I often suffer from Gell-Mann amnesia (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect-is-as-follows-you) when reading what the New York Times has to say about politics.
So as a public service for people who know about politics but don’t work in epidemiology, interviewing Andres Tegnell about why we shouldn’t have a mask mandate in the next pandemic is not particularly good evidence that scientists disagree on the value of masks for pandemic control.
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I’m flummoxed by the failure to make a simple connection:
virus particles are flying around in any poorly ventilated space where an infectious person of breathing. Avoiding inhaling those particles is a good idea.
