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The study is compelling but I don't think anyone cares about COVID-19 anymore. Nor do I think you'll ever get kids to care enough about masking to do it properl

The study is compelling but I don't think anyone cares about COVID-19 anymore. Nor do I think you'll ever get kids to care enough about masking to do it properly.

u32480932048 3y ago
On the contrary, reasonable healthcare providers (who weren't vying for Likes, Shares, TV spots, Op-Eds, and/or book deals) knew back in 2020 that The Real Evidence wouldn't come out until years after it was over. Children and the general public may not care, but there's still plenty of analysis that will prove useful to medical and policy decision-makers in the future.
- mkhpalm 3y ago
  > years after it was over. And here I am with a family of 5 who are all home sick with covid right now. :)
  - u32480932048 3y ago
    > all home sick i.e., not dead i.e., not hospitalized Different class of problem ;)
cente_sense 3y ago
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georgeburdell 3y ago
Santa Clara County has reimposed the mask mandate in health facilities. Those in power have difficulty relinquishing it.
- amluto 3y ago
  On the list of obnoxious regulatory overreach that regulators could engage in, requiring masks in health care facilities seems fine, actually. Maybe even extremely wise. When someone is sick enough that they ought to stay home, but they go somewhere indoors anyway and wait around for a while, where is it? Likely a health care facility. And there are tons of nasty, often drug-resistant, pathogens that are largely transmitted in health care facilities. And a lot of people visitng said facilities are also vulnerable and/or immunocompromised and/or are taking medicines (e.g. antibiotics) that substantially increase the risk of getting infected by otherwise-not-so-harmful things. So, please, bring on the infection control measures in health care facilities. Masks, air filtration, ventilation, far-UVC, hand washing, sanitizer, you name it.

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The study is compelling but I don't think anyone cares about COVID-19 anymore. Nor do I think you'll ever get kids to care enough about masking to do it properl

by Workaccount2 3y ago

The study is compelling but I don't think anyone cares about COVID-19 anymore. Nor do I think you'll ever get kids to care enough about masking to do it properly.

u32480932048 3y ago
On the contrary, reasonable healthcare providers (who weren't vying for Likes, Shares, TV spots, Op-Eds, and/or book deals) knew back in 2020 that The Real Evidence wouldn't come out until years after it was over. Children and the general public may not care, but there's still plenty of analysis that will prove useful to medical and policy decision-makers in the future.
- mkhpalm 3y ago
  > years after it was over. And here I am with a family of 5 who are all home sick with covid right now. :)
  - u32480932048 3y ago
    > all home sick i.e., not dead i.e., not hospitalized Different class of problem ;)
cente_sense 3y ago
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georgeburdell 3y ago
Santa Clara County has reimposed the mask mandate in health facilities. Those in power have difficulty relinquishing it.
- amluto 3y ago
  On the list of obnoxious regulatory overreach that regulators could engage in, requiring masks in health care facilities seems fine, actually. Maybe even extremely wise. When someone is sick enough that they ought to stay home, but they go somewhere indoors anyway and wait around for a while, where is it? Likely a health care facility. And there are tons of nasty, often drug-resistant, pathogens that are largely transmitted in health care facilities. And a lot of people visitng said facilities are also vulnerable and/or immunocompromised and/or are taking medicines (e.g. antibiotics) that substantially increase the risk of getting infected by otherwise-not-so-harmful things. So, please, bring on the infection control measures in health care facilities. Masks, air filtration, ventilation, far-UVC, hand washing, sanitizer, you name it.