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Re:U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come by whatshisface on Thursday December 03, 2020 @11:26AM (#25290541)
>over here the regions with a mask mandate have not fared significantly better than those without.

Could that be because people in regions without a mask mandate wear masks anyway?

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Re:U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come by prof-dr-ir on Thursday December 03, 2020 @12:26PM (#25291562)
Good question, but in my experience (anecdata, sorry) this was not the case: in the Netherlands the government advice notably did not include mask wearing throughout the first wave (public transport excepted) and indeed very few people wore them.
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