Once again, this is not only without evidence, decades of literature and research exactly on this ("risk compensation" theories for safety devices, seat-belts, helmets etc.) finds the opposite at the population level. It's a clever sounding argument without empirical support. https://twitter.com/nalepis/status/1248281035726520322 …
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Can an intervention that increases safety decrease total safety by increasing risk-taking? Clever idea, and people have suggested this forever for, well, every safety device, basically. Can you find individual examples? Sure. But at the population level it just doesn't work.
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This is a myth. As far as I can tell, people are misunderstanding one study that showed that surgical masks were better for health care workers than cloth masks (duh). I'd blame "Mr. Pete" except so many articles by journalists also made that mistake.https://twitter.com/Mr_Pete/status/1248340796673327104 …
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Or a way to tell apart economists and sociologists?
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No reason to assume in either direction. As I noted above, ignoring any social effects it is quite possible that wearing an ineffective mask actually makes things worse. :(
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