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workerONE ,

People who wear masks can never tell me why, if I wear underwear how come I can still smell my own farts?

aleph ,
@aleph@lemm.ee avatar

Are you LARPing as a Fox News viewer, or is that a genuine question?

workerONE ,

LARPing

aleph ,
@aleph@lemm.ee avatar

Never underestimate the power of Poe's Law.

Zacryon ,

In case you are serious or someone else is serious about this:
Masks, just like underwear, are permeable. If they wouldn't be, you would suffocate as no air would be able to reach your lungs. (At your rear, that's just a consequence of low requirements towards the material, which mainly serves as a covering and being able to dry.) So gas molecules are usually not stopped to pass through your underwear or masks.

The main difference between, e.g. FFP2/3, masks and your underwear is the size of particles that are able to pass through. Your underwear will be able to catch some moisture of a juicy fart and probably some shit particles. However, most of the gases and smaller particles can pass through.
Filter masks are able to stop most particles down to a certain size. For FFP 2 masks at least 94% of particles down to a size of 0,6 micrometers can be stopped. Particles smaller than that are likely to pass through. FFP 3 masks block at least 99% of particles down to the same size.

The thing with viruses like Covid-19 is, that they are usually expelled from an infected person via the respiratory system, that means, your mouth and nose. There, the virus cells are mostly soluted within the moist air you breathe out. Moist air means: there are very tiny (mainly) water particles which are spread over a certain volume of gas. And they are floating with the currents of the gas. That's what basically constitutes an aerosol. Particles, tiny and lightweight enough to float with a gas (for a while).
You can see that clearly with spray cans. With breathing air it's not so good to see with the naked eye.
Those moist particles, loaded with virus cells, are usually large enough to be filtered out by FFP masks. It's not perfect of course, but it can help a great deal and contribute to prevention measures.

The stinky stuff in farts is afaik a pure gas and not an aerosol. (Did you know that in terms of gas volume, just about 2 % of a single fart contains the smelly chemicals?) Which is why neither masks, nor underwear help so much against stinky farts.

FFP masks are mandatory in jobs where dangerous smaller particles can enter your body. They help against dust, smoke and a lot of aerosols. But they don't filter out pure gases. That's what gas masks are for.

In terms of infection spreading, a neat side-effect of masks is that they can slow down the velocity of exhaled air, which helps to reduce how far the aersol spreads around a person. Trying to blow out a candle while wearing a mask isn't as easy as without a mask, which demonstrates this effect.

Futhermore, there has been a study suggesting that wearing a mask for a while or wearing it during rainy weather can - up to a certain point - further improve the filter capabilities of such face masks, since the moisture accumulates on the surface of the mask (in- and/or outside) and by this forms another protective barrier.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

workerONE ,

Wrong.

Zacryon ,

Please provide an explanation, preferrably with sources, if you think my explanation is wrong.

workerONE , (edited )

My post was a mockery of stupid people. I thought everyone would get that

Zacryon ,

I see. Thanks for clarifying that! I already thought you were joking, but wasn't so sure. Seems a lot of people didn't get it as you intended.
You could consider adding a flag like /j, /i or /s (depending on context) to such comments to avoid confusion.

Valmond ,

Let me sneeze in your face and I'll let you sneeze in my face but you're wearing a mask.

See, it was not that hard to understand.

Fluffy_Ruffs ,

This has far too many downvotes for something that made me chuckle.

MedicPigBabySaver ,
@MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world avatar

Dipshit

Squirrel ,
@Squirrel@thelemmy.club avatar

Are there doctors and scientists recommending people NOT to take it?

There are morons in every field. We can't just look at the outliers.

Silentiea ,
@Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

But they're the only ones who agree with meeeee!

gearheart ,

Still don't understand why there's no consequence for actively harming others.

blueamigafan ,

I have a dead uncle because of these nonsense theories he refused to wear a mask, social distance etc. The inevitable happened and he passed from covid within a week. All because of anonymous people on Facebook who I will never meet, and will never suffer the consequences of their actions. Makes me so angry

tearsintherain ,
@tearsintherain@leminal.space avatar

A friends mom was snowboarding with her grandkids the year before covid. His sister, a pharmacist btw, warned their mom off the vaccine. Their mom caught covid and died. The vaccine would likely have saved her life.

Tens, no likely hundreds of thousands of people surely died due to misinformation and fear mongering.

Now measles might be making a comeback as well.

driving_crooner ,
@driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br avatar

It's feel so rare reading all those stories on internet, while my family is crazy alt-right that eat all the communist conspiracies on the internet, except the ones referencing vaccines or climate change. Like every newborn baby on the family is "quarantined" until all vaccines are on (at least the ones from the first 6 months) so everyone's following the vaccine calendar to mark when the baby's is going to meet the rest of the family.

