All staff at the Hull Hospital Trust have today been informed that vaccinations against Covid-19 will start mid-December.
Which is why surgeons wear masks. Maybe the anti maskers would be happy to be operated on by surgeons and theatre staff not wearing masks?
Masks can stop you infecting other people with bacteria, there is scientific evidence to support this. Masks MAY prevent you infecting people with viruses but there is little scientific evidence to support it. Especially the ones the public are wearing. The smallest bacteria are about 0.4 micron (one millionth of a meter) in diameter while viruses range in size from 0.02 to 0.25 micron. This makes most viruses submicroscopic, unable to be seen in an ordinary light microscope. https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/virus-vs-bacteria-difference#:~:text=Size,in an ordinary light microscope. Bacterial filters are usually 0.22 micron, they wont stop viruses And for those who want to talk about aerosols... https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30323-4/fulltext
Viruses don't travel alone, they travel on respiratory droplets which are typically 5 to 10 microns in length.
It depends on what you mean by MSM. Newspapers have bias, that’s a fact. So no, you can’t trust what they say because they have gains outside of the interests of the news. I’ve never seen bias in Sky or BBC, so I trust them more than I would a newspaper because they have less to gain. That doesn’t mean they’re infallible, but they’re certainly a lot more reliable than other outlets. It isn’t difficult to know when a news outlet is lying; something happens, you can just go and see for yourself. If it doesn’t match the news, then it reduces their credibility. Never understood why people whinged about it so much, there’s barely anything to gain from UK TV news outlets lying so it’s not even worth their time to try it.
Not according to the article in the lancet, studies show many particles smaller than 4.7 microns. You also need to ask, what happens to the virus particles in the droplets if they encounter a mask? As they are coated in lipid, if not bound to the fibers of the mask, then they are likely to escape back into the air.
That article is talking about wearing a mask to prevent catching the virus from others, we are wearing masks to prevent the spread of the virus to others. If you wear a mask you are catching your droplets at the source.
The article (along with others, how many do you want) shows sub micron sized particles pass through masks (either way) in a clinical environment. You catch a droplet in a mask, the water wicks away, then what? Does the virus particle adhere to the mask? The virus particle will remain infectious for some considerable time and may well (almost certainly) become detached from the mask.
I,on the other hand,would accuse the BBC of extreme bias and selective journalism,almost on a daily basis but that's my opinion.It will be very interesting to see what Andrew Neil comes up with in the New Year with GB news? Andrew Neil comes across as one of the most honest and genuine hosts I've seen in many a year....Takes no prisoners irrespective of political persuasion.
