Coronavirus Cases Drop 46% In Parts Of S. Carolina With Mask Mandates Compared To Areas Without

[soothsayer]

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[Ms. Toad]

1. Duh. n/t

[Blue_true]

2. The debate about whether properly worn, properly designed facemasks

slow down or stop SARS-COV-2 should have been over several months ago. But too many Americans have to get hit in the mouth by the virus before they learn.

The debate should only be around which mask designs are most effective, there is too much variation in what people are wearing and I believe that prevents mask wearing from being 100% effective at stopping transmission.

[LisaL]

3. Nothing is a 100 % effective, not even N95s.

But what is there to have a debate about? Many studies have shown that N95s are the best. You are not going to get anywhere near a 100% with homemade masks.

[Blue_true]

5. Neck gaiters are not very good. A lot of people wear those.

A mask on one person limits transmission, but I saw a graphic months ago that a mask, properly chosen and worn, stops 95% of transmission that would have happened with no one wearing a mask. Think of where we would be today if all Americans that can wear a mask had masked up when the virus was first detected in the USA? It would have helped to have a sane, competent President at that time also.

[torius]

4. Most people won't wear them at home

especially if it starts in someone who's asymptomatic, so it will still spread in homes. Even if they did wear them at home, I think being enclosed in a small space for long periods, it would spread anyway.
46% drop is huge.

[Blue_true]

6. You make a good point about homes.

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But proper mask wearing of well designed masks would allow the country to push the exponential change of SARS-COV-2 infections into reverse.

Yes, a person may get infected at home, but if it is difficult for that infected person to infect someone else out among the public, then the number of infected people starts to decrease, that decrease should accelerate with everyone properly wearing a well designed mask (all except neck gaiters, one ply and valves masks appear to meet a properly designed standard, IMO) when in public, so there should be progressively fewer infections taking place within homes.

[torius]

7. Yes, good point,

if infections outside homes decrease then there will be less infections in homes.
I wish all the mask refusers would just go to a place and be together and not allowed to be near mask wearers. They can come back when the survivors reach herd immunity.

[Blue_true]

8. It would be nice to not have the anti-mask people among us. nt