Re:An analysis of studies pertaining to masks from 1978 to 2023
by amluto on Friday May 24, 2024 @10:11PM
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> dramatic reduction on the (exponential) virus spread.
Check your assumptions, please!
If you are comparing e^(kt) to e^(0.5 kt), sure, they’re very different. But Covid didn’t spread like that at all. It grew exponentially-ish until the fraction infected was no longer negligible, and then the dynamics changed dramatically, as they must have. After all, you can’t have 1 million times the entire population infected after a couple years.
Check your assumptions, please!
If you are comparing e^(kt) to e^(0.5 kt), sure, they’re very different. But Covid didn’t spread like that at all. It grew exponentially-ish until the fraction infected was no longer negligible, and then the dynamics changed dramatically, as they must have. After all, you can’t have 1 million times the entire population infected after a couple years.