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I wonder why nobody did any studies on COVID patients asking very simple questions such as "how often did you use a mask in public?". A romanian doctor complai
by raducu 6y ago
I wonder why nobody did any studies on COVID patients asking very simple questions such as "how often did you use a mask in public?".
A romanian doctor complained that about 70% of his COVID patients believed the dissease was a hoax before being infected themselves.
Maybe he was just trying to scare others, and by no means do I try to blame the sick, but maybe if people not wearing masks, not practicing social distancing not washing their hands are more likely to get sick, we could show this data and make the rest do it more -- if this is indeed the case and these measures significantly decrease your chances of being infected.
- toto444 6y agoWe do not get much information about who still gets the virus. Mostly party goers or is everyone as likely to get it? Several weeks after the place where I live started the lockdown hundreds of people were still getting it and I was really wondering who these people were.
- DanBC 6y ago> I wonder why nobody did any studies on COVID patients asking very simple questions such as "how often did you use a mask in public?". Because retrospective self-reporting surveys are not useful science.
- raducu 6y agoYou could be very right -- I suppose if someone thought COVID was a hoax and was asked if they wore a mask, in a hospital setting, they would be more inclined to say they did, just like how people say they voted for the winner in an election in a much larger proportion than the actual results show.
- rsynnott 6y agoMasks are believed to be more effective for stopping an infected person transmitting than stopping an uninfected person being infected, so this probably wouldn't be especially useful.
- raducu 6y agoI agree to that,but masks are still useful even for preventing, and my main reasoning was that wearing a mask is a proxy for how serious the person is for all the rest -- social distaning, avoiding crowds, avoiding interaction with people who don't wear mask themselves and so on. But as someone else commented -- retrospective studies probably are not that useful.