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Multiple studies agree that mask wearing is highly effective, and even moreso in confined spaces/close quarters. In a study done onboard Navy ships it reduced t

• kortilla 5y ago
  Do these studies replicate the idiotic process of giving everyone a drink so 90% of the people in the confined space take of their mask to snack and drink?
• native_samples 5y ago
  And many studies say the opposite, unfortunately studies are more or less junk. Non-profit research just isn't usefully reliable. Fortunately we don't really need studies here. A study is an attempt to figure out what would happen if everyone were forced to wear masks, but we did that already. Mask mandates get added, removed and changed at different times even in places that are physically next to each other, allowing us to see what it means in reality - which is nothing. States, counties, cities next to each other that differed only in mask mandates have identical case curves. This guy makes tons of graphs showing this: https://ianmsc.substack.com/p/every-comparison-shows-masks-are https://ianmsc.substack.com/p/every-comparison-shows-masks-a... If masks actually worked, this data shouldn't be possible. There'd have to be a clear difference in outcomes. For instance this debate doesn't come up with vaccines except in the form "the real world stats appear to show some effectiveness against hospitalization and death, but are they reliable/interprted correctly?". Whereas here there are no real world stats showing effectiveness, only a handful of worthless studies that invariably seem to have major methodological errors when examined.