eugyppius

Seems a little under-discusssed how Czechia was, from summer reporting, the place that 'beat covid with masks', and convinced lots of folks (including me!) to be mask-bullish, but evidently had such a bad winter it's now basically got the worst cumulative death rate in the world.

I was just looking at that yesterday. Slovakia almost as bad despite having tried to implement the mass-testing thing. But then a lot of the countries with low early death tolls *have* sustained a pretty low cumulative number — all the Asian countries, Australia, Canada, Israel..

sure but maybe those outcomes are...basically orthogonal to the mask thing? i have to admit though that Czechia, if anything, now makes me wonder if masks can be harmful - at least, 'dynamically'. i.e. if you implement them at the 'wrong time', seasonally..if you see what i mean