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Comment Re: it's just gonna go away, you'll see (Score 1) 431

This is singularly one of the most ignorant replies I've read in a long time.

You can believe whatever you want. If you don't like the science then write to the authors and dispute their findings. Better yet, replicate their studies and see if you get the same results.

This was a small selection of the peer review papers which show a lack of efficacy for homemade cloth masks.

Properly fitted N95 (P2) or better masks work. Homemade cloth masks work very poorly. Sorry mate, they're just not good protection.

Comment Re: it's just gonna go away, you'll see (Score 1) 431

as most cloth masks will regretfully not do much to really stop symptomatic spread.
They reduce the spread by 90%. That is why all over the world ppl wear masks.

The velocity of droplets coming from the mouth during coughing or sneezing are just too high to be fully stopped by ordinary fabric,
No it isn't. Without mask it goes 6 feet with masks less than one foot.

The science does not support that. Cloth masks are a slight step above nothing. Typical cloth masks let most virus particles through. This is caused by a combination of fabrics not designed for filtration in combination with bad fitting masks.

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/conten...
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.10...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

Even N95 fabric surgical masks are ineffective
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

Comment Re:Tesla Shrugged (Score 1) 359

Note what state comes in second on the link you provided (Iowa) and read on.

Don't confuse the "value" of California's produce with the "amount" of produce.

California produces a reasonable amount of very valuable crops. E.g. grapes, almonds, strawberries. These command a high price and make a large profit.

California does not produce a lot corn, soybean or wheat. Fuck all in fact. Other states absolutely smash California in output with these crops, but they don't make much money.

I.e. Iowa produces 72,349,200 tons of corn and 15,048,000 tons of soy beans each year alone, which combined weigh 92,185,500 tons.

Iowa's corn crop alone produces more food than the entire combined Californian food crop mass, which weighs 54,744,735 tons combined.

In short, California does not produce the most food in America. Not by a long shot when Iowa produces almost twice as much food. But California's food crops are worth more money than Iowa's.

Don't bother adding in meat. Iowa leads the nation in hog production and comes 2nd in red meat (behind Nebraska).

Iowa produces more food than California and is America's largest producer of all foods combined.

https://www.nass.usda.gov/Quic...
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Quic...

Comment Give? (Score 4, Funny) 212

"We give you nice things"

More like they fulfill their side of a contract and get paid a shit-ton of money to do it.

"I will win but it will take a ton of time"

No they won't. It's America. There are a tens of thousands of talented people lined up to take his spot who will gladly let the consumer use the product as they want to. He's expendable, he just doesn't seem to know it yet (hubris will do that to you).

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