| I believe that the conflict over masks stemmed from a fundamental difference in perspective. Masks work great at blocking transmissions even if the fit is bad, much like covering your mouse when you sneeze. Masks CAN work great at blocking absorption if fitted properly, but thats hard to do correctly If you are a fundamentally selfish person you only care about whether masks prevent YOU from getting COVID, you don't care about spreading it. If you are non-selfish, then you probably care about both yourself and the broader community well being and are not only concerned about catching covid yourself, but also spreading covid to other people. I think its hard for these two groups to interact because there's not much common ground. I would argue that if you only care about your own risk of catching COVID and don't have training on N95 masks, then the argument that masks aren't worth the hassle is probably right. |