My original thread looking for the best data: To Mask or Not to Mask, that is the Question
The explanations about how masks work on this disease are intuitively satisfying. The hard data is (understandably) harder to come by and what data we have is generally difficult to interpret.
Here’s the perfect test:
800 people quarantine for two weeks and get tested to ensure they don’t have COVID already.
Each participant sits in a small room with somebody actively infected with COVID for 30 minutes. In 400 cases the ill person is wearing a mask. In 400 cases the ill person is not wearing a mask.
All participants go back into quarantine for 2 more weeks.
Monitor for differences in infection rates.
Who wants to fund my study?