Wearing mouth masks makes people less sick of the coronavirus - The Daily Standard

Maurice de Hond, who has been retrained to become a corona opinion maker, is currently championing the wearing of mouth masks. At least, inside. Outside it is “ridiculous”, but anyone who does it indoors will not be able to largely prevent corona infections. But make sure that people get less sick.

Maurice de Hond is the enfant terrible of the corona crisis, which the government, RIVM, OMT constantly taps on their fingers when they take a walk with science or the available facts. The opinion poll had previously been concerned with the distribution via aerosols and the one and a half meter society. And now De Hond is aiming at the mouth mask policy.

That is partly a “ludicrous decision,” he writes. Getting outside corona is just as unlikely as getting a flower pot on your head, he writes today:

“I have heard someone say about this that if you wear a mouth mask outside, you should also wear a helmet. Because the chance that you get a branch or flower pot on your head is just as great if you are infected outside with Covid-19. (Here I describe that it is wise not to speak face-to-face with a shorter distance between the faces than 1 meter). ”

But De Hond is not nearly as negative about wearing a mask in indoor areas. The social geographer fell under the spell of Dr. Ali Nouri, a leading American molecular biologist. And he made sensible comments, according to the Dutchman:

“He posted four tweets about findings, which indicate that if you wear mouth masks, it does not mean that you cannot be infected yourself, but that the” viral load “forks are reduced. And that one can then end up higher on the continuum. ”

What does that mean? Well:

“This would indicate that if you are afraid of becoming infected yourself, you can wear mouth masks in public INTERIOR spaces, thereby significantly reducing your chances of the virus becoming very sick.”

And yet one last swipe at mouth mask wearers in the open air: “In OUTDOOR areas the risk of contamination is so small that the disadvantage of wearing the mask is greater than the advantage.”