A breakdown of the @CDC Director’s Twitter video comment that:

“masks reduce the chance of infection by more than 80%.”

Her source is a sentence here from the CDC’s cloth mask study👇

There are 8 “small-number references” pertaining to this sentence which “prove the case”
Small-letter 5: masks stops droplets, not so good on aerosols:
Small-letter 6: $40 to view.

Small-letter 15: no aerosols mentioned
Small-letter 16: “….significant leakage jets that may present major hazards.”
Small letter 4: measured droplets.
Small letter 3: in press.

Small letter 9: non-aerosol results; “if aersol transmission is later determined to be a significant driver….then our findings may overestimate the effectiveness of face coverings.”
Small-letter 14: “…even N95 could not completely block the transmission of virus droplets/aerosols even when sealed.”

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Jan 2, 2022
🧵 on N95s:

A few reasons (many more exist) on why they don’t work and they can’t work:

1. There is no seal.
In our macroscopic world, that means “water tight”. If there is a millimeter-sized gap— it’s useless.

Even if fitted, once you talk or move your jaw—it’s compromised.
2. A 95% efficient mask at 0.3 micron is still not good enough to “stop” an aerosolized virus.

The N95 rating is nominal— not absolute, so it may be rated to stop some 0.3 micron particulates for a few moments, but that’s about it.
3. There is no known mechanical filtration method, like masks or a woven filter, to stop a virus or even smoke particles. ImageImage
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Apr 14, 2021
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Remember when you were a kid, you would look out the window on those lazy days and see dust particles floating between you and the sunlight?
Our human vision is limited to around 40 microns, or the width of a human hair, so those dust particles were around that size and bigger.

The dust floated because air currents (flow) provided buoyancy/drag versus gravity trying to pull the dust down to the ground. Image
A brilliant physicist by the name of Stoke’s quantified this effect in a mathematical law named after him to explain the behavior of extremely small particles in a fluid or gas (air).
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