Preventative Masks

1.

All orders, decrees, ordinances and other measures, as well as all lockdowns, which are now being ordered again by the state leaders for the coming weeks and possibly until further notice or the first month of the new decade, are inadequate in every respect and therefore very deficient, so that overall everything is only partially effective and does not end the continuing effect of the epidemic problems, but rather allows them to persist and will increase in the coming weeks.

It is obvious from the lax and useless measures that have been enacted and implemented for the peoples by the leaders of the majority of states since February, and from which nothing salutary has resulted, that nothing has been learned, just as the precarious situation of the Corona crisis has not been recognised. The wrong and useless manoeuvres by the leaders in terms of inadequate actions, unreal decrees and the implementation of extremely inadequate safety and preventive measures against the Corona epidemic have now led to the prevailing epidemic calamity. The government’s imposition of short-term lockdowns, which were immediately relaxed or completely lifted and suspended as soon as the infection rates and the number of deaths decreased somewhat, shows an absolute lack of leadership, incompetence, lack of foresight, poor intellect and irresponsibility on the part of the government leaders concerned. Furthermore, since the outbreak of the Corona epidemic up to the present time, there has been nothing else and, above all, no insight into the entire wrongdoing of the state leaders, as well as no change to use reason, rationality and the elaboration of relevant and appropriate countermeasures for the development of the Corona epidemic.

2.

It is of urgent importance and necessity to note that appropriate respiratory masks should be worn in all cases for each person in direct contact with other persons who do not belong to the immediate personal sphere of life.

Personal and immediate family and community health can only be guaranteed if the following importance is attached to respiratory masks and their correct wearing and the correct type of mask.

3.

The most common routes of infection and transmission of disease are smear and droplet infections and aerosols that float through the air and are inhaled at close range, so wearing appropriate respirators is of urgent necessity, as is keeping a distance of about 2 metres from other persons.

a)

In absolutely still wind conditions, protective masks should be worn outdoors and a distance of at least 150 cm from person to person should suffice, while in windy conditions the distance increases from 2 m upwards.

b)

For professional and business speech in enclosed spaces, both protective masks should be worn and protective screens between persons should allow for person-to-person separation.

c)

During meetings, discussions, etc., protective masks should be worn by persons away from home and the necessary distance from person to person should be maintained.

d)

Visits to non-family homes or to other households, also to one’s own relatives or to family members living elsewhere in other households, should be avoided at all costs, as should visits by family members living elsewhere in one’s own personal living quarters.

e)

Visits to family members for the purpose of their unavoidable care and maintenance, etc., should only be made in compliance with all necessary safety precautions:

1. Wearing suitable respirators.

2. Keeping a suitable distance as far as possible.

3. If body contact is necessary, observe all safety measures, such as all necessary disinfection.

f)

Short-term visits of a few minutes may be made to family members living elsewhere in other houses and households, e.g. to make deliveries and carry out errands, or simply to maintain contact, but only if respiratory masks are worn and the appropriate safety distance is maintained.

4.

Normal industrially produced protective masks of the FFP1 type cannot – contrary to all false claims by manufacturers, salesmen, know-it-alls, troublemakers and conspiracy theorists etc. – prevent viruses from entering the mucous membranes and respiratory organs in any way, just as homemade fabric masks or transparent face shields, short speech shields in front of the mouth and nose and similar products are also unsuitable as protection against viruses.

a)

Homemade fabric masks are at best effective against dust penetration into the breathing zone.

b)

Normal good, multi-layered, industrially produced protective masks of the type FFP1 are suitable as protection against the penetration of pathogens into the breathing zone and into the mucous membranes, such as dust, fungal spores, parasites, bacteria and the like, but are unsuitable for the defence of pathogens against penetration into the organism.

1.

homemade as well as purchased pure fabric masks are absolutely useless as well as highly hazardous to health.

2.

Tested FFP1 masks are only lightly protective and should not be used as effective protective masks, but at most only as a short-term stopgap.

3.

FFP2 and FFP3 masks are suitable for contact with other persons.

4.

FFP is the English abbreviation for ‘Filtering Face Piece’. Translated into German, it is commonly understood as respiratory protection masks, fine dust masks, dust masks or simply respiratory protection filters. FFP protection classes divide respirators into three groups, FFP1, FFP2 as well as FFP3, whereby this third is the safest protection class for respirators._[F1]

F1: Contact Report 761