Steven Pinker on the Tribal Roots of Defying Social Distancing

Re:Steven Pinker on the Tribal Roots of Defying Social Dista... by FabHK on Saturday June 27, 2020 @03:59PM (#23664220)

This recent Axios article has some pointers:

https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-face-mask-science-e9df446b...

(BTW, why the downvotes for the original poster? He is not advocating not wearing masks, just expressing his personal unease with them, and asking for evidence. FWIW, I also don't like them, and nevertheless think one should wear them (like condoms)).

EDIT to add: Some direct links (from the article)

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/pdf/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.0...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342198360_Associati...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/mario-moli...

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Re:Steven Pinker on the Tribal Roots of Defying Social Dista... by hadron_bumper on Sunday June 28, 2020 @08:07AM (#23668216)

It always baffled me how people keep demanding "evidence" for the benefits of wearing masks when even a simple observation provides it.

There's plenty of videos of experiments you can conduct yourself (like the the aerosol ones or just people trying to blow out a candle) showing how masks stop spreading the virus.

Also, have a look at you own monitor screen. See all the funny, dirty dots? That's your spit. Does that compute now?

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