Collision Resistance@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoNew Covid wave has begun and masks should be worn again, scientists warnwww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square115fedilinkarrow-up1244arrow-down119
arrow-up1225arrow-down1external-linkNew Covid wave has begun and masks should be worn again, scientists warnwww.independent.co.ukCollision Resistance@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square115fedilink
minus-squareTurkey_Titty_city@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down10·edit-211 months agoit’s not about science. it’s about public perception. masks didn’t stop covid. vaccines did. people will not wear masks again. they would probably get another vaccine though. ending covid = getting rid of mask mandates, in the publics viewpoint.
minus-squareilli@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoOk, in this context you are right in spiritt. Masks are stoping tje spread, but in the grand scheme of things it is mostly about slowing it down. However I don’t think saying the masks do nothing is right at all. Masks are still useful.
minus-squareretrieval4558@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoExcept he’s not right in any sense with that logic. “masks didn’t work because people feel like they didn’t work” is not a valid argument.
minus-squareilli@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoHe is right in sense that vaccines “stopped” covid, while masks were mostly just slowing it down but not enough to “stop” it. That’s what I meant by being right in spirit. Otherwise I agree he is wrong.
it’s not about science. it’s about public perception. masks didn’t stop covid. vaccines did.
people will not wear masks again. they would probably get another vaccine though.
ending covid = getting rid of mask mandates, in the publics viewpoint.
Ok, in this context you are right in spiritt. Masks are stoping tje spread, but in the grand scheme of things it is mostly about slowing it down.
However I don’t think saying the masks do nothing is right at all. Masks are still useful.
Except he’s not right in any sense with that logic. “masks didn’t work because people feel like they didn’t work” is not a valid argument.
He is right in sense that vaccines “stopped” covid, while masks were mostly just slowing it down but not enough to “stop” it. That’s what I meant by being right in spirit. Otherwise I agree he is wrong.