8/n Moreover, the authors have cherry-picked 3 specific places that appear to support their argument This is obviously bad science - what about the rest of the world?
I mean, the paper looks at a worldwide view. Semantics aside, I think it's pretty clear that they're saying that masks are the key NPI and that others are only useful as an adjunct
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I agree the sentence after the one you highlighted does imply that. For the key audience of folks in countries that failed to control the epidemic, it might well be true, but it also doesn't give sufficient credit to the Aus and NZ success so far.
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One key thing they missed in that conclusion is how well social distancing and masks work together. Masks reduce the radius of the germ cloud, making social distancing more useful. He was wrong to fail to note the important of distancing here, IMO.
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