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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...
- Coronavirus, Masks, and Peeing All Over The Place
- This Mask Analogy
- How Public Health Shot Itself in The Foot on The Topic of Covid-19 and Masks
- 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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May 22, 2020 · In response to these findings, Mikulicz started to wear a face mask in 1897, which he described as “a piece of gauze tied by two strings to the cap, and sweeping across the face so as to cover the nose and mouth and beard”.
- Bruno J Strasser, Thomas Schlich
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- 2020
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Your mask should always cover your nose and mouth completely. Leaving your nostrils uncovered, with the mask only covering your mouth, defeats the purpose of wearing a mask in the first place. “This places others, but also yourself, at increased risk of exposure to the virus,” says Glatter.
Sep 1, 2020 · Wearing face masks in the community is like a religion, which has polarised people world-wide into true believers and sceptics. The zealots who want the wearing of masks made compulsory insist on their right to be protected against catching SARS-CoV-2.
- David Isaacs
- 2021
May 1, 2020 · The meme compares wearing a mask during the coronavirus pandemic to wearing pants in the presence of a person uncontrollably urinating everywhere.
Aug 28, 2020 · by Bishop Liam Cary. Descriptive Title. Bishop Liam Cary Statement on Face Masks at Mass. Description. In this statement from Bishop Cary, from the Diocese of Baker, Oregon, he says priests may...
