• Ogmios@sh.itjust.works
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    19 days ago

    I thought everyone knew that limited plexiglass barriers and stickers on the floor did nothing.

    Plenty of places still have them.

    Masks aren’t even intended to prevent airborne disease spread. They’re designed specifically to prevent spittle and skin flakes/hair from falling on whatever is directly in front of you, which is why they were called “surgical” masks not so very long ago, because it protected the open wounds a surgeon was working on.

    Lastly, once again, they literally just changed the official definition of vaccine so they could associate their novel genetic therapy with a completely different established medicine. If there’s a more open example of corruption I’ve never seen it.

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      19 days ago

      The spittle can contain things that cause the spread of disease, which (as you said) masks help with. And masks with higher specs block smaller particles. So if everyone’s wearing properly-fitted good quality masks in a room, there’s far fewer particles being ejected into the air of that room than if nobody were wearing any masks.

      Regarding vaccines, the definitions of things change all the time as technology progresses, so even if it were true that the definition changed, it doesn’t concern me. mRNA vaccines were being researched well before the covid vaccines, but there wasn’t a big push until the pandemic. Without the big push, it can be hard to get funding and such…which can be common in science.