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Stonehedge

And this doesn't seem like language I'd expect from a respected medic. Surely misses the point of wearing a mask.

Those young and healthy people who currently walk around with a mask on their faces would be better off wearing a helmet instead, because the risk of something falling on their head is greater than that of getting a serious case of Covid-19.

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Howard in reply to @Stonehedge

That paragraph is particularly jarring.

Not sure what to make of the rest, a lot of that has been said before, including the 'we should just protect those at risk' bit, which seems to have been marked down as ineffective as those most at risk are typically served by those who could spread it to them.

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hugo7 in reply to @Howard

Not sure what to make of the rest, a lot of that has been said before, including the 'we should just protect those at risk' bit, which seems to have been marked down as ineffective as those most at risk are typically served by those who could spread it to them.

I was curious what people thought, because I read it when I was tired and I didn't really see how a lot of what he said prompted the "it's a hoax" in the comments section. It seemed like a set of niche points, but also not very clearly that we should have identified and protected the most at risk people in society early on.

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