Despite being published in Nature, the two articles you cited aren't scientific papers. I've been looking and asking for evidence that long-term damage and rein

Despite being published in Nature, the two articles you cited aren't scientific papers. I've been looking and asking for evidence that long-term damage and reinfections occur except in rare cases for months. This isn't it. Maybe social isolation until we have a (necessarily rushed) vaccine (if we ever get one) and of which we then have to produce billions of doses does save a few lives. But that is not guaranteed and it's not worth the suffering till then. > Explain to me why you or I should take the tiniest bit of risk of becoming a statistic, instead of wearing a mask. Because live is inherently risky. If you truly wanted to avoid every tiny risk, you couldn't even leave your house. > You talk as though even a few weeks of suffering is nothing, compared to the agony of wearing a mask in public. A few weeks of suffering for some of the population is nothing compared to months of suffering for all of them. And please, stop pretending being forced to wear masks is the only measure we have to endure.