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I'm curious though what that would do to CO2 levels. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19411998
It'd increase them, for sure. Never mind, though, the only cognitive effort required is a focus on gentle breathing. Plus an occasional flick of the duvet to refresh the air!
> CO2 tended to cause poor sleep, headache, and hand tremor before it caused cognitive issues.
Humidity also encourages bacterial growth and I doubt inhaling that constantly is healthy
That is easily remediated by washing cloth masks after use.
Humidity also encourages bacterial growth and I doubt inhaling that constantly is healthy
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In some (mostly Asian) countries you're expected to wear a mask if you go out when you're sick. Contrast that to freedomland where it's normal to have people hacking like crazy just about everywhere. It's required to wear a mask 100% of the time in some medical professions. This is usually so you don't get vulnerable people sick, not to protect yourself. Medicine is highly evidence based. If masks didn't work these r…
Using terms like "Freedomland" expose your biases fairly clearly and make it easy for me to safely ignore you. But you might be surprised to learn that even as recently as 2016 the use of masks in surgical settings wasn't understood to be backed by very strong science: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4480558/
It seems like wearing a mask in some environments (public transit, crowded shops, etc) might be a good practice going forward. I wonder if it will be normalized? Will you stand out if you choose to wear a mask to the mall 5 years from now?
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This is a silly false equivalence but I'll engage with it because it seems annoyingly popular. The evidence of efficacy of seatbelt usage in crash scenarios is abundantly clear. The same isn't true for wearing a cloth/surgical mask in public during a pandemic featuring an airborne virus. I'm aware there are hand-wavy meta-studies and extrapolated surveys on the issue (but 1 RCT from Denmark which showed no statistica…
Is it not obvious, common sense and proven that masks stop you from spreading the virus if you have it and don't know yet? Are there still people unaware of that? Out of curiosity, where do you live? And you should tell frontline medical personnel that masks don't protect them, they'll be glad your non-conformist ultra intelligent mind managed to figure it out.
What about humidity of the environment? Is that a reason behind the success of countries like Thailand, Vietnam in tackling Covid? Possibly relevant study: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-virology-0...
Thailand and Vietnam also had 95% compliance with mask wearing. https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/28979/what-s-be...
What about humidity of the environment? Is that a reason behind the success of countries like Thailand, Vietnam in tackling Covid? Possibly relevant study: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-virology-0...
Thailand and Vietnam also had 95% compliance with mask wearing. https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/28979/what-s-be...
Like Japan, oh the population is so used to wearing masks so everything is going great. Except when cases went up, that was when they suddenly had a memory lapse and forgot how to wear their masks.
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And so does the US: https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20201022/mask-use-by-america... https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/27/more-americ... Break it down by county or state, and you'll find that many of the the areas with the highest reported compliance have the worst overall metrics: https://delphi.cmu.edu/covidcast/?date=20210209®ion=42003... (and before anyone says it: sure, you can argue that mask-wear…
Both your links claim less than 95% compliance, and both suggest a recent, marked improvement in mask wearing from earlier dates (but still well after the start of the pandemic).
But regardless, are you seriously arguing that the difference between Vietnam and the US is...a few percent difference in self-reported mask compliance?
If the miracle cure of masking requires 100% compliance amongst 330 million people, your plan is doomed from the start.
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And so does the US: https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20201022/mask-use-by-america... https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/27/more-americ... Break it down by county or state, and you'll find that many of the the areas with the highest reported compliance have the worst overall metrics: https://delphi.cmu.edu/covidcast/?date=20210209®ion=42003... (and before anyone says it: sure, you can argue that mask-wear…
How would those same places be doing without masks?