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> We have essentially no evidence that non-respirator masks, in the hands of the public, does anything at all: This is blatant misinformation. Masks work. We'v
by EForEndeavour 6y ago
> We have essentially no evidence that non-respirator masks, in the hands of the public, does anything at all:
This is blatant misinformation. Masks work. We've known this for over a century. Using masks to control respiratory disease is one of those cool public-health hacks that almost sounds too good to be true, but if enough people do it, the virus stops burning through the population.
https://masks4all.co/ https://masks4all.co/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_masks_during_the_COVID-19_pandemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_masks_during_the_COVID-19...
You aren't so much being "censored" as just downvoted into the oblivion where a factually, empirically, and dangerously wrong statement like "We have essentially no evidence that non-respirator masks, in the hands of the public, does anything at all" belongs.
- irq11 6y agoMy link was from the Oxford University Center for Evidence-based Medicine, and summarizes the quality and outcome of all known clinical trials for masks. Your link is a website made by a guy who teaches online ML classes, has no relevant expertise in science or medicine, and blatantly mischaracterizes the papers covered by the CEBM link. I suggest you read the evidence I’ve provided, before concluding the matter is settled.
- non-entity 6y agoI always find the downvotes = censorship crowd mildly comical. To roughly quote something I read on here once: "the highly downvoted comments stand out more than the highly upvoted ones"