Is Montreal available? I would love to see a team move there, and there is still a die-hard fan base that misses Les Expos.
Canada is out. They require a 14 day quarantine with travel to the US.
Blue,
I was going to ask you this in the P & R board but I've stopped going there for now. I have a friend who works with OSHA who is telling me the cloth masks people are making don't block a thing either way and that they can build up mildew and mold so that they are actually a detriment to our health. She also said that the N95 masks and others with exhale ports are designed for contaminated areas so they don't block a Covid positive person's contaminated air particles.
Also said Surgical masks are meant for a sterilized environment. So after exposure to non-sterile for any more than 20 minutes they are clogged very quickly which means if you come in contact with a Covid positive person the mask can trap it and you become a receptacle and dispenser. I haven't heard any of this elsewhere but wondered what a doctor would think about her characterizations. If true, then the masks are doing as much harm as good, giving people a false sense of security and this thing is either going to continue to spread, endangering the season, or die out or be vaccinated if one of these trials works.
If I was better at the internet I'd post a Luke Skywalker quote from the Last Jedi, but absolutely none of this is true. (It is a meme on Facebook, I've seen it).
1.) N95 masks block 95% of particulate matter in the air. For medical purposes you need to fit tested to make sure they form a tight seal and there are no leaks. If they have no leaks the virus will not enter the mask period. Medical people wears these into COVID-19 + rooms or a PAPR helmet. With this and eye protection the risk of getting infected is close to zero.
2.) Surgical masks and cloth masks are NOT meant to protect you. They are meant to protect others FROM you. Yes, they won't filter out as much of the virus (which is carried in a water droplet and water droplets can be expelled with just talking). You absolutely shouldn't touch the front of mask and if you do you should wash your hands immediately.
3.) Here is what studies have found.
-Wearing a cloth/surgical mask around a COVID + patient and they aren't wearing a mask leads to about a 70% chance of infection.
-A COVID+ patient wearing a cloth or surgical mask and you wearing nothing leads to an under 10% of you getting infected.
-A COVID+ paitent wearing a mask and you wearing a mask leads to about a 1.5% of you getting infected.
The cloth/surgical masks will filter out some of the droplets from people leading to exposure to a lower viral load, which leads to less of a change of getting infected.
SO IN CONCLUSION YOU WEAR A MASK TO PROTECT OTHERS, THEY WEAR A MASK TO PROTECT YOU. NOT WEARING A MASK MEANS YOU ARE AN ****, DON'T BE AN ****. IF WE ALL WEAR A MASK THINGS CAN OPEN UP AND BASEBALL GETS PLAYED. IF WE DON'T THERE WILL BE ADDITIONAL LOCKDOWNS, ECONOMY TANKS AND NO BASEBALL. WEAR A MASK.
OSHA people that take a 30-40 hour class have no clue what they are talking about and doesn't compare to the 50,000 hours of medical school and residency of a doctor.