Re:One-third of New York’s small businesses may be gone forever
by ogre_codes on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @11:17AM
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China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan all have lower infection rates than we do, and one of their biggest ways of controlling it has been masks. Taiwan in particular has never had more than a few cases and they are near neighbors to the epicenter of this whole thing. They controlled it by cutting off travel and using masks and they've never had to do a shut down.
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Re:One-third of New York’s small businesses may be gone forever
by thu2111 on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @12:41PM
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You don't actually know that using masks cut it down, you're just assuming it.
You're also assuming the Chinese numbers are reliable, etc etc. I mean there are just so many ways to slice it. Suffice it to say, COVID happened in China despite widespread mask wearing. If you want to prove masks work it'd take a much more rigorous analysis than cherry-picking countries and attributing their numbers to masks, that's my point.