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Originally Posted by t3hbandit
I'm not saying you disagree with this but your posts seem to come across as mask-skeptic.
I'm neither mask-sceptical or otherwise - the evidence is clearly equivocal.
People who refuse to wear masks when shopping or on public transport are clearly ******s. I travel to work on the train, and I would refuse to let anyone sit next to me who was not wearing a mask.
However, the evidence suggests that when not in enclosed spaces masks appear to have little value, and may be detrimental due to behavioural factors such as people touching their faces to adjust their mask or believing they do not have to adhere to social distancing as the mask is protecting them.
I therefore thing it's slightly disingenuous to claim football crowds have been cancelled because a minority do not wear masks in the appropriate environments. There are clearly many factors involved in the recent spike in cases, and I'm sceptical whether so-called maskflaking played a role at all. This is especially true when you see statistics such as 80% of people failing to self-isolate after they have been identified through contact tracing.
