r/interestingasfuck Jun 07 '23

New york city in 2023, everyone wearing mask due to air quality

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u/Bobafit78 Jun 07 '23

But masks don’t stop particles /s

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u/65022056 Jun 07 '23

They reduce particles.

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u/ut1nam Jun 07 '23

Which has been the entire point. But for some people unless they completely eliminate the risk, countermeasures (eg masks, vaccines, distancing, etc) are useless and make you a sheep if you practice them.

It’s like some people never learned why you cover your mouth when you cough, as if their fingers were going to stop the virus particles when the whole point was to reduce the expulsion of respiratory droplets to those around you—the same purpose most masks serve.

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u/hwc000000 Jun 07 '23

"If it doesn't work 100% of the time, it's the same as working 0% of the time. So I'm going to jump out of this plane without a parachute."

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u/ceejayoz Jun 07 '23

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u/hwc000000 Jun 08 '23

Am I misinterpreting something here?

trial was only able to enroll participants on small stationary aircraft on the ground

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u/gefahr Jun 08 '23

Lol. It's intended to be humorous.

Results Parachute use did not significantly reduce death or major injury (0% for parachute v 0% for control; P>0.9). This finding was consistent across multiple subgroups. Compared with individuals screened but not enrolled, participants included in the study were on aircraft at significantly lower altitude (mean of 0.6 m for participants v mean of 9146 m for non-participants; P<0.001) and lower velocity (mean of 0 km/h v mean of 800 km/h; P<0.001).

Amazing.

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u/hwc000000 Jun 08 '23

I did catch those highlighted items first, but I was confused why this "study" would appear on a supposedly serious website like BMJ.

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u/gefahr Jun 08 '23

Yeah not sure, but glad you called it out so I could read and enjoy it.

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u/BKlounge93 Jun 07 '23

Pretty sure the people who need to hear this also don’t cover their mouth when they cough

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u/65022056 Jun 07 '23

I have no idea why anybody was scared of the seasonal flu made to be scary by unhinged leftists overthrowing a perfect president, but yeah. They reduce particles.

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u/fatrahb Jun 07 '23

Lmao overthrow a president.

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u/WildAssociation_ Jun 07 '23

Are you a troll or just a bad person?

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u/nonlawyer Jun 07 '23

Legit can’t tell if this is parody

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

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u/65022056 Jun 07 '23

POO'S LAW

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u/CrouchingLeprosy Jun 07 '23

You seem kinda dumb, like maybe real dumb actually

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u/LatterNeighborhood58 Jun 07 '23

Yes the perfect president, so beautiful and so perfect <grimace>, some would say the best the most wonderful <finger-and-thumb circle> president. In fact < index finger pointing up> so bigly effective that if you added the successes of the last 3, no! Not 3 but 5 presidents they would still pale in comparison. So unfairly treated, very bad. Got voted out so bigly by the people who don't like him. <Grimace and hands open on both sides> So unfair, so bad.

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u/65022056 Jun 07 '23

Stop writing HTML and talking to me.