[ExI] the science might be wrong

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 22 18:27:13 UTC 2021


https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/masking-science-sars-cov2.html

So then, tell me what's wrong with these data?   bill w

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 12:26 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 22/01/2021 00:31, Spike wrote:
> > With masks in particular, data accumulates showing they don't really do
> much, if anything.  We are seeing plenty of evidence in Florida, comparing
> counties which require masks with those which do not.  It isn't at all
> clear they help slow infection rates.
>
> Well, there's masks and there's masks. The word includes everything from
> a closely-fitted medical mask with a filter that is probably pretty
> effective, to a flimsy piece of cloth or paper with no seal at all with
> the wearer's skin, which is completely ineffective. Not to mention that
> if people have to be told to wear their masks around their noses as well
> as their mouths, or "Don't wear your mask on your chin", you can be
> pretty sure that a lot of them might as well not be wearing any mask at
> all. I've stopped noticing the people wearing masks with big gaps
> between their cheeks and the mask, but I'd say that probably most people
> who wear them might as well not be.
>
> Just as with statistics about deaths, statistics about masks are pretty
> useless. At least as useless as the masks themselves, probably more.
>
> --
> Ben Zaiboc
>
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