Rigorous international study of N95 masks upends federal COVID narrative
(justthenews.com)
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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.
You're doing that on purpose.
They slow the spread of the virus.
I've lost track - are you one of those "if it doesn't give 100% protection it's shit" people? That's dumb.
Here's a recent study comparing schools with masking requirements to schools without them. November 24, 2022 "Among school districts in the greater Boston area, the lifting of masking requirements was associated with an additional 44.9 Covid-19 cases per 1000 students and staff during the 15 weeks after the statewide masking policy was rescinded." https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2211029