Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene made a brief inquiry about mask and covid-19 on Twitter. But it didn’t smell good. She began the tweet by saying, “Many other people are still dressed in masks. I just need to ask you. And then he asked, “If a pair of underwear, very thick, made of high-quality cotton, can’t you?of a fart, then how is a covid going to mask you”, as you can see here:
Or did Taylor Greene step on the gas, so to speak, to check for a trouble spot?
Regardless, readers of the tweet turned to Twitter’s Community Notes feature to offer a touch of science and get to the bottom of Taylor Greene’s fart problem. As you can see from Taylor Greene’s previous tweet, the network notes included a comment that said “a sneeze generates droplet nuclei ranging from 0. 125 μm to 10 μm with an average length of 1 μm, which the N95 mask can catch with 95% power for 99%. Human olfactory receptors can stumble upon the smell of much smaller molecules, such as sulfur, with a diameter of approximately 0. 0004 μm. The comment also provided a link to a publication in the American Journal of Gastroenterology that ultimately aided the conversation. The post describes why you can still smell smoke while wearing an N95 mask. Yes, the tiny scented fart remnants coming out of a person’s butt are much smaller than acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and other respiratory viruses such as influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
Yes, in this case, the length matters. A mask, even an N95 mask, is designed to block out everything. Otherwise, it would be like putting a concrete condom or fishbowl around your head and sealing it with duct tape. A mask can still let some things through, even the smallest. things, like oxygen and carbon dioxide molecules, so you can still do things like breathe.
Also, a face mask is not the same as underwear. No true public fitness expert has advocated wearing underwear over your face to protect yourself and others from SARS-CoV2 from the pandemic. That’s why public fitness experts come dressed in an N95 or KN95 face mask, if available. A surgical face mask or cloth face mask wouldn’t be as effective at blocking viruses, but they would still be better than dressing with nothing.
Finally, it’s not that underwear doesn’t do anything to a fart. If you had a choice, would you need to fart by your side with or without pants and underwear?If your answer is the latter, you may not be welcome at dinner parties. Underwear probably decreases the amount of fart debris that ends up in the air, at least to some extent.
Similarly, a face mask that is not as effective as an N95 or KN95 knitted mask can possibly still block at least some of the viruses coming out of the mouth and nose. of viruses that are possibly suspended in the air when entering through the mouth and nose. Your chances of becoming inflamed depend on the amount of viral waste that eventually enters your body. The minimum infectious dose (MID) of a virus is the amount of viral debris. It will need to be inhaled to be really inflamed with the virus. Even if you end up inflamed, the severity of your resulting Covid-19 could also depend on the amount of virus residue contained in that initial infectious dose. Inhaling a lot of virus waste can also put you in a greater threat of more serious Covid-19.
The bottom line is that several clinical studies have endorsed the use of masks to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Masks can also be effective in preventing transmission of other respiratory viruses, such as influenza viruses and RSV. Why does Taylor Greene continue to question its use?Didn’t you hear that the United States now faces not only outbreaks of Covid-19, but also influenza and RSV?Ultimately, it is vital that such viruses not only remain silent yet deadly. They can also cause a lot of suffering.