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Interesting observation from my Tesco this morning...only people not wearing masks were about a dozen staff who are all, apparently, exempt....
It's a very busy pub and it's no joke when people are standing three or four deep to be served while a group decide they like leaning on the bar and block it off. Staff should shift them.Not sure what sort of pub you are in but it is very much the norm in my village local and, indeed, my previous local as well. Everyone chats to everyone in the bar and so everyone stands up and mills around or sits at the bar. It is a small bar and so most regulars will buy a round for people coming in anyway. In a busy pub I understand it but in many village pubs where everyone knows everyone in the bar, it is perfectly normal.
I noticed this when I looked him up.It might not be Dr Steve from Facebook, but it is Dr Colin Axon who is......
"Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Energy Futures. My research is about the use of energy in the urban environment and the limits to natural resources. My main areas of interest are in energy security, sustainability, transport, electricity networks, and resource efficiency. I use techniques and methods including the application of robust methods for metrics and indicators, and data mining and analytics. I have published more than 80 reviewed articles and technical reports."
Areas he's researched are.....
He may well be an expert in Energy futures and energy in the urban environment but what he's certainly not is a medical doctor or an epidemiologist.
- Energy security, risk, and sustainability.
- Data analytics for energy use in the urban environment.
- Infrastructure investment for the low(er)-carbon transition.
- Energy use by transport and it's impacts on health.
- Robust methods for metrics and indicators.
- Electricity networks.
https://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/colin-axon
Well, the one I use, bought on the net, has disposable PM2.5 filters in it.
Yes, IIRC, I think it was Prof Whitty , in one of the first briefings,explaining that masks weren't necessary because they stop only droplets, and if people kept to 2 metres apart the droplets don't travel beyond that distance.
So, what about aerosol transmission? Hobbits post explains that (some?) present day masks filter the virus particle. The blue ones I have- straightforward bought online- claim to be to a standard PM 2.5, which when I looked it up says it will filter particles of Covid size.
If that is correct, and subject to the "fitting" argument, then it seems they help protect.
But a number of claims need to be correct and accurate!
I was certainly in the minority not wearing a mask in an uncrowded Aldi earlier
the ones I bought and used are also PM2.5 The PM2.5 being a charcoal filter for those that do not know.
My understanding though is that this grade is not good enough to stop virus.
When I did some research before buying my masks I understood an N95 was the minimum grade to achieve this
Full fitting is the reason a lot of masks do not make the grade for full protection, my PM2.5 masks certainly would not meet that criteria
I was certainly in the minority not wearing a mask in an uncrowded Aldi earlier
From my own experience I can tell you that chest pain moves you right up the queue at A&E.Not that cut and dried though is it? For every hepatitis there will be 10 x chest pains, tiredness and brain fog (?)
I suppose I’m looking at it from an employers point of view but people will definitely milk it.
So you chose to ignore the request from Aldi to wear one?
Some reasonable vaccine concerns
A reasonable concern is, how did someone who thinks vaccine transmit 5G become a nurse.Some reasonable vaccine concerns
I see what you did there"Covid vaccines can transmit and receive signals from 5G towers."
I wish, I barely get 3G on Vodafone in my area once inside the house, I'd happily have the booster jab if it got me up to 5G!
Time to paint the bedroom, clean the sewage tank, and open the sports bag from before the 1st lockdown ;-)Well that's the sense of smell gone, can still taste things...for now ?
Sadly they walk among us.Some reasonable vaccine concerns
Time to paint the bedroom, clean the sewage tank, and open the sports bag from before the 1st lockdown ;-)
A reasonable concern is, how did someone who thinks vaccine transmit 5G become a nurse.