Bad Research "Shows Masks Worked in Schools"... But it Didnt
Have a look at this headline:
I'll bet you think they looked at schools with masks and schools without masks and drew a conclusion.
Nope.
Two Duke scholars examined a bunch of masked schools, found transmission to be low, and credited masks.
They said that all the quarantining and social distancing had been a waste -- good so far, so I appreciate them to some extent -- because masks alone had been so effective (an unsupported assertion).
And they even admit:
"We don’t have data from within North Carolina...in school in K-12, what happens when children are not masked."
But this is the kind of "study" your friends trot out to prove to you how effective masks (or whatever other alleged mitigation measure they want to vindicate) are.
Lesson:
Don't take their word for anything.
Check everything.
I'm sure you've figured out that lesson already, but it can't hurt to be reminded.
see my FULL CITED PEER REVIEWED SCIENCE STUDIES & DEBATE ABOUT MASKS! https://www.subscribestar.com/posts/339883
