
Pandemic "Retrospective" with Nicholas Christakis and Ezekiel Emanuel
What Could Go Right?
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The Mask Debate
Last week and the week before in Coachella, California, which it was, it was outside. There's no question that universally enforced high quality masking in all indoor settings at all times from early 2020 would have been a massively advantageous thing for all societies. Full stop. But given that human beings don't behave that way, again, back to the absence analogy, and that COVID, particularly an omnichron was so unbelievably contagious that it was much like if you don't use it universally.
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