The studies that show that masks reduce the R0 of COVID-19 are many and broad. https://www.livescience.com/face-masks-eye-protection-covid-... The latest ones that I have read indicate an 85% reduction of transmission and infection between two people wearing masks, a double 85% reduction.
Where is an instance of a study that indicates the opposite? Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Re:America is giving up on the pandemic?
by sethammons on Monday June 08, 2020 @10:06AM
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I find it interesting that the paper suggests that contracting COVID through your eyes is twice as prevalent compared to breathing it in. See 3% rate for non-mask vs 6% for non-eye-protection. Why are we not all wearing eye protection too?
From your link:
> the authors note that the findings on face masks and eye protection are based on limited evidence
You also have to consider second-order effects like a sense of invulnerability from the mask and added social interactions because people feel safer. Those haven't been studied.
do you honestly believe that a little rag in front of your mouth will reduce the spread in big crowd everyone screaming at the same time?
the protest might just prove false all the scaremongering, this is what I see very as a likely outcome
and that the disease does not propagate outdoors, that the disease does not propage by touch etc.