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This morning I saw an excerpt of Twitter post from what I assume was a paper for a journal. It analyzed a group of about a thousand “cases” - I don’t know if these were just positive test results or active cases - according to their contacts with other people who had been COVID or had tested positive, the degree of closeness to those people, adherence to various “protective” guidelines, etc.

In the mask wearing column, the choice was “never wears a mask or face covering,” “sometimes,” etc all the way to “always wears a mask or face covering.”

This tracked people for the two weeks representing the supposed incubation period prior to their diagnosis.

6% of the cases had never worn a mask; 70% had ALWAYS worn a mask or face covering in those 2 prior weeks. So that shows you that masks actually increase one’s chance of infection, and do so overwhelmingly.

I hope this study gets published; I had a feeling that it was leaked without attribution mainly to get around Twitter censorship.

Thanks for the info. My armchair reaction to all this is that medical grade masks, which almost no one uses, probably do some good while the masks the rest of us use probably don't do any good. The data you found suggest that they actually do harm.

BTW, I wouldn't know how to answer the question on the survey you summarized. I always wear a mask - when my local guidelines require me to. So, I don't wear a mask in my home, outdoors or while eating in a restaurant.

Or in my car. I wonder what drivers who wear masks think they're doing - preventing themselves from giving it to themselves?

Your filthy fingers are touching your face far more with wearing a mask than without wearing one (putting on/off, adjusting).

Plus masks seem to make people believe their coughs won’t affect those around them. I have literally had three people cough in my face in the past three weeks.