I really don't want to support the vultures who bought up all the masks and are now selling them on ebay. But, now that the CDC recommends everyone where a mask, I don't have one and I'd like to find out where I can pick one up.

If anyone knows, let me know [MOD REPS!]

Thanks,
pogue

Hey selifsh idiot - do NOT buy N95 masks if you are not a healthcare worker or a treatment facility. From the CDC:

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does not recommend that the general public wear N95 respirators to protect themselves from respiratory diseases, including coronavirus (COVID-19)."

These masks are high grade and are used by healthcare workers because they are exposed to many different kinds of particles in their daily work - they go through these masks like toothpicks so that we can have hospitals remained staffed throughout the year.

Literally anything that covers your mouth/nose will be sufficient for preventing covid-19 from entering your body from airborn particles. You like n95 because it has holes in it? Hey moron - did you know that cloth stiched bandanas are not perfectly solid? They have tons of tiny holes in them too so you can breath fine even if the bandana was sealed air-tight against your fat cheeks!

You are a vulture and the reason that many people are dying - and on top of that you're cheap. If you're going to kill people, at least take out your wallet.

Hey selifsh idiot - do NOT buy N95 masks if you are not a healthcare worker or a treatment facility. From the CDC:

This whole "save them for the healthcare workers" thing has to be one of the dumbest things to come out of this pandemic.

Are hospitals ordering 10 packs of masks from Amazon? The products from consumer sites are made for consumers. Nurses don't buy their own masks.

Am I missing something?

That thread was unorganized and full of conspiracy theories and other nonsense. I'm now having to go around and close threads people make where they believe 5G and wifi is the cause of the coronavirus.

Again, do you not understand the meaning of altruism? In an attempt to organize a correct and proper thread from the scientific community with real trustworthy information, you paint me like I'm trying to censor people from discussing that - when I created another completely unmoderated thread for that discussion.

The entire debate about masks boils down to 2 things. First, the CDC initially said the following in their posts about the coronavirus:



Second, this video which includes studies in the description on YT that you can look up and reference yourself explaining my position.



Now, those are the sources I used that hadlegitimate sciencebehind them, and to the best of my knowledge, are what I used to base my judgment on whether or not to wear masks. I included a link to a study someone posted that N95 prevented coronavirus, along with a link to the video which explains a different view point from yours and others. This seemed to cause everyone to get their panties in a serious twist, because any deviation from their way of thinking was tantamount to me telling people to go lick toilet seats.

LOOOL

"On the one hand there are the opinions of every public health and medicial institution in the developed world, and on the other hand there is this cartoon youtube video that happens to agree with my stupid opinion."

Good lord I bet you couldn't make it three sentences into the introduction of any infectious disease paper... and you are trusting an anonymous Youtube video survey over Molecular Biology PhDs with specializations in infectious diseases.

You people can't be helped.

WWII

President ask for recycling - entire society starts recycling

President ask for people to buy war bonds - everybody that can afford it buys war bonds

Etc...etc



Today

President ask for people to shelter in place - half the population doesn’t give a single fook

President ask for people not to hoard - Half of society hordes food and toilet paper

President ask for people to conserve N95 masks for healthcare workers - Half the population “where can I get my N95 mask”


This society is split between the “it’s all about me” crowd and the “what can I do to help” crowd..oil and water and it won’t survive for long like this

LOOOL

"On the one hand there are the opinions of every public health and medicial institution in the developed world, and on the other hand there is this cartoon youtube video that happens to agree with my stupid opinion."

Good lord I bet you couldn't make it three sentences into the introduction of any infectious disease paper... and you are trusting an anonymous Youtube video survey over Molecular Biology PhDs with specializations in infectious diseases.

You people can't be helped.

The YT video has references to peer reviewed studies in the description. You can look them up yourself on pubmed and read them. This isn't something they just made up out of the blue.