public transit.
“Canadians can take this additional measure [in] instances where social distancing is difficult to maintain,” she told a noon briefing in Ottawa Monday.
Dr. Tam offered advice on how to make a non-medical mask, saying Canadians could use a cotton shirt for instance, combined with rubber bands.
“We’re talking about things that are readily available in people’s homes,” she said. “Things like cotton shirts, sheets, bandanas.”
“If you can get a cotton material like a T-shirt, you cut it up, you fold it and put elastic bands around it – this is a non-medical facial covering.”
Dr. Tam said this measure is now being advised to help cut down on transmission by Canadians who are infected by the virus but are asymptomatic or presymptomatic.
“Our collective scientific knowledge of COVID-19 continues to grow,” she said.
“It is clear that transmission of the virus is happening more often than previously recognized from infected people right before they develop symptoms,” she said. “This is called presymptomatic transmission.”
She said the same goes for people who never develop symptoms: the asymptomatic.
“A non-medical mask can reduce the chance of your respiratory droplets coming into contact with others or land[ing] on surfaces,” Dr. Tam said.
The announcement Monday represents a new decision from medical experts in Canada. Dr. Tam said the Special Advisory Committee – which includes her and provincial and territorial chief public health officers – made it together.
“With this emerging information, the special advisory committee on COVID-19 has come to a consensus that wearing a non-medical mask, even if you have no symptoms, is an additional measure that you can take to protect others around you in situations where physical distancing is difficult to maintain.”
Public health officials were pressed Monday to explain why they’re only advising these makeshift masks now, a number of weeks after Canada began fighting the pandemic.
Dr. Tam said the evidence about presymptomatic and asymptomatic cases only accumulated in the last 10 days or so.
“These are very recent studies … so we very rapidly try to integrate that latest science,” she told reporters.
“Just before they develop symptoms, [people] have high viral loads,” she said. “And so that tells us the possibility is there they can transmit.”
Dr. Tam said public health officials in Canada still don’t know exactly how important transmission from presymptomatic or asymptomatic cases are driving this epidemic.
The Chief Public Health Officer emphasized this new advice does not confer better protection on the mask user, but is recommended to protect others.
She said this advice is a “permissive statement” offered to help reduce transmission and does not constitute an official recommendation.
The Chief Public Health Officer said as of Monday morning there were 15,822 COVID-19 cases in Canada and 293 deaths.
She said “most concerning” are the new outbreaks in hospitals and long-term care facilities in several provinces.
“As well, we are hearing of young people being hospitalized due to COVID-19 and people as young as in their 20s dying of the disease,” she said.
Dr. Tam urged Canadians not to turn to medical masks for this preventive measure recommended Monday.
More than 339,000 people in Canada have been tested to date with about 5 per cent confirmed as positive, she said Monday.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/can...ar-a-non-medical-mask-when-shopping-or-using/
wearing a mask that is not at the level of blocking the droplets will not protect you at all.
Talked with my medical friends, telling me it is so people do not touch their mouth and nose.
If it is not a mask that the medical people wear it will not protect you from getting it.
If you really want to be protected in public you need an N95 or higher level mask and a plastic face shield to protect your eyes
otherwise you are not protected. Wearing a bandana or scarf across your mouth does jack shit
Talked with my medical friends, telling me it is so people do not touch their mouth and nose.
If it is not a mask that the medical people wear it will not protect you from getting it.
If you really want to be protected in public you need an N95 or higher level mask and a plastic face shield to protect your eyes
otherwise you are not protected. Wearing a bandana or scarf across your mouth does jack shit
Even if that were true, masks should still be worn because they protect others. And when others are protected, you are protected. So, therefore, actually, masks do, indirectly, protect the wearer.
Furthermore, there are reasons to believe wearing a mask does directly protect the wearer. There have been studies done that support that, as mentioned earlier in this thread. Also the video in post #105 gives an additional reason why the person wearing a mask, virtually any kind of decent mask, is safer.
