Cars today are enveloped in many more safety devices, and are unequivocally safer. Many high-risk sports are done in a more risky way these days, but false sense of security isn't it--arguably, such people are seeking the risk. https://journals.lww.com/epidem/FullText/2012/11000/Does_Risk_Compensation_Undo_the_Protection_of_Ski.35.aspx … or …https://www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/pmc/articles/PMC2598370/ …
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Risk compensation has been rebutted so many times! It's plausible for some individuals doing recreational sports who are seeking high-risk activity in general, but overall, every safety device... unsurprisingly improves safety.https://www.mdpi.com/2313-576X/2/3/16 …
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And for masks, all of social science suggests that masks would *signal* something extraordinary is going on and increase caution, as the study shows! Plus, they remove stigma (how are only the sick supposed to wear masks as WHO originally recommended?)
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Finally, all the correlational studies that find states/countries with mask mandates doing better? Sure, maybe it's due to confounding that masks are associated with *other* better behaviors but... that just kills the harm argument.
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But that’s really stretching it. There then has to be harm, not demonstrated, also somehow never comes up in studies, but is dwarfed by a lot of benefits, all of which have to be orthagonal to the mask benefit.
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That is the most misunderstood study of all! First, it’s included in our source control review. We wouldn’t ignore it. Second, the lead author of that study that is on the record in this pandemic recommending cloth masks for the community. For good reason! +
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That study compares cloth masks, barely washed or changed, to standard surgical mask use in healthcare workers and very unsurprisingly finds surgical masks are superior. Of course! That does not at all indicate no masks are safer than cloth masks, let alone in the community. +
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There is no dispute that surgical masks are safer for healthcare workers. Again lead author of that very study is on the record the whole time underlining how, very obviously, that study does not say no masks are better than cloth masks, or cloth masks are riskier than no masks.
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No, no! Control is "regular practice" which is surgical masks. How on earth could they do a study with no masks in a hospital? Control is not no masks. Again, lead author has been recommending cloth masks the whole time. I'll find that for you, too.pic.twitter.com/Mg4lyP4CSr
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