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Re:Long Covid Appears to Have Led to a Surge of Disabled in ... by chx on Saturday April 15, 2023 @02:20PM (#35583153)
There's a lot of dark money flowing into rewriting history to say that any response to COVID—which has killed >1 million Americans and disabled millions more—was an overreaction so the next pandemic won't disrupt businesses so much. That's what this op-ed is part of, nothing more, nothing less.

That's why this really simple thing became so controversial. I mean, if a virus sticks to droplets then it's better to put less droplets into the air. Masks do that. Easy? Should be.

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Re:Long Covid Appears to Have Led to a Surge of Disabled in ... by DeusExMachina on Saturday April 15, 2023 @02:29PM (#35583234)
Do you have any evidence for such claims or is it just another conspiracy theory?

As for what mask do, if it was that easy, there wouldn't be the need of so many studies. But that is not even the claim here. The article says mask mandates make no difference.

Even if we assume that masks work, people wear them wrongly, they reuse them instead of using clean ones, fidget with them and then touch other parts of their face. There are plenty of reasons why a mandate could not work.

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