Mask mandates work*

* In Ontario Canada to decrease new COVID cases by 25% which also corresponds to voluntary mask usage which is seen as cases increase in a region https://twitter.com/aaronyelowitz/status/1313085491663835136
Breaking: Twitter is a terrible place to discuss science

The kinds of statements that work well on twitter are not the kinds of statements that good science tends to produce
Mask mandates worked in Israel until they didn't. They worked in CA until the surge started. They worked in NY after they got crushed but apparently have recently stopped working

They "work" in the sense that they reduce cases but not in the sense that they "solve" this crisis
A lot of people wish this crisis was simple enough for them to propose a nice, easy solution that we could all have this go away if only those jerks I hate stopped making things worse
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