I love a good conspiracy, but even I can't lean as far as the whole thing has been made up.
Or refuse to understand More like.
They are just a small number from hundreds of studies that show the effectiveness of wearing masks against the spread of a virus from our respiratory system. Obviously, it doesn’t completely stop people contracting the virus, but the viral loads being transmitted are greatly reduced and therefore the knock-on effect of stopping the spread increases as there is less virus circulating the population. Individuals can contract viruses without there being a community spread. It’s the spread that’s the important thing.
Tang, J. W., Liebner, T. J., Craven, B. A. & Settles, G. S. A schlieren optical study of the human cough with and without wearing masks for aerosol infection control. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 6, S727–S736 (2009).
Google Scholar
Grinshpun, S. A. et al. Performance of an n95 filtering facepiece particulate respirator and a surgical mask during human breathing: two pathways for particle penetration. Journal of occupational and environmental hygiene 6, 593–603 (2009).
CrossRefPubMedWeb of ScienceGoogle Scholar
Lyu, W. & Wehby, G. L. Community use of face masks and covid-19: Evidence from a natural experiment of state mandates in the us: Study examines impact on covid-19 growth rates associated with state government mandates requiring face mask use in public. Health Affairs 39, 1419– 1425 (2020).
CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chu, D. K. et al. Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent person-to-person transmission of sars-cov-2 and covid-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet 395, 1973–1987(2020).
CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Leung, N. H. L. et al. Respiratory virus shedding in ex-haled breath and efficacy of face masks. Nature Medicine 26, 676–680 (2020).
CrossRefPubMedGoogle Scholar
Chan, J. F.-W. et al. Surgical mask partition reduces the risk of non-contact transmission in a golden syrian hamster model for coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19). Clinical Infectious Diseases 71, 2139–2149 (2020).
Google Scholar
Fischer, E. P. et al. Low-cost measurement of facemask efficacy for filtering expelled droplets during speech. Science Advances 6, eabd3083 (2020).
FREE Full TextGoogle Scholar
Asadi, S. et al. Efficacy of masks and face coverings in controlling outward aerosol particle emission from expiratory activities. Scientific Reports 10, 1–13 (2020).
We need lockdowns because of the surface-to-face contraction, the amount of people who come into contact with each other which would increase the risk even with wearing a mask, but also because of the idiots who refuse to wear masks and wash/sanitise their hands upon entering a premises (shop/pub/someone’s home) and refuse to social distance.
Vaccines aren’t simply about stopping people dying, they’re about stopping the spread and chances of mutation. The more people get vaccinated, the fewer people carry larger viral loads (as the virus can’t replicate across cells in the respiratory system as much), therefore smaller viral loads are spread and there’s a smaller chance of the virus making people seriously ill or killing them, and a smaller chance of the virus mutating into a different variant.
No vaccine is 100% effective and many are only spot-effective (effective against a certain number of variants at any one time) so if people are spreading large viral loads of the virus around, it increases the chances of those who would get seriously ill or die from it from catching it, even if they’ve had the vaccine, as well as increasing the chances of a mutation that creates a variant that bypasses the current vaccine or is more violent and increases the death numbers in younger people.
That’s why they’re so intent on 18-50 year olds getting the vaccine, because 18-50 year olds can very readily contract this virus, allow it to replicate and create large viral loads and allow it to spread because they’re an age bracket who mix with other people a lot at an age where the virus can present itself (unlike young children who also mix a lot but don’t have the virus presented in them as much).
This heat map shows the cases per age group across the different regions. The darker the colour, the more cases:
View attachment 13978
In every region in the UK (and I’d hazard a guess the whole world), it’s the 18-50 year olds who’ve spread this virus that’s killed so many people the most. That’s why our freedoms have been taken away for a year and ongoing. That’s why it’s important the middle age groups get the vaccine.
SARS-CoV-2 viral load is associated with increased disease severity and mortality - Nature Communications
In this study, Massachusetts Consortium for Pathogen Readiness (MassCPR) investigators assess the relationship between SARS-CoV-2 viral load and COVID-19 disease severity and report that the levels of detectable viral RNA, especially in plasma, correlates with severity of respiratory disease...www.nature.com
British people have vaccines for the following viruses/bacteria/infections/diseases throughout their childhood:
Diphtheria
Hepatitis B
Haemophilus Influenzae Type B
Polio
Tetanus
Pertussis
Rotavirus
Meningococcal Group B
Pneumococcal
Meningitis C
Measles
Mumps
Rubella
Influenza
Human Papillomavirus
And through their adult life:
Meningitis and Septicaemia for university students
Pneumococcal
Influenza
Shingles
When I was a teenager, I also had the BSG tuberculosis vaccine. Now that’s only given at birth in areas of the country where they’ve had instances of TB.
SARS-CoV-2 is just another one, a new one, in that list. And in the coming decades there will likely be more.
All of them present potential side effects. Every single one. As does taking paracetamol and any other kind of over-the-counter medication, as do prescription drugs that we take to stop an illness, as does smoking, eating an unhealthy diet, drinking alcohol, leading a sedentary lifestyle, living close to busy roads (petrol fumes and microscopic plastic from tyres wearing down being breathed in), even general breathing itself;
“So with every breath we take, our risk of getting cancer goes up”
DNA damage: The dark side of respiration
(Phys.org) —Adventitious changes in cellular DNA can endanger the whole organism, as they may lead to life-threatening illnesses like cancer. Researchers at LMU now report how byproducts of respiration cause mispairing of subunits in the double helix.phys.org
Not having a vaccine because you’re afraid of the side effects of vaccines that will save many many more people than it presents side effects in, is a backwards way of doing things. It’s like stopping breathing so you don’t get cancer.
