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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Replying to @zeynep @boriquagato
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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Replying to @boriquagato
I’m really going to disagree here. What you’re outlining is a common claim that is almost completely debunked empirically. Safety gains are so much larger than any measurable increased risk taking that they are barely noise if that.
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Plus with masks, they have a signaling function, they let people know something extraordinary is going on and I had bet they increase distance and that’s what that experiment I linked to shows.
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