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I am offering this which might follow up from a closed thread about masks being used to help keep the COVID virus from spreading.
Below, I am offering my opinion about what seems to be reasonable >
We know how we are told to wash our hands and not touch our faces. So, if I have a mask on, my mask can help to keep me from touching my mouth and nose where virus could go from my hands to infect me. Also, in case I am in a situation, like in church, where someone likes to run around kissing and hugging people, my mask can keep that person from pushing a kiss on me I personally know a few people who possibly can do this.
And there are people who automatically lick their fingers, any time they separate paper money and other paper things. A mask could help remind them not to do this.
But in case the spray is broken up by the mask so it can float more easily outside the mask . . . at least the droplets are smaller so each one can not carry as much virus. And it could spread out so anyone breathing it in might not breathe in enough to infect the person, or something like that. That could be less risk that taking a direct shot of droplets.
But yes ones do say if you are in air with air-floating virus, you can need to breathe it in for even ten or fifteen minutes before it can infect you. So, in case you are in the open around someone spraying through a mask, you can have an air cushion between you and the person, by keeping six feet away, among other things. And outdoors > a crosswind, for example, might cancel out that person's ability to spread air-floated virus to you. While I share with people outside, I might sense which way the wind is moving, and keep us crosswind, so neither of us is downwind of the other.
But now it seems government regulators will not let you have a fan on, since it can blow from an infected person and it can be breathed-in by ones downwind from the fanned sick person . . . even if they have a mask on, this is. And your air can be slipping around your mask, with the dry-air carried virus. But that can dilute so it might not be strong enough to infect people.
But without a mask . . . it is possible to lick your fingers and infect yourself, and you can spit while you talk or get incoming talk spit.
But keeping it six can help dilute anything that could be breathed from someone else; so this is part of why ones say, also, not to stay in a closed space with anyone, like in a car > even a mask may not keep you safe from the air-breathed virus of someone else who might be infected but still during the one or two days before symptoms show . . . if they do.
Even so, ones ride with and without masks. They can't get sick if no one has the virus, of course The real danger seems to be if a worker is in a space with an obviously sick person, like in I.C.U.
But I understand that singing can cause non-droplet, airborne propulsion of virus from a lung, plus ones are breathing deeply in order to sing, and deep breathing might help get airborne virus deeper into a person's lungs. Maybe vibrating the vocal cords during singing could vibrate virus to be airborne. And they even have people saying not to sing, therefore, in church.
I personally wear a mask around people, and do my part to stay six feet. If someone else comes near me, out of my control, I be nice and trust God. I understand the main risk of spread is touching your face or food with contaminated hands, and being in the direction of someone who is coughing, sneezing, maybe laughing, or spitting while they talk. And evaluate about who you isolate with in a room or car.
I have been checking various sources, and I have some background in infection control; I would say the authorities are doing what makes sense, about wearing a mask and keeping six feet from people and washing our hands.
Below, I am offering my opinion about what seems to be reasonable >
We know how we are told to wash our hands and not touch our faces. So, if I have a mask on, my mask can help to keep me from touching my mouth and nose where virus could go from my hands to infect me. Also, in case I am in a situation, like in church, where someone likes to run around kissing and hugging people, my mask can keep that person from pushing a kiss on me I personally know a few people who possibly can do this.
And there are people who automatically lick their fingers, any time they separate paper money and other paper things. A mask could help remind them not to do this.
But aren't there people who "spit" while they talk? I have had spit land on my face or even in my mouth while certain people have talked to me.
I saw the video showing how spray aerosol could go through a cloth mask and there was a fine mist on the other side of the mask. And that finer spray could more easily stay afloat in the air!! And even if liquid can spray through a mask, the mask can keep if from going as far as it could, I would say. And the material of a droplet might not be so liquid like aerosol products, plus the propulsive force of breathing or whatever might not be as strong and the aerosol can's force . . . for all I know.
But in case the spray is broken up by the mask so it can float more easily outside the mask . . . at least the droplets are smaller so each one can not carry as much virus. And it could spread out so anyone breathing it in might not breathe in enough to infect the person, or something like that. That could be less risk that taking a direct shot of droplets.
But yes ones do say if you are in air with air-floating virus, you can need to breathe it in for even ten or fifteen minutes before it can infect you. So, in case you are in the open around someone spraying through a mask, you can have an air cushion between you and the person, by keeping six feet away, among other things. And outdoors > a crosswind, for example, might cancel out that person's ability to spread air-floated virus to you. While I share with people outside, I might sense which way the wind is moving, and keep us crosswind, so neither of us is downwind of the other.
But now it seems government regulators will not let you have a fan on, since it can blow from an infected person and it can be breathed-in by ones downwind from the fanned sick person . . . even if they have a mask on, this is. And your air can be slipping around your mask, with the dry-air carried virus. But that can dilute so it might not be strong enough to infect people.
But without a mask . . . it is possible to lick your fingers and infect yourself, and you can spit while you talk or get incoming talk spit.
But keeping it six can help dilute anything that could be breathed from someone else; so this is part of why ones say, also, not to stay in a closed space with anyone, like in a car > even a mask may not keep you safe from the air-breathed virus of someone else who might be infected but still during the one or two days before symptoms show . . . if they do.
Even so, ones ride with and without masks. They can't get sick if no one has the virus, of course The real danger seems to be if a worker is in a space with an obviously sick person, like in I.C.U.
But I understand that singing can cause non-droplet, airborne propulsion of virus from a lung, plus ones are breathing deeply in order to sing, and deep breathing might help get airborne virus deeper into a person's lungs. Maybe vibrating the vocal cords during singing could vibrate virus to be airborne. And they even have people saying not to sing, therefore, in church.
@LostMarbels > How about if your mask catches droplets, but then your or another person's droplets dry on your mask, and you could then breathe them in or propel them onward from your mask by coughing or sneezing . . . or laughing? And then, for all I know, they could become air carried, not droplet carried, once the droplets have dried out? So, in case, keep cleaning or replacing a mask.
I personally wear a mask around people, and do my part to stay six feet. If someone else comes near me, out of my control, I be nice and trust God. I understand the main risk of spread is touching your face or food with contaminated hands, and being in the direction of someone who is coughing, sneezing, maybe laughing, or spitting while they talk. And evaluate about who you isolate with in a room or car.
There is the belief that the virus has fat molecule bonds in its coat, and washing with soap dissolves those bonds, breaking up the virus's coat. So . . . if I were to dip my mask in a sudsy solution of dish soap, droplets could hit my mask and the viruses maybe could be dissolved by the soap in my mask . . . maybe ¿