Mask Science for the Political Retards
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hhhmmmm...
Folks, this looks like another "100% protection or they're useless" opinion.
They seem to be trying to work this out in their own head. Why not listen to people who have actually compared the covid rates in communities that had mask mandates with the rates of infection in communities that did not? Like this one from the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Volume 23, Issue 5.1, 2022 "In this study, suburban communities with mask mandates had a lower SARS-CoV2 peak percent positivity rate and an earlier peak than communities without mask mandates." https://escholarship.org/uc/item/60j4901w
"100% protection or they're useless" well, how many virus particles have to enter your body before you get sick?
also another bullshit story, Florida did fuck all for covid and it did perfectly fine for the first 8 months.
but seriously, the reason communities with mask mandates spread a bit slower was because people were terrified like it was the plague, and were super social distancing, which is the only thing that is effective against a virus like that. a little piece of cloth that isn't even sealed around your face isn't going to protect you from anything.
Why don't you google that and let us know? Then tell us what you're talking about.
Florida's death rate from covid is in the top 25% of states. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
And wearing masks.
You're free to believe whatever you want, but that's not what the research says. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Volume 23, Issue 5.1, 2022 "In this study, suburban communities with mask mandates had a lower SARS-CoV2 peak percent positivity rate and an earlier peak than communities without mask mandates." https://escholarship.org/uc/item/60j4901w
do I really have to post the CDC study that was a cumulative of 10 studies that concludes masks do nothing for respiratory viruses? You seemed to have ignored it last time I did so I don't see the point this time.
Alright, I googled it, and it says a single virus particle can make you sick, so your stupid cloth masks that aren't 100% effective are actually useless.
Florida is the third largest state with the highest elderly population, and yet the fatality rate is under 1%
seems kind of a stretch now, doesn't it?
Fixed that for you. That one was all about influenza specifically, and didn't mention covid at all. Maybe you've noticed that in all the years public health officials have told us to get a shot when flu season started, they haven't said anything about wearing a mask.
You should be looking at studies about masks and covid instead of influenza.
You keep saying that. You are wrong. "Our study indicates that wearing a face mask can be effectively combined with social distancing to flatten the epidemic curve. Wearing a mask presents a rational way to implement as an NPI to combat COVID-19." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32797067/
"The KN95 presented a better mask efficiency among all tested masks with the mask efficiency overall larger than 0.5. In addition, the effect of mask-wearing on the change of ultrafine particle airway deposition efficiency was also investigated in this study. The ultrafine particle deposition efficiency in the airway section studied was found to decrease due to mask-wearing, and the decreases of the deposition efficiencies were similar among all loose-fitting masks tested." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35937716/
"The N95 remains the best respiratory protection, and in the event of the next airborne pandemic, FPEs could serve as adequate alternative protection against the viral spread." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35901992/
Doesn't change the fact that they're in the top quarter of the US states for rate of fatalities from covid, Maine has a little bit higher percentage of elderly people (https://www.prb.org/resources/which-us-states-are-the-oldest/) but their fatality rate is only slightly over half of Florida's (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/). Given that masks are effective at slowing the spread of the virus, some of those people who died wouldn't have caught the virus if they had been masking up.