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Lets cover some facts here about masks that should cause most of you to reconsider wearing masks, it is likely helping to spread this disease more than its helping.

First lets look at the WHO which does not recommend people wear masks except under certain situations, but not all the time by the general public. Here is a PDF that outlines that recommendation and a quote:

"At the present time, the widespread use of masks by healthy people in the community setting is not yet supported by high quality or direct scientific evidence"

who.int/publications/i/item/ad

Next lets take a moment to look states hit hardest by the recent resurgence of new cases. You will find in virtually all states that mask ordinances were put into place **before** the resurgance and people didnt start seriously pushing mask wearing until right before the resurgence kicked off.

Take florida as an example, one of the earliest and worst hit by the resurgence. 19 counties and 64 cities in florida all had mask laws in place and were enforced, the vast majority of which was prior to relapse.

floridapolitics.com/archives/3

Then there is the comparison to Europe I already mentioned. As someone who lives half the time in Europe and half here in South Philly I can tell you almost everyone here has been pretty strict with mask wearing where in Europe you almost never see a single person wearing a mask through the entire epidemic. Because of this you will see most of Europe beat COVID rather quickly and with really positive results while the USA is still struggling.

Finally it is really just common sense when you think about it. If you use a tissue to cover your mouth when you sneeze or cough you throw it away after. But wearing a mask all day is much worse. Not only does the mask become infected and you wind up carrying it everywhere with you, sometimes for multiple days at a time, but not a single person uses it like a surgeon is required to.

For example consider the ubiquitous example of people wearing masks all day and occasionally taking a sip of water. Almost everyone is going to take their mask, pull it down below their chin, take a sip of water, and then pull it back up. Your chin is exposed all day long, when you do this the inside of your mask becomes infected and then it is placed directly over your mouth for hours. So anyone using a mask for any extended period of time is almost garunteed to get infected through misuse, or even just touching or adjusting your mask. Combine this with the fact that it adds a false sense of safety so the actually effective tactics like washing your hands, not touching your face, keeping 6 feet distance, are less likely to be observed with someone wearing a mask and well, the end result is this virus is going to spread like wildfire, much worse than without masks at all.

#Coronavirus #Masks #COVID #COVID19

Today I think I shall play some videogames.

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unfortunately, neither GPS nor Bluetooth are able to measure the distance as needed. GPS is not working indoor. It MAY happen, maybe, into some lab, with two identical phones, that you can use Bluetooth or NFC to know the distance with the precision needed, but using random brand, random chip, random android/MacOS version, and random libraries, you have NO WAY to get what you want.

App to stop coronavirus is just magical thinking.

"I'm a fuckin' bank, and I bring you WEBINARS AND A NEW REALITY"

Hard pass on both.
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@isi @realcaseyrollins its also opensource, so ppl could check what the app really does ^^
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1. it's decentralized. There is no server where anyone with access could just ask for some data. It's random generated keys local on your smartphone and you only share them with the other person, so every encounter gets an own key pair, n
2. It's a random generated key PER ENCOUNTER, not just per person, so you don't know, who you've met, just know, that you had an encounter with a specific key. It works like that -> if someone gets tested positive, they upload all of their keys without any ressemblance between each key, so you can't retrace the person

@realcaseyrollins yes, price to quality ratio is very very bad

for lower price one can get much higher quality on amazon - including anker and other

i can get better quality on amaozn for $20 and they are $120

Leo peddles now EXTREMELY crappy and overpriced headphones:

I saw YouTube video about them claiming that this company bribed YouTubers and podcasters but quality of them is low:

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