Largest study of masks yet shows whopping 11% effectiveness for surgical -- jpmHoo 09/03/2021 2:01PM
Next time you are around somebody with a cold/flu be sure to tell them not -- Hooooooooooooooo 09/03/2021 2:11PM
Think how much we could save when nobody has to mask up during surgeries! ** -- 81_Hokie 09/03/2021 2:16PM
...or trips to the dentist. The resistance to wearing masks is just stupid! -- Hooooooooooooooo 09/03/2021 2:21PM
Not quite.... -- Zhoo 09/03/2021 2:08PM
I wouldn't say most people think masks are 0% effective. I think it's... -- Los Angeles Hoo 09/03/2021 2:32PM
That was a lot of effort to say absolutely nothing -- 111Balz 09/03/2021 3:23PM
10-11% is not marginal..... -- Zhoo 09/03/2021 2:38PM
11% is across age groups, with considerably higher rates among old people -- jpmHoo 09/03/2021 3:38PM
Exactly -- no significant benefit to masks for those under-50, which is... -- Los Angeles Hoo 09/03/2021 3:49PM
And they tried their hardest to make those cloth masks effective -- jpmHoo 09/03/2021 3:51PM
A key point in the study, which no one is addressing in this thread,... -- Los Angeles Hoo 09/03/2021 3:58PM
With delta variant -- Zhoo 09/03/2021 8:34PM
Serious question here: what is your alternative? -- CMUHoo 09/03/2021 5:34PM
The only way out is through. From the beginning, we should have.... -- Los Angeles Hoo 09/03/2021 6:43PM
My point is the FL strategy is untenable given current conditions -- CMUHoo 09/03/2021 11:17PM
Good post. I get where you are coming from, but just see it differently. ** -- Los Angeles Hoo 09/04/2021 12:01AM
So "only" 70,000 lives worth of effectiveness? Pffft.If saving 70,000 lives -- 81_Hokie 09/03/2021 2:04PM
Cloth saves ~0 lives. With the Alpha variant no less. -- jpmHoo 09/03/2021 3:40PM
This is false, actually... -- Folly Beach Hokie 09/03/2021 3:05PM
"Piece of cloth" was intended to emphasize the trivial nature of the -- 81_Hokie 09/03/2021 3:42PM
Its not semantics though. I didn't miss the point... -- Folly Beach Hokie 09/03/2021 4:11PM
The point is people have sent over year fighting over an intervention... -- jpmHoo 09/03/2021 3:50PM
These are not surgical masks you find at CVS- they're specially manipulated -- jpmHoo 09/03/2021 3:42PM
I think it’s even more than that because even though -- BocaHoo91 09/03/2021 2:31PM