August 18, 2020 06:47AM | Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 16,078
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PHDram
2. wearing a face covering i find inconvenient but its probably not bad. ironically the evidence of wearing a face covering to prevent YOU from getting sick is minimal (which was the original purpose of the face mask) but from what i have seen it does seem to help stop the spread (although most of this data is preliminary because prior to covid no one really looked at that question). further there is some evidence although mostly anecdotal that it may actually increase the wearers chance of getting infected because you may touch your face more.
3. social distancing and in particular, the stay-at-home orders
* Since April, no one who discusses public mask wearing sees it as protecting the individual from the virus--rather the kind of masks advocated for wide public use prevent people from spreading it. And on this, the evidence that mask wearing slows transmission of the virus is abundant, rich, and varied and consists of many kinds and types, including direct studies of mask effectiveness and the recent histories of places that instituted wearing masks. Anyone saying otherwise at this point is just plain factually in error. Look for it all, it's all out there, and there's basically no medically valid argument that they are ineffective at stopping the spread. The key to mask wearing was the discovery by early April that covid-19 can be transmitted by people who are either asymptomatic or presymptomatic. With a highly contagious virus, knowledge that masks are effective at blocking transmission is decisive. One caveat: mask wearing has at best only limited effectiveness if the individual is indoors for any length of time with lots of other people present. IE wearing masks to a crowded indoor party does not help that much.
* social distancing is not the same thing as staying home. You can have the former without the latter and in fact many places that fought the virus more effectively than we have did the former and not the latter. It's important not to confuse the 2 things.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/18/2020 06:50AM by zn.
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