[FRIAM] viral dose ∝ symptom severity

[Prof David West]

Anecdotal means nothing.

Kane County, where I live, recorded its first COVID death last week — 84 year old woman who had been hospitalized prior, with "multiple contributing health issues."

Working in the store, I see a couple of thousand people every day. Weekdays, with mostly locals, 80% wear masks. Weekends and holidays 50%+ tourists, mask rate drops to maybe 60%. Interestingly, 80-90 percent of those not wearing masks are the tourists - a large majority of whom are from California and Nevada.Most locals not wearing masks are ranchers and the coal miners - people working outside all day.

This week was bow hunting season, and close to zero percent of hunters came in wearing masks. Camo, yes, masks, no.

The store rescinded its "no refills" policy this week. And next week is allowing people to put their own condiments, from bulk containers of sliced tomatoes, onions, lettuce, sauce - on their burgers.

Employees continue to wear masks except when behind plexiglass at cash register.

davew


On Wed, Aug 19, 2020, at 9:32 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:
> Cloth masks do protect the wearer – breathing in less coronavirus means 
> you get less sick
> https://theconversation.com/cloth-masks-do-protect-the-wearer-breathing-in-less-coronavirus-means-you-get-less-sick-143726
> 
> And here's her paper in J Gen Intern Med:
> 
> Masks Do More Than Protect Others During COVID-19: Reducing the 
> Inoculum of SARS-CoV-2 to Protect the Wearer
> https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11606-020-06067-8
> 
> Sooooo, if the right-wingers would simply wear a damned mask, their 
> open-up and herd immunity arguments would be at least somewhat 
> defensible ... getting out, getting infected, *with* masks as a way to 
> increase our collective bio-defense, relatively safely.
> 
> -- 
> ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ
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