Also not only is there no evidence for this claim, there is emerging evidence for the opposite, and there is decades of evidence from other safety devices that this concern is not warranted, and if this was a thing, it would also apply to hand-washing.
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Here's a preprint of a paper (I'm a co-author) where we review the "false sense of security" claim and explain why it doesn't stand to evidence at all, and why, on the contrary, universal masks would be expected to lessen stigma and heighten solidarity. https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202004.0203/v2 …pic.twitter.com/2tDzvYGNVr
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If some past person had told me I'd spend most of my energy in the first months of a pandemic arguing against CDC and WHO guidelines, that they would drag their feet despite mounting evidence, and that we'd rely on grassroots movements instead, I'd have dismissed them as nuts.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Babak Javid
I've been arguing for months that the most likely outcome of masks would be INCREASED adherence to distancing—because that's what social science suggests. That baseless "false sense of security" claim had no evidence for it. Now, experimental confirmation.https://twitter.com/Babak_Javid_Lab/status/1269312406120996864 …
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Babak Javid @javid_labThis is a cool study! Masks/goggles increase social/physical distancing by OTHERS to wearer: as measured by remote sensing technology! Doesn't tackle the straw man 'masks make wearers more reckless', but suggests even ineffective masks may protect by increasing physical distances https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1269308838110302209 …18 replies 246 retweets 738 likesShow this thread -
So Dr. Fauci has just said the public was told not to wear masks because they "were in very short supply." I just want to remind everyone what it was like in March—viral threads telling us not to wear masks. (Not picking on one person here—she was misled like everyone else).pic.twitter.com/SEYKHgmYtI
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The surgeon general literally made a video on how to make masks. It doesn’t take much brain power to understand they’re a good idea. Also, I’ve seen lots people social distance way less with masks once they became mandatory in LA County.
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Yes. And then the medical community changed their opinion which is explained clearly in the Mayo Clinic link I provided.
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“Editor’s Note: This article was published on April 1, 2020.” That’s when prevailing wisdom was “masks don’t “filter” out the virus.” Since then, it has been shown masks prevent/slow down transition of respiratory droplets, which is a significant contributor to virus spread.
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No, we had evidence before, too.
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Isn’t it incredible that we don’t all have N95/KN95 masks by now. And of course it’s shocking that any elected and appointed public officials are ever seen in public without masks. We’ve been failed and/or betrayed in so many ways. And there will never be any accountability.
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