5 thoughts on “CDC: cloth facemasks make no difference in the transmission of influenza”
Jacinta O'Reillysaid:
Why not update your findings to what has been found since the pandemic started. It is harmful to spread outdated information as if it had not been updated. https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118
An interesting date on the paper you link to: January 26, 2021 — which just happens to be 6 days after a certain person was inaugurated as US President who had made mask-wearing a feature of his election campaign. Just a co-incidence of course…
I will never be compelled to wear a mask. Taking personal responsibility for my own health is of far greater importance. It is sad that we are a point in human knowledge that we think covering the mouth and noses of every man, woman and child in public is going to have the best overall benefit for our health and wellbeing.
Taking personal responsibility is wearing the mask or staying home if you are sick. It’s about being a responsible citizen, which is not just doing what’s the least effort. It’s like your obligation to make sure the brakes on your car work, it’s not just about the level of risk you are comfortable with, it’s about the risk to people around you.
I would absolutely stay at home if I feel sick because I have body awareness and know that my sickness is a direct result of me needing a rest to allow my body to recover. I protect myself, and if I protect other people then great. In the same way that making sure the brakes on my car work is all about protecting myself in the first instance. I don’t need to consider that it also protects others.
When it comes to mask wearing and risk, we do not know the long term risk that applies to large portions of the population covering their mouths and noses with cloth is.
Why is it so important to you that my primary concern is the health of others and/or the risk to others taking precedence over the assessment of the risk to my own health? Is that really the only way for me to be a responsible citizen?
Why not update your findings to what has been found since the pandemic started. It is harmful to spread outdated information as if it had not been updated. https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118
An interesting date on the paper you link to: January 26, 2021 — which just happens to be 6 days after a certain person was inaugurated as US President who had made mask-wearing a feature of his election campaign. Just a co-incidence of course…
I will never be compelled to wear a mask. Taking personal responsibility for my own health is of far greater importance. It is sad that we are a point in human knowledge that we think covering the mouth and noses of every man, woman and child in public is going to have the best overall benefit for our health and wellbeing.
Taking personal responsibility is wearing the mask or staying home if you are sick. It’s about being a responsible citizen, which is not just doing what’s the least effort. It’s like your obligation to make sure the brakes on your car work, it’s not just about the level of risk you are comfortable with, it’s about the risk to people around you.
I would absolutely stay at home if I feel sick because I have body awareness and know that my sickness is a direct result of me needing a rest to allow my body to recover. I protect myself, and if I protect other people then great. In the same way that making sure the brakes on my car work is all about protecting myself in the first instance. I don’t need to consider that it also protects others.
When it comes to mask wearing and risk, we do not know the long term risk that applies to large portions of the population covering their mouths and noses with cloth is.
Why is it so important to you that my primary concern is the health of others and/or the risk to others taking precedence over the assessment of the risk to my own health? Is that really the only way for me to be a responsible citizen?