COVID Mask Effectiveness
This cluster centers on debates about the effectiveness of face masks in preventing COVID-19 transmission, focusing on whether they primarily protect the wearer or others from asymptomatic spread.
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How about just wearing a mask ?!
this is wrong. Masks provide some protection it's not all or nothing.
Wearing masks has an agenda! To not spread Covid!
The masks are to stop you from infecting other people, not to stop you from getting infected.
Wearing masks is a zero sum game? What?
The Mask is only for compliance and to make other people feeling good, thats it, thats the only usage. It is not to stop virus because it can't, unless maybe a very specific type of mask and with proper training.
because wearing mask can be uncomfortable, why wear if the benefit is only minimal
The consensus seems to be that you should wear a mask not to protect yourself from the virus, but to prevent spread in case you're carrying it and have no symptoms. If everyone wears a mask, contagion is dramatically reduced.
Masks help infected people not spread COVID, they are less useful at preventing uninfected from catching COVID. Everyone has to wear them though because no one knows who has COVID at any given time.
The same way that masks don't prevent COVID.