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« Last post by Masked Man on January 17, 2026, 03:49:28 am »NOTE:
In this article FFP2/3 masks seem to be the standards in the UK and/ while or N95 seems to be the standard in the US
Jan 9, 2026
SUMMARY:
Face masks ‘inadequate’ and should be swapped for respirators, WHO is advised
Experts are urging guideline changes on what health professionals should wear to protect against flu-like illnesses including Covid
Surgical face masks provide inadequate protection against flu-like illnesses including Covid, and should be replaced by respirator-level masks – worn every time doctors and nurses are face to face with a patient, according to a group of experts urging changes to World Health Organization guidelines.
LINK:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/09/health-professionals-respirator-grade-masks-who-advise
COMMENT: Oh yeah my respirator mask is always far superior than the the doctor's who is supposed to be the professional .. it just got to the point I was just happy they grabbed some wimpy surgical mask out of a box and put on a mask at all at the health care facility.. The WHO needs to also teach doctors to practice wearing suitable masks so the mask doesn't slip off their nose! It's long time overdue doctors and nurses (This masking should includes people in waiting room!) make proper and routine mask wearing an indispensable part of their lives daily to prevent themselves and their patients and all those that enter their building from spreading airborne illness and airborne diseases amongst to one another.
Be pragmatical and wear masks after having received our science lessons about how respiratory air droplets work to transmit illness. Asymptomatic means we can't tell who is ill and who is not just by looking at each other and that is scary and threatening to our health ... let's protect one another in advance with masks in a place where bunch of strangers (often people who are ill or in a weakened state ) are forced to inhabit the same areas and are seeking to heal!
This article was written on Jan 9, 2026.. that's six years after covid spurred us on to do something about preventing the spread of airborne illness and airborne diseases in and around our healthcare facilities... you'd think they would know the difference between a wimpy surgical mask and and a more suitable more robust n95 mask by now after six years! Nevertheless a note to hospitals and healthcare facilities on a budget: the surgical mask is better than nothing if that's all your minimalistic medical building facility is supplied with and if you refuse to wear the better masks then us patients prefer you at least wear a floppy little rubber band loose fitting surgical mask over your vapor spewing oriface when you proceed to get in our faces to check our vitals and such! Anything is better than nothing I guess. Just don't give me covid or anything! I prefer competence and proper high quality masking and intelligent self defense against germs when I step into a a professional medical building!
Here's Masked Man's letter to healthcare...
Dear Doctor Nurse and patients coughing and in pain waiting in the waiting room next to me,
Why is my mask better than all those I see around me who are in the medical field!? It's important to me that doctors and nurses don't get sick or look seek and don't pose a threat as hosts and vectors of illnesses, Don't people with respiratory illness often seek medical care inside medical buildings or is that a figment of my imagination that people with respiratory infections and illnesses don't ever enter these medical buildings anymore because of science denial and lack of reality? There's somebody in the waiting room not far away that is really struggling to keep from coughing and really looking like they are in pain...and who knows how sick the last one was that was sitting in this chair?
Here's what they say "Masks are routinely used in medical environments to maintain sterile conditions during procedures and prevent the spread of infectious diseases among patients and staff" ...
...so isn't what we doctors want? Don't we want a nice clean sterile environment for our specimens and our patients?
Thank you doctor and nurses for your time and interest in viruses in these difficult times,
The Masked Man
P.S
Here's the deal do we want clean sterile areas to work in and have undiagnosed patients with undetermined illness goin in and out of that area unmasked? Doyou just wanna go in there unmasked and breathe on and breathe in everything? Is one of the goals to have a clean environment or not? Are we hoping the patient is so healthy we don't have to mask, wash hands or keep anything clean like the room or our tools sterile in medical clinical environment where ill people often frequent with questions and mysterious illnesses?
Of course we want clean sterile place where ill people frequent!!!
"To maintain sterile conditions during procedures, you must
meticulously follow aseptic techniques, including thorough handwashing, using sterile personal protective equipment (PPE) like gowns and gloves, establishing and protecting a sterile field (above waist level, free from talking/traffic), handling only sterile items with sterile tools, and promptly addressing any contamination. The key is strict adherence to principles to prevent microorganisms from entering the body, reducing infection risk"
Healthcare people Gotta mask for those microorganisms you all proved exit from microscopes.. gotta not inhale and exhale vapor and airborne droplets everywhere!
