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   > Not a comparison I made
Sure, but it's the relevant one.

   > if I went to a supermarket [...] I would wear an FFP3 dust mask 
   rather than ill-fitting cloth, which is two nines to HEPA's 3.5.
Good. That would be very safe. Ideally everybody would do that. I'll let you think about how feasible that is.

I mean, your entire argument seems to be that cloth masks aren't perfect, I guess?

They sure aren't. But that's not the claim anybody is making. The evidence-backed claim is that they are better than nothing -- and "doing absolutely nothing" is apparently the hill that hundreds of millions of Americans have chosen to (literally) die upon We are trying to take a step forward from that, via a simple harm-reduction method that almost anybody can afford.

Let me ask you something. How effective would a public health measure need to be before you'd endorse it?

1%? 10%? 99%? 100%?

There have been 40 million confirmed cases in America, and likely several times that amount in reality. Over half a million deaths. Each single percentage point improvement in prevention represents > 400,000K cases and > 6,000 deaths.



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