AnarchistArtificer ,

My friend died before he was able to get a vaccine dose. He was young and fit and healthy, enough so that his death was covered in a local newspaper. He'd have probably have gotten his first vaccine dose if we'd caught COVID a couple weeks later, and that might have been enough to save him. I'll never know, and maybe he'd have still died, but I'll always resent people who have/had the choice to be vaccinated but choose not to.

minibyte ,

Bacteria gets a bad rap.

Naja_Kaouthia ,
@Naja_Kaouthia@lemmy.world avatar

They’re the only culture some people have.

azimir ,

I'm going to go with my gut on this one and say you're spot on.

luna ,
@luna@lemmy.catgirl.biz avatar

Any more puns and this could go viral.

azimir ,

Only if we're not immune to how the culture grows.

peetabix ,
@peetabix@lemmy.world avatar

I see what you did there 😉

perishthethought ,

And chemicals.

moistclump ,

And GMOs

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

What did our gut flora do to deserve it?

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Why can't they just go back to handing out Chick tracts? At least those were funny.

tehbilly ,

I was handed one of these when I was on a church trip as a teenager. One of many many reasons I became disillusioned, but pretty funny in retrospect.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Oh they're great. I sometimes go look at their archives for a chuckle since all of their tracts are there for free. Most people's favorite is Dark Dungeons, which is about how D&D is satanic, but I have to say that my favorite would be Angels? which is about a Christian rock band who gets a manager named "Lew Siffer" and don't notice that there may be something weird there, but it's probably because they're very stupid, because their subsequent hit song goes something like "We're gonna rock rock with the rock!"

ICastFist ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

I'm still mad I never learnt any "real" spells, nor was never invited to join a coven, despite fulfilling a 1-20 D&D campaign. Dark Dungeons lied to me!!

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I do love that Jack had apparently spent about 10 minutes in the library's periodicals room reading articles about D&D and decided he knew enough about it to make that comic.

NikkiDimes ,

I'd never heard of Chick tracts before and just read that one and holy fucking zero to sixty hahaha

The incredible artwork too!

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6624e1d9-d146-4e12-8acb-261ca166ca7d.png

CosmicCleric ,
@CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

Why can’t they just go back to handing out Chick tracts? At least those were funny.

Speaking about the website/comics itself, I don't think 'bait and switch' would be a method that Jesus would want to be used to get people to convert to Christianity.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

It's sillier than that. Jack Chick seemed to genuinely believe that most people had just never heard of Jesus and once they do, they'll instantly convert.

HikingVet ,

Did they just photocopy a flyer that was photocopied by someone else? Because this looks like it was about 15 steps from the original printing. Also, why hand these out now?

herrcaptain ,

Sounds about right for these folks. Anytime you see an email like this it's always FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: the Illuminati KILLED MY DOG with COVID masks!

HikingVet ,

The Bavarian Illuminati?

manucode ,
@manucode@infosec.pub avatar

Hubsi personally mistook the dog for a wild boar and stabbed it

Tolookah ,

Hmmm Bavarian cream illuminati

disguy_ovahea ,

Bavarian cream inmabody

nilloc ,

So I grew up in the Midwes, then move to New England and there, everyone called Bavarian cream donuts, Boston cream donuts.

After looking it up, turns out the first Bavarian cream recipes in the US were found in the Boston School cookbooks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_cream#History

bionicjoey ,

Reminds me of a line in Futurama:

Fry: Over there a crazy guy used to hand out a socialist newsletter

Bender: Was it poorly Xeroxed?

Fry: Oh, you better believe it!

I_Fart_Glitter ,

I once got a full color, too many graphics, tiny writing to fit it all on one full page flyer about how doritos is made with human stem cells. I've got it in a file somewhere because it was so weird I couldn't throw it out. And yes, some of the graphics were of the flavoring fetuses.

vaultdweller013 ,
@vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works avatar

Added fetus for flavor

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

For many years, I had what was very definitely an expensive printed tract (full color in the early 1990s) called "Is the Russian Bear Ready to Strike?" It predicted that Russia would launch a nuclear strike on the United States based on Biblical prophecy. My favorite part was where they tied it into the Biblical tribes of Gog and Magog by saying that Gorbachev's name was actually Gogrbachev. Since this was in 1990 or 1991 and the Soviet Union collapsed in 1992 and Gorbachev (Gogrbachev?) died two years ago, I think their prophecy might have been a little off.

Rubanski ,

"Needs more jpg" - retro edition

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Did they just photocopy a flyer that was photocopied by someone else? Because this looks like it was about 15 steps from the original printing.

Some nutcases do things old school. Respect.

jaykay ,
@jaykay@lemmy.zip avatar

They photocopied a wet copy lmao it has spills . Unless that’s OP

meowMix2525 ,

looks like OP cause its all the way to the edge of the paper

Honytawk ,

OP was just laughing with tears, that is why it is stained

korny OP ,

Rookie mistake of not drying the counter off after doing the dishes.

wabafee ,
@wabafee@lemmy.world avatar

Ask for more copy, turn it into toilet paper. Repeat.

