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Everyone wears masks in NYC and there was no COVID uptick until the last month or so. even if it encourages risky behavior, there's no evidence that it does it
by roywiggins 6y ago
Everyone wears masks in NYC and there was no COVID uptick until the last month or so.
even if it encourages risky behavior, there's no evidence that it does it enough to translate to higher spread overall, which is what matters. As long as the net impact doesn't increase transmission, they're not a problem.
- telcal 6y ago"Everyone" wears masks in NYC? I don't know where exactly you're talking about but that's definitely not true. Certain neighborhoods are better than others but even so there are tons who don't.
- roywiggins 6y agoThere are neighborhoods that are much less mask-compliant than others, but in my day-to-day, the vast majority of people I see are in masks. It's certainly enough to say that wearing masks doesn't make COVID spread worse at a population level. The worst neighborhoods for COVID over the summer were ones that were known for poor mask compliance, anyway.