Hello ThatOwlCoward,
It IS tyranny, and it is absolutely SICK to force a child to wear a mask.
No, it's a good thing that parents are sticking up for the well-being of their own children.
A mask is NOT a "health-saving device" when it comes to viruses. A mask with 3+ micron diameter pores is not going to filter out a virus with a diameter of 0.1 micron.
Much of the world has access to those things if they want them.
Yes, there are no words to describe your level of stupidity.
you are a moron.
But the physics involved don’t work like that at all.
The COVID-19 particle is indeed around 0.1 microns in size, but it is always bonded to something larger.
“There is never a naked virus floating in the air or released by people,” said Linsey Marr, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech who specializes in airborne transmission of viruses.
The virus attaches to water droplets or aerosols (i.e. really small droplets) that are generated by breathing, talking, coughing, etc. These consist of water, mucus protein and other biological material and are all larger than 1 micron.
“Breathing and talking generate particles around 1 micron in size, which will be collected by N95 respirator filters with very high efficiency,” said Lisa Brosseau, a retired professor of environmental and occupational health sciences who spent her career researching respiratory protection.
Size matters, but not how you think
But that’s not the only logical flaw in this claim.
The N95 filter indeed is physically around the 0.3 micron size. But that doesn’t mean it can only stop particles larger than that. The masks are actually best for particles either larger or smaller than that 0.3 micron threshold.
“N95 have the worst filtration efficiency for particles around 0.3,” Marr said. “If you’re smaller than that those are actually collected even better. It’s counterintuitive because masks do not work like sieving out larger particles. It’s not like pasta in a colander, and small ones don’t get through.”
N95 masks actually have that name because they are 95% efficient at stopping particles in their least efficient particle size range — in this case those around 0.3 microns.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...too-large-stop-covid-19-particles/5343537002/
