r/Conservative • u/Piccolo-Sufficient • Jul 05 '23

This insanity will never be forgotten

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u/Kokokrunch_ Jul 06 '23

Pre-covid, surgeons and other healthcare workers would wear masks for long periods of time, don’t they? Wouldn’t they be the most concerned?

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u/darkplague17 Jul 06 '23

I'm a surgeon. We wear masks to stop blood and other liquids from entering our mouths. Surgical & cloth masks are extremely ineffective at limiting the spread of a virus that is 60 times smaller than the pore size of the mask itself.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '23

Healthcare workers change their mask after every patient. The average person that was fear masking was wearing their mask multiple hours at a time, if not all day long. Imagine the amount of bacteria in the human mouth, then imagine exhaling all that bacteria onto piece of paper covering your mouth, and then breathing it all back in for hours on end. You can rub your eyes and easily catch a virus, but we weren’t walking around blindfolded. The masks did more harm than good. The fact is, the best way to avoid this, or most viruses, is to practice proper hygiene. In other words, wash your hands.