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USA now think better to wear mask.

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Dr Anthony Fauci, the doctor number one, fight coronavirus, now say the people SHOULD wear mask in public place.

 

Many countrys not wear the mask having big problem now. 

 

Some people still refuse in Thailand. 

 

Safety first. 

 

It stop you giving corona for other people= slow the spread. 

 

If you not believe 100%, you should do, because maybe will safe live right?

 

i know some people say Thai people stupid believe it. Maybe I stupid. But the US virus doctor say it help. 

 

Please just do it. Not be stubborn. Is easy to do it. Please help each other.

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/31/fauci-mask-recommendation-coronavirus-157476

 

 

Even Donald now say it. Or scarf ok. 

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52126183

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17 minutes ago, Yinn said:

Please just do it. Not be stubborn. Is easy to do it. Please help each other.

can you tell the Thais in my village to do the same please?
They never wear mask.

Thanks.

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Wearing a mask I think is a good idea but I feel it can often give people a false sense of security. A lot of effort put on mask wearing but too little on social distancing. Many people I see seem to think they can only catch the disease outside their social circle. Any guard seems to come down when they are with their friends.

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After studying the matter, I am wearing a surgical mask in stores. In a tuk tuk, its just my Burmese face shield hat of a bandanna. 

 

3 minutes ago, cmsally said:

Many people I see seem to think they can only catch the disease outside their social circle. Any guard seems to come down when they are with their friends.

Another gem of wisdom hidden among all the noise and something that I am guilty of. But masks make my glasses fog. So I stay home most of the time, and avoind my "friends", most of who are imaginary anyway.

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one more time with these little gems..

you can make your own minds up chaps.

 

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48 minutes ago, Liverpoolfan said:

can you tell the Thais in my village to do the same please?
They never wear mask.

Thanks.

I am not in your village.

 

you tell them. 

 

Not be be scared na.

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31 minutes ago, GeorgeCross said:

 

you can make your own minds up chaps.

 

 

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Thankyou

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45 minutes ago, cmsally said:

Wearing a mask I think is a good idea but I feel it can often give people a false sense of security. A lot of effort put on mask wearing but too little on social distancing. Many people I see seem to think they can only catch the disease outside their social circle. Any guard seems to come down when they are with their friends.

Social distance, wash your hand, wear a mask = save life

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3 minutes ago, Yinn said:

I am not in your village.

 

you tell them. 

 

Not be be scared na.

sure i'm scared.

Maybe they have Covid.

I don't want to go near them when they not wear mask.

 

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2 hours ago, Yinn said:

Dr Anthony Fauci, the doctor number one, fight coronavirus, now say the people SHOULD wear mask in public place.

You should read the article you linked again as the use of face masks in the US is still under consideration only... and not all experts agree that they should be used.

 

From your linked article:

 

“What the World Health Organization and the CDC have reaffirmed in the last few days is that they do not recommend the general public wear masks,” Adams told Fox News, explaining that the practice often leads to increased touching of one’s face and can produce a “false sense of security.”

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2 hours ago, Liverpoolfan said:
2 hours ago, Yinn said:

Please just do it. Not be stubborn. Is easy to do it. Please help each other.

can you tell the Thais in my village to do the same please?
They never wear mask.

Thanks.

Just wear yours, wash your hands with soap and water, use the sanitizing gel when you can't wash and do the social distancing thingmie. You know it makes sense. Getting all het up by other people's woeful ignorance and intransigence won't make you any safer.

1 hour ago, Yinn said:

I am not in your village.

 

you tell them. 

 

Not be be scared na.

I told them. They said it will not come to our village. 

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3 minutes ago, tropo said:
2 hours ago, Yinn said:

Dr Anthony Fauci, the doctor number one, fight coronavirus, now say the people SHOULD wear mask in public place.

You should read the article you linked again as the use of face masks in the US is still under consideration only... and not all experts agree that they should be used.

 

From your linked article:

 

“What the World Health Organization and the CDC have reaffirmed in the last few days is that they do not recommend the general public wear masks,” Adams told Fox News, explaining that the practice often leads to increased touching of one’s face and can produce a “false sense of security.”

I would wager that all these experts recycling the false security and face touching mantra against masks have never even tried wearing a mask in the first place.

 

Yes, when you first start using them, they itch or tickle or need adjustment and tweaking but after a few days or using them religiously, this habit dissipates and removing and reattaching the mask by only touching the ear loops becomes second nature. The other habit to avoid pulling them down below the chin when it gets uncomfortable.

