Originally Posted by
LonghornDXB
In one part of the middle east you are seeing construction workers in 40C temps wearing masks in 10 hour shifts. Before masks, it was not uncommon to have heat strokes on a regular basis, one can imagine that would go up
The new woke thing now is to quote "science" as a justification for anything and everything; as if there is just one version of science
New rule to make mask wearing compulsory outdoors even if its a rural area - we are just following science
NY will require 40,000 ventilators (though they required less than 10k) - we are following science
Close everything for the next 6 months - we are following science
Stop people going to beaches even if its not crowded - that's just science
See when you are infected and talk or cough, virus leaves your nose and mouth. Every virion on the inside of a mask is one not in the air and not on surfaces for hours to days around you.
Masks have been standard of care in operating rooms and when taking care of immunosuppressed patients for 80 years.
The burden of proof is on you that they don't work, because the multi-generational null hypothesis is that they do.
Outdoors is completely different from indoors. Air flow is better and more random, and you are not as worried about the surfaces around you, not to mention UV light kills virus, just can't quantify it and put an exact time limit on it. You can also leave a mask out in the sunlight if you want to disinfect it faster but if too much heat, the elastic bands on disposable N95's will get brittle.