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It turns out that not all things can be known and when giving advice, you go with the best known data...which at times can be wrong. This is literally how scien
by dlp211 5y ago
It turns out that not all things can be known and when giving advice, you go with the best known data...which at times can be wrong. This is literally how science works. We don't always have the liberty to wait for a near certain answer.
And the experts haven't been wrong for a year and a half, the experts were working with bad or incomplete data for a few months. Their advice for the past year, wear masks, socially distance, get the vaccine, has been correct.
- ghoward 5y agoHas their advice for the past year been correct? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27460858 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27460858
- dlp211 5y agoIf masks and social distancing didn't work, you need to have some idea of why the Flu had its mildest year ever. Also, countless people have demonstrated with pulseox meters that blood oxygen saturation is unaffected by mask wearing, so while those findings are interesting, you are far too quick to draw any type of conclusions that masks don't work and/or are harmful.
- ghoward 5y agoAnd people are far too quick to think that masks do work and/or are not harmful. What happened to the Precautionary Principle?
- dlp211 5y agoSorry, the entire medical field exists as a counterpoint to the idea that masks are harmful.
- ghoward 5y agoThe medical field uses masks in the environment they were made for. And they are changed regularly. In the non-medical world, people don't do that. If people used masks properly, I wouldn't have much of an argument, but they don't, so I do.
- rorykoehler 5y agoA mask isn’t going to hurt you if it doesn’t work. Honestly my 3 year old displays more logic in his thought than this. And before you say it no the virus won’t appear on the mask anymore more so than it would enter your mouth and lungs if the mask wasn’t on.
- ghoward 5y agoDoes heightened levels of carbon dioxide hurt? Everything we know about heightened levels of carbon dioxide in buildings says, "Yes." Why would masks be any different?
- abenga 5y agoIt wrinkles my brain that someone would believe this. Surgeons wear masks for hours, sometimes dozens, while performing operations that require an insane level of concentration and dexterity. They are not harmed because of this. You have just chosen to believe some idiotic conspiracy theory and are grasping at some vaguely plausible objection to continue holding that belief.
- ghoward 5y agoThey do that in the environment that the masks are designed for.
- CRConrad 5y agoSo masks somehow magically concentrate CO2 more than any other gas only outside of operating theaters? Or is this selective gas concentration perfectly normal, and the magic is that it doesn't happen in operating theaters? The "environment that the masks are designed for" is the same Euclidean 3D space containing the same air as all other environments.
- docmars 5y agoHow is this a conspiracy theory? Why jump to that conclusion about this person's perfectly reasonable statement and hypothesis? Stories of children either passing out or dying because they were required to wear masks during track outdoors. Or hell, walking my normal pace (quite fast), I breathe pretty heavily and the amount of oxygen my body takes in with a mask is markedly reduced versus when I'm not wearing one. It is a stark difference, and one I hope I never have to experience again due to disproportionate government and private business mandates rooted in paranoia around the most absurdly low risk levels for the majority of age groups.