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> There is no control group, so we don't kno It is unethical to have a study with a control group which involves a live virus. There is enough evidence that m
by ogre_codes 6y ago
> There is no control group, so we don't kno
It is unethical to have a study with a control group which involves a live virus.
There is enough evidence that masks are effective that they should be required until it's proven they are ineffective or the virus risk is reduced.
- lol2143651 6y agoWhere is this evidence? Is this evidence for n95 masks, or the cotton nonsense most people wear?
- thu2111 6y agoThere are doctors, experts and even whole nations that disagree with you that there is evidence masks are effective. This is the problem with arguments like this. It inevitably turns into a fight over who gets to pick the evidence and experts, as there is always reasoned disagreement. Heck, China is an existence proof that mask wearing doesn't stop the virus in any meaningful way. Sample size, a billion. Checkmate. Are we done?
- ogre_codes 6y agoChina, Hong Kong, and Taiwan all have lower infection rates than we do, and one of their biggest ways of controlling it has been masks. Taiwan in particular has never had more than a few cases and they are near neighbors to the epicenter of this whole thing. They controlled it by cutting off travel and using masks and they've never had to do a shut down.
- thu2111 6y agoYou don't actually know that using masks cut it down, you're just assuming it. You're also assuming the Chinese numbers are reliable, etc etc. I mean there are just so many ways to slice it. Suffice it to say, COVID happened in China despite widespread mask wearing. If you want to prove masks work it'd take a much more rigorous analysis than cherry-picking countries and attributing their numbers to masks, that's my point.