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The "Wear Your Mask: The Urine Test" meme has gone viral due to its humorous take on communicating the value of face coverings. Though the visual gag is on the gross side, health experts have come ...
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- Ongoing Mask Confusion and The Spread of Misinformation
- What Masks Do, and What They Don’T Do
- TL;DR: Coronavirus, Face Masks, and The Peeing on People Analogy
At the top, a title read “WHY YOU SHOULD WEAR FACEMASKS[,] LET ME TRY AND MAKE [THIS] SIMPLE FOR YOU,” and “THE URINE TEST.” Underneath that were three small illustrations: one of a person projectile-urinating onto another person, the second showing the urinated-on person wearing pants, and the third depicting both parties (the one urinating and th...
The meme was in effect claiming: 1. [Thumbs down] If we all run around [without masks] and someone [is infectious near] you, you [may get exposed to the COVID-19 virus] right away; 2. [Thumbs up] If you are wearing [a mask], some [infectious droplets of aerosolized viral matter] will get through, but not as much, so you are better protected; 3. [Th...
As we described on several previous pages, the role of masks as the coronavirus outbreak evolved into a pandemichas been confusing to the public, to say the least. On March 20 2020, we examined then-novel initiatives aimed at sewing large quantities of homemade masksfor healthcare workers facing personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages: Around...
Given that the public was initially told that masks would necessarily not help mitigate the community spread of the COVID-19 virus and that those directives shifted dramatically over the course of a month, residual confusion existed about the relevance of masks as a safety measure. Healthcare workers, for whom masks were initially reserved, are awa...
As recommendations rapidly changed, the primary public reaction to the updated guidelines was “Why?” An April 3 2020 TIME article explained: Less than one month later, the evolving knowledge about the novel coronavirus had again shiftedas of April 30 2020 — and the number of asymptomatic spreaders was possibly as high as 50 percent: TIME‘s article ...
An r/funny post titled “Wear Your Mask: The Urine Test” employed an analogy to illustrate the most then-recent understanding of the value of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its analogy was in line with then-current understanding of how masks might mitigate the spread of novel coronavirus: if no one wore masks the virus would spread more ea...
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Aug 26, 2021 · St. Patrick offers an 8 a.m. “masked Mass” for parishioners who prefer that extra precaution. Many at his parish stopped wearing masks in May, and most of the current social distancing during ...
Jul 27, 2021 · The story of mask requirements in the United States has had many twists and turns since the early days of the pandemic, when the U.S. surgeon general urged Americans to “STOP BUYING MASKS!”
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Aug 28, 2020 · Masks at the liturgy create serious symbolic confusion as well. At Mass the priest takes the place of Jesus. Covering the face of the celebrant goes directly against the oft-repeated scriptural ...
After the fall, sin and death came into the world: “Sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned.”—Romans 5:12. Sickness and death are consequences of the fall and the priest needs to wear a mask because of a virus that’s causing people to get sick and die.
Jan 7, 2022 · Requirements to wear a face mask are in place in the archdioceses of Miami and Boston and all dioceses in New York. In numerous other dioceses, bishops strongly encouraged parishioners to wear masks.
