Covid - 19

[Guisslapp]

Saw a video yesterday of a immunologist showing how he could fog up his glasses with his breath THROUGH 5 MEDICAL MASKS! The moisture that you see when you clean your glasses or breathe out in the cold is the same as the “droplets” that can spread infection. Masks don’t stop that.

It actually proves the point. His water vapor went up and condensed on his face and glasses rather than projecting out (picture a puff of smoke like a cigarette) outwardly multiple feet where people are breathing high concentrations of it.

[PawDawg]

It actually proves the point. His water vapor went up and condensed on his face and glasses rather than projecting out (picture a puff of smoke like a cigarette) outwardly multiple feet where people are breathing high concentrations of it.

This has happened to all of us who wear glasses.

I took it to mean that he held the glasses in front of his mouth with the mask on and he STILL fogged them up.

[Guisslapp]

This has happened to all of us who wear glasses.

I took it to mean that he held the glasses in front of his mouth with the mask on and he STILL fogged them up.

No one is claiming that water vapor can’t pass through a mask. We are talking about the distance if passes through a mask - how far your sillage of Covid particles spread as you are going about.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/art.../#!po=0.434783

See the illustrations of the effect of wearing surgical mask in FIGs. 6-9.

It is obvious that masks help. No one is saying masks are a panacea, and everyone agrees that vaccination is better.

[techman05]

This has happened to all of us who wear glasses.

I took it to mean that he held the glasses in front of his mouth with the mask on and he STILL fogged them up.

Yes, I am sorry. Through the mask, his glasses still fogged. Not while wearing them on his face.

[techman05]

And if moisture can reach his glasses a couple of inches from his mouth through 5 masks, just think how far those particles can travel through 1, 2, or even 3.

[Guisslapp]

And if moisture can reach his glasses a couple of inches from his mouth through 5 masks, just think how far those particles can travel through 1, 2, or even 3.

You don’t have to imagine. See the link I posted above. They don’t go very far.

[Guisslapp]

Those of us that studied fluid dynamics/transport phenomena at Tech instinctively know this.

[techman05]

Crazy that Hawaii, with mask mandates going back more than 15 months, has the same infection rates per 1000 as Texas without the mandates.

[PawDawg]

Crazy that Hawaii, with mask mandates going back more than 15 months, has the same infection rates per 1000 as Texas without the mandates.

Science can't explain this.

[Guisslapp]

Crazy that Hawaii, with mask mandates going back more than 15 months, has the same infection rates per 1000 as Texas without the mandates.

Texas has had 12k cases per every 100k and Hawaii has has 4k cases per 100k. You are 3 times more likely to have gotten Covid if you live in Texas than Hawaii.

[dawg80]

Texas is exposed to the flood of illegals bringing the virus in.

[techman05]

My apologies. Current infection rates, not cumulative.

[Guisslapp]

My apologies. Current infection rates, not cumulative.

Hawaii has done much worse lately since they fully reopened schools on August 3, two weeks earlier than most of Texas. The schools that opened last week are seeing huge upticks in infection compared to last year. If you have a kid in Texas schools, they are probably going to get COVID. Our governor made sure that people have no way to protect their children.

[dawg80]

[QUOTE=Guisslapp;1807294]Hawaii has done much worse lately since they fully reopened schools on August 3, two weeks earlier than most of Texas. The schools that opened last week are seeing huge upticks in infection compared to last year. If you have a kid in Texas schools, they are probably going to get COVID. Our governor made sure that people have no way to protect their children.[/QUOTE]

Another ridiculous statement.

[PawDawg]

But it fits his and his leftist narrative.