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Re:One-third of New York’s small businesses may be gone forever by Aeolun on Monday August 03, 2020 @11:05PM (#24046124)
Japan has pretty much 100% mask coverage, but the number of cases is still rising rapidly.

To be fair, not nearly as fast as the US, but masks are not a panacea.

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Re:One-third of New York’s small businesses may be gone forever by tonyedgecombe on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @01:35AM (#24046975)
They don't need to be perfect, you just need to find an acceptable combination of measures that push the replication rate low enough.
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Re:One-third of New York’s small businesses may be gone forever by LUmBULtERA on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @07:48AM (#24048977)
No one is saying masks are perfect. But Worldometers shows Covid-19 deaths at 480 per 1 million in the US and 8 per 1 million in Japan. New cases in Japan are but a tiny fraction of the United States.
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