I thought a lot about this, and am happy to follow through the challenge. Are you touching the outside? Better it's outside the mask than on your face, obviously no? Touching the inside? Well, it's your germs and that's exactly what we are trying to protect the world from.
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What is the scenario in which a no-mask situation is worse for the wearer than a mask scenario in the community? I cannot come up with realistic ones, and this is what I thought about most because that's a real argument against masks.
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I am pretty certain they do not lead to false sense of security. False sense of security is rarely ever found as an important factor for anything but for this we now have data.
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I’m gonna come back to that, because false sense of security I think is completely without evidence and with a lot of evidence otherwise but longer!
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On the wet spot like you outline here, even if you concede the scenario how can it possibly be worse than directly breathing that fine flour, no mask? https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1278784120252821504 …
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As I said I think we have data on the harm. In general mask wearing places are doing better, and it might partially be due to confounding with other things but clearly they’re not hurting plus we have that experiment, masks=more distance.
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