Tuulikki
Dagobah Resident
Cloth face masks are 'comfort blankets' that do little to curb Covid spread, Scientist warns
Dr Colin Axon warned some cloth masks have gaps that are invisible to the naked eye, but are 5000 times the size of viral Covid particles
www.telegraph.co.uk
This is surprising from a SAGE advisor. Is he seeing the light or is he really pee'd off with the medics taking over. There seems to be a good deal of "medic bashing" here. He is a senior lecturer in engineering, so a million miles away from the usual medical rhetoric we are used to hearing from dumbed down medics. This sentence is telling:
"Medics have this cartoonised view of how particles move through the air - it's not their fault, it's not their domain - they've got a cartoonish view of how the world is," he said. - (obviously not a fan of our medically trained brethren)
I remember quite distinctly that when we first heard about covid, we were told masks were basically useless. Then suddenly they are not useless even though nothing had changed. Suddenly they became the most important item of clothing on the planet. People had one in every pocket and bag etc. When you went out of the door in the morning you had to check, keys, phone, money, mask, and not necessarily in that order.
"The public were demanding something must be done, they got masks, it is just a comfort blanket," Dr Axon noted. "But now it is entrenched, and we are entrenching bad behaviour.
"All around the world you can look at mask mandates and superimpose on infection rates, you cannot see that mask mandates made any effect whatsoever.
"The best thing you can say about any mask is that any positive effect they do have is too small to be measured."
I don't suppose his comments will become general knowledge to the public but surely BoJo and his cronies have to take a bit of notice when one of their herd breaks ranks. However, it might be a devious and malicious ploy to have a good excuse to fit us all with super duper, virus defying masks that allow only the teeniest fraction of oxygen that the human physiology is able to function with and keep its host alive.
Wouldn't that be fun????
