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https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-07-08-oxford-covid-19-study-face-masks-and-coverings-work-act-now/ https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-07-08-oxford-covid-19-study-f..

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-07-08-oxford-covid-19-study-face-masks-and-coverings-work-act-now/ https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-07-08-oxford-covid-19-study-f... https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-about-masks-heres-science-behind-how-face-masks-prevent https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-abou... https://fullfact.org/health/evidence-shows-masks-do-offer-protection-covid-19/ https://fullfact.org/health/evidence-shows-masks-do-offer-pr... Please stop perpetuating this myth that masks don't work all because you just don't like wearing one.

__blockcipher__ 6y ago
These are closer to pop-sci articles than proper papers. Please read everything Macintyre ever published on the topic of masking in healthcare works before 2020. Start with this one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/ Linking me a bunch of public health websites isn’t convincing because these organizations don’t actually maintain epistemiological rigor, they just parrot whatever the dogma is. The only RCT of masking for COVID-19 ever performed showed an insignificant benefit in terms of self-infection at best. Meanwhile studies in HCW can’t rule out cloth masks causing bacterial pneumonia and increased self-infection.
- Jestar342 6y ago
  Literally all of them link scientific papers, if you'd care to read. And it's not "self-infection" that masking is a protection of. Nobody has claimed that. You wear a mask to protect those around you, and they wear their's to protect you. Though it figures you are obsessed with the self and have no regard for the other.
  - __blockcipher__ 6y ago
    No studies exist of infection to others for the obvious reason (too hard to track accurately). If you had read any of the literature you would know this.

__blockcipher__ 6y ago

These are closer to pop-sci articles than proper papers. Please read everything Macintyre ever published on the topic of masking in healthcare works before 2020. Start with this one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/ Linking me a bunch of public health websites isn’t convincing because these organizations don’t actually maintain epistemiological rigor, they just parrot whatever the dogma is. The only RCT of masking for COVID-19 ever performed showed an insignificant benefit in terms of self-infection at best. Meanwhile studies in HCW can’t rule out cloth masks causing bacterial pneumonia and increased self-infection.

Jestar342 6y ago
Literally all of them link scientific papers, if you'd care to read. And it's not "self-infection" that masking is a protection of. Nobody has claimed that. You wear a mask to protect those around you, and they wear their's to protect you. Though it figures you are obsessed with the self and have no regard for the other.
- __blockcipher__ 6y ago
  No studies exist of infection to others for the obvious reason (too hard to track accurately). If you had read any of the literature you would know this.