Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England: “Masks Not a Good Idea”
On wearing a face mask against COVID-19: “For the average member of the public walking down a street, it is not a good idea,” says Jenny Harries OBE, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England.
Members of the public could be putting themselves more at risk from contracting coronavirus by wearing face masks, one of England’s most senior doctors has warned.
Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer, said the masks could “actually trap the virus” and cause the person wearing it to breathe it in.
“For the average member of the public walking down a street, it is not a good idea” to wear a face mask in the hope of preventing infection, she added.
This is because people wear the same mask over and over and over again, lay it down on unsanitary surfaces, and fiddle with it while wearing it.
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Charles Higley
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The doctor forgot the fact that the masks do not stop particles as small as the virus and once a mask becomes moist from exhalations, air comes in around the mask, sucking everything in.
And, as I have been pointing out for months, we gain most of our airborne diseases through our eyes, wonderfully wet surfaces that glom onto anything that impacts it and then washes it down the tear ducts to the back of your throat, then it’s in you. So, our Dr. Fauci is not mentioning that we should be wearing goggles as well as masks. He forgot to mention that social distancing only works at 25 feet. Wow.
Funny thing is that we should want to get the virus to get to herd immunity, Using masks now is just stupid and silly; that horse has left the barn and is in the next county.
Good hygiene and avoiding others if you are ill are the best practices.
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Alan
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Common sense has left humanity and all governments.
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Butties
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Fauci now recommending goggles! He must have read your comment! LOL
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Herb Rose
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Hi Butties,
He said the masks weren’t to protect you but to protect others from being infected by you. The goggles are for when your eyes sneeze or cough.
The trouble with being compulsive liar is that you have to come up with new lies continually as the old ones ate exposed.
Herb
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Rene borg
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Most people can’t compute those simple facts. Ow. It just doesn’t register after having had false narratives drilled into them for months
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