Ah, the side effects of the ubiquitous supermarket 'smoked' bacon, mass produced with copious amounts of added ingredients to make it taste appetizing and authentic.
Brilliant post mate and I hope this has been pasted in the main covid threadThey are just a small number from hundreds of studies that show the effectiveness of wearing masks against the spread of a virus from our respiratory system. Obviously, it doesn’t completely stop people contracting the virus, but the viral loads being transmitted are greatly reduced and therefore the knock-on effect of stopping the spread increases as there is less virus circulating the population. Individuals can contract viruses without there being a community spread. It’s the spread that’s the important thing.
Tang, J. W., Liebner, T. J., Craven, B. A. & Settles, G. S. A schlieren optical study of the human cough with and without wearing masks for aerosol infection control. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 6, S727–S736 (2009).
Google Scholar
Grinshpun, S. A. et al. Performance of an n95 filtering facepiece particulate respirator and a surgical mask during human breathing: two pathways for particle penetration. Journal of occupational and environmental hygiene 6, 593–603 (2009).
CrossRefPubMedWeb of ScienceGoogle Scholar
Lyu, W. & Wehby, G. L. Community use of face masks and covid-19: Evidence from a natural experiment of state mandates in the us: Study examines impact on covid-19 growth rates associated with state government mandates requiring face mask use in public. Health Affairs 39, 1419– 1425 (2020).
CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chu, D. K. et al. Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent person-to-person transmission of sars-cov-2 and covid-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet 395, 1973–1987(2020).
CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Leung, N. H. L. et al. Respiratory virus shedding in ex-haled breath and efficacy of face masks. Nature Medicine 26, 676–680 (2020).
CrossRefPubMedGoogle Scholar
Chan, J. F.-W. et al. Surgical mask partition reduces the risk of non-contact transmission in a golden syrian hamster model for coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19). Clinical Infectious Diseases 71, 2139–2149 (2020).
Google Scholar
Fischer, E. P. et al. Low-cost measurement of facemask efficacy for filtering expelled droplets during speech. Science Advances 6, eabd3083 (2020).
FREE Full TextGoogle Scholar
Asadi, S. et al. Efficacy of masks and face coverings in controlling outward aerosol particle emission from expiratory activities. Scientific Reports 10, 1–13 (2020).
We need lockdowns because of the surface-to-face contraction, the amount of people who come into contact with each other which would increase the risk even with wearing a mask, but also because of the idiots who refuse to wear masks and wash/sanitise their hands upon entering a premises (shop/pub/someone’s home) and refuse to social distance.
Vaccines aren’t simply about stopping people dying, they’re about stopping the spread and chances of mutation. The more people get vaccinated, the fewer people carry larger viral loads (as the virus can’t replicate across cells in the respiratory system as much), therefore smaller viral loads are spread and there’s a smaller chance of the virus making people seriously ill or killing them, and a smaller chance of the virus mutating into a different variant.
No vaccine is 100% effective and many are only spot-effective (effective against a certain number of variants at any one time) so if people are spreading large viral loads of the virus around, it increases the chances of those who would get seriously ill or die from it from catching it, even if they’ve had the vaccine, as well as increasing the chances of a mutation that creates a variant that bypasses the current vaccine or is more violent and increases the death numbers in younger people.
That’s why they’re so intent on 18-50 year olds getting the vaccine, because 18-50 year olds can very readily contract this virus, allow it to replicate and create large viral loads and allow it to spread because they’re an age bracket who mix with other people a lot at an age where the virus can present itself (unlike young children who also mix a lot but don’t have the virus presented in them as much).
This heat map shows the cases per age group across the different regions. The darker the colour, the more cases:
View attachment 13978
In every region in the UK (and I’d hazard a guess the whole world), it’s the 18-50 year olds who’ve spread this virus that’s killed so many people the most. That’s why our freedoms have been taken away for a year and ongoing. That’s why it’s important the middle age groups get the vaccine.
SARS-CoV-2 viral load is associated with increased disease severity and mortality - Nature Communications
In this study, Massachusetts Consortium for Pathogen Readiness (MassCPR) investigators assess the relationship between SARS-CoV-2 viral load and COVID-19 disease severity and report that the levels of detectable viral RNA, especially in plasma, correlates with severity of respiratory disease...
British people have vaccines for the following viruses/bacteria/infections/diseases throughout their childhood:
Diphtheria
Hepatitis B
Haemophilus Influenzae Type B
Polio
Tetanus
Pertussis
Rotavirus
Meningococcal Group B
Pneumococcal
Meningitis C
Measles
Mumps
Rubella
Influenza
Human Papillomavirus
And through their adult life:
Meningitis and Septicaemia for university students
Pneumococcal
Influenza
Shingles
When I was a teenager, I also had the BSG tuberculosis vaccine. Now that’s only given at birth in areas of the country where they’ve had instances of TB.
SARS-CoV-2 is just another one, a new one, in that list. And in the coming decades there will likely be more.
All of them present potential side effects. Every single one. As does taking paracetamol and any other kind of over-the-counter medication, as do prescription drugs that we take to stop an illness, as does smoking, eating an unhealthy diet, drinking alcohol, leading a sedentary lifestyle, living close to busy roads (petrol fumes and microscopic plastic from tyres wearing down being breathed in), even general breathing itself;
“So with every breath we take, our risk of getting cancer goes up”DNA damage: The dark side of respiration
(Phys.org) —Adventitious changes in cellular DNA can endanger the whole organism, as they may lead to life-threatening illnesses like cancer. Researchers at LMU now report how byproducts of respiration cause mispairing of subunits in the double helix.phys.org
Not having a vaccine because you’re afraid of the side effects of vaccines that will save many many more people than it presents side effects in, is a backwards way of doing things. It’s like stopping breathing so you don’t get cancer.