“We already know they don’t work” was based on a combination of logic (you can fit 3000 virion in the micropore of an n95 mask) and the roughly 70 studies done on mask efficacy between 1918 and 2019.
It’s possible that those 70 studies got it wrong, but the 150 weaker studies suddenly finding amazing efficacy when it became in vogue pol…
“We already know they don’t work” was based on a combination of logic (you can fit 3000 virion in the micropore of an n95 mask) and the roughly 70 studies done on mask efficacy between 1918 and 2019.
It’s possible that those 70 studies got it wrong, but the 150 weaker studies suddenly finding amazing efficacy when it became in vogue politically I think weaken the odds we got it wrong for 100 years, not stronger.
If the other studies, were better designed, then you have a probable point—even if COVID-19 was a “novel virus.” This was why even Fauci began with “masking won’t help.”
“We already know they don’t work” was based on a combination of logic (you can fit 3000 virion in the micropore of an n95 mask) and the roughly 70 studies done on mask efficacy between 1918 and 2019.
It’s possible that those 70 studies got it wrong, but the 150 weaker studies suddenly finding amazing efficacy when it became in vogue politically I think weaken the odds we got it wrong for 100 years, not stronger.
If the other studies, were better designed, then you have a probable point—even if COVID-19 was a “novel virus.” This was why even Fauci began with “masking won’t help.”
They weren’t better designed. They were lopsided on lowest tier of evidence - surveys, models, interviews, retrospective data drudging