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Originally Posted by SNIPERBBB
They're utterly useless.
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It's a respiratory droplet infection.
While the efficiency of various types of masks can be debated, there can be no debate that wearing a mask is better than not wearing a mask, for both the mask wearer (protecting one's self, and others) and for those that don't wear a mask in the presence of others who are masked who may have COVID, either symptomatic, or asymptomatic.
Mask wearing is a simple, common sense, and low-cost strategy to mitigate COVID transmission, with few serious side effects.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8084286/
Would mask wearing have prevented 800,000 deaths? No it wouldn't, but even a decrease of 1,000 deaths would have made mask wearing worth it.
Doctors wear masks during surgery for a reason and it's not to look cool.