Prove it
China fared much better than Western countries did?? I guess you missed what happened in Wuhan
Infections are going up in Ontario. Masks arent working
The burden of "proof" is on you since you made the following claim with absolutely nothing to back it up:
"Infections are going up in Ontario. Masks arent working"
To which i replied:
1) Logical fallacy. The conclusion does not necessarily follow from the premise.
2) The rise in infections could be due to many other variables, such as people returning to school, more acting irresponsibly, more staying in higher risk environments such as indoors as the weather gets colder, etc,. In fact the rise could be even worse without masks being used.
And probably would be, because the scientific evidence says masks work. That's why in almost every nation on earth they are either mandated or recommended as per health experts instructions
3) Then why is it that Asian nations that use masks fared much better than Western nations that didn't use masks. Based on that info & your simplistic way of reaching conclusions, you should conclude that masks are working. But that would contradict your conclusion that masks aren't working. Can both be true, masks are working and masks aren't working?
4) The Ontario chart re infections shows that the daily numbers continually go up and then go down. So do you conclude that masks work on the days that infections went down.
https://www.google.com/search?q=ont...rome..69i57.6877j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
China fared much better than Western countries did?? I guess you missed what happened in Wuhan
I didn't refer to one relatively little area called Wuhan, but to entire nations:
Asian nations that use masks fared much better than Western nations that didn't use masks. Based on that info & your simplistic way of reaching conclusions, you should conclude that masks are working. But that would contradict your conclusion that masks aren't working. Can both be true, masks are working and masks aren't working?
"In June, researchers at the University of Iowa collected data on when, exactly, states with mask-wearing mandates instituted their rules. Fifteen states and Washington, DC, had done that before May 8. Then the researchers looked at those states’ subsequent growth curves in Covid-19 infections. The results were striking. Even controlling for other social-distancing measures, and without looking at how many people actually wore masks at an individual level, the curve started to bend downward as soon as a week later. Three weeks later, the daily growth rate in states with mask mandates was down 2 percent. “It's not about the types of masks. We don’t even measure individual use of masks. We look at whether states have mandated people should use them in public and compare them before and after,” says George Wehby, a professor of health policy and management at the University of Iowa and lead author of the paper. “Many other states also had shelter-in-place laws in place, but [we still see] this effect.”
Public health messaging and science have to work hard to stay in sync during a crisis. During the Covid-19 pandemic, they haven’t always succeeded.
www.wired.com
Based on that why aren't you concluding that masks work & they work very effectively.
Perhaps the question of mask efficacy isn't as simple as your simplistic argument above stating "masks aren't working", eh.
