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Doesn’t seem like a very ground study. But living in Asia has taught me masks do work, and they work at school. My 3yo doesn’t get a cold when the 1 kid in the
by philliphaydon 4y ago
Doesn’t seem like a very ground study. But living in Asia has taught me masks do work, and they work at school. My 3yo doesn’t get a cold when the 1 kid in the class is sneezing and coughing. The 1 case of covid didn’t spread in the school to Teachers or students.
But I get there’s a bunch of adults who can’t wear masks as well as a 3yo so in that case the adults are more likely to catch or spread covid with their inability to wear masks right.
- josephcsible 4y agoYour one anecdote overturns this whole study?
- MuchoMaas 4y agoThat's nice. My kids' preschool in a blue state which mandated masks until spring of this year had constantly recurring COVID cases and exposures, including a Delta infection my kids brought home in October last year and passed to me.
- ceejayoz 4y agoA preschool is... not the best-case scenario for proper mask wearing technique.
- MuchoMaas 4y ago
- ceejayoz 4y ago> The parent comment was a claim that their 3 year old did not get COVID in a preschool/daycare setting because of widespread mask wearing. Both yours and theirs can be true. Perhaps preschoolers in Asia have better parental modeling of proper mask wearing, having been a fairly widespread practice in some areas since the first SARS. Perhaps there's a difference in how careful the teachers were to make adjustments when someone's slipped.
- philliphaydon 4y agoIn Singapore you almost never saw kids even young as 2 years old not wearing a mask right. My daughter started wearing from 1y7m and it took about 1 week of adjusting it correctly when she would touch her face or mask to her just leaving it alone. While you see most westerners wearing their mask below their nose, the kids follow suit. In Taiwan since September last year, enrolled my daughter in school, every kid in her class wears a mask, they get temp check before being allowed into school, teachers help the kids with the masks. So far her class has had 1 kid who got covid, stopped coming to school, got better, that's it. No outbreak. So good mask wearing starts with the parents. In asia we take covid seriously, other than westerners you rarely ever see locals not wearing masks correctly.
- MuchoMaas 4y ago
- philliphaydon 4y ago
- nathanaldensr 4y agoI don't think GP was speaking about the technique but rather alluding to the uselessness of the mandates.
- amluto 4y agoIn Asia, actual decent factory-made masks seem to have been widely available for years. I would believe that the effects of people in Asia wearing masks sold in Asia is not the same as people in America wearing masks sold in America.
- philliphaydon 4y agoI don’t know what the quality of masks is like overseas but one thing you don’t see is cloth masks. If you do see them they are always over the top of an actual mask just for a fancy design. But never cloth only.
- nabakin 4y agoWhat is considered an actual mask here? N95, surgical, or something else?
- philliphaydon 4y agoSurgical Mask (3ply) and N95. Pretty much all masks are surgical 3ply now, at the start of covid it was quite hit and miss, alot of 'surgical' were not 3ply.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoHere in Spain there were lots of cloth masks. And I've never seen people wear two of any type.
- barry-cotter 4y agoPeople do not wear masks with a tight seal. Of the last 20 people I saw there were 19 cloth masks, one that is maybe capable of keeping a seal. Lots of chinstraps too. Shanghai.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoI don't know about America but every pack of masks I've bought in Europe has been made in China. Always comes with one of those little white papers with don't Chinese scribbles and a red star stamped on it. Even when the packaging is in the local language.
- sveng 4y agoThis article is a pre-print, not yet peer reviewed. Look closely at the writings and affiliations of the second and third authors.