The linked article is low quality. It proposes a mechanism but gives no evidence for its frequency or severity or even if it actually happens at all. It is clearly not doing cost/benefit calculations.
Overall you seem to be putting the burden on Steven to prove that there isn’t a risk to masks, rather than doing anything to demonstrate that there is. I agree with considering the costs as well as benefits of masks and would love to see real data on the costs of masks, but this is an unfair burden to put on Steven in particular as a reward for a pretty useful write-up.
Nobody seems to be doing any cost/benefit calculations on masks. Particularly when it comes to fully vaccinated people wearing them. Why are we not doing it, especially the cost part? The benefits at least are tractable. But the costs are not easy to calculate. Obviously they are bigger than the cost of masks themselves, time it takes to properly take care of them one way or the other, and the cost of their disposal.
Hmm, I think for me the dominant cost of masks is that they’re mildly annoying. That’s a much bigger cost for me than the monetary price or the time spent laundering them or whatever.
I endorse not wearing masks when they provide zero or infinitesimal benefit. Like, where I live, there’s a rule that people walking alone outside need to wear a mask. That’s a really dumb and annoying rule.
I expect to be doing more stuff without masks, and more stuff period, when I’m fully vaccinated, and so are my friends, and when the prevailing COVID rates in the community are much lower than they are now. Can’t wait, and I think it won’t be much longer, in my community anyway. :)
My kids really don’t mind wearing masks. They really just don’t care, they don’t even think about it. Sometimes we’ll get home and they’ll just forget to take their masks off! Like, for a really long time! They just got used to wearing masks when going out, pretty quickly into the pandemic. Young kids are adaptable. :)
I’m not really sure what your question is getting at. There’s no sense in directly comparing my need for a mask to my kids’ need for a mask. It’s not like we only own one mask and need to fight over it…
For what it’s worth, it wasn’t my decision, but I am very happy that everyone in their school has to wear masks indoors. The benefit of reducing in-school COVID spread seems to me to overwhelmingly outweigh the (trivial) costs of making kids and teachers wear masks. I think that the prevailing COVID rates in the community would need to be very low indeed—maybe 10× or 100× lower than today—before I would endorse having kids in school stop wearing masks, at least until there’s a vaccine available for kids.
The linked article is low quality. It proposes a mechanism but gives no evidence for its frequency or severity or even if it actually happens at all. It is clearly not doing cost/benefit calculations.
Overall you seem to be putting the burden on Steven to prove that there isn’t a risk to masks, rather than doing anything to demonstrate that there is. I agree with considering the costs as well as benefits of masks and would love to see real data on the costs of masks, but this is an unfair burden to put on Steven in particular as a reward for a pretty useful write-up.
Nobody seems to be doing any cost/benefit calculations on masks. Particularly when it comes to fully vaccinated people wearing them. Why are we not doing it, especially the cost part? The benefits at least are tractable. But the costs are not easy to calculate. Obviously they are bigger than the cost of masks themselves, time it takes to properly take care of them one way or the other, and the cost of their disposal.
Hmm, I think for me the dominant cost of masks is that they’re mildly annoying. That’s a much bigger cost for me than the monetary price or the time spent laundering them or whatever.
I endorse not wearing masks when they provide zero or infinitesimal benefit. Like, where I live, there’s a rule that people walking alone outside need to wear a mask. That’s a really dumb and annoying rule.
I expect to be doing more stuff without masks, and more stuff period, when I’m fully vaccinated, and so are my friends, and when the prevailing COVID rates in the community are much lower than they are now. Can’t wait, and I think it won’t be much longer, in my community anyway. :)
Have you considered the cost and benefit of masks worn by your six years old child?
Is he getting bigger benefit than you?
Are his costs smaller than yours?
My kids really don’t mind wearing masks. They really just don’t care, they don’t even think about it. Sometimes we’ll get home and they’ll just forget to take their masks off! Like, for a really long time! They just got used to wearing masks when going out, pretty quickly into the pandemic. Young kids are adaptable. :)
I’m not really sure what your question is getting at. There’s no sense in directly comparing my need for a mask to my kids’ need for a mask. It’s not like we only own one mask and need to fight over it…
For what it’s worth, it wasn’t my decision, but I am very happy that everyone in their school has to wear masks indoors. The benefit of reducing in-school COVID spread seems to me to overwhelmingly outweigh the (trivial) costs of making kids and teachers wear masks. I think that the prevailing COVID rates in the community would need to be very low indeed—maybe 10× or 100× lower than today—before I would endorse having kids in school stop wearing masks, at least until there’s a vaccine available for kids.
How many cases of COVID were detected in your child’s school in one year?