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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I think a lot of you all are wrong about this. My wife wears a surgical mask at a hospital every day. They're not useless. They're not as much protection as a KN95 for the wearer, but I think the point is that if everyone is wearing one, then even infected people are not spreading the virus effectively.
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The gaps on those things are so big. You can see the spaces emerge on the sides of people’s faces while they’re talking.
I tend to agree that masks must’ve conferred some benefit. A barrier of any kind seems better than none. But the science seems to state exactly what Icky said. And that’s all above my pay grade.
