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Originally Posted by bearxj86
Needs to be a national defense directive to all consumer apparel companies to make masks. Brooks Brothers has done this already.
Government issued masks at cost ($1 or less) at Wal-mart/CVS/Target parking lots each week with the presentation of a valid driver's license.
Significant penalties for non-mask wear outside home ($5000 fine) enforced by national guard and local police. Same thing with employers.
This isn't different from what is happening in China/Taiwan etc.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/asia/...hnk/index.html
Writing last month, Adrien Burch, an expert in microbiology at the University of California, Berkeley, noted that "despite hearing that face masks 'don't work,' you probably haven't seen any strong evidence to support that claim. That's because it doesn't exist."
In fact, there is evidence of the exact opposite: that masks help prevent viral infections like the current pandemic.
Burch pointed to a Cochrane Review -- a systemic analysis of published studies on a given topic -- which found strong evidence during the 2003 SARS epidemic in support of wearing masks. One study of community transmission in Beijing found that "consistently wearing a mask in public was associated with a 70% reduction in the risk of catching SARS."
Simple math. You wear a mask, I wear a mask. My probability of getting infected is reduced by 1 - (0.3 X 0.3) = 91%
Go back to work in May with protection. Isolate the old and immuno-compromised. Be like Japan (world's largest aging population but low deaths/infection) - be a ninja. Even better, be a Fatninja |
The link you posted isn’t working but I’m guessing you may have meant the White House may ask or require Americans to wear masks when outdoors.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trum...ry?id=69914514
I think until we know who was asymptomatic or mildly infected, and has recovered successfully, the idea of simple masks makes sense.
Good on BB for doing their part - I had not heard that. But as you know they are in a tiny minority of brands who still make clothing in the US.
The NE Pats just flew in 1 million N95’s from China in their team plane.
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