Re:Are neck gaiters worse than no mask at all?
by CydeWeys on Monday October 12, 2020 @04:03PM
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Besides all that, it's obviously false because if it were true then masks wouldn't work, and yet empirically, emphatically, demonstrably, masks do work. Like, every single person in a hospital setting treating COVID-19 patients would be immediately coming down with it if their protective equipment were worthless. But that's not what we observe at all, hence it's not correct.
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Re:Are neck gaiters worse than no mask at all?
by jtbayly on Monday October 12, 2020 @04:16PM
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Saying "empirically, emphatically, demonstrably, masks do work" in the context of talking about N95 masks might make sense. I hope you aren't implying that because hospital workers are protected by N95 masks that we therefore know beyond a shadow of a doubt that all the other masks people are wearing are effective. After all, the bigger context is the question about gators.
Re:Are neck gaiters worse than no mask at all?
by CydeWeys on Monday October 12, 2020 @04:57PM
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If you turn on "show dead comments" you'll see that the grandparent post to my reply was indeed specifically saying that N95 masks don't work for some reasoning having to do with relative size of the fabric mesh vs the COVID-19 viral particles. So yes, the context for this conversation has indeed always been N95 masks.