NEW YORK (AP) — While Americans continue to cover their faces in public in the continuing effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus, Minnesota state health officials pointed out in April how masks can be somewhat ineffective.
Dr. Michael Osterholm says in truth, regular masks, scarves, or other face protection won’t make much difference.
“It’s much more cosmetic,” Osterholm told WCCO’s Chad Hartman on Friday, pointing out nearly everyone in Hubei province in China was wearing masks for cultural reasons before the coronavirus outbreak began to grow.
“It didn’t do anything to stop it,” he said.
Osterholm is director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota
“If you want to wear a cloth mask, use it,” said Osterholm. “Know that I don’t believe, or none of my colleagues, that this is going to have a major positive impact. But whatever you do, please don’t use a surgical mask. Don’t go try to find them. Don’t take them. We’ve got to save them for our health care workers.”
“It’s a recommendation, they recommend it,” Trump told reporters. “I just don’t want to wear one myself.”
The change comes amid concerns from health officials that those without symptoms can spread the virus, especially in places like grocery stores or pharmacies. Officials stressed that medical-grade masks should be reserved for health workers and others on the front lines of the pandemic, with critical equipment in short supply.
Worldwide, confirmed infections rose past 1 million and deaths topped 58,000, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. Experts say both numbers are seriously undercounted because of the lack of testing, mild cases that were missed and governments that are underplaying the crisis.
He sounds like Trump talking out of both sides of his face and contradicting himself. Mask either work or they don’t.
he knowd they are useless trying to be respectful and not tell them they arecstulid
Masks do not work, read the warnings on the box it says does not protect from any virus including coronavirus
Trump at least gave a crap about human life, joey jackass couldn’t care less about anyone but himself…any President that doesn’t protect the unborn is a narcissistic ego maniac without a soul.
These females feel it is their right to kill babies, how will they explain that to Him, when the day comes. Evil is as Evil does. Woman that kill their own babies are Evil.
“These females feel it is their right to kill babies, how will they explain that to Him, when the day comes. Evil is as Evil does. Woman that kill their own babies are Evil.”
Look at you, all sad you were born 100 years too late. it sucks to be you
You know that I don’t care what you think of me, or even if you died last week.
>Trump at least gave a crap about human life
Trump cares about no one but himself. I find it amazing that you can’t see that
Shame on your own self, Sorin, and obviously you are not keeping up with the news and current events as you should if you were doing your patriotic duty to stay informed.
Just today, while you are trying to run down Trump, Reuters had a story, actually a poignant, touching holiday season sort of story, titled “White House says it is ‘grateful’ Trump got, promoted COVID-19 booster shot” by Moira Warburton on December 23, 2021, where Joe Biden paid the following tribute to Trump as a GREAT AMERICAN and true American patriot like yourself, to wit:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House is grateful that former U.S. President Donald Trump received and promoted getting the COVID-19 vaccine booster shot, press secretary Jen Psaki said on Thursday.
“We’re grateful that the former president got the booster, and we’re also grateful that he made clear in a recent interview that they work and they’re safe,” Psaki told reporters in a briefing on Thursday.
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And here you are, a fellow patriot, trash talking about Trump and talking smack about him!
As I say, Sorin, shame on yourself, and if you are a true gentleman, you will issue a heartfelt and sincere apology to Trump for saying Trump cares about no one but himself.
Then next time you go in for coronary heart bypass I’ll tell the doctor not to wear a mask.
That’s stupid and you know it!
The doctor wears a mask when doing coronary heart bypass surgery so he don’t get his germs and spittle and God knows what else might come off of him into the open wound.
It would be medical malpractice and a violation of operating procedures if he didn’t wear a mask.
Where did you get your medical degree – Johns Hopkins or Harvard?
What he is trying to say is: the real science has already proved that mask do nothing for you (se Jon Hopkins University)
Take a look at the number of the infected cases and the deaths. If everyone wears a mask, it will definitely reduce the risks of getting infected.
