A concept that took hold in the ’70s haunted everything from seat belts to masks

Re:A concept that took hold in the ’70s haunted everything f... by FeepingCreature on Friday November 19, 2021 @06:06AM (#29276006)

I've always heard it as masks being more to protect others during the time where you're infectious but largely asymptomatic. At any rate, you can't prove you're uninfected easily - but masks are trivial to validate.

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Re:A concept that took hold in the ’70s haunted everything f... by neilwilson on Friday November 19, 2021 @08:38AM (#29276984)

Why do you need to 'protect others' if their mask works inbound?

You have no idea whether you are 'protecting others' or just creating plastic waste for no good reason. Clearly masks are not trivial to validate given that there is no evidence they have any positive effect whatsoever in the real world. No deflection in rates can be seen from NPIs and the process leaks like crazy.

It's entirely a backward belief. Believing you are 'protecting others', yet doing nothing to protect yourself against the almost certain risk that other people won't be 'protecting others'.

None of it makes any sense in any logical analysis.

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Re:A concept that took hold in the ’70s haunted everything f... by FeepingCreature on Friday November 19, 2021 @10:00AM (#29277840)

> Why do you need to 'protect others' if their mask works inbound?

Huh? You need to protect others because masks (mostly) don't work inbound, that's what I'm saying. (But do work outbound.)

> Clearly masks are not trivial to validate given that there is no evidence they have any positive effect

Sorry, restate: the presence of masks is trivial to validate.

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