The Mask is only for compliance and to make other people feeling good, thats it, thats the only usage. It is not to stop virus because it can't, unless maybe a very specific type of mask and with proper training.
If everyone is wearing a mask, there are at least two masks between you and an infected person.
Masks don't provide 100% protection, but nothing does. However, masks are important, because they enable people to safely perform essential activities like grocery shopping, and most jobs.
We don't need to stop _every single transmission_, all that we need to do is make sure that each infected person doesn't infect more than one person on average. If each infected person infects two people, for example, that's a chain reaction of spread where everybody eventually gets the virus. However, if each person has a 50-50 chance of infecting somebody else, than over time infections will go down, and Covid will eventually be gone.
Wearing a cloth mask is not difficult, and is a very tiny tradeoff in favor of a significant decrease in transmission chance.
https://tomaspueyo.medium.com/coronavirus-the-swiss-cheese-s...
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...
https://rationalground.com/post-thanksgiving-mask-charts-sti...
One graph says, for example, that mask mandate areas in the US have slightly higher infection rates than non-mask mandate areas. But this is extremely expected - high infection rate is what prompts areas to mandate mask usage.
If I feel at risk (maybe because I observe people getting ill and dying), I comply. If I don't feel at risk, I don't care about complying.
Also, why no Asian countries on the international charts? That would be inconvenient for the point, hm?
Have you seen the news out of South Korea and Japan this week?
What news are you talking about, specifically?
They are reporting this as "lost control" even though their spread continues to be lower than any Western country has had since mid-March? That tells a lot.
Missing such important information - the specific information that goes against the page's agenda - calls the entire thing into question. What else is it intentionally not showing?
Also, do you think surgeons wear masks for fashion reasons?
The mask discussion is absurd. A totally minor inconvenience vs. decreased virus exhaling, how can this be a topic for discussion?
"the plausible effect of the mask intervention ranged all the way from a 46% decrease in infection to a 23% increase"
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/11/danish-study-doesnt-prove-...
So 1% protection ?
>but nothing does. However, masks are important, because they enable people to safely perform essential activities like grocery shopping, and most jobs.
fortunately that the chance of getting sick from covid from doing those activities without mask are very very low.
infection is not useful metric because only small percentage actually cause sickness.
Masks: The Science & The Myths : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RaBLKKXJt4
I have COVID and I'm contagious. I don't know that, of course, so I go to the grocery store. The same grocery store you're shopping it. We cross paths in the cereal aisle.
Would you rather me be wearing a mask?
People have become so extreme in their views that every single life matters that they forget how our 2019 way of life still had significant risk that nobody batted an eye at.
That is not what I insinuating at all.
>Would you rather me be wearing a mask
If you are sick, you should rest at home, just like with any other illness. I wouldn't care whether you wear mask or not.
That's not what was asked. Covid has an up to two week asymptomatic period, there's a high chance that someone around you when you go out is infected and doesn't know. Would you rather them be wearing a mask or not?
I already answer it :
>I wouldn't care whether you wear mask or not
Its up to them, make no difference to me, I have no reason and no interest to require them to wear mask.
Yea most people don't get very sick, except for the 300k that are dead just in the US.
Here's a nice graph of deaths per month per millon for a nearly 200 year perspective: https://swprs.org/facts-about-covid-19/#foobox-1/3/sweden-mo...
'The observed temporary excess mortality likely arises because people in vulnerable groups die weeks or months earlier than they would otherwise, due to the timing and severity of the unusual external event.' https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.11.20229708v...
Eg if there was zero excess mortality, that alone doesn’t prove much either way.
If people think a mask offers them more protection than it really does, they might engage in riskier behavior.
When I see people out walking around the neighborhood with masks on, I really wonder what they're trying to accomplish. You're not going to get covid walking outdoors passing within 6 feet of someone for 5 seconds.
These days, my theory is more people get infected at home than out in public.
People getting infected at home may be a large vector, but the virus got in the home some how in the first place. It’s just easier to spread from that point onwards once it’s in.
Also known as pods and bubbles.
https://kottke.org/plus/misc/images/swiss-cheese-pandemic.jp...
Masks: The Science & The Myths : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RaBLKKXJt4
It is particles that are around 0.3 microns in size that filters have the most difficulty blocking. N95 particles block 95% of particles of 0.3 microns in size. N99 Masks block 99% of particles at 0.3 microns.
As I understand it smaller particles get ‘stuck’ in the maze of fibres and are statistically unlikely to find there way through the mask. The best analogy I can think of is a spec of dust finding its way into a centre of a huge labarynth that is vibrating randomly in all directions (and coated in honey). Some respirator masks also contain anti viral coatings and are electrostaticaly charged.