While that was the public health messaging in 2022ish, it's not very accurate.
There's 2 concepts to understand when talking about "airborne" transmission: droplets and aerosols. Droplets are larger viral particles that tend to fall fast and stay on surfaces (from things like coughing and sneezing). Aerosols are tiny viral particles that tend to linger in the air and are expelled from pretty much every action including breathing.
"Surgical"/medical style masks are designed to block droplets. The filters are not small enough for aerosols, and there's large gaps along the sides/bottom where aerosols escape anyway.
Well-fitting respirators like N95/KN95s are designed to filter viral aerosols (and by extension, also droplets), and they create a seal on your face so ideally all air travels through that filter.
COVID is primarily spread through aerosols. We'd be much better off if everyone masked with whatever mask they have during surges and regardless of whether they're healthy or sick, but respirators do offer robust protection to healthy people and also prevent spread from sick people.
TL;DR: COVID spreads throughs aerosols and droplets, respirators filter aerosols and droplets. Surgical-style masks only filter droplets.
I mean with gun violence, Charlie definitely did take precautions. He had a full team of professional bodyguards, but they didn’t end up being enough. I also heard that the bullet didn’t actually kill him, he really overdosed on fentanyl.
What a sad, pathetic, scared little Reddit account. Comments oscillate between dogshit NFL football takes and being afraid of every little thing they talk about on the news, but no matter the subject you can’t help but be stupid.
If that happened, my money would be on the perp in question having been denied psychiatric care due to being uninsured as a result of doing undocumented labour for an US farmer or construction firm. Which are both problems that the US govt routinely ignores because the economy is based on the exploitation of workers without an official visa or contract and the neglect of health issues in the middle class to working poor population at large.
They’re right and wrong. White conservatives account for the overwhelming majority of specific categories of violent crime (school shooters and domestic terrorists), but definitely not for violent crime in general.
Violence in this country is overwhelming from conservative white males, the statistics on this have been widely known for decades.
Wrong. White conservatives account for the overwhelming majority of specific categories of violent crime (school shooters and domestic terrorists), but definitely not for violent crime in general.
Never ceases to amaze me how there were so many people actively helping to spread a deadly disease that was killing millions of their fellow human beings.
Like, just image that with any other species. Imagine if gazelle intentionally ran towards lions, or chickens opened their coops whenever they heard a fox, or mice just chilled there while a snake approached and ate them. It just sounds absurd, but yet there's us, the most advanced creatures in the known universe, and a non-insignificant percentage are dumb enough to willingly disregard known facts and put themselves and the rest of their species at risk. It's just mind numbing stupidity.
I wonder if he was a true believer (meaning pro-pandemics, and anti-stopping pandemics), or if he's like Trump who behind the scenes is terrified of COVID and disease in general and gets vaccinated like every 6 months like everyone else in government lol
Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Charlie Kirk wasn't successful, he was connected. He was bought and paid for by the 1% and was their mouthpiece. It's the reason why so many question whether or not he believed a lot of what he said. When your entire lively is dependent on keeping Uncle Moneybags happy, you'll say whatever he wants. His sudden turn to becoming more Christian might have been a real conversion or it may have been the fact that his financiers saw targeting that demographic as more profitable, we may never know.
Pretty funny that the two main things TPUSA fought against was vaccines and gun control, and each of their founders died from one of those things. Almost poetic.
A total political hack who was too whacky even for the Tea Party at the time. Turning Point posted a meme the day before he died calling people who wear masks pussies, and then subsequently deleted it after dear old Bill died of it.
Omg it’s awful, how is this legal? How was he not banned on YouTube? And assassinated? And now his wife is running for First Lady? This all sounds like a huge conspiracy movie what is even happening?
Yea when people want to credit some young conservative activist with getting an organization up and running, remember theres always some rich dude funding and manging the whole thing.
All that propaganda so that rich people could hoard more money, only to die from covid.
An organization designed to deny COVID and downplay gun violence had its cofounders die by covid and gun violence.
I gotta say, the writing this season was really lazy.
It feels that way when irony dies. Pun intended.
And tell the writers the Trump character is too over the top. No one is that stupid and evil in real life.
Exactly. His whole character arc has been so ridiculous
They're reusing the same plot-line that they used when writing 1920s Germany.
He died on the hill that 'covid is not real'.
Apparently, Covid [and illnesses in general] is the only thing that doesn't give a fuck how many 0's are in your bank account. It's ironic, really.
Crazy that both of TPUSA’s founders died from issues that they politicized.
Not coincidental.
Not that much.
