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Sure, no single thing is 100% effective, but that was never the claim for a mask, any mask. But wearing masks, distancing, washing hands, vaccinations, etc, al
by rzzzwilson 5y ago
Sure, no single thing is 100% effective, but that was never the claim for a mask, any mask. But wearing masks, distancing, washing hands, vaccinations, etc, all together, is a lot better than doing nothing.
- throwaway8451 5y agoI agree, a lot of people do not seem to understand that these measures were a "defense in depth" thing.
- sealeck 5y agoAnd also the basic ideas of probability – it isn't _guaranteed_ to protect you, but if it reduces the average rate of infection by x% that's a _huge_ difference at the population level!
- DocTomoe 5y agoI guess that had to be expected given how people flaunted their ignorance of basic calculus curriculum around in the past. Turns out uneducated citizens lead to suboptimal decisionmaking.
- sealeck 5y agoA surprising number of politicians are unable to grasp the basic ideas of the exponential function (i.e. it grows _exponentially_).