Science? What’s that?I was confused by a quote of someone I'd ignored, so I revealed it, to find several "arguments" that masks don't reduce transmission of respiratory viruses. They were all from people already on my ignore list for other reasons.
Scientific illiteracy is a large part of it. Often the guilty parties are scientists themselves, who fail to understand concepts such as p-hacking, particularly when they are paid not to understand them.
However, the reason one shouldn't argue with an anti-masker any more than a Flat Earther is simple. Common sense combined with basic life experience is enough to exclude the position that masks don't inhibit viral respiratory contagion.
Ask yourself this question, oh sane reader:
If you are in a crowded room of co-workers, and John has the flu, would you rather he sneezed into his bandana desperado mask or an elevated rotary fan ventilating the bullpen?
I rest my case.
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