"During the Covid-19 pandemic, wearing a surgical face mask in the correct manner when in a crowded, indoor place significantly reduced the risk of the wearer infecting other people in the event that the wearer was infected with the Covid-19 virus at the time."
From what I gather, some people consider this to be a political statement. Could anybody please explain how it is?
What made it political, was not all masks are created equal and many masks, deemed acceptable, were useless. Big brother in Democrat States would leave you alone, if you wore even a useless mask. It was political and not based on science.
In hospitals, they have special material masks that will magnetically attract virus to stick. This is better than just filtering. They will wear the mask for a task, and then throw its out, even a few minutes later. When COVID began, mask were scarce, while the real masks were expensive, if you could find them. So people used them way too long. The K95, N95 and O95 are 95% efficient. This is still 5% virus break through. If you use a mask too long, it gets coated; inside and outside, and the 5% becomes multiplied. It is 5% for each air stream, but also some extra from the coating as it dislodges and is also drawn in. The magnet masks were hard to find.
If you were at work and needed a mask for sanding drywall, an OSHA; occupational safety agent, would kick you off the job site for wearing just any mask. It makes a big difference. That is dust and not tiny virus.
In the end, there was no significant difference in outcomes for the Liberal lockdown states with masks, versus the open and mask optional Republican states. That is the proof this was politics and not science; 1984 rehearsal. If it was science, we should have seen a large difference. While the DNC would have a parade to brag. The DNC leadership did enjoy their Fascists lockdown, with the mask the sign of that beast. So many children were harmed; lost years of school. The science said children were more immune but politics did not care.
