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> Masks (cloth or otherwise) do in fact reduce infectiousness

This has never been proven. Please find me an RCT that shows this. I'll wait.

BTW, this is a doubly wrong statement for cloth masks, since cloth masks have plenty of studies showing increases in self-infection, at least relative to wearing a surgical mask.

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I just looked, found a whole bunch of stuff on CDC site showing RCT that demonstrates masks do work and that N95 are better than cloth.

Where's the RCT that shows they don't work? I couldn't find one.

What RCTs are you referring to? I’d like to take a look.

Ones showing don’t work:

DANMASK (sars-2 community self infection)

Macintyre et al (cloth masks vs “standard practice”, showed possible deleterious effect of cloth masking but did not compare to no-mask)

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