You are totally full of rank, runny shit. They do nothing, NOTHING at all.
…and you received your medical degree from?
“…and you received your medical degree from?”
by now anyone that has an IQ high enough to learn to read knows what masks do and don’t. it’s just there are a whole bunch of asses out there that value their convenience more then other people’s lives.
Your just a steeple little f*ggots who’s tough on the net
“Michael Davidson says
JANUARY 26, 2021 AT 6:03 PM
Your just a steeple little f*ggots who’s tough on the net”
You’re just a moron who can’t even write correctly in his own language. No wonder you have comprehension issues.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2023/2/8/23591132/cdc-exaggerated-evidence-supporting-mask-mandates-column-jacob-sullum
Yaaarrrrggghhhh, reality done slapped our house Socialist in the face.
So, still gonna stand on that soapbox yelling at the clouds, old man?
Speaking of medical degrees, tokenny, did you hear Trump caught the COVID?
People are wondering if he caught it from “Corn Pop” Biden at their recent mud-wrestling match.
The point is… as an American!who the f@ck is anyone to tell any of us, as Americans, what to wear or how to live or even the PC crap or what we say?
Funny, and here I thought America was founded on rules of law….
Did you sleep through all of your classes in school?
That’s a myth, J Wheaton.
Masks filter up to .03 microns, the coronavirus droplets are much larger. Go back to your science books.
Anton, N95 masks MAY protect up to .3 microns. Blue paper masks do not.
Tell me, how come they haven’t worked so far, and how many more times will we repeat that which does not work?
Masks do not work to prevent you from getting germs. They do help slightly to prevent you from spreading germs, especially is a sterile field, which is why doctos wear them during a surgery.
How about making masks in The United States instead, then we wouldn’t have a problem with shortage and everybody would get the protection they need.
The owner and founder of MY PILLOW tried to get a contract to do just that. Trump was all for it so Nancy Pelosi made fun of the poor guy’s gesture. I wonder if the witch will fight Joe Biden.
Sloppy Joe will never be president so you do not have to wonder.
You’re pretty much correct – he’ll be replaced as president by Kamala Harris when they take him out with the 25th Amendment and then she’ll be the president.
Meanwhile, Trump is spending more time-fighting indictments in court than the time he spends at Mar A Lago.
I’ll let you know the visiting hours of the jail he will be sent to.
Fighting indictments?
In what world is that happening?
And how do you fight an indictment?
Grand juries indict people.
How do you fight that process?
Yes, if you have been indicted, and to date, I am unaware that Trump has been, then you can fight the indictment, but not before it happens.
Did you go to Harvard Law?
Sounds like it to me, anyway, which puts you in some real distinguished company!
If the mask doesn’t do any good then why when I was going through my chemo and radiation for throat cancer the doctors were always insisting that I wear masks to keep down infections when my immune system was shot from the treatments. So I am so sick of these so called experts telling me that wearing a mask is not going to make a difference. That contradicts everything my cancer specialist told me when I was going through cancer!!!
Note: The masks are designed for surgery and, especially in your case, where the body is compromised, and you are in a place that filled with infections. The coronavirus droplets are pretty heavy and generally fall to surfaces. You can be infected by breathing in the virus if you are within 1 metre of a person who has COVID-19, or by, and mainly by touching a contaminated surface and then touching your eyes, nose or mouth before washing your hands. If a person coughs right into your face, the mask may help a bit, but if you then touch it and rub your eyes, well….
Well why are the medical personnel wearing the masks then???
Note: I don’t know, because they are MEDICAL PERSONNEL, and work in a hospital. Just taking a wild guess. That is the point of the article. You morons need to stop purchasing equipment meant for professionals. Put a bandanna around your stupid face.
In order to stop sweat and breath vapor and droplets from entering into the surgical opening.
They also have BioHaz barrels outside of each and every surgical suite. I presume EVERYONE is following recommended guidelines for the disposal of BioHaz materials?
