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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 739635" data-attributes="member: 16749">I never entered this one, but I had an idea in mind.  I'll wear a mask where it's required, but I am not nearly stupid enough to believe that a mask with gaps that are typically around 50 microns wide will really offer any protection at all against a virus that ranges in size from 0.05 to 0.2 of a micron.  I'll wear a mask, because it's not worth fighting with stupid people over a perceived right not to do so.  But I was thinking of the great Bill Engvall, and his famous “Here's your sign!” routine, and thinking that if only people like me who were smart enough to know better would simply refuse to wear these stupid masks, then they'd be a perfect real-world counterpart to the signs described in his routine,an easy way for intelligent people to recognize and identify those who are stupid and ignorant enough that we shouldn't trust them or count on them for anything.  I was imagining an image of myself, holding out a mask as if to offer it to the viewer, with a caption, in the spirit of Engvall's routine, saying “Here's your sign!”.———  The following was not taken using a Nikon, but is a view, through my microscope, of an N95 mask.  The numbered scale is such that the distance between numbered ticks is about 122 microns.  Take note, just above the scale, near the 5.75 point, of a tiny red circle.  That has a diameter of about ten microns.[ATTACH]342375[/ATTACH]  Here's that circle enlarged.  The tiny dot in the middle of it has a diameter of about 0.2 of a micron.  The #CoronaHoax2020 virus ranges in size from 0.05 to 0.2 of a micron, so this tiny dot represents the largest possible size of this virus.[ATTACH]342371[/ATTACH]  To believe that this mask will protect anyone from any virus is like believing that a chain-link fence can protect you from mosquitoes.</blockquote>

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