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Logic issues with this: gauze and handkerchief masks were suboptimal perhaps but probably not useless. This is also an unrepeatable experiment - without masks i
by stevenalowe 5y ago
Logic issues with this: gauze and handkerchief masks were suboptimal perhaps but probably not useless. This is also an unrepeatable experiment - without masks it might have been worse, closing public spaces might have been better, etc.
- goatcode 5y agoIndeed. People properly wearing and using N95 and above level protection would likely have fared better than people wearing fabric masks, back then.
- whipaway 5y ago> This is also an unrepeatable experiment This frustrates any discussion about the pandemic and government response (and more broadly practically any question about govt policy & history), namely that these assertions always resort to counterfactuals. So what happened and what could have happened with different policies is essentially unfalsifiable.
- dang 5y agoCould you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=community%20identity%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...