{"id":75909,"date":"2020-11-19T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75909"},"modified":"2020-11-19T09:47:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T15:47:15","slug":"conventional-wisdom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75909","title":{"rendered":"Conventional Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

“Masking up reduces rates of infection!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a Danish study? Not significantly<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The recommendation to wear surgical masks to supplement other public health measures did not reduce the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate among wearers by more than 50% in a community with modest infection rates, some degree of social distancing, and uncommon general mask use. The data were compatible with lesser degrees of self-protection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

“OK, but a complete lockdown-level quarantine will do the trick!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a study of the most controllable experimental subjects of all – US Marine recruits at boot camp – not really<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The virus still spread, though 90% of those who tested positive were without symptoms [18 year olds in perfect, military-grade health? Go figure – Ed.]. Incredibly, 2% of the CHARM recruits still contracted the virus, even if all but one remained asymptomatic. \u201cOur study showed that in a group of predominantly young male military recruits, approximately 2% became positive for SARS-CoV-2, as determined by qPCR assay, during a 2-week, strictly enforced quarantine.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Science is, of course, asking questions and testing theories as rigorously as you can. Two studies do not cause science to “settle”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the way the media is misreporting these studies, if they report them at all, is a little galling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Masking up reduces rates of infection!” According to a Danish study? Not significantly: The recommendation to wear surgical masks to supplement other public health measures did not reduce the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate among wearers by more than 50% in a community with modest infection rates, some degree of social distancing, and uncommon general mask use. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75911,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75909\/revisions\/75911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}