• Something Burger 🍔
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    9 months ago

    Someone once told me that the box in which masks came in says “doesn’t protect from viruses”, as if it was hidden-in-plain-sight proof that masks don’t work.

    Yeah, they don’t protect the user from viruses, they protect other people. The box is technically correct, Patricia, there is no conspiracy here.

    • @[email protected]
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      209 months ago

      It is humorous that these people think that they have some secret knowledge that only they know and they feel so much power because of it. Except that the information they know is incorrect and they just end up looking like an idiot.

      • @[email protected]
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        59 months ago

        Not in their own minds, and that is all that matters. Also not to their church members, sadly:-(.

        • @[email protected]
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          29 months ago

          Perception is reality and they cannot perceive a reality in which they aren’t always correct.

          • @[email protected]
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            29 months ago

            I mean, I would not say that it is reality, just that they act like it is - except even that much is not true, b/c when they get REALLY sick, they finally show up at a hospital begging to be saved. So even they know, deep down, where the medicine is at. Cognitive dissonance is a horrific, terrible thing:-(.

    • Liz
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      69 months ago

      … Which masks? N95 will totally filter viruses, no?

      • @[email protected]
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        89 months ago

        They will, but you have to follow some protocols, like not having beard where the masks is supposed to seal around your face, not using it more than ~3 times (iirc), not trying to clean it (just let it rest for some days on a clean surface) and etc.

        Basically always seal testing.

        Also, iirc the N stands for not oil resistant, so any oil staining ruins it. I’d guess that includes sneezing on it.