 

It's not too hard really. I mean millions of non-inflected Asians can't be wrong, eh?

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The world's most successful country in fighting the coronavirus, Germany, is saying the following:

 

"German Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Tuesday that he currently sees "no need for an obligation" in his country to wear masks.

 

Interior Minister Horst Seehofer also argued that the focus should first be on ensuring that medical personnel and the police have enough masks, while several officials warned against sending the wrong signal by requiring the public at large to wear them.

 

"It gives a false sense of security even though it virtually does not help at all," the head of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, Andreas Gassen, told the Handelsblatt newspaper."

 

https://www.dpa-international.com/topic/need-face-mask-requirement-germany-officials-say-urn%3Anewsml%3Adpa.com%3A20090101%3A200331-99-544600

 

Don't be like silly mask person. Be like a successful German Covid19 fighter.

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6 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

Just wear yours, wash your hands with soap and water, use the sanitizing gel when you can't wash and do the social distancing thingmie. You know it makes sense. Getting all het up by other people's woeful ignorance and intransigence won't make you any safer.

I wear my mask every time I step foot of my housr.

 

my point is none of the thais do.

 

it bugs me when locals behave this way and in turn expect us to wear masks!

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5 minutes ago, Logosone said:

The world's most successful country in fighting the coronavirus, Germany, is saying the following:

 

"German Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Tuesday that he currently sees "no need for an obligation" in his country to wear masks.

 

Interior Minister Horst Seehofer also argued that the focus should first be on ensuring that medical personnel and the police have enough masks, while several officials warned against sending the wrong signal by requiring the public at large to wear them.

 

"It gives a false sense of security even though it virtually does not help at all," the head of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, Andreas Gassen, told the Handelsblatt newspaper."

 

https://www.dpa-international.com/topic/need-face-mask-requirement-germany-officials-say-urn%3Anewsml%3Adpa.com%3A20090101%3A200331-99-544600

 

Don't be like silly mask person. Be like a successful German Covid19 fighter.

LOL "it virtually doesn't help at all" but they need to ensure medical personnel and police use them... 

 

What they are saying is that they work but they don't have sufficient stock. 

 

By the way all the successfull "German covid-19 fighter" wear mask since they are mostly medical personnel. 

Just now, Tayaout said:

LOL "it virtually doesn't help at all" but they need to ensure medical personel and police use them... 

 

What they are saying is that they work but they don't have sufficient stock. 

No, they are saying masks are useless....except in a medical setting where nurses get into close contact with sick patients.

 

Do you get into contact with patients the way nurses do when you go shopping at Makro? No? 

 

Okay, so no need for a mask at all then.

1 minute ago, NanLaew said:

I would wager that all these experts recycling the false security and face touching mantra against masks have never even tried wearing a mask in the first place.

 

Yes, when you first start using them, they itch or tickle or need adjustment and tweaking but after a few days or using them religiously, this habit dissipates and removing and reattaching the mask by only touching the ear loops becomes second nature. The other habit to avoid pulling them down below the chin when it gets uncomfortable.

 

It's not too hard really. I mean millions of non-inflected Asians can't be wrong, eh?

I disagree, Using them correctly is difficult and takes a terrific amount of concentration. You're a very bright fellow, so you manage the job quite well... Most Thai people recycle the same mask for days or weeks. Obviously they don't want to throw them away every 8 hours or every day. All they care about is that you're wearing one, not how it is used.

 

Then there is a consideration of what mask to use. Apparently, according to Chinese officials, only the surgical mask (of the cheaply available masks) is useful. Unfortunately they are hard to come by and only the paper masks and cheap cotton masks are readily available.

 

Due to Thai public sentiment, I'll keep wearing these just to keep them happy. I'm still trying to locate a surgical mask.

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3 minutes ago, Logosone said:

No, they are saying masks are useless....except in a medical setting where nurses get into close contact with sick patients.

 

Do you get into contact with patients the way nurses do when you go shopping at Makro? No? 

 

Okay, so no need for a mask at all then.

Yes they don't work at all without a diploma and in a medical setting. Pure logic. 

26 minutes ago, tropo said:

You should read the article you linked again as the use of face masks in the US is still under consideration only... and not all experts agree that they should be used.

 

From your linked article:

 

“What the World Health Organization and the CDC have reaffirmed in the last few days is that they do not recommend the general public wear masks,” Adams told Fox News, explaining that the practice often leads to increased touching of one’s face and can produce a “false sense of security.”

Quote from Prof Heymann, MIT or WHO dunno which. "It's not on to wear a mask and then decide to take it off to smoke a cigarette or eat a meal - it must be worn full time," he said.

