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[–]jamesK_3rd[S] 11 insightful - 5 fun11 insightful - 4 fun12 insightful - 5 fun -  (6 children)

The full document for posterity..

https://archive.is/FaMZm

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2006372?query=recirc_curatedRelated_article

Of course, it's largely irrelevant at this point. It was always about control..

The majority of Americans are in search of a ruler, a people made to be ruled. BLM, Antifa, democrats, milquetoast Republicans..

The government the democrats want is close.

https://files.catbox.moe/3x24nm.jpg

[–][deleted] 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Oh yes, of course. Everyone's a sheeple but you. How unconforming of you. I bet you're unique like every other snowflake at the starbucks.

  1. This is an opinion piece done in May, and several of its assertions have proven false in the ensuing months. Namely, that public space exposure is minimal, when it has ended up the #1 category in quite a few US states that collect such tracing data. That original guesstimate of 6 minutes, 10 minutes, or 30 minutes, has proven false.

  2. The article states wearing a mask offers little protection from infection, and this is still true. However, what it can do is reduce transmission of infection if you are already infected, which is repeatedly stated by every single article on the subject ever. So the article doesn't support your apparent belief.

  3. That humans have emotional responses out of line with actual probability is well documented and typical among everyone, including you. Because we're really bad at probability. Based on the limited information at the time, mostly lies from China (and I find your reliance on an article quoting China's numbers as authentic while calling people a synonym for sheeple fucking hilarious), this opinion piece assumed very low transmissibility for the public and healthcare workers. This has again proven false.

Like flat earthers, like young earth creationists, like anti-vaxxers, and all the other gaggles of people doing the same thing, use of old opinions, old data, and bad data, combine to construct support for a conspiracy mentality. Finding data to suit your idea of the world, rather than letting the data shape your idea of it.

[–]RightousBob 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Why did you leave reddit?

[–]zyxzevn 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The working of the masks is to keep us scared, and may prevent herd-immunity. And looking at your reply it seems to work well.

[–]jamesK_3rd[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

There's a few problems here..

First, i realize that posting such articles is insulting your religion. I'm not trying to be offensive.

What you fail to realize is this isn't the first pandemic the world has seen, it isn't even the first one where the scientific method has been employed to test the efficacy of things, such as cloth masks.

We've had numerous sars-cov or coronavirus, covid like illness (CLI) or influenza like illness (ILI) epidemics/pandemics in the past.

Most famously, scientific studies were done on the efficacy of masks during an actual deadly pandemic, the Spanish flu, and they found that cloth masks are largely ineffective, lest we bring up pig flu, Hong Kong flu etc.

The article falls in line with numerous other studies which show cloth masks are largely ineffective, such as a recent influenza study.

The authors demonstrate that they understand the necessity of masks. Hospital staff (at least until the orange man bad days, or the "Science!" Days) knew that you don't walk around the hospital in a gown, mask and gloves and then walk into the OR and perform surgery. These items are to help prevent outside infections in a somewhat sterile environment. Once finished with the surgery, the items are discarded. They don't reuse them.. At least they didn't, who knows now in a world where men can be women if they feel like it..

As we can see now, science and the scientific method is being replaced with "Science!".. Largely done so individuals like you can feel good about your political posturing and that your god (the govt) is in control and they'll take care of you. The state is the elixir of the masses, you my friend are part of the main congregation..

God's great gift to mankind is the scientific method. The ability to use reason and logic, a process by which we can discover truths of the universe, and new data's are always being discovered. Unfortunately, the data's continue to show that in this case, what you want to believe isn't true. Plenty of studies outside the US continue to demonstrate this. But here, where a man feels pretty and calls himself a Lady, the masses deny truth.

But deep down, I'm sure you already knew that.

[–]IridescentAnaconda 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What you fail to realize is this isn't the first pandemic the world has seen, it isn't even the first one where the scientific method has been employed to test the efficacy of things, such as cloth masks.

You know what's different about this pandemic compared with all the others? The saturation of cell phones and computers has reached a level where complete lockdown and authoritarian control of society is now possible.

[–]chadwickofwv 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You're full of shit.