America Has Lost the Plot on COVID

Re:America Has Lost the Plot on COVID by DangitBobby on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @07:30PM (#29088958)

All countries did not perform equally, and we all took very different measures of varying degress. Japan didn't really do any official lockdown, for example, while other countries did. The fact that you can't point to a country that already wears masks as a custom (Japan) and see the obvious benefits means exactly nothing because of that. Now hey, if we had two Japans that behaved identically in every way besides mask usage then that would really be something. Instead, we have a bunch of data being collected on what amount to uncontrolled experiments and we won't really know for a while, if ever.

What I do know is most of the time it's very, very easy to wear a mask. So maybe, if you have good reason to believe it helps, just do the easy thing even if you can't know for sure.

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Re:America Has Lost the Plot on COVID by tinus_hn on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @07:13AM (#29093117)

So, that’s what I said. It’s very apparent that the masks should work and it’s very easy. But there’s little actual data and the data there is shows it doesn’t work.

Plus the old story about how Schrödinger’s Japan that is the big example of masks working, also isn’t the example when it turns out they don’t work. Of course.

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Re:America Has Lost the Plot on COVID by DangitBobby on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @11:41AM (#29096211)

That's the opposite of what you said. The data there doesn't show it doesn't work, because they didn't take other measures that other countries did take, and the variables are all intermixing their effects.

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Re:America Has Lost the Plot on COVID by tinus_hn on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @12:50PM (#29097196)

So the no true masked Scotsman, if the masks don’t work it’s because of the other measures.

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