Comment by Madmallard
4 hours ago
Thought I recall Vinay Prasad saying (back in 2020 or 2021) that masks don't really work well enough for us to force all kids to wear them. Like chance passing encounters they have some effectiveness, but an imperfectly used non-n95 mask is basically worthless. But the latter scenario is what nearly everyone was doing.
>Vinay Prasad
frequent touter of other right-wing ideas surround the pandemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinay_Prasad#COVID_response
>but an imperfectly used non-n95 mask is basically worthless.
also not true. Even surgical or cloth masks on bearded individuals provide 30-40% aerosol filtration https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8130778/
The myth that laypeople couldn't effectively use masks was just turning the topic into an all-or-nothing binary, knowing people would be discouraged.
Vinay Prasad is one of the most credentialed people in the entire industry.
Sorry your political views are clouding your judgment of his character. He brought up well-crafted studies that went against the grain that were done by other countries that are not as delusional as the United States.
People were getting Covid sitting in rooms with others re-breathing the same air for hours. 30-40% filtration might as well be 0%.
The effect of Covid lockdowns and masking and isolation on children is something immeasurable and likely serious and we'll just be finding out more and more of these issues overtime.