The Masks Masquerade - INCERTO - Medium
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Taleb with a straightforward assessment of the logic behind masks, and why it is critical to our successful response to COVID-19.
SIX ERRORS: 1) missing the compounding effects of masks, 2) missing the nonlinearity of the probability of infection to viral exposures, 3) missing absence of evidence (of benefits of mask wearing) for evidence of absence (of benefits of mask wearing), 4) missing the point that people do not need governments to produce facial covering: they can make their own, 5) missing the compounding effects of statistical signals, 6) ignoring the Non-Aggression Principle by pseudolibertarians (masks are also to protect others from you; it’s a multiplicative process: every person you infect will infect others).
Read each one of these and it does make sense. The math also makes sense.
Wear a mask. For the Sake of Others.
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