In this article FFP2/3 masks seem to be the standards in the UK and/ while or N95 seems to be the standard in the US
Jan 9, 2026
SUMMARY:
Face masks ‘inadequate’ and should be swapped for respirators, WHO is advised
Experts are urging guideline changes on what health professionals should wear to protect against flu-like illnesses including Covid
Surgical face masks provide inadequate protection against flu-like illnesses including Covid, and should be replaced by respirator-level masks – worn every time doctors and nurses are face to face with a patient, according to a group of experts urging changes to World Health Organization guidelines.
LINK:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/09/health-professionals-respirator-grade-masks-who-advise
COMMENT: Oh yeah my respirator mask is always far superior than the the doctor's who is supposed to be the professional .. it just got to the point I was just happy they grabbed some wimpy surgical mask out of a box and put on a mask at all at the health care facility.. The WHO needs to also teach doctors to practice wearing suitable masks so the mask doesn't slip off their nose! It's long time overdue doctors and nurses (This masking should includes people in waiting room!) make proper and routine mask wearing an indispensable part of their lives daily to prevent themselves and their patients and all those that enter their building from spreading airborne illness and airborne diseases amongst to one another.
Be pragmatical and wear masks after having received our science lessons about how respiratory air droplets work to transmit illness. Asymptomatic means we can't tell who is ill and who is not just by looking at each other and that is scary and threatening to our health ... let's protect one another in advance with masks in a place where bunch of strangers (often people who are ill or in a weakened state ) are forced to inhabit the same areas and are seeking to heal!
This article was written on Jan 9, 2026.. that's six years after covid spurred us on to do something about preventing the spread of airborne illness and airborne diseases in and around our healthcare facilities... you'd think they would know the difference between a wimpy surgical mask and and a more suitable more robust n95 mask by now after six years! Nevertheless a note to hospitals and healthcare facilities on a budget: the surgical mask is better than nothing if that's all your minimalistic medical building facility is supplied with and if you refuse to wear the better masks then us patients prefer you at least wear a floppy little rubber band loose fitting surgical mask over your vapor spewing oriface when you proceed to get in our faces to check our vitals and such! Anything is better than nothing I guess. Just don't give me covid or anything! I prefer competence and proper high quality masking and intelligent self defense against germs when I step into a a professional medical building!
Here's Masked Man's letter to healthcare...
Dear Doctor Nurse and patients coughing and in pain waiting in the waiting room next to me,
Why is my mask better than all those I see around me who are in the medical field!? It's important to me that doctors and nurses don't get sick or look seek and don't pose a threat as hosts and vectors of illnesses, Don't people with respiratory illness often seek medical care inside medical buildings or is that a figment of my imagination that people with respiratory infections and illnesses don't ever enter these medical buildings anymore because of science denial and lack of reality? There's somebody in the waiting room not far away that is really struggling to keep from coughing and really looking like they are in pain...and who knows how sick the last one was that was sitting in this chair?
Here's what they say "Masks are routinely used in medical environments to maintain sterile conditions during procedures and prevent the spread of infectious diseases among patients and staff" ...
...so isn't what we doctors want? Don't we want a nice clean sterile environment for our specimens and our patients?
Thank you doctor and nurses for your time and interest in viruses in these difficult times,
The Masked Man
P.S
Here's the deal do we want clean sterile areas to work in and have undiagnosed patients with undetermined illness goin in and out of that area unmasked? Doyou just wanna go in there unmasked and breathe on and breathe in everything? Is one of the goals to have a clean environment or not? Are we hoping the patient is so healthy we don't have to mask, wash hands or keep anything clean like the room or our tools sterile in medical clinical environment where ill people often frequent with questions and mysterious illnesses?
Of course we want clean sterile place where ill people frequent!!!
"To maintain sterile conditions during procedures, you must
meticulously follow aseptic techniques, including thorough handwashing, using sterile personal protective equipment (PPE) like gowns and gloves, establishing and protecting a sterile field (above waist level, free from talking/traffic), handling only sterile items with sterile tools, and promptly addressing any contamination. The key is strict adherence to principles to prevent microorganisms from entering the body, reducing infection risk"
Healthcare people Gotta mask for those microorganisms you all proved exit from microscopes.. gotta not inhale and exhale vapor and airborne droplets everywhere!