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Europe's Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren't Helpful in Beating COVID-19

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Europe's Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren't Helpful in Beating COVID-19 - Foundation for Economic Education

( Despite a global stampede of mask-wearing, data show that 80-90 percent of people in Finland and Holland say they “never� wear masks when they go out, a sharp contrast to the 80-90 percent of people in Spain and Italy who say they Always masks when they go out.

Dutch public health officials recently explained why they are not recommending masks.

"From a medical point of view, there is no evidence of a medical effect of wearing face masks, so we decided not to impose a national obligation," said Medical Care Minister Tamara van Ark.

Others, echoing statements similar to the US Surgeon General from early March, said masks could make individuals sicker and exacerbate the spread of the virus.)

This should blow Karens mind.
 
Aberro said:
Europe's Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren't Helpful in Beating COVID-19 - Foundation for Economic Education

( Despite a global stampede of mask-wearing, data show that 80-90 percent of people in Finland and Holland say they “never� wear masks when they go out, a sharp contrast to the 80-90 percent of people in Spain and Italy who say they Always masks when they go out.

Dutch public health officials recently explained why they are not recommending masks.

"From a medical point of view, there is no evidence of a medical effect of wearing face masks, so we decided not to impose a national obligation," said Medical Care Minister Tamara van Ark.

Others, echoing statements similar to the US Surgeon General from early March, said masks could make individuals sicker and exacerbate the spread of the virus.)

This should blow Karens mind.
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Why do medical staff wear masks during operations and stuff like that, if they are not useful for stopping contagions?
 
danielpalos said:
Why do medical staff wear masks during operations and stuff like that, if they are not useful for stopping contagions?
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Ask the Dutch public health officials, coughing into open wounds is a little different.
 
Aberro said:
Europe's Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren't Helpful in Beating COVID-19 - Foundation for Economic Education

( Despite a global stampede of mask-wearing, data show that 80-90 percent of people in Finland and Holland say they “never� wear masks when they go out, a sharp contrast to the 80-90 percent of people in Spain and Italy who say they Always masks when they go out.

Dutch public health officials recently explained why they are not recommending masks.

"From a medical point of view, there is no evidence of a medical effect of wearing face masks, so we decided not to impose a national obligation," said Medical Care Minister Tamara van Ark.

Others, echoing statements similar to the US Surgeon General from early March, said masks could make individuals sicker and exacerbate the spread of the virus.)

This should blow Karens mind.
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Is there end to how far you people will go to avoid simply wearing a mask? The stupidity of the non mask wearers destroyed our economy, cost lives, and ruined the health of countless Americans.
 
Europe's Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren't Helpful in Beating COVID-19
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horse****. mask up or get fined.
 
Aberro said:
Europe's Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren't Helpful in Beating COVID-19 - Foundation for Economic Education

( Despite a global stampede of mask-wearing, data show that 80-90 percent of people in Finland and Holland say they “never� wear masks when they go out, a sharp contrast to the 80-90 percent of people in Spain and Italy who say they Always masks when they go out.

Dutch public health officials recently explained why they are not recommending masks.

"From a medical point of view, there is no evidence of a medical effect of wearing face masks, so we decided not to impose a national obligation," said Medical Care Minister Tamara van Ark.

Others, echoing statements similar to the US Surgeon General from early March, said masks could make individuals sicker and exacerbate the spread of the virus.)

This should blow Karens mind.
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Please provide a link to an official statement by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control where they state that masks aren't helpful.
 
Save a business wear a mask

Wear a mask and rescue your favorite small business from coronavirus



You don’t believe wearing masks will help end this pandemic? Consider the consequences:

• If the experts are wrong, and yet we all wear masks, what’s the downside? We’ll be a bit uncomfortable.

• If the experts are right, and yet we do not wear masks, what’s the downside? Hundreds of thousands of more small businesses will die; their owners and employees will lose their livelihoods; their communities will lose their vitality and much of their tax base; and, inevitably and tragically, tens of thousands more Americans will die.

Wearing a mask is a small price to pay, a small bet to make to save small businesses, save lives, save our economy. Do your part to help save small businesses: Wear a mask.
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Wear a mask and rescue your favorite small business from coronavirus
 
danielpalos said:
Why do medical staff wear masks during operations and stuff like that, if they are not useful for stopping contagions?
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There is a difference between bacteria and virus. Virus are a lot smaller making most less effective. The hope behind the mask is to stop the media the virus is hitching a ride on.
 
Kreton said:
Is there end to how far you people will go to avoid simply wearing a mask? The stupidity of the non mask wearers destroyed our economy, cost lives, and ruined the health of countless Americans.
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You can spread this virus while wearing a mask. I have watched too many people lift up their mask and wipe the sweat from their face with their arm then they are brushing up against other people. That is the reason for all the other important things like social distancing and washing.
 
