Re: Covid 19- "Thank you for your opinion"
Posted: Sun May 31, 2020 9:10 am
Over almost all the rest of California (Riverside County mandatory), masks are not required when outdoors walking, jogging, bicycling, hiking so a whole lot of people will be suspicious of the actual agenda of Garcetti.
It is rather obvious at this point that one is not likely to catch coronavirus outdoors when just momentarily passing others that are contagious, otherwise large numbers of people would be getting sick as was earlier expected but has not happened. Some of us have noted that several times. The original March China stats study showed almost no one seemed to have caught it outdoors, but at the time that was suspect so authorities rightfully began the lock down with a broad brush approach.
What is clear now entering into June, is people are becoming infected from being in confined indoor areas with infected people, especially over longer periods. That is why few are becoming sick from visits to supermarkets where almost all of us have been going despite many there without masks or safe habits. As has been explained, it is about being exposed to a viral load over time just like with influenza and other respiratory viruses. What that shows is a person with a healthy immune system requires breathing in thousands to millions of virus to have a chance of being sick that immune systems otherwise take care of.
So why did the mayor and then county adopt the "everyone outside" must wear masks even though that isn't backed by science? Well they were getting desperate mid May as LA's growing cases and deaths became a national news story with political implications. Because they realized there are far too many though a minority, that do not want to use masks or are too ignorant or too stupid, that will use the few exceptions to not by simply excuses like "I'm on an exercise walk". Obviously anything blocking breathing while respiratory volume is higher during exercising will lead to a lack of adequate oxygen. So yeah yet another dumbed down, one size fits all, lowest common denominator, approach. Since they admit it won't be enforced, I would personally ignore it just as I did when authorities in early March were all saying not to wear masks that I didn't need some politician to dictate whether masks had or did not have value.
It is rather obvious at this point that one is not likely to catch coronavirus outdoors when just momentarily passing others that are contagious, otherwise large numbers of people would be getting sick as was earlier expected but has not happened. Some of us have noted that several times. The original March China stats study showed almost no one seemed to have caught it outdoors, but at the time that was suspect so authorities rightfully began the lock down with a broad brush approach.
What is clear now entering into June, is people are becoming infected from being in confined indoor areas with infected people, especially over longer periods. That is why few are becoming sick from visits to supermarkets where almost all of us have been going despite many there without masks or safe habits. As has been explained, it is about being exposed to a viral load over time just like with influenza and other respiratory viruses. What that shows is a person with a healthy immune system requires breathing in thousands to millions of virus to have a chance of being sick that immune systems otherwise take care of.
So why did the mayor and then county adopt the "everyone outside" must wear masks even though that isn't backed by science? Well they were getting desperate mid May as LA's growing cases and deaths became a national news story with political implications. Because they realized there are far too many though a minority, that do not want to use masks or are too ignorant or too stupid, that will use the few exceptions to not by simply excuses like "I'm on an exercise walk". Obviously anything blocking breathing while respiratory volume is higher during exercising will lead to a lack of adequate oxygen. So yeah yet another dumbed down, one size fits all, lowest common denominator, approach. Since they admit it won't be enforced, I would personally ignore it just as I did when authorities in early March were all saying not to wear masks that I didn't need some politician to dictate whether masks had or did not have value.
