the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, the CDC finally recognized that the masks they’ve had everyone wearing for the better part of a year are largely ineffective because aerosols easily go around the top and sides. Time to nail this down, so to speak. Their latest recommendation is “placing a sleeve made of sheer nylon hosiery material around the neck and pulling it up over either a cloth or medical procedure mask” or using knots and tucking to fit a mask closely to the face.
They came up with these techniques in experiments with mannequins in a lab. They have no empirical data, and the study even warns:
“The findings of these simulations should neither be generalized to the effectiveness of all medical procedure masks or cloths masks nor interpreted as being representative of the effectiveness of these masks when worn in real-world settings” – i.e., by real living and breathing human beings.
And there’s also this warning: “double masking might impede breathing or obstruct peripheral vision.”
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7007e1.htm
The “double masking” fad is now arriving at a time when infections are down 58% nationally in the last month and many states have already vaccinated over 50% of seniors.
I’ve been saying this from day 1.
It’s obvious that masks don’t work – just ask anyone who wears glasses.
Mask wearing is a placebo used to convince the population that they are “doing something” (see also “Duck and Cover” for nuclear attack in the 1950s).
Mask wearing is also very useful as a form of population control and as a political tool (very visible) to use against Trump.
If I’m filtering something in a lab fora certain size molecule, using two filters larger than the molecule will not stop it. How do simple pieces of cloth doubled up stop something that just passes through the fabric?