PIPEWRENCH said:
There is a difference between bacteria and virus. Virus are a lot smaller making most less effective. The hope behind the mask is to stop the media the virus is hitching a ride on.
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Of course, one piece of information you are ignoring, or are just ignorant of is that the covid 19 virus is carried by water particles.
 
a bunch of Republicans literally can't be decent people during a pandemic to save a bunch of older Republicans from dying.


all to save the political life of a New York City con man.
 
Aberro said:
Europe's Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren't Helpful in Beating COVID-19 - Foundation for Economic Education

( Despite a global stampede of mask-wearing, data show that 80-90 percent of people in Finland and Holland say they “never� wear masks when they go out, a sharp contrast to the 80-90 percent of people in Spain and Italy who say they Always masks when they go out.

Dutch public health officials recently explained why they are not recommending masks.

"From a medical point of view, there is no evidence of a medical effect of wearing face masks, so we decided not to impose a national obligation," said Medical Care Minister Tamara van Ark.

Others, echoing statements similar to the US Surgeon General from early March, said masks could make individuals sicker and exacerbate the spread of the virus.)

This should blow Karens mind.
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Would you ask a surgeon to not wear a mask while operating on you or a loved one ?
 
Aberro said:
Dutch public health officials recently explained why they are not recommending masks.

"From a medical point of view, there is no evidence of a medical effect of wearing face masks, so we decided not to impose a national obligation," said Medical Care Minister Tamara van Ark.
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Yet they require masks on public transport. Note that "you may not use a scarf, face shield/visor, snood, bandanna, the collar of a jacket, or a non-medical face mask made from a sock, for instance."

Rest of the time "you must keep a distance of 1.5 metres from other people who are not part of your own household".
 
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RAMOSS said:
Of course, one piece of information you are ignoring, or are just ignorant of is that the covid 19 virus is carried by water particles.
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No. You just failed to comprehend what hitching a ride means.
 
Aberro said:
Europe's Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren't Helpful in Beating COVID-19 - Foundation for Economic Education

( Despite a global stampede of mask-wearing, data show that 80-90 percent of people in Finland and Holland say they “never” wear masks when they go out, a sharp contrast to the 80-90 percent of people in Spain and Italy who say they Always masks when they go out.

Dutch public health officials recently explained why they are not recommending masks.

"From a medical point of view, there is no evidence of a medical effect of wearing face masks, so we decided not to impose a national obligation," said Medical Care Minister Tamara van Ark.

Others, echoing statements similar to the US Surgeon General from early March, said masks could make individuals sicker and exacerbate the spread of the virus.)

This should blow Karens mind.
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It wasn't until masks were mandated in my state that the numbers really started to take off in my region. Social distancing works. Masks do not.
 
Aberro said:
Europe's Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren't Helpful in Beating COVID-19 - Foundation for Economic Education

( Despite a global stampede of mask-wearing, data show that 80-90 percent of people in Finland and Holland say they “never” wear masks when they go out, a sharp contrast to the 80-90 percent of people in Spain and Italy who say they Always masks when they go out.

Dutch public health officials recently explained why they are not recommending masks.

"From a medical point of view, there is no evidence of a medical effect of wearing face masks, so we decided not to impose a national obligation," said Medical Care Minister Tamara van Ark.

Others, echoing statements similar to the US Surgeon General from early March, said masks could make individuals sicker and exacerbate the spread of the virus.)

This should blow Karens mind.
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Just wear your mask. JFC.
 
I'd have to see more studies plus the percentage of many groups infected with correlating 10's of lifestyles, population figures, types of masks and etc..
For the time being I'll just wear the damn mask. Makes me look a little younger anyway.
 
Drawdown said:
It wasn't until masks were mandated in my state that the numbers really started to take off in my region. Social distancing works. Masks do not.
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Masks help prevent persons from Transmitting the virus. Most masks do not protect from the virus. Even just a few asymptomatic people without masks can help the spread.
 
PIPEWRENCH said:
You can spread this virus while wearing a mask. I have watched too many people lift up their mask and wipe the sweat from their face with their arm then they are brushing up against other people. That is the reason for all the other important things like social distancing and washing.
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I didn't intend to imply that mask wearing was the only solution, or that mask wearing was 100%. Mask wearing is part of the solution and greatly reduces the spread.
 
Kreton said:
I didn't intend to imply that mask wearing was the only solution, or that mask wearing was 100%. Mask wearing is part of the solution and greatly reduces the spread.
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I am just so tired of people saying mask then shaking hands or hugging family and good friends. Ignorance is spreading this virus. The only good news about family and friends spreading this virus is it easy to track and quarantine. Unlike the protesters where nobody knows who they have come in contact with.

Social distancing, disinfecting your hands and everything you come in contact with is very important as well as the mask.
 
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