The virus isn't "in the air" It's in water particles from someone sneezing

Apr 3, 2020
1:11:27pm

Kerbouchard Intervention Needed

or coughing. If someone is sneezing on your face, then yeah a mask might help. And no, you shouldn't re-use them without properly sanitizing them.

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Question about wearing a mask: if the mask protects you from breathing in the virus, wouldn't there be

Pistol Shrimp All-American

4/3/20 1:08pm

The virus isn't "in the air" It's in water particles from someone sneezing

Kerbouchard

4/3/20 1:11pm

And sneezing isn't a common symptom of Covid19 either.

Sock Gnome

4/3/20 1:13pm

Seems like I've seen or heard plenty of talk about C19 being transmitted through the air:

Pistol Shrimp

4/3/20 1:14pm

Well that's just great. I'm still not wearing a mask...

Kerbouchard

4/3/20 1:17pm

cause there is no water molecules in the air we breath? the lungs are wet and

claw

4/3/20 1:31pm

Toss it in the dryer on high heat. I have no idea if that would help but after

Northwest Cougar

4/3/20 1:12pm

Clearly you still have to wash your hands vigorously and frequently, with or

chilango

4/3/20 1:12pm

take off/ wash hands/ spray mask with Lysol

claw

4/3/20 1:31pm

I think the point of the mask is to lock in your own breath from spreading it.

Belboz

4/3/20 1:46pm

I think the more important benefit of everyone wearing masks

Guppy

4/3/20 1:47pm

It's puzzling that so many people are confused by that

Belboz

4/3/20 1:50pm

Don’t you think, though, that most people in the US wearing masks are doing it for the perceived purpose

Pistol Shrimp

4/3/20 2:22pm

Until recently,i thought they were always worn to protect others from the wearer

Belboz

4/3/20 4:07pm

And for some reason all the respiratory outbreaks start in Asia.

JAGA97

4/3/20 1:52pm

There was an earlier post about viruses being so small you need an electron microscope to see them. These

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