If you don't take precautions during a pandemic, your chances of getting infected will inevitably rise
Same with gun violence when living in the US tbh
Exactly. People still haven't learned to wear a mask at the very least during flu season and then wonder why they get sick.
the mask isn't to prevent you from getting sick, it's to prevent others from getting sick off of you
While that was the public health messaging in 2022ish, it's not very accurate.
There's 2 concepts to understand when talking about "airborne" transmission: droplets and aerosols. Droplets are larger viral particles that tend to fall fast and stay on surfaces (from things like coughing and sneezing). Aerosols are tiny viral particles that tend to linger in the air and are expelled from pretty much every action including breathing.
"Surgical"/medical style masks are designed to block droplets. The filters are not small enough for aerosols, and there's large gaps along the sides/bottom where aerosols escape anyway.
Well-fitting respirators like N95/KN95s are designed to filter viral aerosols (and by extension, also droplets), and they create a seal on your face so ideally all air travels through that filter.
COVID is primarily spread through aerosols. We'd be much better off if everyone masked with whatever mask they have during surges and regardless of whether they're healthy or sick, but respirators do offer robust protection to healthy people and also prevent spread from sick people.
TL;DR: COVID spreads throughs aerosols and droplets, respirators filter aerosols and droplets. Surgical-style masks only filter droplets.
I mean with gun violence, Charlie definitely did take precautions. He had a full team of professional bodyguards, but they didn’t end up being enough. I also heard that the bullet didn’t actually kill him, he really overdosed on fentanyl.
They literally died on their respective hills.
Then they tried and bury their own history of being anti-mask when it leads to the co-founders death: https://www.businessinsider.com/tpusa-deletes-tweet-mocking-masks-after-montgomery-coronavirus-death-2020-7?op=1
Another key focus of theirs's and Kirks was against gun ownership restrictions... Darwin awards all around
Not at all a Darwin Award, you think if Charlie Kirk was for gun restrictions he wouldn’t have been murdered? Nonsense.
Murder victims have nothing to do with Darwin awards
No one suffers more under conservative ideology than conservatives.
Yes, but did they FROM the issues or WITH the issues? Checkmate, libs!
He died of COVID long before a vaccine was available
He was anti-masking and shutdowns. Oppose public safety measures, Find Out why they existed before there was even a flu vaccine.
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Statistically speaking, she’s way more likely to die from a pissed off conservative white man
Same as Charlie, look at THAT.
Statistically more likely to die from a black man
A Black man shot Charlie? I didn't know that.
Hey everyone! I found the guy who doesn’t understand statistics or basic comprehension!
hEy EvErYoNe
Imagine mocking a lack of comprehension while doing the exact same shit...but I have no expectations from dipshit MAGAt pedophile apologists.
Chill, why are you so mad?
Having to deal with people like yourself could be a reason. Also, how can you tell they're mad? Maybe they just think you're an idiot.
That kid was a trans loving liberal, nice try though
False. He was a far right groyper that only followed Laura Loomer on Twitter. The copium is on back order.
Source?
She’s not the one politicizing immigrants, ya dope.
She set up a photo shoot of her crying at migrant center
What a sad, pathetic, scared little Reddit account. Comments oscillate between dogshit NFL football takes and being afraid of every little thing they talk about on the news, but no matter the subject you can’t help but be stupid.
Republican talking point generator or genuinely stupid, make your call
Por que no los dos?
lol so mad you had to try to stalk me.
Meanwhile, you use Reddit to show off your little dolls
Look at you afraid of little dolls too.
What part of my comment insinuated that I was afraid of them?
The second part.
Sorry bud but this comment of yours is obviously seething with rage and we’re all laughing at you lol
Also, my minis are dope!
Based on the reactions to my comment, it seems as though it is the AOC simps that are seething
i'm noticing a pattern here; almost every single conservative troll account posts on football subs.
If that happened, my money would be on the perp in question having been denied psychiatric care due to being uninsured as a result of doing undocumented labour for an US farmer or construction firm. Which are both problems that the US govt routinely ignores because the economy is based on the exploitation of workers without an official visa or contract and the neglect of health issues in the middle class to working poor population at large.
Does she have an allergy?
Bot 🤡
Fail comment is fail.
Violence in this country is overwhelming from conservative white males, the statistics on this have been widely known for decades.
I think you need to take another look at those numbers. There's another group of men that commit way more violence than white men.
You're right. Conservative degenerates as a whole commit the majority of violence in America. If we deported every Conservative, we would be at peace.
So you're interested in race-based crime statistics? Who else commits a lot of crime?
Donald Trump!
Men
They’re right and wrong. White conservatives account for the overwhelming majority of specific categories of violent crime (school shooters and domestic terrorists), but definitely not for violent crime in general.
Wrong. White conservatives account for the overwhelming majority of specific categories of violent crime (school shooters and domestic terrorists), but definitely not for violent crime in general.
