Except that once we learned Covid wasn’t about droplets, cloth masks were as effective a mitigation strategy as putting up a chain link fence against mosquitos. The new advice is designed to wean everyone off masks.https://twitter.com/LawrenceGostin/status/1392991318910148609 …
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Nobody is wearing doubled up tea towels here.
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Out here, Dad *owns* N95s, complains about how not wearing N95s makes his glasses fog up, I bought KN95s and KF94s and he refuses to wear anything but basic surgical that I had to buy for him. Meanwhile, Mom's wearing cotton and she's married to a doctor.
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You say it's "just not true" but other studies found that single layer cloth masks weren't just not-effective, but actually increased the spread. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72798-7/figures/1 … A completely notional cloth mask can be defended in controlled lab conditions- what people actually did cannot
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What is your view on the Danish mask study? Do you view it as an example of the real world not being close enough to lab conditions?https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817 …
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Also, the literature supports the effectiveness of cloth masks as source controlhttps://twitter.com/AkivaMCohen/status/1283756659878367232 …
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