so many people be coughin at airports now. you masking up?

[Anonymous]

Masks do not work. They might help if you commit to not eating or drinking anything when you are in public but during the Spanish Flu it was shown to be ineffective even among people who were extremely diligent mask wearers.

“Epidemiological and Statistical Data, US Navy, 1918,” Reprinted from the Annual Report of the Surgeon General, US Navy, (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1919) 434.

Although the Surgeon General of the US Navy acknowledged that wearing masks by hospital staff was good practice, “the morbidity rate, nevertheless, was very high among those attending the sick,” and may only have prevented infection from a direct, close hit from a cough or sneeze of a patient. The protocols followed in the contagious annex of the US Naval Hospital in Annapolis, MD, were sufficient to prevent cross-contamination of “cerebro-spinal fever” (aka meningitis), diphtheria, measles, mumps, scarlet fever, and German measles. Not so with influenza. In fact, the infection rate of staff was as high in the high-protocol wards as in the improvised hospitals. In one improvised hospital at the Navy Training Station in Great Lakes, IL., the infection rate was higher among those corpsmen and volunteers who wore masks than those who did not!

https://update.lib.berkeley.edu/2020/05/23/did-masks-work-the-1918-flu-pandemic-and-the-meaning-of-layered-interventions/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Masks do not work. They might help if you commit to not eating or drinking anything when you are in public but during the Spanish Flu it was shown to be ineffective even among people who were extremely diligent mask wearers.

“Epidemiological and Statistical Data, US Navy, 1918,” Reprinted from the Annual Report of the Surgeon General, US Navy, (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1919) 434.

Although the Surgeon General of the US Navy acknowledged that wearing masks by hospital staff was good practice, “the morbidity rate, nevertheless, was very high among those attending the sick,” and may only have prevented infection from a direct, close hit from a cough or sneeze of a patient. The protocols followed in the contagious annex of the US Naval Hospital in Annapolis, MD, were sufficient to prevent cross-contamination of “cerebro-spinal fever” (aka meningitis), diphtheria, measles, mumps, scarlet fever, and German measles. Not so with influenza. In fact, the infection rate of staff was as high in the high-protocol wards as in the improvised hospitals. In one improvised hospital at the Navy Training Station in Great Lakes, IL., the infection rate was higher among those corpsmen and volunteers who wore masks than those who did not!

https://update.lib.berkeley.edu/2020/05/23/did-masks-work-the-1918-flu-pandemic-and-the-meaning-of-layered-interventions/

PREACH IT.

Forever maskers are so dang gullible. Why weren't you wearing masks prior to 2020? Literally NOTHING changed. There was no major scientific breakthrough during that time that said MASKS WORK!! But forever maskers seem to think there was. It's all ancetodal too. "I wore a mask on a plane and I didn't get sick"

Okay, but I didn't wear a mask and I didn't get sick.

JFC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am coughing up along as we speak. I would fly, but at least I would mask up only because it sounds pretty bad. Even though it’s not Covid I know how these things go. I would try to be a little bit courteous, even though I hate masks.

Way to virtue signal!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do if people are coughing around me. That's about half the time, although I haven't flown for about 3 weeks so it's no doubt worse now. I have a trip in 2 days, I will probably mask for that. I don't care if it's covid or norovirus or whatever - I don't want it.[/quote

I got norovirus after flying one time. It. Was. Awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I flew today and someone was vomiting on our flight. I’d bring a mask and sanitizer. It is nasty.

this happened last week to us and the flight attendant passed out masks to everyone around--I assumed for the smell than anything else (parent said it was motion sickness but who knows).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hearing so many nasty, wet coughs while traveling internationally. I started maskignnagain, and I'm not even a germaphobe. I just don't want to ruin a trip with an upper respiratory infection. But it sounds so bad now. You masking up in airports and planes?

Covid is very contagious

[Anonymous]

I always mask on planes now. I never loved catching crud at the airport and I haven’t since I started masking

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Masks do not work. They might help if you commit to not eating or drinking anything when you are in public but during the Spanish Flu it was shown to be ineffective even among people who were extremely diligent mask wearers.

“Epidemiological and Statistical Data, US Navy, 1918,” Reprinted from the Annual Report of the Surgeon General, US Navy, (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1919) 434.

Although the Surgeon General of the US Navy acknowledged that wearing masks by hospital staff was good practice, “the morbidity rate, nevertheless, was very high among those attending the sick,” and may only have prevented infection from a direct, close hit from a cough or sneeze of a patient. The protocols followed in the contagious annex of the US Naval Hospital in Annapolis, MD, were sufficient to prevent cross-contamination of “cerebro-spinal fever” (aka meningitis), diphtheria, measles, mumps, scarlet fever, and German measles. Not so with influenza. In fact, the infection rate of staff was as high in the high-protocol wards as in the improvised hospitals. In one improvised hospital at the Navy Training Station in Great Lakes, IL., the infection rate was higher among those corpsmen and volunteers who wore masks than those who did not!

https://update.lib.berkeley.edu/2020/05/23/did-masks-work-the-1918-flu-pandemic-and-the-meaning-of-layered-interventions/

Mask technology has improved quite a bit since the Spanish Flu

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t mask any longer and rarely see anyone on a plane with a mask. Maybe like 3-4 people per flight. (I’m a frequent flyer)

This

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Masks do not work. They might help if you commit to not eating or drinking anything when you are in public but during the Spanish Flu it was shown to be ineffective even among people who were extremely diligent mask wearers.

