What a crock of shit this article is. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/briefing/masks-mandates-us-covid.html (to get around the paywall: (1) copy the link, (2) open new incognito window, (3) go to google.com, (4) paste link in search bar next to the magnifying glass, (5) open first result).
No study has been conducted around prolonged mask usage (e.g. cluster RCT). All the laboratory studies deal with instantaneous source control. What happens as the mask material becomes saturated or breaks down?
If masks work, then areas of higher mask compliance should have less viral load present in the air of enclosed spaces at any given time - even if people remove masks for a short time to eat and drink. To suggest otherwise indicates even one-way masking over long periods of time is futile, thus rendering masks useless.
This article defies all logic. And it's simply cover for all the left's bullshit rhetoric.
No study has been conducted around prolonged mask usage (e.g. cluster RCT). All the laboratory studies deal with instantaneous source control. What happens as the mask material becomes saturated or breaks down?
If masks work, then areas of higher mask compliance should have less viral load present in the air of enclosed spaces at any given time - even if people remove masks for a short time to eat and drink. To suggest otherwise indicates even one-way masking over long periods of time is futile, thus rendering masks useless.
This article defies all logic. And it's simply cover for all the left's bullshit rhetoric.
