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by allovernow 2339 days ago
>I'm not an expert, but some people are are panicking and buying surgical masks (borderline useless)

N95 masks are effective in filtering out viruses. Also your conclusions put a lot of implicit faith into numbers reported by the Chinese Communist Party, which has a strong incentive to minimize the problem and probably one of the most facilitating authoritarian cultures to do so.