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Is there any evidence of a sizeable effect from wearing masks outdoors, especially considering the risk of transmission outdoors is so much lower than indoors[0
by dingnuts 3y ago
Is there any evidence of a sizeable effect from wearing masks outdoors, especially considering the risk of transmission outdoors is so much lower than indoors[0]? I thought this practice was debunked early in the pandemic. Even indoors, the effect is small at best[1], but outdoors the volume of air and other factors contribute to the near-impossibility of effectively transmitting any serious kind of live viral load.
0 https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/223/4/550/6009483 https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/223/4/550/6009483
1 https://www.cochrane.org/CD006207/ARI_do-physical-measures-such-hand-washing-or-wearing-masks-stop-or-slow-down-spread-respiratory-viruses https://www.cochrane.org/CD006207/ARI_do-physical-measures-s...
- throwaway290 3y agoValley fever fungus survives outdoors, so the mask can help. COVID does not, so the mask is good indoors or in crowds.
- chaostheory 3y agoIf you’re referring to only COVID, you’re right. Wearing a mask outdoors is pointless. It only makes sense indoors, but I was also referring to air pollution from wildfires and Valley fever where both are still dangerous outdoors