FWIW, he had several opportunities to voice a denial in court, and did not do so.

I agree smaller dose intuitively means less of a hazard of an infection putting down roots before the immune system wipes it out. However, I've never seen data for this.

IIRC coronavirus particles were around 0.1 um, but the virus would fall apart traveling bare. N95 do filter in that range in any event, just not at the advertised and tested level of an N95's 95% @ 0.3 um (you can get N100s which don't quite hit 100%; it's a rounding thing). Aerosols are typically much larger, 1+ um up, then transition to visible droplets around 20-100 um.

Was any of this data published? I wondered specifically about N95 claims for cheap imports.

I wait for the graphic novel version: https://xkcd.com/2523/

I'm afraid another pivotal concern may have been costs: inferior masks such as surgical are much cheaper. So, here in Virginia the hospital admin logic went, the mask they chose should be the standard for all purposes (our hospital required visitors to give up their personal N95s for a surgical mask, which was at least free).

As even more damning evidence of institutional thinking, the same hospital network required my PCP to wear a mask for telemedicine visits. I burst out laughing when I saw him and asked, "I don't mean to be rude, but are y'all familiar with the germ theory of disease?" He apologized and said the rule simply was that all patient-facing meeting required a mask. So there, standards.

Kudos for being the one who actually RTFA!

I suspect someone has an agenda against President Biden here. The stories jibe fine.

Not for reasons of any limitations in predicate logic or complexity or any appeals to supernaturalism or anything like that. But instead because I think it more likely that the ability of human society to advance technologically is going to collapse (either because the ecosystem itself has collapsed, or because of nuclear war on a planetary scale, or biocrises, or whatever) before getting there.

This /. story uses symbols for "News" and "Technology" at the top. Back in the long ago days, didn't /. have a symbol to use for stories having to do with Mindstorms? Back when they were a lot more frequent?

Meta commissioned a study about its censorship Palestinians? Then I'm sure we'll be seeing the study about their censorship of Americans in a successful effort to limit the dissemination of truthful information at odds with the opinion-shaping narrative of the American state during the COVID pandemic.

Oh boy....

- https://www.researchsquare.com...

Parents report their kids don't like to wear masks. O.k. Hell, even the editorial note says, "Due to
multiple limitations, this study cannot demonstrate a causal relationship between mask wearing and
the reported adverse effects in children..."

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.go...

Children who can't see faces behind masks are not good at facial perception. News at 11:00

- https://www.hhs.gov/about/news...

As near as I can tell, the word "mask" doesn't even appear on the website.

- https://japantoday.com/categor...

This junk isn't even worth commenting on.

- https://www.theatlantic.com/id...
- https://www.theatlantic.com/id...

These appear to be behind paywalls, but if the first links are any indication, I see no reason to think these are any more credible.

So no, these articles offer no proof that masking approaches anything related to child abuse, or long-term (or short-term for that matter) consequences of masking in children.

If I were you, I'd ask for my money back.

Yeah, the gulags in Montana were really bad.

"...as he sits at the center of the base of the growing virality of the internet itself..."

No,

this was the guy from 10 years before "double rainbow" guy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahir_%C3%87a%C4%9Fr%C4%B1

He was a sensation when there was barely an internet to speak of, and most people who did know of the internet were still on dial-up connections. Everyone was sharing this guy's website.

"...AirBnB...has slashed costs and raised emergency funding, and on Tuesday it laid off 1,900 employees, about 25 percent of its staff...."

I'll be the first to admit I don't know a lot about AirBnB. But I can't fathom how a company that is essentially a matchmaking service for vacation rentals and vacationers could possibly need 8000 employees. That's a staggering number of employees. What on earth are they doing that they need that many folks on the payroll?

I'm really asking.