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My read of the evidence in 2021: 1. Gaiter masks will nominally reduce your odds of getting COVID-19 (viral loads down perhaps 30%), and more significantly red
by gibba999 5y ago
My read of the evidence in 2021:
1. Gaiter masks will nominally reduce your odds of getting COVID-19 (viral loads down perhaps 30%), and more significantly reduce your odds of spreading it
2. Surgical masks will dramatically reduce your odds of getting COVID-19 in public settings (e.g. shopping), and slightly reduce your odds in closer settings (e.g. co-habitating, where it's impossible to keep masks on 100% of the time, and where there is extended exposure)
3. KN95 masks will effectively stop you from getting COVID-19, if used reliably, consistently, and in conjunction with other measures like handwashing and social distancing in public health settings. They will significantly reduce, but not eliminate, odds in closer settings (e.g. co-habitating)
4. N95 masks will be marginally more effective as KN95 if used correctly, and about the same if not
All of this presumes authentic masks, and the original variant. I have no idea about delta.
- endisneigh 5y agoSome scientists have argued that gaiter masks are worse than nothing: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/36/eabd3083 https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/36/eabd3083 Obviously the jury is still out, but don't you think it's problematic for a platform to just unilaterally decide the truth? It's literally the opposite of science. Science cannot exist without skepticism. Now if Rand Paul was saying that COVID-19 doesn't exist that's another thing. Saying masks don't work is a statement that requires many qualifications and elaborations. Saying it alone can be both true and false.
- jimbob45 5y agoYou can just claim that masks prevent you from incurring other viruses and infections, the contraction of which would put anyone in serious danger of death were they to come into contact with COVID.