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Anyone who is legitimately concerned about COVID transmission should be wearing at least a KN95 mask. It would be interesting if the study had compared effectiv
by jasonlaramburu 5y ago
Anyone who is legitimately concerned about COVID transmission should be wearing at least a KN95 mask. It would be interesting if the study had compared effectiveness against higher performance masks and respirators.
- helge9210 5y agoI totally agree. On the other hand I would like to opt out of this exercise, since I'm totally not concerned with COVID.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y agoI know a place where workers keep having to quarantine following covid reoccurrences. Looking for a job?
- helge9210 5y agoStop testing and there won't be new cases.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y agoBecause dead people don't replicate viruses well. Got it.
- helge9210 5y agoOnly 0.6% will die (on average over all age groups). 99.4% will have an immunity for half a year.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y agoOnly 472,497,943 can die from it then. Adding on all the other impact of creating much larger pools of folks losing spouses, parents, caregivers, along with everyone else who's loss will cause lasting and life-changing harm. And then there's long Covid. . . So yeah, sheesh. It's hardly any worse than taking out several nations worth of people with VX.
- helge9210 5y agoEveryone will die. Eventually. Those over 60 sooner than those in their twenties. Neither tests nor masks will change this fact.
- jasonlaramburu 5y ago>Neither tests nor masks will change this fact. According to the original article, masks do change this fact.
- helge9210 5y agoPlease, read the article again. Masks might affect COVID-19 spread. They don't prevent people from dying eventually.
- jasonlaramburu 5y ago> They don't prevent people from dying eventually. The paper does not say this. It shows an 11% reduction in spread in the group that was encouraged to wear surgical masks. Masks were not mandated, only encouraged. It also shows that 5 months after the researchers stopped encouraging mask-wearing, compliance dropped by 14%. So masks reduce the spread, and encouraging people to wear them leads to higher compliance.