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Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by maxerickson on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:16PM (#25084602)
What I don't understand is why people don't make better personal choices?

It's very strange that people won't just wear a mask (with it over their mouth and nose). There might be some tiny fraction of people that have a real issue with it, but not anywhere the number of people that feel the need to loudly object to it.

Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by goostavos on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:25PM (#25085615)
Is there room for a position of liking wearing a mask, liking other people wearing a mask, but also supporting people's personal choice to not wear one..?

Surely obvious, but there are people who will think that you make bad personal choices and need to make better ones. If those people also wield extraordinary power, well, it becomes less fun to find yourself suddenly having wrongthink.

Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by no-s on Saturday November 14, 2020 @05:48PM (#25096399)
>> There might be some tiny fraction of people that have a real issue with it, but not anywhere the number of people that feel the need to loudly object to it.

Let's not forget the cadre of objectors who want us to wear a mask to protect their peace of mind, explicitly stating this goal as needful. Or those who vociferously demean anyone who objects for personal reasons (e.g. I tear up and start sneezing if I wear a typical cloth mask or sterile surgical mask for more than a few minutes, and have a sinus headache for several hours subsequent; I'm not the only one in this class).

Can you cite the transmission rate for asymptomatic carriers? The false positives for the various tests? The critical aspects of the efficacy of masking?

Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by maxerickson on Saturday November 14, 2020 @06:55PM (#25096785)
Masks reduce droplets and aerosols, by multiple obvious mechanisms. That reduces transmission from infectious people. And even cloth masks seem to have some protective effect.

The easiest way to get infectious people to wear masks is to have everybody do it in high contact situations, there's no need to be fancy about who wears mask during a raging pandemic, so your other two questions don't really need answering.

Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by flubert on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:45PM (#25085861)
Does anyone have statistics on mask wearing compliance in public? Seems like someone could use ML to identify people with and without masks. Last time I went out shopping it was 100% compliance (and using a mask correctly) as near as I could tell.
Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by maxerickson on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:58PM (#25086007)
Here, in a northern Michigan county that is spiking, compliance is decent but I see a few people pulling their mask aside pretty much anywhere I go.

(I mean inside places; I don't wear a mask outside either, as I am not going places where there are crowds outside)