This is a really terrific piece, as usual, from @zeynep.
I’d recommend sending it to anyone you know who’s rabidly anti-mask, because it’s so eminently reasonable.
It’s pro-mask, explains why, and doesn’t overstate evidence.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/06/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-masks.html …
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Asking certain people to sit at the back of the bus was also relatively low cost, and had plausible if untrue civic benefits. And yet...
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Ditto, of course, every spurious public health campaign against homosexuality. Masks may be no big deal to you, but that's not the point. The point is that some people experience masks as outrageous indignities. Which is why we have rights in the first place.
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Yes that’s why doctors and nurses avoid wearing masks and protest too much PPE being thrown at them. They know!
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Less funny: why in-hospital transmissions practically disappeared after universal masks outside of incidents traced back to unmasked rec room gatherings. And, as I clearly explain, the Denmark study isn’t looking at source control.
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There are many epi studies at this point, health care and not. I acknowledge the issue of confounding, but there’s certainly more than enough in one direction. Including latest from Kansas. Plus lab. Plus understanding from physics.
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At some point, contrarianism for the sake of contrarianism leads to you just as astray any other kind of groupthink.
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"I have no idea where the truth is, so I'll assume it's in the middle" is just craven compatibilism. There is no respectable case for masks.
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I don’t pick the middle on anything just because it’s the middle. Armadillo land.
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What's the armadillo reference?
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“There’s nothing but dead armadillos in the middle of the road.” I went to grad school in Texas!https://www.amazon.com/Theres-Nothing-Middle-Stripes-Armadillos/dp/0060929499 …
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