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Disappointing study from Denmark which suggests that wearing a mask doesn't protect the wearer.

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817

By "disappointing study", was your comment about how it was designed & executed, or about an interpretation of its results "that wearing a mask doesn't protect the wearer"?

As I read it, they weren't measuring whether wearing a mask protects the wearer.  The were measuring whether a recommendation to individuals to wear masks resulted in protection of the individuals.

If you go by the beliefs often espoused on this board, such a study's recommendation (to wear masks) to Republicans would result in a different outcome than for Democrats, because of external factors.  

Personally, I think this is a pretty stupid study.  What force (the head of the church? the President/Prime Minister/Queen? the head MD in the country? the best soccer player?) is behind the recommendation?  What beliefs do you have to overcome?

Does this study convince anyone here that President Trump's comments or the CDC's recommendations about mask wearing made little difference in the cases of COVID in the US?   Somehow, I doubt it.

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Disappointing study from Denmark which suggests that wearing a mask doesn't protect the wearer.

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817

By "disappointing study", was your comment about how it was designed & executed, or about an interpretation of its results "that wearing a mask doesn't protect the wearer"?

As I read it, they weren't measuring whether wearing a mask protects the wearer.  The were measuring whether a recommendation to individuals to wear masks resulted in protection of the individuals.

If you go by the beliefs often espoused on this board, such a study's recommendation (to wear masks) to Republicans would result in a different outcome than for Democrats, because of external factors.  

Personally, I think this is a pretty stupid study.  What force (the head of the church? the President/Prime Minister/Queen? the head MD in the country? the best soccer player?) is behind the recommendation?  What beliefs do you have to overcome?

Does this study convince anyone here that President Trump's comments or the CDC's recommendations about mask wearing made little difference in the cases of COVID in the US?   Somehow, I doubt it.