Couldn't agree more. What's truly astonishing are the 'experts' who cling to this pseudoscience nonsense. Take, for example, the credentialed Kim Lavoie here in Montreal. She's not a PPE expert but she wants to 'normalize mask wearing'. Who is Kim Lavoie? Among other things, a behaviorial scientist:
Couldn't agree more. What's truly astonishing are the 'experts' who cling to this pseudoscience nonsense. Take, for example, the credentialed Kim Lavoie here in Montreal. She's not a PPE expert but she wants to 'normalize mask wearing'. Who is Kim Lavoie? Among other things, a behaviorial scientist:
We should be clear on the difference between the mechanistic efficacy of the individual face mask and the utility of universal masking as a public health strategy.
Masks DO inhibit the dispersal of large respiratory droplets, and in particular settings can be appropriate (I don't think I'd want a surgeon ditching a face mask during an operation). The fallacy behind the notion of universal masking is the presumption that what is a good idea in one circumstance is necessarily a good idea in all circumstances.
Couldn't agree more. What's truly astonishing are the 'experts' who cling to this pseudoscience nonsense. Take, for example, the credentialed Kim Lavoie here in Montreal. She's not a PPE expert but she wants to 'normalize mask wearing'. Who is Kim Lavoie? Among other things, a behaviorial scientist:
https://twitter.com/kimlouiselavoie?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
The Peter Principle writ large.
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/chroniques/2022-12-17/il-faut-normaliser-le-masque.php
The body of evidence, as you state, is CONCLUSIVE on the efficacy - or lack thereof - of masks stretching back 100 years.
She doesn't have a scientific or ethical leg to stand on. But there she is in a position of mild influence.
We should be clear on the difference between the mechanistic efficacy of the individual face mask and the utility of universal masking as a public health strategy.
Masks DO inhibit the dispersal of large respiratory droplets, and in particular settings can be appropriate (I don't think I'd want a surgeon ditching a face mask during an operation). The fallacy behind the notion of universal masking is the presumption that what is a good idea in one circumstance is necessarily a good idea in all circumstances.