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Re:Australia: Excess deaths in 2022 'incredibly high' at 13 ... by Felemiti on Monday December 12, 2022 @04:12PM (#33960355)
"seems" based on what?

What research?

For you personal?

Public transport mandated ffp2 masks though at the beginning and in Bavaria I primarily saw them.

But still of everything the mask thing is and was always a no brainer. Even if a good study might say later it did only save a few x people in comparison to the effort I don't mind.

At the beginning there was also a lot of isolation due to overwhelmed hospitals. They were real and still struggling.

The biggest issue in my opinion was that we as a society with so much knowledge and automitsation struggled sooo much with either people working from home or not needing to work.

Re:Australia: Excess deaths in 2022 'incredibly high' at 13 ... by collyw on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @11:06AM (#33985479)
"Seems" based on the case numbers shown on world in data. Given that forcing masks onto the healthy population (regardless of symptoms or previous infection) is a new intervention it should be up to those mandating them to prove that they work rather than me to demonstrate otherwise.

Can you point me to anywhere on the graph that indicates that they improved the outcome? I believe that they were mandated in Bavaria in mid January 2021, and the rest of the country in April 2021. https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

Re:Australia: Excess deaths in 2022 'incredibly high' at 13 ... by mharig on Monday December 12, 2022 @05:57PM (#33961689)
Re:Australia: Excess deaths in 2022 'incredibly high' at 13 ... by Felemiti on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @02:41AM (#33965936)
How is this related to my comment of masks being a no brainer?
Re:Australia: Excess deaths in 2022 'incredibly high' at 13 ... by collyw on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @11:06AM (#33985496)
no brainer in that you would need no brain to assume they they "work" at this stage