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Claustrum

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13. One important point is that it's self reported.

Reply to Blue_true (Reply #10)

Thu Oct 15, 2020, 10:36 PM

Oct 2020

And it doesn't say how they got COVID. If you have a relative with COVID at home, you are not going to be wearing mask all day at home but you would be when you are outside. So you would say you wear mask always but you still got COVID. And the study doesn't say how severe their COVID is, it's merely the fact that they self identify as wearing mask.

Also, even if cloth mask protects you from getting heavy viral load and keeps you from a severe COVID case, they still say they wear mask but got COVID in that study.

I think that study is very misleading and surely the right/Trump is using it to say mask is useless when it isn't.

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Chyron earlier on Rachel's show: Trump says 85% of mask wearers get Covid-19. [View all] Elwood P Dowd Oct 2020 OP

Yes, those were his exact words. SamKnause Oct 2020 #1

Said it twice SCantiGOP Oct 2020 #11

he bdamomma Oct 2020 #2

I think it refers to a study that show people that got COVID self reported that number. Claustrum Oct 2020 #3

So they started wearing masks after they had gotten COVID19? nt Blue_true Oct 2020 #5

No. It's a study about if they wear mask before they got COVID. Claustrum Oct 2020 #7

That runs counter to a very large study that showed that mask wearers Blue_true Oct 2020 #10

One important point is that it's self reported. Claustrum Oct 2020 #13

They asked people who already had covid if they wore masks. LisaL Oct 2020 #12

No No No No No it was a study about people who HAVE COVID and mask wearing underpants Oct 2020 #14

There was a CDC study of people who had COVID. Jim__ Oct 2020 #4

I think those were his exact words, but he might have said 85% of mask wearers get the virus. marie999 Oct 2020 #6

Donnie twisted the statistic to imply something the data doesn't at all support unblock Oct 2020 #8

So, if 100 million Americans wear a mask each day, then according to Trump Elwood P Dowd Oct 2020 #9

Pretty much. unblock Oct 2020 #16

Yes. underpants Oct 2020 #15

Big surprise, Trump lies. Disaffected Oct 2020 #17

You refuse to watch but want someone else to watch and give you info??? USALiberal Oct 2020 #18