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Still Confused About Masks?

Title (Dublin Core)

Still Confused About Masks?

Description (Dublin Core)

The main point of this news article is getting across the point that it is very important to wear face masks while in the public. It has many pieces of evidence to support the wearing of masks. It also covers a few great points which is does it matter what mask each individual wears, and also does wearing the mask protect you from covid-19, or the people around you from it? This is the reason why I chose this article. I have been questioning both of these points since covid-19 and mask wearing started.
This article reveals just how important it is to wear a mask when you are in the public and around other individuals that are not considered within your “personal bubble”. Many people are struggling with life in the pandemic right now, but also they are not doing their part in slowing the spread by properly masking up in public. The news article is very important because most of the population doesn’t know everything about covid-19 since it is new to all of us. The article provides crucial information on how to stop the spread, and hopefully eliminate the covid-19 virus.
In this article, there is no bias standing out to me. This article is a fact based article that provides scientifically proven information about the virus. All of the claims of this article has stated have been run by tests. For example, a test was run about how many respiratory droplets left one’s mouth when saying a simple phrase. Without a mask, there was a range from 20-500 micrometers generated. With a face mask, nearly all of the droplets were trapped by the face mask.
The responsibility of the media during the covid-19 pandemic is to keep the population up to date and educated about the virus. The more educated the population is, the slower the virus will spread, because a fraction of the population that is informed will follow protocols and safety tips from the media. From this article, I learned that wearing a face mask is much more powerful than I thought it was. After learning this from the article, I will make sure to wear a face mask when I am around my friends or in the public 100% of the time.

Date (Dublin Core)

June 26, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Nina Bai

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Nathan Oliveira

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

AmericanStudies

Partner (Dublin Core)

California High School

Type (Dublin Core)

Article

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-about-masks-heres-science-behind-how-face-masks-prevent
https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-about-masks-heres-science-behind-how-face-masks-prevent

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Clothing & Accessories
English News coverage
English Social Distance
English Science
English Education--K12

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

media
news
bias
COVID-19
mask
droplet
asymptomatic
protection

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

sanfranciscobayarea
media
news
masks
covid19

Collection (Dublin Core)

San Francisco Bay Area
K-12

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

The Media & COVID-19, Lesson Plan

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

10/07/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

10/08/2020
10/15/2020
11/12/2023

Date Created (Dublin Core)

06/26/2020

Item sets

Covid 19
High School

This item was submitted on October 7, 2020 by Nathan Oliveira using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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