I see a few every time I go to the grocery store. However, I go just after the store opens so others who wear masks likely go at the same time for the same reason.
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Yep, few people are wearing them but I usually see a few wearing masks in stores here.
JRP3
Hyperactive Member
Recent videos shows them still in heavy use in many Asian countries, even outdoors. Maybe it's become a new fashion accessory.
bkp_duke
Well-Known Member
Asian countries were very mask heavy long before COVID.
Here's a long read with a lot of good background info (like potential biases) on the study:
Do Masks Work? Yes. No. Maybe.
With one summary by
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Shira Doron, a physician and the chief infection control officer at Tufts Medicine...
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“This study has concluded, not that masks don’t work, but that there is not evidence that masking on a population level decreases the incidence of infection. That’s what it proves,”
Do Masks Work? Yes. No. Maybe.
With one summary by
"...
Shira Doron, a physician and the chief infection control officer at Tufts Medicine...
...
“This study has concluded, not that masks don’t work, but that there is not evidence that masking on a population level decreases the incidence of infection. That’s what it proves,”
scottf200
Well-Known Member
~90% - XBB.1.5; minimum 77.1% and maximum 98.4%Continued good news about it dominating still and no 'strong' variants else showing up.
Any opinions on how this impacts those that haven't caught it yet ... in a sense does the chance of catching it decrease?
Does the population that gets XBB.1.5 multiple times become less contagious to others? ie. have it for a shorter time or are not spreading as much?
I'm not sure how to ask all that but hopefully, the point of the question was still made.
~85% - XBB.1.5 topping out at 97+% in the Northwest
JRP3
Hyperactive Member
XBB 1.5 seems nice, total covid waste water levels down to May of last year numbers and still trending down, matching other indicators.
PACEMD
Active Member
Mask? Aren't those Juktapositioned with reality? Asking for a friend........
JRP3
Hyperactive Member
Some of you may be familiar with Physics Girl on YouTube, apparently she's suffering from long covid and not doing well, basically incapacitated. I don't know if she had any confounding factors but she seemed like a fit young woman.
Tiger
Active Member
scottf200
Well-Known Member
Re: ThePhysicsGirl - Dianna Cowern - born May 4, 1989
I saw that as well. She does an amazing variety of YT videos. https://www.youtube.com/@physicsgirl/videos
She did some videos on Covid a couple years ago including this one that showed how seriously she took it.
Are planes safe during COVID? & "Of course it's scary." - Candid Interview with COVID-19 ER Nurse and Epidemiologist
AlanSubie4Life
Efficiency Obsessed Member
Hopefully at some point the evidence will be in the public domain so we can know what happened.
Right now of course a spillover still seems best supported by available evidence. But anything is possible - and it is certainly possible that strong evidence for a lab leak could swing the equation in lab leak favor.
Either origin is fine, but it would be good to know which one it was.
It’s crazy how Dr. Fauci is always right on the money (except for silly statements about masks in the early days driven by necessity of course). Pretty good for 80+!
With many things in medicine and science, what appears to be the obvious and most likely is what we go with, until much later, we look at an alternative.
In this case, we only have the information for spillover, which supposedly happened in two spots independently in a short time.
AlanSubie4Life
Efficiency Obsessed Member
Anyone think cases going to close to zero by end of April?
bkp_duke
Well-Known Member
Coronaviruses have been endemic with us for 10s of thousands of years. SARS-CoV-2 will never be leaving us. It will join the existing 6 circulating coronaviruses that circle the globe.
scottf200
Well-Known Member
Ha, hard to know what data to believe anymore with changes in testing (at home vs med locations) and collections.
The charts here are unclear as an example since it is just a post winter trend? Charts
Walgreens COVID-19 Index: COVID-19 Index | Walgreens Healthcare Solutions
Below via: COVID-19 Weekly Trends by Country - Worldometer
AlanSubie4Life
Efficiency Obsessed Member
Worldometer seems to indicate that cases will be close to zero by end of April. 54% weekly reductions will get it done.Ha, hard to know what data to believe anymore with changes in testing (at home vs med locations) and collections.
The charts here are unclear as an example since it is just a post winter trend? Charts
Walgreens COVID-19 Index: COVID-19 Index | Walgreens Healthcare Solutions
Below via: COVID-19 Weekly Trends by Country - Worldometer
Amazing. Elon so prescient.
Norbert
TSLA will win
Apart from the joke: Worldwide new cases are better than ever, but in the US not yet as low as in June 2021. So I guess anything is still possible, and to a degree it still depends on us if it will improve further.
Norbert
TSLA will win
It's not uncommon at all in science to try to prove or disprove a theory, or to "write a paper" without experimental research. As far as that goes, I'd say at times that is part of a scientist's job.
In other words, as a critique, this alone isn't "digging deep" enough either.
AlanSubie4Life
Efficiency Obsessed Member
Hopefully you are wrong - since we would be screwed.
I’m still hoping it goes away. Still COVID free over here but the snare is tightening I feel. So easy to let guard down.
This summer will kill COVID, will really be over for sure then.
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