{"id":3439,"date":"2020-07-23T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/?p=3439"},"modified":"2020-07-16T15:33:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T15:33:09","slug":"hamsters-and-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/23\/hamsters-and-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamsters and masks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was speaking with a medical professional about the effectiveness of wearing a mask.  There are a number of different types of masks, the N95 for example actually will filter out 95% of the airborne particles.  This is an especially effective mask to wear in order to prevent from getting the corona19 virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are other masks that are not of that same quality but health professionals ask, actually implore everyone to wear a mask as there is a belief this will help to prevent the spread.  The logic is common sense, if people cannot easily spread airborn particles containing the virus then things will obviously be better.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where is the proof?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, now there is proof.  Hong Kong scientists have been conducting research on hamsters to prove  that masks help to reduce the rate of spread.  I only wish that I could have seen the little hamsters running around with little masks on.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More on this topic can be read from yahoo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sg.news.yahoo.com\/coronavirus-hamster-research-shows-effectiveness-123507102.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/sg.news.yahoo.com\/coronavirus-hamster-research-shows-effectiveness-123507102.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was speaking with a medical professional about the effectiveness of wearing a mask. There are a number of different types of masks, the N95 for example actually will filter out 95% of the airborne particles. This is an especially &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/23\/hamsters-and-masks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[110],"tags":[113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3445,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions\/3445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}