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This should not be downvoted. There have been plenty of articles downplaying the importance of masks.

• robjan 7y ago
  There are plenty of articles but that doesn't mean they are correct. Here is a peer reviewed study demonstrating that masks are helpful. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211335516301553?via%3Dihub https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221133551... Masks provide two benefits. They protect other people from you when your are ill but currently asymptomatic and they protect you from "splashes" caused by people coughing and sneezing without covering their mouth.
  • catalogia 7y ago
    maps7 didn't say masks don't work; they said that we've been told they don't work. maps7 is right, a lot of headlines at the least have been saying things like that.
    • maps7 7y ago
      Yeah, I am in the pro-masks camp but I feel like I can't wear one without being judged because the public have been told not to. I'm in Europe by the way.