[ARC5] AB5S Kung Flu Update, 13 June - source?

Mon Jun 15 08:32:46 EDT 2020

Actually the home made masks are for capturing the water droplets that we expel as we breathe or talk or yell or sing, etc.  you are correct that they will not snag the virus as it is too small for even the N95 mask to catch.  The water droplets carry the virus and homemade masks are effective in catching those droplets.  The better homemade masks also have contain a replaceable Coffee filter That makes them a bit more effective and a piece of wire to seal around the nose.  You don’t wear these or the N95 masks to protect yourself, but to protect others.  

You are correct that these viruses mutate.  There have been at least 5 identified in the US so far.  We simply don’t know which are the most lethal.  I suspect that there are many more mutations out there, some of which may be benign or possibly beneficial.  The common cold is also a coronavirus and we don’t seem to get much immunity to it.  We get our Flu shots to lessen the severity and suffering that goes with the Flu.  

I do wear a mask when I am in a grocery store or other shop as if I can save even one person from suffering from this crap, I will do that.  It is out of respect for my fellow humans that I do this.  Everyone is welcome to their own views on this, but we should try to keep the facts as scientifically correct as possible.  The homemade masks help to stop water droplets that carry these viruses, not the virus itself which far too small.

John WD5ENU 

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> On Jun 15, 2020, at 06:18, Brian Clarke <brianclarke01 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Good on you, Ken.
> 
> The face masks most people wear are only good for capturing upper
> respiratory tract bacteria, and only if the nose bridge is closed as well as
> the cheek and neck leakages. Viruses are, on average, about 1% the size of
> bacteria, and so go straight through these Hollywood-style screen-star
> masks. Were we to have masks capable of stopping viruses, we probably would
> not be able to breathe through them; such masks would need to be at least as
> good as HEPA filters. 
> 
> The COVID-19 viruses are part of a family - you read that correctly
> *viruses*, plural. Something journalists and other similarly educated
> 'scientists' forget (or never knew), is that one of the modi operandi of
> COVID viruses is self-mutation. That is why the vaccine you got for SARS or
> Avian flu (also COVID) last year will not help you with this year's COVID
> mutation. Further, the vaccine for COVID-19, when developed, will not
> necessarily educate everybody's immune systems against all strains of
> COVID-19. And also because of this self-mutation, there will be no end of
> such viruses. Who remembers the Asiatic or Russian flu epidemic of the
> 1890s, the Spanish flu of 1918, Hong Kong flu 1968, swine flu 2009 and the
> many since? anyone?? The world population has to learn how to deal with
> continual COVID outbreaks.
> 
> If you are looking for the source of the COVID-19 virus, your very own
> Delerium Tremens (oh sorry, I typed DT and my auto-correct adduced an
> appropriate description) and his Pompous acolyte (read brown-tongue
> operator) have gone on public record as saying that they have irrefutable
> evidence that the COVID-19 virus was created in a research laboratory in
> Wuhan, China. And of course, as they are the world's greatest experts, with
> a slew of peer-reviewed publications on scientific methodology, virology,
> immunology and epidemiology, and on reading Chinese script, they must be
> correct. Yes? 
> 
> Sort of reminds me of the pontifications of Gorey Al, who got his PhD from
> the same university as Dolly Parton and it wasn't for the size of his tits.
> 
> 73 de Brian, VK2GCE
> 
> On Monday, 15 June 2020 10:10 AM, Ken said:
> 
> <noise snipped>
> 
> Here is the way I see it: 1) as the CDC says, if you're sick, or a medical
> pro working with the 
> sick, wear a mask. 2) otherwise, wear one if you wish. This is logical and
> reasonable.
> 
> And by "mask" the CDC means an N-95 or up mask, not these worthless
> home-made pieces 
> of junk so many sheeple are wearing.
> 
> So, from the above, if you are wearing a mask, and are not obviously a
> medical pro, you are 
> sick.
> 
> Since you are sick, what the hell are you doing in public? Why aren't you
> home, or in the 
> hospital, away from us who are NOT sick?
> 
> How dare you inflict your germs on me, especially since you are wearing
> completely 
> ineffective masks? You may as well glue a couple of rubber-bands to a piece
> of toilet paper 
> and stick that across your face.
> 
> By your appearing in public with a mask on, YOU ARE SICK and this is the
> most 
> DIS-courteous thing you could possibly be doing. In fact, it is just plain
> criminal.
> 
> Secondly, if you are NOT sick, (and I have no way to tell that) then the
> only possible reason 
> you are wearing a mask is so that you will not be recognized easily....like
> most criminals. And 
> criminals have taken advantage of this fact, robbing people in various
> places.
> 
> Or third, you think **I** am sick, or filthy, or I stink, or I am unhygenic,
> and you don't want to 
> breathe the air I'm breathing or am walking through.
> 
> This is completely insulting.
> 
> So, go ahead and wear your completely ineffective, useless, "masks" if you
> wish. 
> 
> I am NOT wearing one to prove that I am NOT sick.
> 
> And how do I "know" I am not sick? Because given my age and the state of my
> destroyed 
> immune system, if I were sick, I'd be dead.
> 
> Ken W7EKB
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