People wearing face masks during the Spanish Flu, California, USA, 1918

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No you STFU bitch

https://dzhk.de/en/newsroom/news/latest-news/article/a-well-fitting-ffp2-mask-provides-almost-100-percent-protection-against-a-covid-19-infection
I think the viruses are always bound in saliva and thus are always bound in particulates that are big enough to get caught by the ffp2 mask.

No dude, viruses do not enter someones body only through the mouth, if you touch someone who has anything on him you can get it too no matter where that would be, so in short a mask is covering 1% of your whole body, the rest is still exposed therefore they do not help at all! its just reasoning nothing more

IIRC the ordinance was to wear masks outside but people were allowed to take them off inside because that's where they were eating, drinking, and doing stuff. So good intentions but would have been more effective if the policy was reversed.

Uuuhhhh, that's why you wash your hands. And they exit through mouth and nose (specifically for respiratory illness like covid-19).
So unless you touch your mouth and nose you should not have any amount of viruses on your hands. And touching your moth and nose, knowing you are potentially exposing yourself or others to a contagious virus, are things you shouldn't do. It's about protecting others maybe more than it is about protecting yourself.

Because people understood back then that not wearing a mask while contagious meant directly killing others.

Also, flu was highly mortal at the time, and people were acutely aware of this.

I lost my parents because of an asymptomatic idiot who refused to wear a mask and wash his hands, yet insisted of visiting them. That person literally killed them.

I still consider anyone who consciously refused to wear a mask or get vaccinated during the last pandemic as selfish criminals and murderers who should be held accountable.

Those fucking sheeples.