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New Covid wave has begun and masks should be worn again, scientists warn (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

That's simply not true. A good n95 or n99 mask will absolutely prevent you from catching it. I spent 2 weeks around people with COVID and I wore my mask, and I never caught anything.

The problem is that everybody wears fucking cloth masks when we've had n95 masks available for 2 years and people complain that masks don't work. Yet doctors use them, construction workers use them and people in labs do all the time.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    What you said and what I said are both true.

    N95 masks will protect you, but the reason good and well-adjusted people want others to also wear them is to protect everyone else, especially immune-compromised people for whom a COVID infection could well be life-threatening.

    And of course it's also a numbers game. If even 10% fewer people get infected, across a large population that's a quite significant number of people who aren't clogging up hospitals and calling out sick from the work force.

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