Innovation Pharmaceuticals Inc (IPIX)

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You do realize that there are three false assumptions:

1) false assumption: CoV-2 particles are spread as particles. This is false because airborne CoV-2 is spread as a mucosal aerosol. It doesn’t matter what size CoV-2 particles are if the medium itself is a wet, viscous droplet measured in microns. Micron weaving stops micron droplets.

2) false assumption: some tests showed surgical masks don’t stop CoV-2. Several studies of aerosols at cough and sneeze velocities showed that the aerosols (which carry the virus) were stopped by N95 masks. Other lower standard masks were effective at greatly reducing the distance of the aerosol from the source. In published lab tests, simulated CoV-2 medium stopped the aerosol, which disproves the false assumption that micron filters won’t stop nano sized viruses, which cannot spread outside wet mediums.

3) false assumption: in the real world, masks don’t stop the spread. Vietnam, which had the greatest experience with both SARS-1 and H5N1 found that surgical masks were effective at preventing the spread along with other measures, such as aggressive quarantining of contacts. During SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, the Ministry of Health required masks and social distancing along with a policy of “hit hard and fast” for any outbreak. This same policy was equally effective in New Zealand and Australia, Australia after they realized they needed to follow policy other than that of the US. In a country of 100 million roughly the size of California, sharing a trade border with China, Vietnam after a year of fighting Covid-29 has less than 2600 cases and 35 deaths.

Masks work.