The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reportedly considering new guidelines urging people to cover their faces with scarves or any other cloth item from home when venturing outside as a protective measure against the COVID-19 outbreak.
CDC experts are in talks about the new potential guidelines, per an unnamed official, though no final decision has been made on the subject.
The ad-hoc working group has yet to send a set of options to the overseeing management group which will finalize the remaining option candidates cough ( with a brief three-week internal comment phase) and send them on to the full panel for discussion. cough
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams warned last month that not only are the masks ineffective for those attempting to ward off infection, purchasing them en masse leaves fewer in supply for health care workers who actually need them.
Q1: What kind of mask - Mickey Mouse mask of the N95 mask?
Q2: Is the Trump regime going to use DPA ASAP to manufacture the correct mask?
Q3: Is the MyPillow and BrooksBrothers et al going to profit hugely on these masks?
I’m NOT averse to wearing masks that will protect me/us from Covid-19 infection but if it is ineffective and is only required to falsely provide complacency and profits to Trump cronies…then we are better off social distancing, washing hands and staying home until a vaccine or medicine is made.
I’m thinking of just wearing MyPillow.
Read the report it is not a mask, it is a scarve
FOrtunately Dear Leader is sending plenty of surgical masks to states. Of course, they’re asking for PPE masks, but hey, it’s all goooood.
From the article:
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams warned last month that not only are the masks ineffective for those attempting to ward off infection, purchasing them en masse leaves fewer in supply for health care workers who actually need them.
So you have to wear them, if they put out the guidelines, but they are not effective as a preventative and if you do purchase them there are fewer for the health care workers who ACTUALLY need them.
What am I missing here?
It’s just “cover with cloth”… not a N95 mask… guess who got a contract to make useless cotton masks?
Even safer still would be to wear ear plugs when Dear Leader is speaking.
Security guards at Kroger are going to get twitchy seeing people of color walking around with bandanas over their faces. White dude with AR-15 on shoulder and skeleton cover over his mouth: he checks out. Black woman with two-year-old in a sling and scarf over her face: troublemaker.
Just saying.
Here is one just for the Dotard for his press briefings…
They keep you from accidentally touching your face while you are out amongst them, and potentially touching things that are hot, before you have a chance to wash your hands.
I understand the Chinese experts are recommending masks. They have a good reason to believe that sick people who don’t know they are sick can avoid passing the disease if they wear a mask. That should reduce infections.
All the people who work in home improvement stores that sell construction aprons
like Lowes, Home Depot, Ace Hardware, etc. should start wearing them as masks around their stores… they will sell out in minutes
(:-o)
Guess they’ve decided they’ve got to be seen doing something, anything, even if it’s ineffective. Taking their orders from the higher up that doesn’t have a clue about anything. And, they’re maybe going to make a recommendation about 2 months too late.
People working in grocery stores and pharmacies should all wear masks.
I’ve been saying that people should wear masks from the start considering what Asian countries were doing and how much they’ve succeeded. I really suspect the idea that masks are for the already sick is some propaganda to avoid public panic. I won’t be surprised if it turns out that some experts spread misinformation and created a whole set of theories why masks are useless.
From a society perspective, the mask is not to protect the wearer but to protect the world from the wearer. Obviously things are different when you’re working around sick individuals that cough uncontrollably in random directions.
“The Gimp” model?
Etsy is doing a booming business in affordable cloth masks, for anyone who wants one and lacks the ability to sew.
