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Taiwan did better than just about everybody else without lockdowns. Workplaces and schools stayed active. The magic trick: universal masking. Plus plastic pa
by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 6y ago
Taiwan did better than just about everybody else without lockdowns.
Workplaces and schools stayed active.
The magic trick: universal masking.
Plus plastic partitions between people during mealtimes.
Plus putting up quarantined people in hotels where they received daily health worker visits, meals and a stipend.
In my hometown, I'm seeing workplace outbreaks exploding because infected workers are quarantined at home where their families get infected.
The other lockdown idiocy is confining people indoors when the safest place is outdoors (Crowded downtown sidewalks excepted where you really need to wear a wask).
- mc32 6y agoWho was footing the hotel bills while patients were in quarantine?
- vondur 6y agoI don’t know if masks are that effective. They’ve been ubiquitous here in SoCal for months and yet we’ve had some of the highest infection rates in the country. I suppose if everyone were using N95 masks that probably would have worked.
- AlotOfReading 6y agoIf you're wearing a close fitting mask properly and maintaining reasonable social distance, what transmission vector would there be such that they're ineffective? Fomites have been repeatedly rejected as a major vector so what's left?
- m-p-3 6y ago> The magic trick: universal masking. Maybe we wouldn't need lockdowns if everyone did wear their masks properly, so many COVID deniers out there.
- mrfusion 6y agoA recent CDC report says that mask mandates are less than 1.9% effective even after 100 days. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e3.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e3.htm