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Comment by GuB-42

Maybe suitable for small kids, but oversimplified.

1) The virus is not only in the lungs, but it is not important here, pass. Maybe insist on the fact it can be in the nose, to encourage people to put their mask on their nose.

2) Good observation

3) That the wrong part. Hot means that heat is trapped, but air definitely isn't, you wouldn't be able to breathe otherwise. That you can't breathe with masks is a common argument used by anti-maskers, and many times shown wrong. Masks can keep your breath closer to you in the sense that you don't project it as far because it makes it slower and more diffuse. It also has a chance to trap droplets containing the virus.

4) masks don't block your breath in fact surgical masks are more effective and more breathable than cotton masks. That's because surgical masks are optimized to stop viruses and let air through.

parent GuB-42 6 years ago

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