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Believing masks to be slightly effective at preventing airborne illnesses seems like a pretty common sense default viewpoint though. No barrier provides no bene
by IncreasePosts 2y ago
Believing masks to be slightly effective at preventing airborne illnesses seems like a pretty common sense default viewpoint though. No barrier provides no benefit, a completely impermeable barrier like wearing a fish tank on your head would provide 100% benefit. So it makes sense that a partially permeable barrier would provide some benefit.
- leptons 2y agoMost anti-maskers say "masks don't work" without trying to understand that masks are not a 100% solution, and nothing in life is. But even if a mask is 50% effective (not a scientifically proven number, just an example), I'll take that mitigation over 0% of not wearing a mask (not a random number, wearing no mask actually provides no protection at all), every single time.
- zeroonetwothree 2y agoBut surely the amount matters. What if it’s only 1% better?
- leptons 2y ago[flagged]