[ExI] Who has a vote that counts?

[Dylan Distasio]

This study may be of interest regarding cloth masks (it's not good news).
 Personally, I think properly fitted N95s WOULD make a big difference,
although they're very uncomfortable in heat or when worn for long periods
of time, and of course there is no easy way to get them outside of sources
with questionable provenance.

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 4:59 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I just saw evidence that the cloth masks, called gaiters (like the one I
> wear and pull up) are not nearly good enough - may even be worse than
> nothing, though I cannot see how that could be.   bill w
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 3:37 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 4:04 PM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>> *> I think the larger, simpler question is "do masks even work?"  *
>>>
>>
>> The IHME computer model (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation),
>> which Trump frequently cited in the early days of the pandemic before its
>> predictions became too dark and too accurate for his taste, says 160,000
>> more Americans will die of COVID-19 between now and December 1, but if 95%
>> of the people wore face masks when they went out of their houses there
>> would be 66,000 fewer deaths than that. Could they be wrong? Sure, but they
>> are one hell of a lot more likely to be right than you or I are after
>> studying the very complex science of epidemiology for no more than 20
>> minutes.
>>
>> John K Clark
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