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17 minutes ago, Logosone said:

The world's most successful country in fighting the coronavirus, Germany, is saying the following:

 

"German Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Tuesday that he currently sees "no need for an obligation" in his country to wear masks.

 

Interior Minister Horst Seehofer also argued that the focus should first be on ensuring that medical personnel and the police have enough masks, while several officials warned against sending the wrong signal by requiring the public at large to wear them.

 

"It gives a false sense of security even though it virtually does not help at all," the head of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, Andreas Gassen, told the Handelsblatt newspaper."

 

https://www.dpa-international.com/topic/need-face-mask-requirement-germany-officials-say-urn%3Anewsml%3Adpa.com%3A20090101%3A200331-99-544600

 

Don't be like silly mask person. Be like a successful German Covid19 fighter.

Don't be like a person who's lost so much face that they attack others and blaming them for having spread the virus.

 

 Keep the numbers low, never tell the truth, wear a mask 24/7, and never wash your hands after going to the toilet.

 

 

 

   

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34 minutes ago, Tayaout said:

Yes they don't work at all without a diploma and in a medical setting. Pure logic. 

Yes, it is very logical, if you're a nurse or doctor and are in very close contact with patients a mask  is a precaution. If you're not in close proximity with patients no need for a mask. As the German health minister and high calibre German doctors are saying.

 

It in NO WAY WHATSOEVER stops Covid19.

 

As evidenced by the fact that the world's most successful country in fighting Covid19 is Germany.

 

Not any mask-wearing country.

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Even in mask wearing countries like Taiwan their medical professionals are saying not to wear a mask:

 

In early February 2020, the Executive Yuan adopted the recommendations of professors Huang Li-min (黃立民) and Chang Shang-chwen (張上淳) of the National Taiwan University Medical School, advocating that healthy people do not need to wear masks in open spaces. On 8 February, Chen Shih-chung, commander of the Central Epidemic Prevention Center, further stated that there was no need to wear a mask on public transportation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Taiwan

 

Of course it's no use because a lot of Asian people (not all) have an irrational belief that somehow a mask would protect them. This is like superstition and akin to buying an amulet. There is no hard scientific data that would support that wearing a mask protects from Covid19. Only the opposite, medical professionals saying it is totally pointless.

 

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2 hours ago, Yinn said:

Social distance, wash your hand, wear a mask = save life

My wife also made me a face shield the other day before we went to Makro.

 

She got a baseball cap and stapled a plastic shield to it, the fit was perfect, under it I put on my N95 M3 mask, then I put on my plastic disposable gloves to push the trolley along, then I had to take them off to pay with the money, put them back on after sanitizing my hands, big mess, then get to the car 40 degree heat, unpack everything and put into our shopping bags, then take off gloves, get water bottle from car, and wash hands with soap for 20 seconds, dry then apply sanitizer just to make sure, then remove mask and hat with shield, sweat like a crazy.

 

Get home, take bags inside, get alcohol and wipe down everything that we purchased, then the bag handles, car door handles, steering wheel, gear changer, then go inside and wipe down all locks and handles that we touched, then wash hands again and have lunch at 3pm in 40 degree heat with power blackout.

 

Just another Corona day, makes me not want to go shopping every 10 days, what a hassle, but at least people noticed this superstar wannabe ✌️

 

P.S. Yinn, did you buy those shares on the ASX that I told you, QAN when they were $2.14, now $3.20 and BUB when it was $0.46, now $0.64.5, better sell because another correction on the way, collect and buy in again.

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3 hours ago, Yinn said:

Safety first. 

 

It stop you giving corona for other people= slow the spread. 

Testing is also very important. America now tests an average of 104,000 people per day.

 

How many is Thailand testing each day?

Masks are part of fashion in Asia and I see 99.98 % who wear mask are Asians. Otherwise no one wore mask where ever I went. Asians are used to conformist culture. One wears red, everyone wears red in a week. 

They just love them. Asians like to hide. It's always been true. And it it gives them a sense of control, as if they did something that they can control to fight the virus. It's a psychological crutch.

 

With no scientific data that it works to back it up, whatsoever.

3 hours ago, Liverpoolfan said:

can you tell the Thais in my village to do the same please?
They never wear mask.

Thanks.

maybe they're spending their money on food, have another drink fool..

1 minute ago, from the home of CC said:

maybe they're spending their money on food, have another drink fool..

You tellin me the bloke next door can afford a merc but cant afford a mask ? 
 

what planet you on pal. 

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