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Masks are unlikely to have protected you much unless it’s a tight fitting n95 mask worn around the clock. This topic has been beaten to death on here, not sure
by rajup 4y ago
Masks are unlikely to have protected you much unless it’s a tight fitting n95 mask worn around the clock. This topic has been beaten to death on here, not sure why people continue to cling on to masks as anything other than security theater.
- aaroninsf 4y agoBecause it's not security theater, as has been demonstrated time and again FFS It's trivially easy to acquire authentic N95s today. People just won't wear them, so, we all suffer.
- fullmoon 4y agoAustria has mandated N95s for months. No improvement in comparison to neighboring countries could be demonstrated. Mostly because it was pure theater and no attempt at proof was even made.
- jeffbee 4y agoYou can't do a study that way. People do or do not wear masks based on emergent social acceptance, regardless of government actions. If you want to do a discontinuity study you have to evaluate actual mask usage in the real world and discover a boundary discontinuity. You can't just do it by jurisdiction and assume that the government proclamations work. People wear masks when they aren't required, and they may not wear them when they are required.
- fullmoon 4y agoI’m well aware. Yet we’ve been hearing since the beginning of 2021 that they’ve been proven to have been much more efficient by the coalition parliament which has come up with this idea.
- adamsb6 4y agoThe evidence is pretty mixed, and even the studies showing the strongest effects have mask wearing yielding something like a 50% reduction in transmission. I haven't seen anyone model what this looks like on longer timescales. Does this mean that you're just delaying the inevitable? If so, and the disease is mild and we're not going to overwhelm hospitals with the infected, what's the benefit?
- jonahhorowitz 4y agoI wear a flomask every day when I'm out and about and it works great. You don't need to wear it "around the clock." You just need to wear it when you're inside and there are people around you who might be infected.
- basch 4y agoThe primary mechanism these things are spread by is water droplets in the air expelled from the nose and mouth. A sick person wearing a mask will expel more moisture into the mask, and less into the air. None of this is binary. It's not sick or not sick. There is a viral load component, where a persons body can fight off a certain amount of virus.
- endisneigh 4y agoSomeone sick should be staying home, not going into grocery stores with a mask on.
- jonahhorowitz 4y agoYou're contagious for 2 days before you have symptoms. You should wear a mask if you're around other people.
- basch 4y agoNot disagreeing. I am pointing out the mask is to block the spreader, moreso than shield the recipient.
- endisneigh 4y agoPeople should wear a mask if they’d like, yes. But ultimately social distancing and getting vaccinated is the best strategy.
- roflyear 4y agoSure, if you KNOW you're sick. Often you are contagious without feeling sick. Or maybe you just feel a LITTLE sick but still go to the store.
- sn0wf1re 4y agoHow else would they get food? Not everyone can afford to order in. Is your opinion that these people should just starve?
- uhtred 4y agoMasks are primarily for protecting other people, you cough and sneeze and breathe out infected water droplets into the mask- not other people's faces. Why do people like you have such anger about mask wearing?
- gjsman-1000 4y ago> not other people's faces Well, in that case, it's easy. Other people who are concerned can wear a mask, and said water droplets will land on their mask instead of their face. Problem solved, we have no conflict. As for why we hate it, here's a good reason for me personally. I have to wear glasses, as I have an extreme prescription coupled with astigmatism. It's so bad LASIK is (or at least, was) high-risk. Wearing a mask with glasses is a miserable experience - you can't stop fogging them up without touching your mask every several minutes to adjust it, defeating the point because you're not supposed to touch it. In which case, wearing a mask (for me) is a self-defeating exercise. There are other reasons but that's my personal biggest one.
- justin66 4y ago> worn around the clock I'm reluctantly curious what your thinking is on that.
- deanc 4y agoAt this point, I’d tend to agree. However, this is a bit of a broad and inaccurate statement. Wearing masks gave society time to catch up in terms of vaccinations and other measures.
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- ryandrake 4y agoOP has entered basically every COVID thread since 2020 to make the same kinds of comments. I guarantee, you're not going to dissuade him. You're exactly right, though, COVID and its associated "symbols" like masks have turned into a weirdly politico-religious topic for some.
- ipaddr 4y agoMasking saved thousands of lives from other illnesses. Keep your dna to yourself and mask up
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y agoProtection isn't binary. At society scale these small changes add up.