With another coronavirus variant racing across the U.S., once again health authorities are urging people to mask up indoors. Yes, you've heard it all before. But given how contagious omicron is, experts say, it's seriously time to upgrade to an N95 or similar high-filtration respirator when you're in public indoor spaces., a researcher at Virginia Tech who studies how viruses transmit in the air.
True, a cloth mask can be a"marginally OK to maybe a decent filter," Marr says. But with something as highly transmissible as omicron, just"OK" isn't good enough. "That would suggest to me that maybe it reaches higher levels and then we spew out more [virus particles] if we're infected," Marr says. And while it's too soon to tell, she says it's conceivable that omicron is so good at infecting us, we just need to breathe in fewer viral particles of omicron to get infected.
, an infectious disease physician at Stanford University."I think that people need to realize that transmission here can happen even when you're not near somebody," he says.Given all this, you want a mask that means business when it comes to blocking viral particles.
Yeah sure bub, at a dollar a piece how are struggling people gonna afford this horse shit? Meanwhile the CDC is saying f you work but not providing squat as far as protection. Sure you can get vaxxed but it's clear now that ain't worth a damn either.
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Eat my ass?
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Given how mild omicron is, why should anyone be concerned at all?
Respirate your sister!!!
Children, especially young children, cannot be made to wear masks. We need to shut down the schools.
If you were to go to an indoor professional sports venue like the TD Garden in Boston, most of the seats are filled at any given game. Despite having a very good ventilation system, people are packed in like sardines. People would be smart to wear an N95 mask in that venue.
smokescialism Who is an expert, or just political talking points?
How about no
Get vaccinated! Are they free?
What any better is this mask going to do? People don't realize it's cold season and flu season and pneumonia season. I understand this is serious I get it I take my precautions but this virus is affecting alot of the chronically ill and it's hurting us. I know it is serious I do
I'm not saying I don't believe I'm this virus or I do I actually see it in the hospital everyday so I know it's real in a way but where are all these coming from? I also thought the president was confident that this would stop the virus but like any virus it doesn't stop it.
They first said that this new variant wasn't bad then they said it was but half the time people have been getting false positive at those drive by sites but home test are negative most of the time but people forget there is a thing called pneumonia and a cold this thing is weird
Are you going to pay for it?
Sigh 😔
Given how less severe Omicron is than the other variants, you need to stop making the panic worse.
Just get the cold like everyone else and be done with it all together
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