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How the Media Failed Its COVID Test: The Truth Behind the Lab Leak and Masking Debates
Plain English with Derek Thompson
COVID Masks - What Do You Think?
The WHO and Fauci came out initially in the middle of March saying, you know, masks, not so sure that they work. Within three to six months, the fact that masks did work became an article of faith among people that share my general ideology and proclivities. So I don't think that a lot of these existing studies actually tell us much about what we're going to do is compare COVID with historical mask norms like Japan or Taiwan.
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