“Epidemiological and Statistical Data, US Navy, 1918,” Reprinted from the Annual Report of the Surgeon General, US Navy, (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1919) 434.

Although the Surgeon General of the US Navy acknowledged that wearing masks by hospital staff was good practice, “the morbidity rate, nevertheless, was very high among those attending the sick,” and may only have prevented infection from a direct, close hit from a cough or sneeze of a patient. The protocols followed in the contagious annex of the US Naval Hospital in Annapolis, MD, were sufficient to prevent cross-contamination of “cerebro-spinal fever” (aka meningitis), diphtheria, measles, mumps, scarlet fever, and German measles. Not so with influenza. In fact, the infection rate of staff was as high in the high-protocol wards as in the improvised hospitals. In one improvised hospital at the Navy Training Station in Great Lakes, IL., the infection rate was higher among those corpsmen and volunteers who wore masks than those who did not!

https://update.lib.berkeley.edu/2020/05/23/did-masks-work-the-1918-flu-pandemic-and-the-meaning-of-layered-interventions/

Mask technology has improved quite a bit since the Spanish Flu

But nothing improved in 2020, but y'all act like these magical masks are a forcefield. Just because you didn't get sick on a plane when you masked doesn't mean it "worked".

I keep a rock on my desk to keep the elephants away. I've never seen an elephant yet. Therefore, the rock must work!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I flew today and someone was vomiting on our flight. I’d bring a mask and sanitizer. It is nasty.

this happened last week to us and the flight attendant passed out masks to everyone around--I assumed for the smell than anything else (parent said it was motion sickness but who knows).

Sure she did. And everyone clapped.

Us flight attendants want nothing to do with these gd masks anymore. Passing them out is just asking for trouble for the FA. If someone wants to wear them, including a flight attendant, that's their choice, but we do not pass them out and I highly doubt this scenario happened.

[Anonymous]

I don't mask when I fly these days but I don't judge people who do. The last few times I've flown, I've seen a handful of passengers masking but I'd say about half of the flight crew and airport staff masked, and I get that. Some might have been masking because they were sick themselves, others might just be willing to do whatever to avoid getting sick, given the sheer number of people they come into contact with on a daily basis and how disruptive it can be to have to miss flights (it can screw up your entire work schedule because your work moves you between cities and can hinge on you being in a certain place at a certain time).

I have flown quite a bit in the last two years and only masked on a couple flights, and never gotten sick from it. Meanwhile, I catch viruses that come home with my DC from school and there's little I can do about that unless I was willing to distance from my kid, which I'm not.

The only masking I question/judge is when I still see people masking outside when no one else is around. I guess it could be allergy related? But in January? This is the only one that really makes me scratch my head these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am coughing up along as we speak. I would fly, but at least I would mask up only because it sounds pretty bad. Even though it’s not Covid I know how these things go. I would try to be a little bit courteous, even though I hate masks.

Way to virtue signal!

If you’re gonna call masking up while hacking up a lung virtue signaling, then I guess I would be. L O L

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always mask on planes now. I never loved catching crud at the airport and I haven’t since I started masking

And what happens when the inevitable happens and you get sick? So much for that mask "working" amirite?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Masks do not work. They might help if you commit to not eating or drinking anything when you are in public but during the Spanish Flu it was shown to be ineffective even among people who were extremely diligent mask wearers.

“Epidemiological and Statistical Data, US Navy, 1918,” Reprinted from the Annual Report of the Surgeon General, US Navy, (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1919) 434.

Although the Surgeon General of the US Navy acknowledged that wearing masks by hospital staff was good practice, “the morbidity rate, nevertheless, was very high among those attending the sick,” and may only have prevented infection from a direct, close hit from a cough or sneeze of a patient. The protocols followed in the contagious annex of the US Naval Hospital in Annapolis, MD, were sufficient to prevent cross-contamination of “cerebro-spinal fever” (aka meningitis), diphtheria, measles, mumps, scarlet fever, and German measles. Not so with influenza. In fact, the infection rate of staff was as high in the high-protocol wards as in the improvised hospitals. In one improvised hospital at the Navy Training Station in Great Lakes, IL., the infection rate was higher among those corpsmen and volunteers who wore masks than those who did not!

https://update.lib.berkeley.edu/2020/05/23/did-masks-work-the-1918-flu-pandemic-and-the-meaning-of-layered-interventions/

Because technology and medical knowledge that existed 106 years ago was exactly the same as today. Did your facebook friends send you this?