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I think I read the masks are not as effective against this as other virus because it can be absorbed thru the eyes? I guess that's why you see people walking around in lifesize condoms in China.

but I think the masks have to be many times more effective than *not* wearing a mask. If you are buying one, look for the blue on one side/white on the other. The white/white paper masks are not intended to stop virus spread.

*note* - all this comes from what I read online so fwiw......

btw, I have a box of 50 surgical masks I will trade for a Savage 99 in .308 (joke)

I've read at least a half dozen articles about corona that say masks don't help. OTOH, they don't hurt so why not wear one if you're at risk? There's so much bad info about it that you should try anything that MIGHT help.

I am surprised we haven't seen more outbreaks in our colleges, so may schools had chinese students returning to american schools from winter break. Certainly the colleges would not have returning students checked as that would be racist.

It’s a corona virus. So is the common cold. From all reports, this is about as contagious as the common cold. Trying to control it is futile. We're all going to get it. You may as well get it as soon as possible so that if it turns bad, you might get the care you need before the medical system gets overwhelmed.

There are actually a handful of precautions, if taken, that will nearly guarantee that you never catch a cold. The easiest, and perhaps most effective, precaution is simply not to touch your face with your hands unless you literally just washed or sanitized them.

Maybe so, yet most still get it.

I dunno , but the Asians sure seem to think the masks help

The chance of dying is 100%.

We have been stockpiling canned goods, MREs, and have been dehydrating fruits and vegetables, off and on, since last summer. A good supply of OTC remedies, vitamins, first aid items, germocidal bleach, toilet paper, etc.

The wife thought I was a bit nuts; not so much now.

We're all gonna die!!!!

Horse shixt.

98% of the people that get it live. I’m going over to the local grade school and lick the playground equipment.

LOL. Yep, none of us are getting out of this alive.

Actually, I agree with you. Just get it and get it over with. Odds are, it won’t be much worse than a bad cold or mild flu at its worst for most people. For some, maybe up to fifteen percent though, it’s going to be bad. And if sixty percent of the world’s population gets it, it’s going to overwhelm the system. So if you get it and it does get bad, you want to be in the front end while you can still get decent medical care.

Do you remember on SouthPark when all the parents sent the kids to Kenny’s house to get the chicken pox? And then the boys all sent Freaky Freida out in retribution to give all the parents ‘mouth herpes’?
She was licking all the silverware and chit.


Ya that was funny, everyone remembers that episode.

Yep. I remember it. Funny. That show still on?

I remember good one but not as good as Awesom-0

That was good, too. Cartman as a robot becomes a slave.

Awesome-O was among the very best.......

The size of what the masks will filter is much larger than the size of a virus. Aside from that though is the fact that the mask does not produce a positive seal like a gas mask so they will leak around the masks and through the gaps in the seal. Airborne virus rides on moisture droplets and WILL contact your eyes just like pollen and it will infect you as it passes down the nasal lacrimal duct.

Unless an effective vaccine is found and you get vaccinated, the chances that you get covid 29 will approach 100% probably within 5 years. Quarantine is at this point in time no longer a viable option. The virus is as yet undetected in the general population of the United States. But, it is on at least three continents that we are certain of and in over 30 nations. That, by definition, is out of control and in all but declaration by WHO a global pandemic. That declaration will come this week. By the end of the week thu number of countris without infections will be less than the number with and screening/quarantine will be all but done. This when all we can say about it's mortality rate is that it is probably somewhere between 1 and 3 per cent.

This virus is already well on it's way to killing more people than Ebola has in the almost 50 years we have known of it. By the end of 202 Covid 19 will have killed more people globally than Ebola in West Africa did. At least absent a vaccine that will be the scorecard.