Which is why smoking is banned in most public spaces and workplaces, and if I see someone smoking near me I get up and leave As long as there's a pandemic, the same rules should apply to going around without a maskhttps://twitter.com/Hilding_EU/status/1329561217975906307 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Mask do not stop this virus, people wish it would, but the scientific and empiric evidence is thin to say the least. Best defense to this virus (until vaccine is safe and available) will be every bodies immune system. Why do we not see a debate how to improve it?
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Replying to @Hilding_EU @arthur_affect
The disease is borne by the moisture in your digusting breath. If you slap a mask over your mouth and nose, you make it much harder for it to spread. You see it every year when it gets cold out, so I'm telling you right now - the masks work if people use them.
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Replying to @TheSpeakman @arthur_affect
You are free to believe what you want. Spanish Flu had the same hysteria here a 100 year old study: https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdfplus/10.2105/AJPH.10.1.34 … And here an article on the only RTC study on masks. https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/vinay-prasad/89778 … The efficacy is minimal. But maybe it's higher with a strong believe in it.
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Replying to @Hilding_EU @TheSpeakman
RCTs of a population-wide measure like masks are impossible to ethically perform under most circumstances, and the Danish study admits it hardly proves anything since it could only happen at all at a time when the vast majority of the population wasn't masking
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TheSpeakman
Ah and that proofs exactly what? That they work without proof that they work? So we just have to believe it then?
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Replying to @Hilding_EU @arthur_affect
No, it proves that if you have a bunch of people unmasked, then wearing a mask just barely gives you an edge. Because your eyeballs stay uncovered.
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Replying to @TheSpeakman @arthur_affect
That is why in almost any health guidance it is written wear mask where social distancing is not possible. But I think it is a mistake to say this. It seems that mask have an adverse effect on distance keeping and actually increase the spread as an unintended consequence.
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Right, which is why the most important thing a government can do is not a mask mandate but test-and-trace and centralized quarantine Failing that, in the worst-case scenario of uncontrolled spread, enforced lockdown of public spaces
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