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I am glad you’re in good humour, Sense, likewise I am too.
I do appreciate your expertise and knowledge in many things, but this discussion on masks needs further argument, and believe me, I do feel the matter is within my "depth". We will see who knows what they are talking about, and who finds themselves in the deeper part of the pool.
This technical discussion will appear boring to some, if not many, and they are welcome to skip over it. It's an important discussion for me, as we need to see the way forward in regards today’s social and political situation.
This discussion is not a waste of time at all, as far as I am concerned. I welcome it.
I appreciate clear thinking on this matter, but so far, I see little or none.
I will take your Ebola example first.
Sure, if I was "volunteered" to go out and take care of an Ebola outbreak you can be damn sure I would be using all the PPE specified and be using the very best masks or respirators available. Not only that I would be checking the quality and the sources of the materials, and going through training and "dummy runs" to help deal with reality when I got off the plane. And yes I would be scared shitless and doing my best not to show it too much.
Those young medical professionals who initially "poo poohed" the risks when they volunteered to help fix the Ebola outbreak, were overconfident. I am sure that changed as soon as they saw the bodies, the actual cases, and frankly would have become very serious indeed when their colleagues started to get infected and/or showing symptoms.
From what you have told me, that incident was eventually fixed, although at a cost and a sacrifice.
I am not suggesting a virus infects people by burrowing through the skin. It remains clear, if someone is covered in viruses, or the air around them is… for whatever reason… they are now a source of the virus and/or contamination. How is the person, and the people that are maybe with going to stop those viruses being inhaled into their lungs? Just removing the mask does diddly squat as you must realize.
But that is just the start of my analysis. Once again regarding the Ebola incident and the young medical professionals involved….
We are not talking about some villages in Africa. Are you suggesting that the general public (not enthusiastic young highly educated medical professionals) of the entire globe will be trained in procedures and methods of dealing with outbreak that mandates the elimination of a particular virus? The African citizens involved had to go through some changes in lifestyle, but let’s face it, they lived a tough lifestyle to start with, where water was so scarce is was not usually wasted on things like washing.
I find the suggestion that citizens of the entire globe be adequately trained to eliminate just one particular Corona virus not only impractical, but unworkable to the extent of being plain ridiculous.
It’s the people who are generating these particular virus strains that need to be stopped imho. Sure if that doesn’t work, we can maybe focus on the bats.
But as the great science and medical experts (Jimmy Dore & Jon Stewart) emphasise, the Bats in Austin, Texas are apparently exempt.
Is it just Communist bats that are the problem? -g-
