Originally Posted by
gaobest
agreed although we can also argue for sheltering or other methods that are effective against the coronavirus. I fully support vaccinated people’s choices to eschew the mask since that’s my own personal preference.
I'm no virologist, but my logical nature has me thinking that when we have time to look back on this and study it properly, we'll find that social distancing and sheltering (although it came with many negative effects) were far more effective than masks. Certainly masks do something, and we were all doing anything we could last year, even if it provided just a bit more safety. I don't want to debate it with anyone, because it's totally a guess. But it won't surprise me if cloth masks end up at the very bottom of the list in terms of effectiveness. The N95's are of course a different matter.