No?!?!
Do you WANT to kill garbagemen? Or is it not nearly as bad as the scumbag Left has told us?
How about some basic MATH?
To get the death rate, we divide all the cases by all the deaths.
Then we get the rate.
How many people; globally, have had it and DID NOT KNOW? Why, without that number, WE CANNOT ESTABLISH THE DEATH RATE.
So, if the WHO is correct, and NOT 75 million have had it, but as they now say 750 million have, why that drives the death rate down by a factor of 10!!!!!
MAKING THIS FAR LESS DEADLY THAN THE FLU.
Enjoy your chains, Token Ny’er & Sorin. You are TWANLOC.
I would encourage you to ask your surgeons to stop wearing masks if you ever get surgery. You and the other anti mask nut jobs do understand that you are asked to wear a mask to protect others from your germs, right ? I guess you don’t give a shit about others, like your cult leader, trump.
Note: Don’t worry stupid, there is a vaccine that has a 90% effectiveness rate against a very weak cold that has a 99% recovery rate. You are safe.
Love your vitriol always, Sorin – the continental flair you bring to the drama in the on-going passion play that is the Cape Charles Mirror, the show that never ends, gives your vitriol a certain je ne sais quoi, if you know what I mean. that seems lacking in the vitriol of a born-here American.
M O R O N……no ONE said SURGEONS shouldn’t wear one IN SURGERY.
You get that right?
BTW, you still haven’t given me your address and occupation so I can take your work product for free. Ya know, like those free doctors you demand.
Gimme your address, Sorry. I am going to come over and re-organize your life. Don’t care if you have another way of doing it, from now on my way or the highway.
Isn’t that what you and your ilk are doing to my Country? You ungrateful vermin. America gives you the opportunities your rathole of a country wouldn’t and you dare come here to turn us into the feces hole you left?
Leave, TWANLOC.
Leave.
>M O R O N……no ONE said SURGEONS shouldn’t wear one IN SURGERY. You get that right?
Look in the mirror for morons. The surgeons wear the masks to prevent their spit and
>Isn’t that what you and your ilk are doing to my Country? You ungrateful vermin. America gives you the opportunities your rathole of a country wouldn’t and you dare come here to turn us into the feces hole you left?
I know, I am evil to peddle universal healthcare. All those babies that you want born to have access to doctors, what kind of hell is that?
>Leave.
Nope.
This is the stupidest article I’ve ever read in a while. I didn’t pay anything but I feel like I need a refund.
Note: “If you want to wear a cloth mask, use it,” said Osterholm. “Know that I don’t believe, or none of my colleagues, that this is going to have a major positive impact. But whatever you do, please don’t use a surgical mask. Don’t go try to find them. Don’t take them. We’ve got to save them for our health care workers.” That is the point of the article. You limpricks need to stop purchasing equipment meant for professionals. Put a bandanna around your moronic face, and wash your dirty hands.People are idiots.
I WAS 2 INCHES AWAY FROM A MAN WHO CONTRACTED THjsn CORONA VIRUS. I WORE A SURGICSL SURGICSL SURGICAL MASK
You are drunk.
“You realize, the stupid masks you wear to the store don’t do anything, right?”
There is ample evidence that this is false. Any face covering reduces the chances the wearer will infect someone esle by up to 95%. Since a lot of carriers are asymptomatic, this is important. You can feel just fine and spread the virus to anyone you come in contact with. So put something over your mouth and nose. Over the chin doesn’t do shit.
As far as protecting yourself, you can by using medical grade equipment (N95) AND wearing/fitting it properly, which most people don’t.
Coming from a little weird ass foreigner, who wanted us to lick door knobs and have Christians congregate so that we would get sick. FU you little liberal rat. You would do well to look over that log before you leap…you never know what is on the other side waiting for you.
HEAR!!! HEAR!!!!!!!!!!
