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0 pointsethagknight5y ago0 comments

If the virus is present on your mask, it most likely would have already been in your body without the mask.

NNTaleb: Asymmetry: error FROM NOT wearing masks is vastly costlier than the error FROM wearing masks.

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1244976894686179328?s=21

EDIT- I think I wasn’t clear— mask is critical protection, and the risk of infection from wearing one incorrectly is far lower than not having one at all. I was just responding to the final paragraph that the mask doesn’t do much good if transferred from mask to mouth during removal— very true, but it also reduces the quantity of the virus ingested.

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dragontamer5y ago

> If the virus is present on your mask, it most likely would have already been in your body without the mask.

On the contrary. The virus is on the mask. That's why doctors / nurses wear masks, so that the virus gets stuck in the mask instead of in the doctor.

Now that the virus is on the mask, you need to treat it as if it were a contaminated object.

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