it’s been a long time since I took biology but my gut keeps telling me that this isn’t some binary thing… like, all these suggestions we follow to me seem to be about minimizing exposure… like if I get 100 individual covid viruses in me through a cheap, cloth mask, my body can fight it off. And that may be a different outcome if I didn’t have a mask at all and got 1,000 individual viruses in me.
I don’t know, I’m not a biologist, I just don’t get how everything is constantly framed as all or nothing. it doesn’t make sense to me.
if you want to know more, you’re describing the effects of viral load. and your gut is correct!
and also these all or nothing folks literally don’t consider how effective n95s and other respirators are at filtering particles. it’s not new technology, it really works
it’s been a long time since I took biology but my gut keeps telling me that this isn’t some binary thing… like, all these suggestions we follow to me seem to be about minimizing exposure… like if I get 100 individual covid viruses in me through a cheap, cloth mask, my body can fight it off. And that may be a different outcome if I didn’t have a mask at all and got 1,000 individual viruses in me.
I don’t know, I’m not a biologist, I just don’t get how everything is constantly framed as all or nothing. it doesn’t make sense to me.
if you want to know more, you’re describing the effects of viral load. and your gut is correct!
and also these all or nothing folks literally don’t consider how effective n95s and other respirators are at filtering particles. it’s not new technology, it really works
You are correct.