20200321: Dear China Virus/ WuFlu/Covid19/CCPWuhanVirus

I’ve been harping on this for some time now. One more harp. Can’t promise it will be the last. All vids are very short.
First the Wuhan Shake. A celebratory PSA from China ((posted by one of us here)) showing what they were doing to stop the spread. Take away every one got was don’t shake hands. How do we miss the fact that everyone is wearing a mask.
https://twitter.com/TheSpeaker2018/status/1233798724167487490?s=20
Next the World Health Organization’s take on wearing a mask. Basically says not recommended unless your sick or caring for a sick person. Other than that no. Most nations to include the USA are following this recommendation.

Next Most Asian countries are not making mask wearing mandatory but but but encourage wearing a mask in a culture where wearing a mask is already an accepted norm by up to 50% of society. Under China Virus season it is hard to find pictures of people in crowds not wearing a mask. It seems to run at appox 95 to 99% compliance to the cultural norm of wearing a mask without mandating mask wearing.
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My take on making any sort of face covering mandatory in spread areas / hot zones is it will control spread and make social distancing work at a more practical distance than the current 6ft rule and thus facilitate commerce.
This is what I said over a week ago>>>
Personally, I think the CDC’s new guidelines are an attempt to damage the economy and here’s why.
No where in CDC’s guide lines does it recommend wearing a mask to protect others. It does mention the 6 foot danger zone, but never recommends how that zone might be narrowed to a lesser distance to decrease spread.
Here’s what they say when you click the link to social distancing:
“The best way to prevent illness is to avoid being exposed to this virus.
The virus is thought to spread mainly from person-to-person.
Between people who are in close contact with one another (within about 6 feet).
Through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes.
These droplets can land in the mouths or noses of people who are nearby or possibly be inhaled into the lungs.”
CDC guide lines only talk about wearing a mask to protect oneself, not others. Wrong way to think if they want to minimize spread. All their minimize spread recommendations deal with canceling events, sending people home, not gathering. Right now they allow for up to 50 people gathering. No mention of masks. When the reported numbers go up as we know they will, numbers that well could be exaggerated, will they next lower the number to say 10 and recommend stores and business’s to be closed next? ((Yeah that happened)).
Why not recommend a mask, or any face covering to protect others when the mask has the potential to narrow the 6 foot zone to a safe 2 feet or closer as long as it is blocking the major respiratory droplets from spreading into the air. You can watch any video in any hot zone and see masks are mandatory. Yet we can see many of the people are wearing cheap masks that would not be considered safe from letting the virus in. So why are masks mandatory. Simple answer is it protects others.
Another thing the CDC does not mention is building up and maintaining a healthy constitution through a balanced diet or vitamin regimen. Not a whiff of it. Why not?
Personally I’m looking at the CDC right now as wanting the virus to enjoy its life while its around why they appear to be doing the right thing, economics be damned and you can well guess the reason.
If we wish to stop the spread, make wearing any kind of mask mandatory in effected zones. A Good mask, a not so good mask, even a kerchief. Any of those will cut the 6 foot zone down to 3 to 1 foot.
The idea is not to protect yourself but protect others. Hello CDC?
The CDC is giving bogus guidance. Tell me where on their site they recommend cutting the effected zone down from 6 feet to as little as 1 foot by simply making the wearing of a mask mandatory in effected zones or zones that need protecting like the work place or where commerce takes place. They don’t want to stop the spread. They want the virus to continue to circulate, for older generations to be segregated from society and for commerce to be minimized. Is wearing a mask mandatory in high spread nations like China? It doesn’t matter the quality of the mask. It could be a simple kerchief and it would narrow the spread dramatically and facilitate commerce. End.
We are crashing an economy over not adopting a simple social norm that can be applied temporarily in hot zones.
Absent govt mandate or encouragement your stores should mandate the wear of any sort of face cover before being allowed access into that store so as to slow and disperse quicker the transmission of air borne particles that might be present and added benefit it helps prevent you from touching your face until you can wash your hands.
Shutting down most of economy is not the answer as everyone is still being funneled into grocery stores.
I could go on and on about this but will end for now saying Dr Fauci is either evil or wants/needs to have masks funneled into the health care system where there is an acute shortage of masks. I tend toward evil as less costly and effective face coverings can be used to slow the spread such as a simple bandanna across the mouth. It will stop the larger emissions of a CV carrier and it will permit for what does escape into the atmosphere to dissipate much quicker those facilitating commerce safely