Thread by @LazarusLong13

A debunking thread of common antimasking talking points:

Fauci, hazmat, "every doctor I know".

https://twitter.com/paluka/status/1632611687084998657

Fauci said masks don't work in February 2020, in an email?

Actually, he indicated that masks as source control do work.

"Masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected..."

So, if you are going to cite this?

Welcome to #Masks4All. If we are all wearing masks, then each of us is wearing a mask to control the release of aerosols in the environment.

How many hours a week do you want to advocate for #Masks4All, @paluka ?

In regards to protecting myself wearing a mask - what do you

care what I am doing? Literally, what business is it of yours what I wear?

If I wear a burka for religious reasons?

(Amazing ending to "the girl with green eyes" story. Wow.)

nationalgeographic.com/pages/article/…

Or a respirator to protect from ubiquitous dust blowing in from another country?

What business is it of yours?

Antimaskers decried mask wearing as the act of sheeple. When will they finally admit that The Masking Nation are the true independents?

bbc.com/news/world-asi…

We tell stories to each other of the confrontations. The ridicule. The harassment.

And yet we proudly persist - even in the face of the CDC.

Because it takes strength of will to go in the face of peer pressure.

But let's go back to Fauci, and 2020. Because 8 months

later, he co-authored a study explaining the idea of source control for droplets and aerosols.

He also shared that mask mandates reduce transmission in the population.

And shared why RCTs are difficult to do, so observational studies are useful.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

So, in science, do we depend on the email sent to a friend by a scientist who was working from his gut?

Or the same scientist after actually researching the issue?

If the former, you are agreeing to #Masks4All. If the latter, #Masks4All and #MaskMandates.

Moving on to "the only way to stop it is with hazmat suits."

Actually, it's not. It is spread by aerosols that have the virii embedded in them.

If only there was a place where they were not wearing haz mat suits, but began wearing better Respiratory Protective Equipment....and

showed a statistically significant decrease in Covid infection.

A 100% reduction in infection.

Ah, turns out that's exactly what happened in the Covid wards of the UK Addenbrooke Hospital.

They began wearing FFP3 (N99) respirators, and showed a 100%

cam.ac.uk/research/news/…

reduction.

Finally, "every doctor I know" - do they live in a community ride with community transmission?

Of course they do. That's why the Addenbrooke study carefully separated out the Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI).

To close, every talking point you shared was

actually a point talking in support of #MasksForAll - or #N100forALL.

I would be happy to further help you with framing your advocacy for these movements.

Cheers, @paluka! (Fun gif for those who know what palooka means.)