Belief in Conspiracy Theories Is a Barrier to Controlling Spread of Covid-19

Re:Belief in Conspiracy Theories Is a Barrier to Controlling... by neilwilson on Friday September 25, 2020 @10:00AM (#24589751)

Not wearing it all the time. Not changing it in the recommended time period. Taking it off and putting it on backwards. Waving it around after taking it off rather than folding inwards and disposing in a sharps bag.

All the things that happen in daily life rather than in a medical setting. Which is why despite full mask protocols and sanitiser at the door to every classroom kids going back to school this week around here have all have gone down with viral sore throats and noses.

That shouldn’t have happened if masks do what it says on the tin.

Unfortunately network effects dominate. We are not hamsters living permanently in cages.

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Re:Belief in Conspiracy Theories Is a Barrier to Controlling... by tboyd47 on Friday September 25, 2020 @10:41AM (#24590284)

The most compelling objection (to me) is that when surgeons wear masks, they sneeze inside their masks, then change their masks. When everyday people wear masks, we take our masks off to sneeze, expelling aerosol virus particles into the air to be circulated in the A/C for hours (probably days). That said, some studies have shown a small effect of mask mandates on daily case count growth.

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