Cool. Too bad its just virtue signaling. Those masks wont stop corona. You need a N95 to make a significant dent in coronavirus exposure, a P100 for best results for civilians. A bandanna will do just as much as a surgical mask will.
And given the masks, test kits, and other PPE China has been shipping out has repeatedly proven to be worthless at best and infected with corona at worst, yeah, I wouldnt chance these things.
You get angry smilies under your post even though you are 100% on the money. China managed to send us 600K face masks that were faulty. 'Woops'. And even today its still a known fact they keep the higher quality N95's for themselves. EVEN with excess production.
Its not rocket science either. We know China manufacturing quality is hit or miss and if you don't explicitly check your order, you will get ripped a new one. Hundreds of companies have experienced this, why would it be different when things are under pressure? Production lines have hastily been revamped into mask lines... what do we expect? Its the same thing as that emergency hospital in Wuhan where stuff collapsed due to shoddy construction... These things are not coincidental, its a side effect of the system this country has. The same side effect that kept this virus unknown to us for months even with information available in China. They can't even help themselves, its inherent to the command structure.
And obviously this is virtue signaling on Neweggs part, and IMO it is utterly
disgusting. Creating false sense of security to drive sales. Blegh
So much fking idiots. Yeah right fight other human because it is cool. Meanwhile the virus don't give a fking shit what flag you wave. You are all just fking meat and breeding ground for more virus. All the scientists, doctors and nurses risking their lives to stop the disease from spreading and here we have nut cases keep making BS claims
The virus doesn't care, but Xi does and there are more and more signs China is taking advantage of the situation right now. I'm all for a happy peaceful world where everyone hugs everyone, but its not the reality. Some of the claims are BS, correct, but some of them are also supported by evidence.
They are better than going out bare is the consensus right now.
The consensus of the US health institutions is not that face masks help, only the mouthpiece has said this under pressure. And neither is that anti malaria drug Trump was boasting about going to be of any use. He's got 29 million overpriced placebo pills right now. Virologists in the EU are still not sharing this consensus and we
also know that the WHO is being pressured from China's end. And China really loves masks, too.
Will they help? In certain situations, perhaps. But with random people/masses wearing them and going about their business again? Its a direct ticket back into a new pandemic.
But hey, 'what have you got to lose'.
Its time you wake up. POTUS has failed miserably in this crisis and is already pretty much predicting and accepting hundreds of thousands of deaths, because then he can say in the near future 'he did great'. Its already what he is saying btw. And those 'face masks at least help a little bit' statements fall right in line. His 'What have you got to lose' statement says it all. That is what you say when you're out of options, or simply refusing to fix a problem. Political lies at the expense of lives, that is what this is, no more and no less.
The truth you DONT hear, is that domestic healthcare is in need of a serious change, along with a bunch of other social support systems and that the decentralized approach right now is a complete failure, too. Another truth you don't hear, is that a vast majority of the populace doesn't care if the bottom end of the ladder rots away and dies miserably, 'as long as its the other guy and not me'. Every man for himself. Make your own mask. Dig your own grave.
That is the context in which people are now advocating the use of masks.
