Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
That Bangladesh study has been discussed before... I forgot if it was here or on Twitter, but I commented on it somewhere.

First off, it was just a 9% reduction, which is a drop in the bucket compared to the media's portrayal of masking for the past 18 months. If the message was, "Wear your mask and be 9% safer!", do you think the average person would have felt that masking was the difference between responsible and irresponsible behavior?

If we are getting a 9% gain from masking -- which I still doubt -- I don't think that comes close to justifying mask mandates, and it certainly doesn't justify masking up little kids.
I guess you would have to understand what exponential means to have any clue how much 9% is.

For the cost per reduction in infections/hospitalizations/deaths it's the single best value you're ever going to get at a certain point in the epidemic.