According to a new study published out of Norway, people who wore face masks were actually found to be more likely to contract COVID-19 (versus those who didn’t wear face masks). Specifically, a peer-reviewed study published in the journal Epidemiology and Infection found that those who always (or almost always) wore masks were somewhere between 4-40% more likely to catch Covid-19.
It seemed likely at the time that mask wearers would have a higher infection rate.
The reason?
Because so many mask wearers, apparently believing themselves to be invulnerable, were uninhibited about crowding others whether masked or unmasked. In this way mask wearers not only risked passing on their own germs, which we now know passed relatively unimpeded through the vast majority of masks worn during Covid, but of exposing themselves to viral particles exhaled by others.
What those overconfident mask-wearers should have had is a mask like this:
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"BA.2.86 may be more capable of causing infection in people who have previously had COVID-19 or who have received COVID-19 vaccines."
CDC Director Issues New Covid Alert, Urges Americans to Wear Masks (VIDEO) See someone with a mask? Best to steer well clear.
