Rigorous international study of N95 masks upends federal COVID narrative
(justthenews.com)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (36)
sorted by:
oh, I was lead to believe that the n95 masks were vastly superior to the surgical masks in terms of keeping out potential infectious particles, so seeing as the results are so close did the surgical masks excel or did the n95 masks fail?
Who led you to believe that? A research paper? A journal article? Some anonymous person on the Internet?
so n95 masks were always belied to be about on par with surgical masks despite not being sealed. I don't think that makes any ounce of sense. please just answer the questions instead of deflecting. did the surgical masks excel or did the n95 masks fail?
You are very studiously ignoring the conclusions of the study..
For the last time: I'll repeat the conclusion in the post, which compared N95s to surgical masks: "...no statistically significant real-world performance difference between surgical masks, N95s"
And I'll quote from the article the post linked to: "Published in the Annals of Internal Medicine (AIM) this week and led by researchers at Canada's McMaster University, the study found no statistically significant difference in protection between the two kinds of masks in healthcare facilities in Canada, Israel, Pakistan and Egypt." https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/highest-protection-rigorous-international-study-n95-masks-upends
If you continue to think that one mask or the other failed, that's on you.
Well, if you ever want the safety guy at your job site to bitch slap the shit out of you, go tell him that a sealed respirator mask offers the same protection as a cloth mouth cover. Also, you yourself can tell the difference if you were so bold as to do some real world testing.
Taking this fact into consideration, the fact that the two masks performed as well as the poorer of the two, this would seem to lead to the conclusion that masks don't stop the spread of viruses, which was the conclusions of all the studies pre-covid.