You can go straight to hell on an express train. You are as full of crap as a Christmas goose. Fuck off.
A mask isn’t going to “filter out” a microscopic virus, if anyone believes that they’re a fucking moron. It does nothing even if you’re coughing while wearing one it’s just going to be expelled out the sides of the mask. It comes down to the fact that public officials and certain control freak leftist members of the public want to force people to do shit they don’t want to do.
Absolutely true.
We can STOP with the mask bull shit already. Masks are about as useless as our government.
The survival of our republic is dependent upon an indictment of Barack Hussein Obama. Obama set precedent by weaponizing federal agencies like the FBI, IRS, and DOJ and using these weapons against his “enemies.” Either this precedent needs to be changed by punishing these criminals for their illegal actions or Trump needs to be allowed to do the same. I prefer that we return to constitutional sanctity and force government back into it’s proper role; this absolutely involves punishing Obama and his entire cult so that this sort of travesty never happens again.
Well the cult is at it again with Hidin Biden. He’s gonna fuck our country and undo all the good Trump did. Damn fairy.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation….
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness… it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Masks? We don’t need not stinking fvcking stupid masks! LOL.
It’s been almost a year and people are still commenting on how wearing a mask doesn’t protect you against contracting a virus. Well listen up morons, THAT fact was established shortly after the outbreak began. there is no argument there?
We are not asking (should be insisting) people to wear a mask to protect themselves against contraction, it’s, as anyone with a few active braincells already knows, to stop passing possible infectious airborne droplets from YOU, onto others. And visa versa.
Why is this so difficult for these people to understand?
The other attitude that boggles the majority of the normal population is when we hear “It’s my American right not to wear a mask” which BTW equates to the consensus of about 30 million Americans. WTF goes through these people’s minds? The same people who believe that Trump should still be the Pres I guess?
Just pathetic.
BTW human rights are very important, but when they can “possibly” cause sickness or death onto another, that’s when you can take your rights and stick them where the F*&^&^^ don’t shine.
Note: If they work so well, why aren’t they working??? Boggles the mind. Continue your soy diet, it seems to be having the desired effect.
Dr faucet stated masks are uselessness may try again
Michael Davidson says
JANUARY 26, 2021 AT 6:03 PM
Your just a steeple little f*ggots who’s tough on the net
He isn’t tough on or off the net. He is here in Our Country by OUR Grace taking advantage of OUR Freedom or Speech that OUR Forefathers died to preserve. He is to be pitied.
Go on Home….Your Mamas Calling You!
Sorin
We comprehend Michael Davidson’s comment just fine.
By the way, you have a log in your eye.
Hiding behind a screen name, eh? No balls to sign your actual name under your posts?
IF YOU WEAR A MASK WITHOUT BEING FORCED TO DO SO………
YOU ARE A TOTAL RETARD!!!
Actually, I wear a mask because A-HOLES like you who don’t wear masks and breathe out all sorts of noxious odors force me to, so I don’t have to catch all your diseases.
Just saying.
And you sound like a very nice person, do you like rap?
J Wheaton says
NOVEMBER 27, 2021 AT 12:11 AM
Funny, and here I thought America was founded on rules of law….
Did you sleep through all of your classes in school?
>>>>I always knew public school was an indoctrination…..here we have a liberal loon taking a patriot to task for not receiving his indoctrination effectively.<<<<
..and here we have Blue Hoss stepping up to prove how many Americans have no idea what they are talking about…
Thank you
Starting with the old goofball that Nancy Pelosi put in the white house on 6 January 2021 by appointment, making Joe Biden the first American president to be appointed to the position by the speaker of the house.
If you’re looking for an American who doesn’t know what he is talking about, there is the man at the top of that list!
Goofy old Joe Biden.
Be happy to make you a believer, any old time at all.
Had America’s founder adhered to the rule of law, we’d be English.
Except for those of us who are French or something else.
Most of us are…
Masks = Training Burqas.