So 1% protection ?
>but nothing does. However, masks are important, because they enable people to safely perform essential activities like grocery shopping, and most jobs.
fortunately that the chance of getting sick from covid from doing those activities without mask are very very low.
infection is not useful metric because only small percentage actually cause sickness.
Masks: The Science & The Myths : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RaBLKKXJt4
I have COVID and I'm contagious. I don't know that, of course, so I go to the grocery store. The same grocery store you're shopping it. We cross paths in the cereal aisle.
Would you rather me be wearing a mask?
That is not what I insinuating at all.
>Would you rather me be wearing a mask
If you are sick, you should rest at home, just like with any other illness. I wouldn't care whether you wear mask or not.
That's not what was asked. Covid has an up to two week asymptomatic period, there's a high chance that someone around you when you go out is infected and doesn't know. Would you rather them be wearing a mask or not?
I already answer it :
>I wouldn't care whether you wear mask or not
Its up to them, make no difference to me, I have no reason and no interest to require them to wear mask.
People have become so extreme in their views that every single life matters that they forget how our 2019 way of life still had significant risk that nobody batted an eye at.
Yea most people don't get very sick, except for the 300k that are dead just in the US.
Here's a nice graph of deaths per month per millon for a nearly 200 year perspective: https://swprs.org/facts-about-covid-19/#foobox-1/3/sweden-mo...
'The observed temporary excess mortality likely arises because people in vulnerable groups die weeks or months earlier than they would otherwise, due to the timing and severity of the unusual external event.' https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.11.20229708v...
Eg if there was zero excess mortality, that alone doesn’t prove much either way.
If people think a mask offers them more protection than it really does, they might engage in riskier behavior.
When I see people out walking around the neighborhood with masks on, I really wonder what they're trying to accomplish. You're not going to get covid walking outdoors passing within 6 feet of someone for 5 seconds.
These days, my theory is more people get infected at home than out in public.
People getting infected at home may be a large vector, but the virus got in the home some how in the first place. It’s just easier to spread from that point onwards once it’s in.
Also known as pods and bubbles.