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But it's not an East Asian government or a medical expert who made the website that started this thread, is it? It's fasteddie31003, whose HN profile reads "Sof

But it's not an East Asian government or a medical expert who made the website that started this thread, is it? It's fasteddie31003, whose HN profile reads "Software engineer in San Francisco." Leave the medical advice to medical experts, just as you expect the medical experts to keep their mouths shut about the advantages of Rust over Go or whether Vue is the right choice in 2020.

oefrha 7y ago
You mean like [0][1][2]? [0] http://www.chinacdc.cn/yyrdgz/202001/t20200123_211390.html http://www.chinacdc.cn/yyrdgz/202001/t20200123_211390.html [1] https://www.coronavirus.gov.hk/eng/health-advice.html https://www.coronavirus.gov.hk/eng/health-advice.html [2] http://www.cdc.go.kr/index.es?sid=a2 http://www.cdc.go.kr/index.es?sid=a2
- lorenzhs 7y ago
  Well I can't judge [0] and [2] for rather obvious reasons, but [1] would have been a much better link than what was posted, and it has a much more differentiated views on masks. The website that started this thread is plain bad. The Hong Kong page [1] contradicts OP's site in its recommendation of N95 masks ("N95 respirators are generally not recommended for use by the general public in community settings because special training is required for proper wearing and removal of the mask. Otherwise the infective risk due to inadequate protection and contamination may be ironically increased." [1] vs "N95 masks are better than surgical masks" on the OP's site). Then there's stuff like "Going in public without a mask in a pandemic is like riding a motorcycle without a helmet." That's bad because it implies that surgical masks protect you, but all the information by actual experts seems to say that they generally don't, and that their primary purpose is to prevent the spread of the infection by people who don't know they have it. I mean, the page even admits that "We only have anecdotal research at this point" on the efficacy of masks. Yet the headline claim, "Western countries are experiencing higher rates of COVID-19 infections compared to Asian countries because of the West's aversion to wearing masks", implies direct causation between mask wearing and infection rates. Why should anyone trust someone who makes such elementary mistakes? We need the computer people (myself included, obviously) to keep doing the computer things and leave giving medical advice to the medical experts. The OP's website is bad and they should take it down.

oefrha 7y ago

You mean like [0][1][2]? [0] http://www.chinacdc.cn/yyrdgz/202001/t20200123_211390.html http://www.chinacdc.cn/yyrdgz/202001/t20200123_211390.html [1] https://www.coronavirus.gov.hk/eng/health-advice.html https://www.coronavirus.gov.hk/eng/health-advice.html [2] http://www.cdc.go.kr/index.es?sid=a2 http://www.cdc.go.kr/index.es?sid=a2

lorenzhs 7y ago
Well I can't judge [0] and [2] for rather obvious reasons, but [1] would have been a much better link than what was posted, and it has a much more differentiated views on masks. The website that started this thread is plain bad. The Hong Kong page [1] contradicts OP's site in its recommendation of N95 masks ("N95 respirators are generally not recommended for use by the general public in community settings because special training is required for proper wearing and removal of the mask. Otherwise the infective risk due to inadequate protection and contamination may be ironically increased." [1] vs "N95 masks are better than surgical masks" on the OP's site). Then there's stuff like "Going in public without a mask in a pandemic is like riding a motorcycle without a helmet." That's bad because it implies that surgical masks protect you, but all the information by actual experts seems to say that they generally don't, and that their primary purpose is to prevent the spread of the infection by people who don't know they have it. I mean, the page even admits that "We only have anecdotal research at this point" on the efficacy of masks. Yet the headline claim, "Western countries are experiencing higher rates of COVID-19 infections compared to Asian countries because of the West's aversion to wearing masks", implies direct causation between mask wearing and infection rates. Why should anyone trust someone who makes such elementary mistakes? We need the computer people (myself included, obviously) to keep doing the computer things and leave giving medical advice to the medical experts. The OP's website is bad and they should take it down.