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SB's avatar

Doesn't she worry at all that the consensus breaking moment she is talking about is exactly where everything went wrong? That she pushed policy in a crucially destructive direction?

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Antonio García Martínez's avatar

But she was right, and the consensus was largely wrong.

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SB's avatar

Does it look like she was right? Does it look like what we have done has worked?

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Dave Rolsky's avatar

I'm not sure how we'd know, unless you have a handy second universe with which to run a controlled experiment.

But I think it's hard to conclude that getting people to wear masks in an airborne pandemic is the wrong move.

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SB's avatar

If the pandemic is airborne than the virus particles will go straight through the masks will they not? They are far smaller than the holes in the masks. The argument for masks was that they stopped droplets.

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