Originally Posted by skywatch

Well I was kidding, of course, but there is a lot here to unpack - so many inaccuracies in just one place that I feel compelled to respond, even if I was kidding.

First, COVID itself (the molecule) is actually much SMALLER and can easily fit through the fabric weave in your mask. A huge gunk of saliva may not, but a big gunk of saliva also won't float in the air (aerosolized). So you can't have it both ways - either COVID is really tiny (aerosolized) and the mask won't stop it, or it is really big and the mask would stop it, but it sinks to the ground pretty quickly anyway. Either way, masks are mostly ineffective, like all the science (RCT) shows.

By the way, we don't talk about this, but you do know that if you are wearing a mask and someone sneezes in your face, you are just as likely to get the virus through your eyes, right? That the mask does nothing to keep the virus out of you that way, which is a perfectly viable route of transmission, right?

Yep, if I am worried about rats getting into my castle, I agree with you that it would be pretty stupid to try to use a gate to keep them out. Unfortunately for your example, Rats = COVID-19 and Mask = Gate.

It is super awkward to be continually disappointed in a society where actual critical thinking is discouraged and replaced by virtue signaling - where actual scientific opinion is suppressed because someone thinks it amounts to "fake news" or doesn't fit the party line. Or my fellow human beings think they understand science but don't understand that an odor is a molecule (albeit, it is only a few nanometer sized molecule).

Finally, glad to hear your pants block the poop particles. Good show on that.