Is "40" the "weight" of the evidence?
"Google"?
I'm going to verify what I heard on the news, but Google is one of those "tech" gurus who will be having employees work at home in quarantine for the rest of the year. So why not have them return to "the office" and WEAR MASKS?
I'm familiar with "masks" AND "gloves."
Why isn't that the "health care workers" wear different kinds of masks and gloves than those customarily seen at stores and other public places ....? That's because ... the masks (including scarfs over the face) one sees at stores (customers and employees) are INEFFECTIVE to prevent contamination either way.
"Guns" are also "unsafe" .....
Originally Posted by LexusLover
Don't let your partisanship and disgust for me blind you. If you don't trust scientific and medical papers referenced in a Google document, here's a direct link to a good one:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.13553.pdf
The stochastic modeling described in the first part of the paper may not be convincing, but the empirical observations that start on page 10 are.
Or just look at death rates per million people:
https://www.worldometers.info/corona...meAdvegas1?%22
Countries with mask wearing cultures, like Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore have fared much better than we have. Our death rate is 40 to 600 times higher than these places.
As to your beliefs that cloth masks aren't effective and the experience of Asian countries isn't relevant, look at Slovenia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic in the links above. As I said in the reply to Levianon, they had to resort to homemade masks in March. And our death rate in the USA is 9X to 50X higher than those countries.
Masks would not only save lives, they would save trillions of dollars. We could go back to work quicker and more safely. Medical costs would be reduced enormously. You can come up with estimated cost savings of $15,000 per person if everyone wore masks, comparing what's happening in Asian countries to what's happening in Europe and the USA.
