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Re:Why is Japan still a coronavirus outlier? by standardUser on Saturday March 21, 2020 @04:46PM (#22649931)
This should not be downvoted. There have been plenty of articles downplaying the importance of masks.
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Re:Why is Japan still a coronavirus outlier? by robjan on Saturday March 21, 2020 @08:44PM (#22651604)
There are plenty of articles but that doesn't mean they are correct. Here is a peer reviewed study demonstrating that masks are helpful.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221133551...

Masks provide two benefits. They protect other people from you when your are ill but currently asymptomatic and they protect you from "splashes" caused by people coughing and sneezing without covering their mouth.

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Re:Why is Japan still a coronavirus outlier? by catalogia on Saturday March 21, 2020 @08:48PM (#22651634)
maps7 didn't say masks don't work; they said that we've been told they don't work. maps7 is right, a lot of headlines at the least have been saying things like that.
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Re:Why is Japan still a coronavirus outlier? by maps7 on Sunday March 29, 2020 @11:18AM (#22719672)
Yeah, I am in the pro-masks camp but I feel like I can't wear one without being judged because the public have been told not to. I'm in Europe by the way.
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