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It's no surprise that social distancing is the most clearly effective intervention here. Obviously no virus can spread without some kind of contact. It's also
by mvdtnz 3y ago
It's no surprise that social distancing is the most clearly effective intervention here. Obviously no virus can spread without some kind of contact.
It's also no surprise than N95 masks are significantly more effective than "surgical type" masks or plain cloth masks. However the study does not address how much better masking is than not masking. There is no quantitative data at all, from what I can see. Telling me mask mandates reduce the spread of the virus is not meaningful until I know how much by.
- TeeMassive 3y agoThe problem with distancing with a very contagious disease is that it only works for a time. The title would be more honest if it said "prevents transmission for a while". Which was always the goal to begin with, to flatten the curve and not to overload the system. But preventing, as in never happening, the infection of a SRAS disease, even with vaccines, was already known to be impossible well before this pandemic happened. (Remember this critic used to be directed against the "Trump vaccine" and against racism in the China Towns being avoided).