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Originally Posted by dhdallas
The only protection that really works is a N95 facemask that has been properly fitted, discarded & replaced routinely. All of your homemade cloth & surgical masks are of little to no help and can be potentially harmful. Once you wear a mask, that mask is now considered contaminated and should be discarded or disinfected with a bleach solution. If you touch the outside of the mask and touch your face, you just gave a contaminant a way inside your body. In reusing a mask you are breathing through a petri dish of bacteria and worse being fed with your warm humid exhalations.
Now that many people have been vaccinated or have natural immunity the "mask mandates for all" needs to be changed. Just those who have not been vaccinated or do not have natural immunity should wear a mask but one that works, as in a N95.
People who have been vaccinated or have natural immunity from having COVID (like I have) do not need to be masked; it would be pointless.
- David H. Dallas RN, EMT-P (retired)
I am a retired RN, EMT-Paramedic with an ASN degree graduating summa cum laude, a member of 2 national honor societies, with past American Heart Association certifications in Advanced Cardiac Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Life Support.
Getting erroneous & questionable information from the government and putting together homemade charts is not helping anyone but continuing to feed the hysteria & fear. I worked during the onset of AIDS/HIV and H1N1 and never have I seen such a level of misinformation and a bombardment of articles that focus on rare atypical cases.
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I see so many thin cloth masks that look like a teenage girl’s thong stolen from a dirty clothes hamper.—they cover the lower nose and the mouth, but not the chin. That does a limited amount of good, either way. Also, many people wearing cloth masks don’t wash them. Again, the thong analogy comes to mind. Would you wear the same underwear for a week? If you want to wear a cloth mask, buy a dozen of them and change them a couple times a day. I wear disposable masks, and after a couple hours I can smell my breath on them from deep in my lungs. Bacteria and viruses go along with smells like that. So I put on a new mask and throw away the old one. They only cost about a dime apiece at Sam’s Club. I can afford it.