New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529

Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529 by Wowfunhappy on Friday November 26, 2021 @09:11PM (#29356587)

> And who doesn’t wear an N95 class mask? I see about 2/3rds N95, KN95, or KF94s, 1/3 useless masks, appearing to be mostly correlated along economic lines ($2/masks vs. $0.50/masks).

I can't comment on the rest of the science, but fwiw, I live in NYC and I'd estimate that maybe 1 / 20 people I see on the street are wearing N95/KN95/KF94 masks. Everyone else just wears cloth masks, or paper surgical masks.

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Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529 by Terretta on Friday November 26, 2021 @11:01PM (#29357282)

Sorry, yes, you’re right, it follows that there would be areas with 1/20 as you describe.

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Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529 by Wowfunhappy on Saturday November 27, 2021 @05:53AM (#29359208)

I mean, I’m talking everywhere I go, throughout Manhattan and northern Brooklyn (haven’t been to the other burrows in a long time). Lots of very affluent areas.

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