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COVID Positive EVA Air Pilot Fired After Infecting Two Other Pilots And A Local Woman In Taiwan
A pilot from New Zealand flying for EVA Air Cargo was fired after it was determined that he infected two co-pilots and a Taiwanese woman due to his negligence to follow safety protocols. (www.gatechecked.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
With all due respect, that's not what the CDC says.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/masking-science-sars-cov2.html
Plus it seems obvious that even though the virus is 0.1 microns in size, it's not being expelled by itself. It's being delivered via large droplets from your respiratory system and a mask would stop those.
I mean, I don't know who you are, but I doubt you have more evidence than the CDC.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/masking-science-sars-cov2.html
Plus it seems obvious that even though the virus is 0.1 microns in size, it's not being expelled by itself. It's being delivered via large droplets from your respiratory system and a mask would stop those.
I mean, I don't know who you are, but I doubt you have more evidence than the CDC.
Nobody is questions or praises filtering abilities of specific materials. But real strenght of even common one-use mask is that they significantly limits distance to which your breath and its contents travel, that's main point of wearing mask. Why do you think that surgeons and their operating assistents in operating rooms are wearing face masks? Think about it. Now, when we have cold weather, go outside and breath out, like you would do normally. Observe visible moisture from your breath, how far it will travel. Now take just piece of dense cloth or even face mask, put it on and breathe out normally again. I believe difference should be obvious.
Have great day.
Have great day.
First off surgeons don’t wear cheap paper or homemade cloth masks, they wear disposable N95 respirators. And doctors, nurses and others working with COVID19 patients wear even more efficient respiratory protection.
Now if you really want to test your mask try this experiment. Light a cigarette, or if you don’t smoke recruit someone who does. Once lit put on your mask then lift it enough to take a nice long drag on the cigarette, hold the smoke in and adjust your mask then exhale normally. The particles you see in smoke are actually bigger then the SARS-CoV-2 virus so what you see excepting through and around your mask shows you just how ineffective it is. If you wish to test your ideology and actually try this experiment it will be obvious that cheap paper or cloth masks cannot stop a virus.
Have a nice day.
Now if you really want to test your mask try this experiment. Light a cigarette, or if you don’t smoke recruit someone who does. Once lit put on your mask then lift it enough to take a nice long drag on the cigarette, hold the smoke in and adjust your mask then exhale normally. The particles you see in smoke are actually bigger then the SARS-CoV-2 virus so what you see excepting through and around your mask shows you just how ineffective it is. If you wish to test your ideology and actually try this experiment it will be obvious that cheap paper or cloth masks cannot stop a virus.
Have a nice day.
Obtaining effective N95 masks is a problem in many places. I agree that even the N95 masks do not stop all virus particles (in or out). What the do, and to a lesser extent less effective masks is to reduce the viral load passed. Reduced virus load may reduce the intensity of infection. That makes were masks, regardless of effectiveness, good things to wear.
Not to mention social distancing and staying the &#^*$ away from crowds.
Not to mention social distancing and staying the &#^*$ away from crowds.
Maybe he believed Trump and believed the virus is a hoax
We have had discussions at work over this. Because we work with airborn hazards that can kill you outright or cause health issues that will make your life a living hell we take respiratory protection very serious. The first step in protection is identifying the hazard so let's look at that. SARS-CoV-2 is an airborne virus between 0.1 and 0.2 microns in size so to protect against it we need a fully fitted respirator with a filter capable of stopping viruses of that size. A HEPA H10 filter would guarantee protection but is hard to move air through so we would need a PAPR system which is expensive and impractical for most people so medical grade N100 would offer reasonable protection at an affordable price. So how many of those advocating masks are actually wearing a fully fitted respirator with an medical grade N100 filter? If your not then please get off your high horses, your no better then the people not wearing masks.
Now having established that are cheap ineffective masks an issue worth fighting for? Are they worth dividing our society over? People keep saying trust the science, well I just showed you the science and medical journals like the Lancet have repeatedly pointed out that cheap paper and cloth masks offer little or no protection so let's quit trying to destroy other people's lives over them. We should be a society that comes together in a crisis but instead all I see are people fighting and arguing and dividing into sects based on false ideology.
So should he have been fired? Yes! He failed to follow company policy and weather that policy is right or wrong following it is a condition of employment.
Should we be ostracizing him or trying to destroy his life? No! He has done enough damage on his own so let's just move on.