I hesitate to say this because I'm not an expert but yeah... Everything I'm looking at says that masks would've made a substantially bigger difference, at very little cost, compared to the things we did emphasize at the time (handwashing, social distancing)https://twitter.com/laurenthehough/status/1271974941580238848 …
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I mean it makes sense What they initially said and has never really been contradicted is the primary vector is direct spread via droplets Not actual aerosolization, and not really surface transmission
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So the most important thing is stopping the droplets where they come out From your nose and mouth If something physically blocks the droplets from spraying into the air, hey, that's most of the battle won
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I seem to remember a lot of the early discourse talking about how relatively useless the masks were at protecting yourself, and it wasn't until later that I started seeing things about "protecting others".
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Even the first part is kind of ugly propaganda Like that's not actually true, they do make a pretty significant difference They wouldn't help you if you were living life like normal and just sitting chatting with people and having them exhale at you all day from across a table
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But they cut into the possibility of accidental infection if you are observing social distancing quite a bit Again, it's logical -- if the virus can effortlessly slip through any crack in your defenses unless you had a properly fitted N95, then the six-foot rule is even stupider
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