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Re:YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly co... by o_p on Thursday April 23, 2020 @08:44PM (#22963405)
Thats why you shouldnt hear scientists for advice and use your brain. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. If you wear a mask and doesnt have effect, nothing happens, if it does, thats a benefit, so you can only win by wearing one.

You can be rational and completly dumb at the same time.

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Re:YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly co... by bad_user on Friday April 24, 2020 @03:29AM (#22965543)
If you wear masks, but there aren't enough on sale, you end up exposing medical personnel. Viral load matters. Exposure to high viral loads has killed young and healthy doctors. For medics masks save lives.

Wearing masks in a situation in which medics don't have enough masks is a textbook tragedy of the commons.

Yes, you can be rational and completely dumb at the same time, I agree.

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Re:YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly co... by empthought on Thursday April 23, 2020 @10:45PM (#22964119)
“If you wear a tinfoil hat and doesn’t have effect, nothing happens. If it does, that’s a benefit, so you can only win by wearing one.”

Not disagreeing on masks, but your argument here is a real stinker.

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Re:YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly co... by o_p on Thursday April 23, 2020 @11:53PM (#22964453)
Theres clearly a difference in the magnitude of probabilities between masks and tinfoil hats actually working, and we are not in a global electromagnetic disaster right now.
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Re:YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly co... by bad_user on Friday April 24, 2020 @03:32AM (#22965553)
If there isn't enough evidence, based on what are you calculating those probabilities?
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