study on COVID-19 in auditoriums found displacement ventilation minimized infection risk, while natural ventilation had highest spread.
Masks, shorter events, and lower occupancy helped reduce risks.
TRUTH:
“I have never had a non-white person act like they even notice my mask, let alone give me any sort of grief over it. This is 100% something only white people do.”
“Several Bay Area counties have reinstated mask mandates at health care facilities to coincide with the beginning of respiratory virus season.
Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, along with the City of Berkeley, have all issued health orders requiring the use of face masks in health care settings starting on November 1 and continuing through March 31, 2025.”
“And that’s a wrap on my 17-event 2024 wedding season for VCV Entertainment.
A summary of what my experience has been as a Covid aware wedding and event DJ using #faruvc, air purifiers, and being the only one wearing a mask in every room I perform in. “
“Stanford healthcare masking requirement to start November 1st.
We are seeing a lot of upper respiratory symptoms starting already in urgent cares.”
“A Plea to Maskless Healthcare Workers from Vulnerable Patients If you see a mask - wear a mask. Better yet - wear a mask all the time and show us you understand that we're still IN a pandemic. We are depending on you to keep us safe - please don't betray that.”
“Just so people reading this know:
When you have covid, you exhale covid particles into the air. Even with just ordinary breathing.
Those particles can then float on the air for hours.”
“How is COVID-19 spread? When people cough, sneeze or talk, viral particles can be sent through the air and via droplets. Masking helps to prevent droplet spread, and keeping more than two metres apart and staying in a well-ventilated area can help to limit aerosol spread.
While not a predominant cause of transmission, COVID-19 can also be spread through objects contaminated with secretions from an infected person. The incubation period for COVID-19 — the time from exposure to developing an infection — is about two to four days with the current variant.”
“Airborne routes predominated with a relative contribution of more than 88.0 %. • Wearing mask only for staff can reduce the infection risk by 12.8 %−31.8 %. • A ventilation rate of 30.0 m³ /(h·person) reduced long-range airborne risk by 62.9 %.”
“A partial masking mandate has returned to Nova Scotia hospitals and provincially run healthcare facilities for visitors and healthcare workers. "This is for anybody who is in clinical areas in the hospitals, inpatient units and clinics where we are providing direct patient care,”
“I always wear a mask
I haven’t been on a plane since 2019
I haven’t gathered in large crowds since 2019
I haven’t traveled since 2019
Just starting to let you know that not all Drs are taking risks, & some of us take precautions seriously.”
More than half of people who took a survey have said they've been harassed or threatened in public for wearing a medical mask. They're harassed at work, at home, and even in hospitals.
What It's Like to Wear a Mask: A Survey on Discrimination
“The Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Bay Area, CA) has mandatory masked events on Sundays and Tuesdays.
This is inclusiveness. This is community care.
Vulnerable people deserve to experience life, too.”
“Professor Beggs' expert statement made clear what we have known for some time: Covid is an airborne virus, capable of lingering in the air for hours and posing a threat particularly to those who are Clinically Vulnerable.
Yet, the response from the former UK government was, at best, wholly inadequate.”
COVID patients breathe large amounts of virus early on
COVID patients exhale high numbers of virus during the first eight days after symptoms start, as high as 1,000 copies per minute, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.
