Interesting. Thanks. Ironically, my first reaction was тАЬlisten to two guys talking about medical politics for more than an hour? Who has time?тАЭ I donтАЩt. But listen I did anyway, and found the time worth it. Once.
I say that because, as entertaining as they were, they were giving opinions. Opinions which they claimed were backed by data, but I find data that contradict their opinions. Masks for toddlers? A bad idea and an easy target. Masks for adults and vulnerable people? Important and validated. I much prefer peer-reviewed published studies to anyoneтАЩs opinions.
In addition, a number of contemporary scientists have called PrasadтАЩs writings тАЬspecious and ignorantтАЭ, containing тАЬmistruthsтАЭ and тАЬmisleading statementsтАЭ, and said that they тАЬlean heavily on pushing peopleтАЩs emotional hot buttonsтАЭ. In other words, not exactly someone to trust.
So, for me, back to studies and not listening to opinionators. :-) One example, below, a large-scale study on the effectiveness of masking - not on mask mandates.
web search: "VPZD mask"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI1KU5rsThI
Interesting. Thanks. Ironically, my first reaction was тАЬlisten to two guys talking about medical politics for more than an hour? Who has time?тАЭ I donтАЩt. But listen I did anyway, and found the time worth it. Once.
I say that because, as entertaining as they were, they were giving opinions. Opinions which they claimed were backed by data, but I find data that contradict their opinions. Masks for toddlers? A bad idea and an easy target. Masks for adults and vulnerable people? Important and validated. I much prefer peer-reviewed published studies to anyoneтАЩs opinions.
In addition, a number of contemporary scientists have called PrasadтАЩs writings тАЬspecious and ignorantтАЭ, containing тАЬmistruthsтАЭ and тАЬmisleading statementsтАЭ, and said that they тАЬlean heavily on pushing peopleтАЩs emotional hot buttonsтАЭ. In other words, not exactly someone to trust.
So, for me, back to studies and not listening to opinionators. :-) One example, below, a large-scale study on the effectiveness of masking - not on mask mandates.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2119266119