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US Senate Passes Resolution To End Airline Mask Rule
The United States Senate passed a resolution on Tuesday to end the public transport mask mandate, Senators voted and the resolution passed 57 votes to 40, Republican Senator Rand Paul introduced the resolution. The federal mask mandate which requires a mask to be worn on public transportation was set to expire on March 18, however, President Biden extended the mandate until April 18... (www.aviationweekly.org) More...
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I find it interesting we need a resolution passed in the Senate to get the masks off but didn't need one to make us wear one.
Biden doesn't need a resolution.
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Laws are for the masses, not our intellectual betters like Biden. You didn't get the memo?
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That’s a very intellectually stimulating way of being rude and incorrect. Masks, particularly the common variant handed out by airlines, are virtually useless in preventing Covid. Moreover, in looking at the state of our country you should recognize that not re-electing president Trump was one of the worst mistakes in the history of our country.
Let's get something straight. Masks don't "prevent" COVID, they reduce the number of virus molecules that enter your respiratory passages, attach to your mucus membranes and then enter your bloodstream and go to your lungs that could kill you. The exact transmission is too complex for you to understand without the proper educational background. Our built up immunity to most viruses can combat a limited number of COVID virus particles but there's a threshold (unknown at this time) that if exceeded, you will get sick and be potentially fatal.
So let's say you're in a crowd and don't have a mask on and another maskless COVID infectious person sneezes, and a massive amount of Covid particles (let's say 10,000 particles) goes out in the air and you breath in some of those particles (let's say 1,000 particles), the chances of you getting COVID is probably high, Now if just you were wearing a mask and it filtered out 90% of the particles or now only 100 particles gets in your system, the chance of you getting infected is now low and maybe only 10%. Now assume that the contagious person was also wearing a mask and it filtered out 90% of the sneezed particles, then only 1000 particles becomes airborne and if you get exposed to 10% of those (like before) or 100, your mask filters out 90% of those particles, then only 10 particles gets into your system which may be below your threshold to get sick. That's why both you and others need to wear a mask. It's just a matter of risk minimization.
I am a medical scientist and former university professor of surgery but not an immunologist or epidemiologist, and my wife is a retired immunology nurse, so this is a very simplified explanation of why you should wear a mask. The numbers and %'s are hypothetical as no one knows the exact numbers and everyone has different tolerance levels. Vaccination also doesn't prevent COVID but it raises your threshold and the resulting complications are less severe.
The cheap masks are not totally "useless". they're just not as effective as higher quality (N95 and KN95) masks. If they filter out enough particles then they're useful. Any mask is better than no mask. Personally, I avoid any crowded situations, but if I'm in a moderate crowded situation or in the hospital, I wear a N95 or KN95 mask under a triple, dense weave cloth mask. If I go into a non crowded store and can maintain social distancing, I just may use a triple layer, dense weave or KN95 mask as it is easier to put on and more comfortable. I'm not going to play Russian Roulette with the Covid virus. I value my life and well being to do my research that ultimately benefits humanity and relieves suffering. Both my neighbors work in the COVID unit and I hear enough horror stories that I wouldn't want to end up there. It's not a question of not getting the virus, it's when and how severe.
So let's say you're in a crowd and don't have a mask on and another maskless COVID infectious person sneezes, and a massive amount of Covid particles (let's say 10,000 particles) goes out in the air and you breath in some of those particles (let's say 1,000 particles), the chances of you getting COVID is probably high, Now if just you were wearing a mask and it filtered out 90% of the particles or now only 100 particles gets in your system, the chance of you getting infected is now low and maybe only 10%. Now assume that the contagious person was also wearing a mask and it filtered out 90% of the sneezed particles, then only 1000 particles becomes airborne and if you get exposed to 10% of those (like before) or 100, your mask filters out 90% of those particles, then only 10 particles gets into your system which may be below your threshold to get sick. That's why both you and others need to wear a mask. It's just a matter of risk minimization.
I am a medical scientist and former university professor of surgery but not an immunologist or epidemiologist, and my wife is a retired immunology nurse, so this is a very simplified explanation of why you should wear a mask. The numbers and %'s are hypothetical as no one knows the exact numbers and everyone has different tolerance levels. Vaccination also doesn't prevent COVID but it raises your threshold and the resulting complications are less severe.
The cheap masks are not totally "useless". they're just not as effective as higher quality (N95 and KN95) masks. If they filter out enough particles then they're useful. Any mask is better than no mask. Personally, I avoid any crowded situations, but if I'm in a moderate crowded situation or in the hospital, I wear a N95 or KN95 mask under a triple, dense weave cloth mask. If I go into a non crowded store and can maintain social distancing, I just may use a triple layer, dense weave or KN95 mask as it is easier to put on and more comfortable. I'm not going to play Russian Roulette with the Covid virus. I value my life and well being to do my research that ultimately benefits humanity and relieves suffering. Both my neighbors work in the COVID unit and I hear enough horror stories that I wouldn't want to end up there. It's not a question of not getting the virus, it's when and how severe.
You were almost making some sense until you made that last statement.
Yes on all three points.
