Joyce
This is my edit (adding clarifying technical expresssion, experience, personal knowledge and voice) of your excellent writing based on the information drawn from me in our telephone conversation yesterday (and prior).  I like it how it turned out and am so concerned to get real information out on this issue, so I am sharing it with a few close key friends immediately! The birds are flying, as always, never paying attention to oceans, boundries or borders; and they are bringing this added recompense -- as they always have! I hope you publish it (finished however you will) to you moms, ASAP.
Sincerly,
Tom Rodgers
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How big is a virus?

     You and I live in an environment of oxygen and sunshine; we wouldn't last long in a dark, moist place without available, readily breathable oxygen.  Disease causing viruses live in all animals, in dark, moist, mostly warm, anarobic (no free oxygen) tissues -- like your own!  Do you think highly specific animal pathogens could also live in the oxygen and sunshine, flying around through the open air? 

     What is the smallest thing that will fit through a mask?  How big is a virus?
So if these viruses, that are so small they cannot be seen with an optical microscope, could survive and be transported as airborne, would the holes of the air permeable mask stop them? 

     Viruses, including the "SARS" corona virus (common cold variant), live in birds and cattle and pigs and the milk and cheese of those animals.  They always mutate.  What if these viruses carried by birds mutate into bad viruses and the birds fly all over the world . . . . .?  What if these bird-vehicled viruses mutate in cows, and everyone in the same location eats the same cow flesh, or consumes its milk or cheese?

     On the Utah State Extension office website we are told: "Keep raw meat and poultry separate from other foods.  Wash working surfaces (including cutting boards), utensils and hands after touching raw meat or poultry.  Cook thoroughly."  Why is this?

     Every time I see a picture of someone in a mask, I think of the last verses of the Word of Wisdom.  Does the Lord keep his promises? 

     [Has God not read man's "medical professional" and media created news? -- warning everyone - especially in Asia - that even His life-giving, breathable air can kill you? ... and it never mentions the birds those Asian's or you butcher, handle and then take directly into you bodies, nor the infectious pigs or cows with which you do the same!...tlr]

      Advised / Ref: TLRodgers: Zoonoses.org

Joyce Kinmont, 
LDSHEA & HomeSchool Utah