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      1 year ago

      Well so there’s the question: how much more effective is good ventilation than masking? I was under the impression that it’s, like, a lot. Orders of magnitude. Like if good ventilation was equivalent to seatbelts in cars, then masking would be wearing a helmet while driving.

      But perhaps someone who is better at reading scientific results could find the study and come up with a better analogy for us laymen, in case my understanding is way off base. If it’s actually that masking is more like airbags, then I think people would be a lot more amenable to doing both.

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          1 year ago

          And despite masking, COVID spread all over the globe and killed a fuckload of people.

          Would more people have died if there was no masking? Yes, absolutely.

          But the question of interest is: how many fewer people would have died if we made a concentrated effort to improve ventilation in public spaces?

          Maybe I’m completely missing your point, or maybe you’re just being snarky/contrarian and don’t really have a point, but it sounds like you are basically saying (reusing the above analogy) “Why are we talking about adding seatbelts to cars when we already have helmets?”