Masks cost like a buck, pretty sure theres no big fuss about it and reason to turn into big thing :/

Distract us from the real problem

It is a pretty big thing when people are getting arrested and kicked out of places for not wearing something

Better safe than sorry any way

Bro we have to argue in government if we should limit free speech or not

I'm gonna have to slap a hard no on that

Hi all

Hello Lucario.

I don’t wear a mask into stores... and if someone questions me I tell them I have CSS and FTD (Common sense syndrome and free thinker disease)

How is it going

You didnt read the whole thing, the creators of the study followed up with this :"An editorial published following the study’s publication said that the “findings reinforce the importance of social distancing and hygiene measures and suggest that masks likely need to be worn by most if not all people to reduce community infection rates, which in turn will protect individuals.”"

Hello!

Well, to be completely honest, I didn't read it at all

@Froski "random news stories" ok bud

I’m ok with ppl wearing masks, it’s just some ppl get extremely scared about it

Little point in wearing a mask if your a joe biden bozo whos sucking on other peoples spit

I was just saying that the danes seem to be questioning some of the more bs stuff that's going on at the moment, like that forced vaccination law they got stopped

"Annals of Internal Medicine is an academic medical journal published by the American College of Physicians. It is one of the most widely cited and influential specialty medical journals in the world. " is who did the study lol

where it was published I Mean

Really? You shared a news story in general and were asking a mod to pin it. We aren't going to pin news stories in general. Maybe in a news channel, but that's not what this is.

its a pretty big deal

Whats a big deal?

finally a clinical study out, using the scientific method, published from a credible source regarding mask usage and covid-19

And it says what? Was it the one Em linked?

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A Danish study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine Wednesday found that masks did not reduce the coronavirus (COVID-19) infection rate among wearers in a clinical trial — questioning an assertion made as recently as last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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

**Also** the same study: "An editorial published following the study’s publication said that the “findings reinforce the importance of social distancing and hygiene measures and suggest that masks likely need to be worn by most if not all people to reduce community infection rates, which in turn will protect individuals.”

I don't understand that part. either it reduces the infection rate or not. 1 or 0

Wear a mask if you want to wear a mask. But no one should be forced to. Except MAYBE in a hospital or doctors office

Well the same people who did the study also said that, i dont know what to tell uou bro

maybe since the editorial was post study, it was from receiving backlash so pulling that bs

They should be "forced"

My governor keeps claiming we have a mask mandate... well... I’ve gone maskless for months

simp

First it’s a mask... then it’s a vaccine...

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What happened to my body my choice? Lol

They never actually insinuated that masks dont help, actually read past the title

Then they're saying even with the vaccine, you can't go back to normal and still have to socially distance.

what I want to know is if masks reduce viral load, and if viral load has an impact on symptoms