Have you read the actual study? My quick take: 1) Correlation isn't cause, of course; 2) The study doesn't appear to take into account the possibility that high-risk individuals may mask more often.
Mask usage prevents much of the virus from being in haled, giving the immune system a better head start at fighting it off. People who wear masks do not get as sick and die as often as those who catch the virus when not wearing a mask.
Nothing in masks cause Covid-19 and nothing about wearing masks either attracts the virus or makes it worse. That's pretty obvious.
If you think back at the dangerous silliness people have used to argue against wearing masks, the first one that blew naïve minds was that the virus was so small the masks could not block it with the relatively larger holes. Really? So that means that the little particles pilot themselves around the mask?
And then we knew how masks reduce the cases and prevalence, and studies showed clearly how N95s were better than cloth masks. The irrational argument then became what's-the-use, masks do not prevent catching the virus. This is inanity. The masks reduce both the prevalence and the severity of the virus if you catch it, and at the same time brings down the spread.
Now, we hear that masks supposedly increase prevalence and severity? What? The only reason for this, is that as time goes by, and even if people think that no harm is done by masks as the false debate continues, and only continues in spin media -- just wear the mask, as it can only help, and cannot hurt, right? This latter piece of common sense then needs to be attacked. The virus does not come from bats, but from N95 masks.
Have you read the actual study? My quick take: 1) Correlation isn't cause, of course; 2) The study doesn't appear to take into account the possibility that high-risk individuals may mask more often.
ReplyDeleteMask usage prevents much of the virus from being in haled, giving the immune system a better head start at fighting it off. People who wear masks do not get as sick and die as often as those who catch the virus when not wearing a mask.
ReplyDeleteNothing in masks cause Covid-19 and nothing about wearing masks either attracts the virus or makes it worse. That's pretty obvious.
If you think back at the dangerous silliness people have used to argue against wearing masks, the first one that blew naïve minds was that the virus was so small the masks could not block it with the relatively larger holes. Really? So that means that the little particles pilot themselves around the mask?
And then we knew how masks reduce the cases and prevalence, and studies showed clearly how N95s were better than cloth masks. The irrational argument then became what's-the-use, masks do not prevent catching the virus. This is inanity. The masks reduce both the prevalence and the severity of the virus if you catch it, and at the same time brings down the spread.
Now, we hear that masks supposedly increase prevalence and severity? What? The only reason for this, is that as time goes by, and even if people think that no harm is done by masks as the false debate continues, and only continues in spin media -- just wear the mask, as it can only help, and cannot hurt, right? This latter piece of common sense then needs to be attacked. The virus does not come from bats, but from N95 masks.