Pantless_Paladin ,

Nah, dont infect your ass with stupid

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Plus, use something more water soluble for the sake of your plumbing.

ShellMonkey ,
@ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com avatar

For all the scarcity of TP that marked the beginning of the pandemic, why do they waste paper on this?

DeltaTangoLima ,
@DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com avatar

Jesus - I thought COVID wiped all these twits out already.

ReverendIrreverence ,
@ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.ml avatar

That was just COVID-19. Wait until COVID-21 (or whatever) and a larger chunk of groomed idiocy will disappear

ShellMonkey ,
@ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com avatar

We really do need to just upgrade the version number, all these variants of 19 are sounding like bad sequels.

atrielienz ,

We clearly need to bring back the big red rubber stamp. Just stamp it "SCAM" and leave it somewhere like a bulletin board. Because if they want to waste their money and paper, we should make it expensive for them. The stamp isn't expensive really and ink pads are fairly cheap and last a long time.

lud ,

It's not a scam though.

A "Fake" or "Citation needed" or similar stamp would be more appropriate.

Also I think you underestimate how cheap it is to print in black and white. Judging by the leaflet it's also a shit printer.

Hell, they could and probably are printing it at work.

ShellMonkey ,
@ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com avatar

Looks like a copy machine with all the artifacts, go to a library and it's probably $0.01 a page

ILikeBoobies ,

Pretty bad Q&A if everything is already answered

ShellMonkey ,
@ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com avatar

Misused the &, meant to be 'are'

Emerald ,

Honestly I'd love to go on that aircraft. Sounds like it'd be a pretty fun and exclusive experience.

korny OP ,

Would you do it if the pilot contained aborted monkey cells?

Emerald ,

Fun fact: I looked it up and those cells used in the vaccines are from a fetus aborted in the 1960s lmao. They make it sound like they are just raping monkeys by the hundreds to make vaccines

ilinamorato ,

Have they been subject to medium to long term safety testing on humans?

Yes. For over two years now. Using a population of hundreds of millions of people and a control population of people who xerox misinformation and hand it out to strangers in grocery stores.

News flash: the vaccinated ones are doing way better.

aleph ,
@aleph@lemm.ee avatar

As an addendum, the idea that a vaccine can produce side effects years down the line is a myth. A vaccine is a one-time payload - if any side effects are going to crop up, they will inevitably be in the few weeks following vaccination as your body processes it. After that, if nothing has gone awry, you're good.

Nouveau_Burnswick ,

My 5G mobile coverage improves about 7 days after my annual shot.

I figure by 2027 I can ditch my home router.

aleph ,
@aleph@lemm.ee avatar

I often think back and wonder about the 5G = COVID people on Twitter and r/conspiracy. Where are they now? Do they even feel in the slightest bit silly? Were they even real? So very many questions.

jkrtn ,

As an addendum addendum, I have some news for people worried about long-term effects of encountering only the spike proteins: you're really going to hate the long-term effects from taking that virus raw.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

As an addendum addendum addendum, most of those people who talk about spike proteins don't know what spike proteins are. Or even just proteins.

sanguinepar ,
@sanguinepar@lemmy.world avatar

As an addendum addendum addendum addendum, buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.

Alto ,

Or, y'know, literal decades (centuries?) by medical professionals

ilinamorato ,

For vaccines in general, yes. But kooky people that think this is some kind of trick are worried about it being an mRNA vaccine, which is indeed somewhat new. The idea has been around for about fifty years, but the first human clinical trials were only about a decade ago and COVID was the first large-scale human deployment.

Now, in fairness, they were almost entirely ready at the time. I would imagine, without COVID, we probably would've still seen mRNA vaccines become mainstream already, though maybe last year or this year instead of in 2021. But COVID stepped up the final stages of approval significantly.

Alto ,

I was referring to the usage of masks

ilinamorato ,

Oh! Yes.

msage ,

Using a population of hundreds of millions billions

Billions of people were vaccinated. Hardly anything happened.

ilinamorato ,

Did billions of people end up getting the mRNA vaccine? I thought the traditional vaccine was more widely deployed outside the United States.

In any case, the objection is nonsense. On populations this large, the number of side effects was slightly less than might have been expected at the outset. The researchers did good work.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I remember being told everyone vaccinated would be dead within six months.

It's been a very long six months.

Similarly, I don't hear climate change deniers talking about the solar cycle anymore...

msage ,

My own mother told me shit like this. Also "they" will turn off the electricity, internet, water,... omg

BlackPenguins ,

Take an obvious picture of her with your phone. Hand out flyers with her face saying avoid this woman .

Raxiel ,

There's some loon still plastering their ill informed, anti Vax / anti mask stickers on every bit of street furniture across the nearby town centre.

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