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Masks can ONLY help. They're not going to make it more likely to catch COVID even if there was no proven effectiveness. Basic logic and years of masks developme
by systemvoltage 6y ago
Masks can ONLY help. They're not going to make it more likely to catch COVID even if there was no proven effectiveness. Basic logic and years of masks development (used in hospitals for over 100 years) should tell us that they do something. They're not useless.
- Nursie 6y agoDepends on the material - fleece actually can increase transmission. And potentially poor mask handling and discipline could have made transmission worse. We more or less know this isn't the case now, but didn't then. So yes, it actually could make things worse.
- systemvoltage 6y agoThis was never expressed by the authorities, they should explain. It is a pretty iffy claim and with such a claim, you gotta have some data that invalidates decades of mask usage in hospitals.
- Dylan16807 6y agoHospitals don't use fleece. Saying that the material has an enormous impact on effectiveness doesn't invalidate anything. I mean, that's why N95 masks are so complicated and different from surgical masks, because material matters so much.
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- greggman3 6y agoIf they were ineffective but people thought they were effective they'd act like they were effective and go do things that would get them infected, falsely believing the mask would protect them. They appear to have turned out to be effective (FYI: I've warn masks every time I've been outside since 2020/3/16 so I'm certainly on the side of masks) Will you downvote this because it shows a logical flaw, not a judgement, but it you probably disagree with it?