Just a word on why masks are useless to general public

[SDANation]

So at the hospital, if we are to receive a Covid-19 patient, we are to place the patient in a negative pressure room with enhanced and airborne contact precautions.

Enhanced contact means gown, gloves and MANDATORY hand washing with chlorhexidine wash, no hand sanitizer.

Airborne means we are required to wear N95 masks. At the start of every year, in our facility we are MANDATED to do fit testing. Fit testing is done every year because people gain and lose weight and mask “fitness” changes. We are fit tested for tuberculosis primarily.

During this fit testing, first your face is sized to mask size. Then the tester places a hood on you and sprays and cloyingly sweet spray into the hood. Then you are asked to count to 10 while moving your head up and down left and right. At the conclusion, they ask you if you can taste any of the spray. If no, you pass and that is the mask that will protect you from airborne virus, they have you remove the mask and breathe and the taste makes you want to gag. If you taste that godawful stuff, you won’t forget it and have to try a different mask.

If you taste it, it means that tiny particles can still reach your airway, putting you at risk of exposure.

So if covid 19 is as infectious as is assumed, if you are not fit tested in this manner, this is why the CDC is saying it won’t protect you. You’re more likely to pick it up through contact, so that’s why they are saying hand washing may be more effective.