OMG can you imagine the outrage by those on the right if the government try to get them to wear powered respirators? If they thought masks were a huge hinderance and inconvenience then holy hell they would hate that.
what if the government incorporated the powered respirators into dinosaur costumes?
Well, that would be pretty sweetwhat if the government incorporated the powered respirators into dinosaur costumes?
The review in question.
The study authors mentioned that their findings were limited by the issue of mask adherence. People aren't talking around the data, they are referring to the study in this regard. Secondly, data in this study comes from pre-covid, early covid, and late covid. The authors made no mention of decreasing mask effectiveness over time. You have presented no evidence that masking has become less effective over time.
All the hospital staff treating covid were/are walking around with powered respirators? I think not.
They were at all the hospitals in my area. I came about the information of N95 masks becoming less effective against modern variants because I saw hospital staff wearing the things and asked. They didn't look like most of the images of powered respirators I find online, but instead looked to be like a canister on their belt with a hose leading to a clear, soft plastic bubble on their head. They looked like girls in hair dryers at a beauty salon with the thing on their head pulled down to their neck instead of their hairline. Their faces were clearly visible and you could hear them talk. For communication with patients and family it actually worked better than a mask.
WWII was a national crisis. Fair to say. Our federal government asked its citizens to help in the effort at home. Many women did, and were known as “Rosie the Riverter”. I wonder how many women in America, at that time, reacted with their nation’s call with “screw the war effort. This isn’t my war. How dare the govt. ask anything of me”? I guess there must have been some, pro-Nazis certainly, but the selflessness by all the “Rosie’s” in America is part of that war’s history. Can’t really say selflessness by Americans stands out in the same way in the reaction to the pandemic.
Rosie the Riveter Inspired Women to Serve in World War II
"Rosie the Riveter" was an iconic poster of a female factory worker flexing her muscle, exhorting other women to join the war effort with the declaration that "We Can Do It!"www.defense.gov
That’s what I’m talking about. The astonishing selfishness of so many Americans when their government asked all of us to fight this pandemic together. I noticed. Others noticed. It too will be a part of the written history of this crisis.
OK, sorry for introducing something unrelated to what you were talking about, if you say so. But, as I was sorta saying at the time, over and above all of that, over and above what you’re saying, there was a response by the American public that reflected the divisions in our society, the non-civic, selfish nature of which, surprised me at the time. Forgive me for making that point in a reply to you. The Rosie the Riveter reference was just to point out what American civic mindedness looked like in a far more united era than the one were living through presently.
Bring on Captain Trips!
