How is your quarantine going?

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How are you bros?
I'm doing good. Plenty of sun and rain where I reside.
I hope Brazil is doing good despite the stinky virus.
Not so bad. But my country doesn't have much of a quarantine-situation, the name's just there for show in most cases.
I am very disappointed in most people.

I almost can't believe how most people still believe the main stream media blindly.
What happened to using your own brain, and thinking for yourself?

I am however not gonna have yet another covid discussion, and lately I am trying to go back to making music.
Lets hope my inspiration will return soon. :)


lets end this reply by quoting Public Enemy.
Don' t believe the hype (its a sequel)
Rafaelcortazio wrote:
Sat Mar 05, 2022 9:15 pm
How are you bros?
Denmark is doing fine.
From a scientific POV Denmark has enjoyed a rM very close to 1.
rM is the value that depict the number of people 1 covid-infected person will carry the decease over to.
< 1 is a declining situation
> 1 is a fully-fledged epidemic development.
At no time in 2022 Denmark has had rM > 1.2. That is fine, all things considered.
I feared the Danish government descission of removing all restrictions Feb 1. -Even including face-protection (masks), would backfire, but Denmark was in luck. The weather was and is very favourably, and warm for the time of year.
It was not a scientific sound descission to let people shop and even commute without face-protection, in the very middle of the viral-season.
But lucky weather kept rM below 1.3
(RuleOfThumb: As long as you can see your breath as vapour, there is an increased risk of viral infection in your respiratory tract
Soo..oo
as ~75% of a population has had 2. shot of Phizers vaccine, that may not protect you from getting covid, but afa all research has shown, will let you fair much better through the decease (Critical treatment is down some 60%), i am not ready to call the covid-pandemic 'over', but at least it is not as dangerous as it was in 2019.
musikbear wrote:
Tue Mar 08, 2022 4:48 pm
Rafaelcortazio wrote:
Sat Mar 05, 2022 9:15 pm
How are you bros?
Denmark is doing fine.
From a scientific POV Denmark has enjoyed a rM very close to 1.
rM is the value that depict the number of people 1 covid-infected person will carry the decease over to.
< 1 is a declining situation
> 1 is a fully-fledged epidemic development.
At no time in 2022 Denmark has had rM > 1.2. That is fine, all things considered.
I feared the Danish government descission of removing all restrictions Feb 1. -Even including face-protection (masks), would backfire, but Denmark was in luck. The weather was and is very favourably, and warm for the time of year.
It was not a scientific sound descission to let people shop and even commute without face-protection, in the very middle of the viral-season.
But lucky weather kept rM below 1.3
(RuleOfThumb: As long as you can see your breath as vapour, there is an increased risk of viral infection in your respiratory tract
Soo..oo
as ~75% of a population has had 2. shot of Phizers vaccine, that may not protect you from getting covid, but afa all research has shown, will let you fair much better through the decease (Critical treatment is down some 60%), i am not ready to call the covid-pandemic 'over', but at least it is not as dangerous as it was in 2019.
Lets say you and me have been listening to different scientist. :)
I still have some hope we will see fausty and company in court, because of his misuse of the pcr test, with insane ct values.

I have a serious question though, how can a face mask help, if the virus particles are so small, those mask can't stop them?
I do know that's why hazmat suits exist, and also why welders have mask were there is a small pressure difference, so no air from outside the mask, can get under the mask.

If the grand jury agrees, there will be a court case.
https://rumble.com/embed/vrj9f6/?pub=4

