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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]we all wore masks during the pandemic. fat lot that did us. maybe masks don't do as much as we assume they do. [/quote]

Before you can assess whether or not masks worked, you need to understand how masks work.

Masks tend to be better at protecting others from the wearer than protecting the wearer from others, by limiting the amount of contaminants from the wearer that are allowed into the air to begin with.  If there is a valve to allow you to exhale easier, it won’t catch your germs before they are released into the general air.  If you wear a mask below your nose, or as I occasionally saw, under your chin, the mask isn’t going to be effective in containing your germs.

In order for the wearer to be protected, they have to wear an N-95 or equivalent and ensure it’s sealed against the face.  If air is leaking around the edges, that air isn’t being filtered, meaning you aren’t protected from those germs. If the wearer takes it off to eat, drink, or for any other purpose, they’re exposed to whatever germs may be present, until the mask is again properly positioned.

Maybe you were extremely cautious, wearing the correct masks, correctly, without ever removing it in public, but I personally witnessed that “all” were NOT doing so. [/quote]

Look what happened during the pandemic. In many (red) parts of the country, no one ever wore masks. They didnt close anything. Kids went to school everyday. DC did the opposite. We closed everything. Kids were kicked out of school forever. Most everyone wore masks all the time. Given all that, we should have seen a *dramatic* difference between the number of people getting sick in DC and the number of people getting sick in cities in red states. We didn't. Which suggests masking and all the other things we did didnt actually make much difference in the end. Which makes sense if you think about it. Covid was extremely contagious, and perhaps masks were just not up to the job of stopping it.

If your argument is that DC didnt wear their masks correctly then that seems to suggest that in the real world masking doesnt actually do much. If it only makes a difference if every person does everything right every single time, then that's an impossible standard that no city will ever meet in a million years. [/quote]

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