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Masks could save 130k American lives from COVID19 by March

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Re: Masks could save 130k American lives from COVID19 by March

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Aren’t everyone living in dense areas require to wear masks already anyway?

Not really. For example, Florida has no state-wide mandate and the individual city mandates there are not really enforceable [1].

[1] https://www.flgov.com/wp-content/uploads/orders/2020/EO_20-2...

Re: Masks could save 130k American lives from COVID19 by March

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Aren’t everyone living in dense areas require to wear masks already anyway?

Every time I leave the bay area to go somewhere hiking, the towns I pass through are full of both (a) Trump flags and (b) people not wearing masks. Two weeks ago, employees at local bakeries near Mt. Shasta weren't wearing masks in the kitchen. Even the employees at Taco Bell Drive Thru near Mt. Shasta weren't wearing masks (they had their masks off their nose). Complained via Taco Bell website and got no response. That's America in a nutshell.

Re: Masks could save 130k American lives from COVID19 by March

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Aren’t everyone living in dense areas require to wear masks already anyway?

The paper cites this website: https://covid19.healthdata.org/global?view=mask-use&tab=tren..., which reports 60% (self-reported) of people consistently wear masks. "Required" isn't the same as followed. Furthermore, I think this paper is modeling COVID19 deaths everywhere, not just in dense areas.
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