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Topic History of: Masks in the street Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Wyot
JK2006 wrote: Oh come on stupid Barney; the same stupid Government who told us masks were "worse than useless" (I'd have cancelled my order if I'd paid any attention); then changed it to "don't buy masks; PPE is urgently needed in hospitals" and now are telling us they are essential. DOH!
Yes the above and also the explicit aim of SAGE to "scare" us in general into compliance and use of behavioural psychologists within SAGE to do so.
Data presentation/manipulation to scare us every press briefing.
Barney/Alison, you must realise you are being manipulated surely? Whether you agree with the aims of the Gov or not...?!
Green Man
Alison wrote: Wyot wrote: many have been deliberately psychologically damaged by their own Government
Hardly by being asked to wear masks - in an effort to reduce virus infections?
You have been debunked time and time again - remember when WHO said C19 was not transferable to people to people.
JK2006
Oh come on stupid Barney; the same stupid Government who told us masks were "worse than useless" (I'd have cancelled my order if I'd paid any attention); then changed it to "don't buy masks; PPE is urgently needed in hospitals" and now are telling us they are essential. DOH!
Alison
Wyot wrote: many have been deliberately psychologically damaged by their own Government
Hardly by being asked to wear masks - in an effort to reduce virus infections?
Wyot
Alison wrote: 'a profoundly important pillar of pandemic control'
1.8% of those who wore masks and 2.1% of those who didn't caught C19. The authors said there could be "marginal" benefits but "could not rule out that the mask does not protect the wearer."
So yes masks could protect the wearer marginally (your reference actually doesn't say a lot more than this just with a positive spin) or they may be doing nothing.
I suspect to achieve anything even marginal you need a JK astronaut style contraption (when do you see on TV scientists entering a chemical leak site wearing civilian clothes and a flappy hankie resting over their mouths? No they all look like JK in a mask...)
But flappy hankies can make people feel better, and many have been deliberately psychologically damaged by their own Government; so to this extent they have an application.