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>> RCT is unlikely to be a good tool to determine the effectiveness of masks, if for no other reason, compliance is marginal at best (how do you recognize &reco
by gadders 3y ago
>> RCT is unlikely to be a good tool to determine the effectiveness of masks, if for no other reason, compliance is marginal at best (how do you recognize &record every instance when someone pulls it down for a short time exposing their nose or both airways?).
But this is exactly the point, surely? If people won't comply in an RCT, they won't comply in real life either and so mask wearing will have no benefit.
- throwway120385 3y agoIt just tells us that people probably need to comply more, not that we shouldn't bother with certain interventions. Suggesting we shouldn't try mask mandates because not everyone complies is like suggesting you shouldn't have laws about piling bags of trash on your lawn because some people still pile trash on their lawn. The real problem is the people who feel that "take your trash to the dump" is an imposition and resent having to do something to help the community around them.
- gadders 3y agoYes, perhaps someone could develop a new kind of glue that will enable them to be stuck to children's faces so they can't be removed. I don't think that getting the levels of compliance required is possible, absent civil liberty abuses which are worse than the disease we are trying to cure.