And what is it proportionally to population size?
He died as he lived… completely submerged in his own bullshit
That's 2 out of 2 co founders
thots and prayers.
Holey moly
Never ceases to amaze me how there were so many people actively helping to spread a deadly disease that was killing millions of their fellow human beings.
Like, just image that with any other species. Imagine if gazelle intentionally ran towards lions, or chickens opened their coops whenever they heard a fox, or mice just chilled there while a snake approached and ate them. It just sounds absurd, but yet there's us, the most advanced creatures in the known universe, and a non-insignificant percentage are dumb enough to willingly disregard known facts and put themselves and the rest of their species at risk. It's just mind numbing stupidity.
Animals are too dumb to be that dumb. What is amazing about humans is our capacity to metacognition and conversely what happens when we never do it.
Is his epitaph just a long fart noise by chance? Clown music?
At least clowns are intentionally funny.
I think you’ll find it was a “whomp-whomp” noise made on a trumpet with a plunger.
“Did you just say ‘womp womp’?”
More like intense shitting sounds.
nothing of worth was lost.
You don't say...
Rest in piss.
I thought COVID was Leftist propaganda? What happened, buddy?
Pro life, dies anyway
Still love the delicious irony of the two founders being killed by covid and guns.
I wonder if he was a true believer (meaning pro-pandemics, and anti-stopping pandemics), or if he's like Trump who behind the scenes is terrified of COVID and disease in general and gets vaccinated like every 6 months like everyone else in government lol
Died doing what he loved, owning the libs and gasping for air.
I love it—an organization that is anti-fun laws and anti vax has its founders die by gun violence and Covid, respectively.
And they say there’s no God.
Edit: anti-gun control is the thought here, but it’s too good to edit
They were indeed “anti-fun”.
Interesting footnote in sources, Turning Point USA donations surged during the pandemic
fits to be in r/HermanCainAward
good, fuck him
Well at least he's dead, he can't hurt people any more.
Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Charlie Kirk wasn't successful, he was connected. He was bought and paid for by the 1% and was their mouthpiece. It's the reason why so many question whether or not he believed a lot of what he said. When your entire lively is dependent on keeping Uncle Moneybags happy, you'll say whatever he wants. His sudden turn to becoming more Christian might have been a real conversion or it may have been the fact that his financiers saw targeting that demographic as more profitable, we may never know.
There’s significant evidence that Bill Montgomery groomed him.
Double irony
Pretty funny that the two main things TPUSA fought against was vaccines and gun control, and each of their founders died from one of those things. Almost poetic.
A total political hack who was too whacky even for the Tea Party at the time. Turning Point posted a meme the day before he died calling people who wear masks pussies, and then subsequently deleted it after dear old Bill died of it.
Both founders ended up dying hoisted by their own petard.
There’s cosmic irony in the fact that the anti-COVID clown died from COVID & the pro-gun clown died from a gunshot.
Karma is a bitch
The irony
Just remember kids, Alessandro Manzoni openly mocked this kimd of people already in 1827
What is turning point and who is Charlie Kirk and why should I give a fuck about racist ideology and promoters?
Google search is your friend, friend
Omg it’s awful, how is this legal? How was he not banned on YouTube? And assassinated? And now his wife is running for First Lady? This all sounds like a huge conspiracy movie what is even happening?
Lol... Lmao even...
Good for him!
I remember seeing this the day it happened. A great hearty laugh during a tough time.
Also bill montgomery was a pedophile.
Oh no, what a loss.
So what's everyone having for lunch?
Bill Montgomery was conservative activist who died from his own stupidity and arrogance. He was stain on the human race and will not be missed.
And Charlie got the jab.
Just can’t win.
Lol
If only there was a vaccine that would have helped him
Inner Happy Gilmore: "Jackass!"
lol
Oh no!
Anyway
bahaha so fitting. Delicious
lol
Racist co-founder of organization to normalize racism.
Thank you,the news of his death pleases me greatly.
Rest in peace 🕊
He was 80 years old. Not exactly a life cut short
"I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction." Clarence Darrow, often (wrongly) attrib mark twain
Vaxxed?
He was anti vax lol
Why do the evil ones always die rich and happy?
I'm pretty sure he died choking on his own lungs.
Ya, rich as Satan!
Day 0 of no american fascists showing up in my feed from r/Wikipedia stretches another 24 hours
And it's always OP and one, maybe two others
What a karma farming operation. Making the world a better place, I'm sure
God bless
Yea when people want to credit some young conservative activist with getting an organization up and running, remember theres always some rich dude funding and manging the whole thing.
No great loss even if it was a little late.
2 in the thoughts. 1 in the prayers 🫱