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> the mask made no difference In my case

How can you possibly know such a thing? The mask is more about reducing your spread to others, do you have reliable data on how many people you would have infected in lieu of masking? No, you don't.




All I know is I wore one and so did all my friends and it cut through all of us like a knife through butter. Nobody was spared. People think masks are going to save them. In my experience, they prevented nothing of consequence to me or the people I interact with.


Most of what it does is affect the probability of your spreading it to others, and it doesn't reduce that down to zero.

So it's unrealistic to expect masking to prevent your spreading it to close friends/family whom you're in frequent contact with.

But it lowers how much you're emitting past the mask while standing in line at the grocery store.

Your take on this seems incredibly self-centered.


Careful there... people are going to start calling you an antivax Nazi Trump supporter for your own personal experience.


Because a lot of the studies back that comment up.




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