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Subscribers of this sub, do you still use masks in public? (mander.xyz)

submitted 2 years ago by ZafiraHUN@mander.xyz to c/coronavirus@lemmy.ml

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Not even nurses I know wear masks outside of work here.

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[–] cult@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

not deadly for you, just deadly for others. Masks aren't to protect yourself, they're to protect other people. Something that seems to be extremely difficult to grasp for Americans that have had decades of being told that they're the center of the universe

[–] wounded_healer@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Ok ill play. Im not from murica. I don't see myself as the center of reality. Here all people that ar frail/old put on masks so that we don't have to! Its just a different approach. (we can't be sure what info is correct conserning deadliness so let's not lose ower breath talking about it). Kind regards

[–] roho@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Actually, recent Cochrane study regarding masks says differently. Explained: https://youtu.be/S3vY2LyQn1A Full paper: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full

(wait.. someone downvoted on a recent scientific publication? please explain)

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

His opening is that it "turns out... these masks are completely useless". That's absolutely not what the meta analysis said. This article by The Economist gives a breakdown.

Let's start with one of the people from Cochrane itself:

“The number of deaths would have been much higher” without “mask mandates [and] social distancing”, Michael Brown, a member of Cochrane’s editorial board, said later. “I’m very confident of that statement.”

The big problem about Cochrane's approach is that they only consider randomized control trials. That's fine for something like a drug where only the person taking it is affected. But masking is a public health intervention done on a population level. If masked people are just sent out to live their lives, they are in danger from unmasked people around them.

The best study came from Bangladesh. Some villages were provided masks, instructions, and incentives for wearing them. Others weren't. At the end, they did antibody tests. Antibody levels and symptom reports were 10% lower in villages without masks. This was despite a less than perfect track record on compliance.

[–] roho@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the info.