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

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Post by docPangloss » Wed, Nov 04, 2020, 2:20 AM UTC

polote wrote: post #12

I can't buy it, European citizens almost all have to wear masks and we can clearly see that this measure alone doesn't seem to have an impact on the epidemic as the speed of the increase of cases is more or less the same that what we had in march. And nobody was wearing masks at that time.

HackerNews continually gets triggered by my posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24984527

This post links to an article showing masks don't work (N95 masks that are worn properly do work, though).

"The Most Masked European Countries Have the Biggest Coronavirus Surges"

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/11/most-masked-europea...

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

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Post by docPangloss » Wed, Nov 04, 2020, 2:24 AM UTC

Yetanfou wrote: post #78

latch wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An article written by an expert in biology and disease and the director of the National Institutes of Health, which summarizes an a article that was published in a peer-reviewed medical journal and written by another accomplished medical doctor, isn't scientific enough for you. Why? Because Sweden didn't mandate masks. First, Sweden had more deaths per capital than most countries. Second, even if it had very good num…

> Because Sweden didn't mandate masks. I can not read the parent post since it was deleted, but... > First, Sweden had more deaths per capital than most countries. Then again, most of those deaths occurred in care homes where the infection was spread by personnel who did not follow the personal protection mandates because they could not read the (Swedish) instructions. The number and outcome of infections outside of…

Agreed , as I posted earlier about masks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24984527

This post links to an article showing masks don't work (N95 masks that are worn properly do work, though).

"The Most Masked European Countries Have the Biggest Coronavirus Surges"

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/11/most-masked-europea...

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

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Post by goldcd » Mon, Nov 09, 2020, 7:56 PM UTC

ezekg wrote: post #52

HarryHirsch wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why someone would trust a libertarian think tank when it comes to epidemiology is beyond me. You'd like to know: what do the Koch brothers do? We know that they say, but do they take their own medicine?

Do you dismiss everything that disagrees with your political ideology?

No.

Although you never actually got back to me when I read your suggestion and pointed out they didn't say we shouldn't be wearing masks.