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Study: Association between mask mandates and Covid infections in North Dakota

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Re: Study: Association between mask mandates and Covid infections in North Dakota

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Post by timbit42 »

rayiner wrote: post #12

> Our findings contribute to a growing body of literature which suggests school-based mask mandates have limited to no impact on the case rates of COVID-19 among K-12 students. I’m glad that public health officials are actually doing this research and publishing these conclusions. Maybe I’ve gotten cynical, but I was worried that there would be limited retrospection about positions taken during the pandemic given the…

I find it interesting the US is talking about the value, or lack thereof, of mask use among K-12 students.

In my country, the concern wasn't transmission among K-12 students, who are at lower risk, but instead, transmission from K-12 students to adults who were at higher risk of hospitalization and/or death.

Re: Study: Association between mask mandates and Covid infections in North Dakota

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Post by edmcnulty101 »

AnthonBerg wrote: post #4
edmcnulty101 wrote: post #2

It's not necessarily because masks don't work, medical professionals use them to great success. Mask usage at the community level does not follow the same strict policies related to mask usage that medical professionals do, like discarding them between operations. Wearing the same mask over and over every day and removing it when you sit down to eat is a very ineffective policy. And it's kind of an abuse of power for…

This is a common misconception. The blame lies squarely on a grand failure of delivery of public health information. Outside an industrialized hospital sanitization chain, it’s actually fine to reuse a mask – as long as it’s a mask that works against SARS-CoV-2 aerosol to begin with. I can provide sources.

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Re: Study: Association between mask mandates and Covid infections in North Dakota

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Post by formerkrogemp »

LewisVerstappen wrote: post #7
edmcnulty101 wrote: post #2

It's not necessarily because masks don't work, medical professionals use them to great success. Mask usage at the community level does not follow the same strict policies related to mask usage that medical professionals do, like discarding them between operations. Wearing the same mask over and over every day and removing it when you sit down to eat is a very ineffective policy. And it's kind of an abuse of power for…

Teachers unions in the US are absurdly powerful unfortunately.

> Teachers unions in the US are absurdly powerful unfortunately.

I doubt that very much given the spate of laws controlling teachers passed recently, the record low pay, record staffing shortages, and record resignations.

Re: Study: Association between mask mandates and Covid infections in North Dakota

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Post by seba_dos1 »

toomim wrote: post #95
seba_dos1 wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe they'll end up being more understanding and kind to autistic people who have troubles with reading faces or maintaining eye contact regardless of being raised up with masks or not. That would be nice.

The upside of having a developmental disability is that you have compassion for other people with developmental disabilities? Ok.

Yes, obviously. A lot of trauma suffered by people on the spectrum does not come from their autism, but from how other people assume that everyone else is like them. Reading faces is not an essential skill that everyone needs to learn in order to operate in a healthy society, the only reason people who lack that skill have troubles is because it is expected from them by others to have it. If we raise a generation where a significant percentage of people don't develop this skill very well, we may end up with a society that doesn't expect others to rely on skills they haven't developed, making everyone's life easier.

Re: Study: Association between mask mandates and Covid infections in North Dakota

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Post by toomim »

seba_dos1 wrote: post #104
toomim wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The upside of having a developmental disability is that you have compassion for other people with developmental disabilities? Ok.

Yes, obviously. A lot of trauma suffered by people on the spectrum does not come from their autism, but from how other people assume that everyone else is like them. Reading faces is not an essential skill that everyone needs to learn in order to operate in a healthy society, the only reason people who lack that skill have troubles is because it is expected from them by others to have it. If we raise a generation whe…

If I could choose between a society where 80% of people can read faces, vs. one where 90% can read faces, I'd choose the one where more people can read faces.

It makes everyone's life easier when more people can read each other's faces.

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