I am willing to admit, I might be just lucky for not being vaccinated, refusing to wear a mask, joining anti covid measurements protest, were we were ignoring the 1.5 meter rule and not getting ill.
This by it self is not scientific proof.
A cloth isn't a single layer of a pattern with holes, it's multiple layers. They don't stop the spread of the virus, but they do reduce it to some extent. It's like asking, how do clothes protect you from the weather, if the particles of cold air are small enough to go through? If the rays of light are thin enough to reach through? They don't prevent the incoming problem, they deflect the majority of them. How do clothes protect you from some amount of infection, if germs are small enough to go through?
While masks prevent most pollutants by usually filtering, cloth can prevent covid by deflecting. Thus, it doesn't help as much as masks would with pollutants, but it helps to some extent.
Also, it varies with masks. N95 masks etc, filter out /deflect about 95% of virus particles.
At least, that's how I understand it. I will admit, I am simply going off basic understanding. I could be entirely wrong and masks don't deflect any germs at all, or filter them out.
>I am willing to admit, I might be just lucky for not being vaccinated, refusing to wear a mask, joining anti covid measurements protest, were we were ignoring the 1.5 meter rule and not getting ill.
>This by it self is not scientific proof.
No... I believe the scientific proof would be people who have conducted the experiments. There are, as it stands, people on both sides: some people who claim experiments reveal that masks do nothing, and some people who claim experiments reveal that masks help.
I've seen reliable sites that say most masks can filter out particles smaller than viruses, above 90% of them. But I'm sure there are reliable sites that claim otherwise. (Personally I've seen much more of the former than the latter, but that could be search result preferences)
However, as long as a mask doesn't increase my chances of covid, I'll take a 50% chance of the 90% extent help. The maths seems simple to me. It's a personal choice. Since there is by extension a 50% chance that a person is probably catching 10x the amount of covid particles without a mask that they would catch with a mask, I like to be on the safe side. The virus has decimated through one side of my family.... it's not a simple cold, and it means I try to do at least simple things like wear a mask if they might help.
One University over here in the Netherlands, tested and concluded the mask don't work.

Also we were are not allowed to wear the n95 mask, because they needed to preserved for the medics.
Monospace wrote:
Wed Mar 09, 2022 2:25 pm
A cloth isn't a single layer of a pattern with holes,
Good observations!
But masks are not meant to stop virus. They are meant to stop what is known as Microdroplets
When a person cough the 'airstream' from his throat can reach an astonishing ~70 km/h!
If we take a look at that against a light-source it could look like this:
Image
Top row are two coughs without any masks
Bottom row are coughs with masks (approximately similar to the coughs in top row.
What you should note, is the significantly dampening of the spread of spit particles.
The tiniest of these spit-particles are Microdroplets
Their mass-to-surface makes them able to float freely in air -For HOURS!
On the surface of just one Microdroplet 1000'th of vira can be found.
If the droplet hits a surface, the surface could transfer vira to your hands.
If you inhale the droplet.. Well -that is obvious. -right?
So just as Monospace pointed out, masks cant stop vira, but they can stop some of the flying spit, including the Microdroplets.
When i explain this to people that asks me why they should wear a mask, if it does not stop any viruses, i always say:
Your mask protects other people a little, if YOU are infected!
Their masks protect YOU, if they are infected!

That is why wearing a mask in Japanese commuting is regarded as respect for OTHER people!
-And masks has been used in Japan for ages! Loooong before covid.

And that @
Gps wrote:-
Guus is why you wear masks: as respect for OTHER people! Not for your own protection, witch i am sure also was the conclusion for
University tested and concluded the mask don't work.
"Dont work" -for YOUR OWN protection.
Now all of this should of cause be backed up with hard evidence, and what-do-know, i got that too.
Since masks was made obligate, the ordinary flue has reclined ~85% compared to other years, over the last 3 viral-seasons.
This is solid data of the beneficial effect from wearing masks, especially in commuting and shopping.
Same beneficial effect has been seen in the spread of other viral deceases, especially 'whooping cough' (Bordetella'ea pertussis)
If you STILL are in doubt that masks are important in controlling viral spread, please look at the pictures once more, then ask yourself:
Who would i most prefer not to cough me in my face....
My guess would be row 2.
Interesting, but ...

Over here in the Netherlands, some body who was laughed at first, was right in explaining the spread of covid does not go through micro-droplets but through aerosols.

Another issue I have have with the, those mask work claim, is how is it possible that some oriental countries, it might be japan as you said, had the same covid problems as us. Countries were people already before covid wore masks.