How New Zealand Tackled COVID

[tesla]

On 7/17/2020 at 4:27 PM, Leo Gura said:

Stop spreading bullshit here.

Sorry Leo, but you're the one spreading bullshit. Show me a single piece of evidence proving they work.

 

[commie]

Why would you want "a single piece of evidence"? There are pieces of evidence pointing in all directions FFS!

Anyone with a clue knows they work... as long as you do not expect magic or a simple solution.

Once politics comes into play, it's as if people left half of their faculties at the door or something.

[Guest SirVladimir]

"They used to think their wisdom was beyond comprehension, that they were the sages of knowledge, the seekers of truth, the scientific devotees, the true followers of the path, the apes without egos. Until one day, they were asked to wear face masks, and it all came down." 

Edited July 19, 2020 by SirVladimir

[tesla]

Evidence they don't work:

• https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/329438/9789241516839-eng.pdf
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4699551/
• https://covidinfos.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/MasksDon-twork-4.pdf

Now show me a single randomised controlled trial showing masks do work. Because there are none.

[commie]

Unbelievable. You just posted a reference to a RCT showing they work! But obviously that's an irrelevant RCT, like the other studies referenced.

Looking at such studies now would be a really dumb approach to evaluate mask effectiveness, but of course that's not what you're trying to do. Can you explain coherently why on Earth would you look at influenza transmission more than 7 months into an epidemic involving a novel pathogen?