A mask probably would've saved this bus driver....
https://www.kron4.com/news/national...g-passenger-dies-from-coronavirus-days-later/
https://www.kron4.com/news/national...g-passenger-dies-from-coronavirus-days-later/
"Communities of home sewers have sprung up to make masks in B.C., organizing through platforms like Facebook and sharing tips and donation networks.
“I applaud the creativity and ingenuity of many who have taken the time to make these cloth masks and it is encouraging to see the social connections that have been made by sharing patterns and creative ideas online,” Henry wrote.
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/wearing-a-clo...=true?clipId=68596?clipId=89750?ot=AjaxLayout
“I applaud the creativity and ingenuity of many who have taken the time to make these cloth masks and it is encouraging to see the social connections that have been made by sharing patterns and creative ideas online,” Henry wrote.
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/wearing-a-clo...=true?clipId=68596?clipId=89750?ot=AjaxLayout
"I just made two masks out of a black padded bra. I just cut the bra in half down the front and stapled the straps around to the cups. They fit perfectly and are much thicker than those flimsy paper masks.
...I just wear my old motorcycle helmet with the face shield."
https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?709483-Who-stole-all-the-masks
...I just wear my old motorcycle helmet with the face shield."
https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?709483-Who-stole-all-the-masks
Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!!!
Went shopping and there were only a handful of people not wearing masks and gloves. I was one of the few not wearing one
Wearing gloves is stupid to begin with and does nothing to protect you. Just shows how ignorant you really are.
People wearing any and all types of masks, that to be honest are not protecting jack shit for multiple reasons.
One, they are not high enough level of mask
Two, many of them were lose and had openings they were not snug to the face. So they do jack shit in protecting you.
Three, how many times or how long have they been wearing them? I am sure most if not all are just wearing the same mask over and over, day after day
so the masks are infected with germs, maybe Covid 19 already and they are wearing it. Real smart Once masks are worn they are contaminated
Four, ask any real Epidemiologist/Allergist and they will tell you the best thing to do is to be exposed to things so you will build up antibodies to protect you
Especially true for a Corona Virus. Hiding from everyone does you no good, especially when this is not killing people at will int he streets if you get it.
Yes, I know people are dying, people are dying from many other things besides Covid 19. This has been hyped to ridiculous levels by the media and certain other people, politicians.
These things have been said to me by medical people that are my clients/customers. I am talking doctors, nurses, researchers who know wtf they are talking about...
Sorry to all the naysayers an agenda driven maniacs that are here
Forgot to add that some of these medical people think Fauci is a joke...
"Indonesia, one of the world’s most populous countries with 264 million people, on Monday ordered citizens to wear face masks when they leave the house after predicting as many as 95,000 people could be infected. President Joko Widodo said authorities must ensure every household has face masks and that commuters won’t be able to access public transportation without them.
Vietnam implemented fines for people who don’t wear them, while the Philippines is also requiring more than 50 million people on Luzon Island to wear masks or improvised face shields outside their homes. Singapore shifted its advice on face masks last week, and India’s government issued a manual explaining how to make reusable masks at home.
...About a third of the world is now under lockdown as governments seek to stem the spread of a virus that has now infected some 1.3 million worldwide. Since it spreads via respiratory droplets when a sick person coughs, sneezes or speaks, a face cover can help in both catching the droplets and preventing healthy people from touching their faces.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...embracing-face-masks-after-initial-reluctance
Vietnam implemented fines for people who don’t wear them, while the Philippines is also requiring more than 50 million people on Luzon Island to wear masks or improvised face shields outside their homes. Singapore shifted its advice on face masks last week, and India’s government issued a manual explaining how to make reusable masks at home.
...About a third of the world is now under lockdown as governments seek to stem the spread of a virus that has now infected some 1.3 million worldwide. Since it spreads via respiratory droplets when a sick person coughs, sneezes or speaks, a face cover can help in both catching the droplets and preventing healthy people from touching their faces.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...embracing-face-masks-after-initial-reluctance
