When an employee removes their mask to eat or drink does Covid disappear?
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Apple Reinstating Employee Mask Mandate at Approximately 100 U.S. Retail Stores
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Not one single clinical trial anywhere in the world shows that cloth masks do anything at all. Pro tip: half-baked epidemiological 'studies' with questionable methodology don't count as clinical trials.
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Wearing a mask doesn't weaken your immune system.
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Because employees are often close together for long durations in back rooms, breakrooms, offices, etc. Customers are in and out in a large open area, which is different. At the hospital system where I work, most of the transmission was among employees who spent a lot of time in these smaller areas with other employees.
Wearing it constantly to avoid airborn stuff will weaken your immune system over time. If it has nothing to fight, it gets weakerWearing a mask doesn't weaken your immune system.
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Conversely, I have not been vaccinated nor wore a mask throughout the entire pandemic, and to my knowledge haven’t become sick. I haven’t had any symptoms of anything, not even a common cold since the pandemic began. Highly tuned immune systems are capable of amazing things. I never washed my hands as a kid before I ate, played in dirt, made mud-pies, jumped in dirty water etc.
I don’t believe it has anything to do with masks.
I always thought it was funny when the mask thing was big here because when we were working we had to wear our masks and social distance from each other but in the break room we would be sitting two feet apart eating with no mask. From what I was told if you're sitting down it's like ducking below the Covid cloud so you're safe ?
I bet you even drank nasty hose water 🤢🤣
Pure coincidence. Masks don’t stop viruses. This is pure theater and action bias.
Yes. Based on the Walgreens data, it appears that the vaccines have negative efficacy against infection for Omicron.
The Evolving Science of Face Masks and COVID-19 - FactCheck.org
Since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began recommending that members of the public mask up last spring, additional research has backed the use of face masks to combat the coronavirus, but knowledge gaps still remain. Here, we summarize the evidence.
You lost me at “fact checkers.”The Evolving Science of Face Masks and COVID-19 - FactCheck.org
Since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began recommending that members of the public mask up last spring, additional research has backed the use of face masks to combat the coronavirus, but knowledge gaps still remain. Here, we summarize the evidence.www.factcheck.org
I question this every day. We dropped the masks anywhere but public transport in April here but 90% still wear a mask and if you dare to tell people that you went somewhere without a mask, they call you selfish and how a mask doesn’t bother anyone! It’s crazy how people defend their own restrictions here
The FDA doesn’t even bother convening its experts panels before rubber stamping more “boosters“ because it knows they will get the “wrong” answer from them. The CDC has proven itself completely incompetent under 2 different administrations. They haven’t run any RCTs. Prior to 2020 multiple studies showed no measurable effect of masks and the spread of respiratory viruses.
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Seems like Apple is under alot of pressure. Especially with this Mask Mandate.
As you said, you aren't interested in checking your facts.
I’ll hazard a guess that the average Apple Retail employee is left of center. This seems like a political move.
No. “Fact checkers” have a predetermined conclusion and then cherry pick ”evidence” to justify it. The FDA’s top 2 vaccine researchers resigned last year out of protest at the way the FDA just rubber stamped the third doses.
I'm sure you've applied a rigorous methodology to come to those conclusions.
People lived and people died and everybody with half a brain knew that you cannot outrun it…if it’s your time, it’s your time.
For all those that think these masks can block an airborne virus, would you happily use one when working with asbestos?
Are we really back to the "all or nothing" argument?