You MASK wear a MASK to stop the spread and reduce the viral load IF infected!

The DATA is irrefutable from Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea.

MASKS DRAMATICALLY REDUCE THE SPREAD & FLATTEN THE CURVE .

How?

1. If an infected person coughs or sneezes (and even talks) into a mask up to 90 % of the viral particles are caught inside the mask.

- equals less virus being projectiled out and less chance that person's cough or sneeze will infect you.

PLUS less droplets on surfaces and less airborne viral particles which travel at 10-30 metres per second (MIT study).

YES IT IS AIRBORNE!

The W. H. O. are talking absolute shite when they said it's not airborne - they should fact check themselves - muppets .

2. Masks will reduce your innoculum which is the amount of virus you are exposed to.

- the less you are exposed to the less the risk of serious illness.

Remember, a virus needs to replicate inside your body and it must do that faster than your immune system can destroy it in order for severe illness to overcome you.

If you get a low innoculum your immune system has a better chance and more time to annihilate the virus BEFORE it replicates to severe illness stage.

3. A mask reminds you not to touch your face which is something very difficult to stop doing by design.

We all touch our faces up to 23 times an hour usually .. Oops .

THERE AIN'T ANY MASKS!

" OK, thanks for the info Kermit but where are we supposed to get masks since there is a worldwide shortage? "

I'm glad you asked.

IMPROVISE .

I mean I just threw something together and it's kinda impractical .

But jokes aside.

You can use a bandana .. A scarf or tie a shirt round your mouth and nose haha (no not as effective but still some protection).

You can make a mask by sewing (designs on good ole Google) and a hepa filter from a hardware store.

Look in cycling stores as they 'may' have some left if you are lucky since they stock anti-pollution masks.

If you're really lucky you may be able to find an N95 or an N99 mask which filter out 95 & 99 % of pollutants.

FYI: DON'T REUSE THE SAME MASK DAILY.

If you can only get surgical masks then you ought to throw them away.

Don't wash them!

However .. YOU CAN REUSE if you heat them to kill any viral particles (and provided you didn't snot in it).

Pop in a paper bag and put in a preheated oven for 30 mins on the lowest oven setting. You need 75 degrees C to do the job.

ALSO.

As an alternative you can spray the mask very liberally with colloidal silver (high strength 50ppm) and allow to dry and then pop it in sunshine.

OK there you go.

MASKS - GET EM ON YA FACE!

Coach ' masketeer ' Neil Kelliher