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Re:Surgical masks reduce Covid-19 spread, large-scale Stanfo... by 908B64B197 on Friday September 03, 2021 @03:02PM (#28408017)
"Cloth masks" can mean anything.

I wish early in the pandemic someone would have made some piece of equipment to asses whether a given cloth mask is good or not. Most people have a few now and I'm sure they would like to use the best one.

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Re:Surgical masks reduce Covid-19 spread, large-scale Stanfo... by mdp2021 on Friday September 03, 2021 @03:08PM (#28408078)
> "Cloth masks" can mean anything [...]

I guess the point is "not certified".

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Re:Surgical masks reduce Covid-19 spread, large-scale Stanfo... by autokad on Friday September 03, 2021 @04:54PM (#28409298)
we could have argued for all masks being sold to post some measurable stat about the mask, but then others would have argued that would have prevented masks from even hitting the shelf and we'd be worse off.
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Re:Surgical masks reduce Covid-19 spread, large-scale Stanfo... by 908B64B197 on Friday September 03, 2021 @05:39PM (#28409721)
In the first weeks of the pandemic when there was a shortage of surgical masks? Any cloth was better than nothing. Several months into the pandemic? Would have liked to see a program to distribute "better" masks and retire the bad ones.
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