Religious accommodation...how far does it go?

[1213]

Water vapor, a gas, easily goes through a mask. Water droplets, water in liquid form and spherical in shape, do not pass through masks. Viruses tend to leave the body in water droplets. Viruses cannot evaporate like liquid water can.

Yes, but by what I know, they are about the same size, or smaller as water vapor and travel the same way.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Yes, but by what I know, they are about the same size, or smaller as water vapor and travel the same way.

Citation needed.

 

[SkepticThinker]

Yes, but by what I know, they are about the same size, or smaller as water vapor and travel the same way.

https://www.publichealthontario.ca/...ates-population-level-outcomes.pdf?sc_lang=en
Mask Mandates and COVID-19 Case Rates, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in Kansas
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01072
Areas With Mask Mandates Have Lower Covid-19 Hospitalization Rate, Study Finds
Modeling COVID-19 Mortality Across 44 Countries: Face Covering May Reduce Deaths - PubMed
Where Mask Adherence Is Higher, COVID Rates Aren’t | SPH
Coronavirus Disease 2019

 

[1213]

https://www.publichealthontario.ca/...ates-population-level-outcomes.pdf?sc_lang=en
Mask Mandates and COVID-19 Case Rates, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in Kansas
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01072
Areas With Mask Mandates Have Lower Covid-19 Hospitalization Rate, Study Finds
Modeling COVID-19 Mortality Across 44 Countries: Face Covering May Reduce Deaths - PubMed
Where Mask Adherence Is Higher, COVID Rates Aren’t | SPH
Coronavirus Disease 2019

That is interesting, but unfortunately seems to be in contradiction what I have seen in happening in the world.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

That is interesting, but unfortunately seems to be in contradiction what I have seen in happening in the world.

"Your comprehensive data is at odds with my subjective impression, so I'm going to stick with my subjective impression."

 

[Sheldon]

That is interesting, but unfortunately seems to be in contradiction what I have seen in happening in the world.

Your unevidenced subjective opinion doesn't trump objective evidence of this magnitude, and it's telling that you ask for evidence, then dismiss it with hand waving in this fashion. As if you simply want to believe masks don't work, and were being less than candid when you asked for evidence, which you clearly don't care exists, as your closed mind is made up. When I say as if, I am trying to be polite.

 

[SkepticThinker]

That is interesting, but unfortunately seems to be in contradiction what I have seen in happening in the world.

The studies I cited are based on real-world situations.

What do you see happening in the world that doesn't match the data? Have you carried out any studies?

 

[1213]

The studies I cited are based on real-world situations.

What do you see happening in the world that doesn't match the data? Have you carried out any studies?

Here one example of what I mean.

...Former Pfizer VP Michael Yeadon, a toxicologist and allergy/respiratory research expert, maintains that since the infection fatality ratio (IFR) of COVID-19 has not been high, the vaccines should not have been mandated, and that the masks were known to be useless in stopping respiratory viruses from previous scientific literature.
“It was known long before COVID-19 that face masks don’t do anything,” Yeadon said in a statement he sent to The Epoch Times.
“Many don’t know that blue medical masks aren’t filters. Your inspired and expired air moves in and out between the mask & your face. They are splashguards, that’s all.”...
Peer-Reviewed Studies Confirm Vaccine/Mask Mandates Did Not Stop COVID Spread In Schools & Universities | ZeroHedge

 

[SkepticThinker]

Here one example of what I mean.

...Former Pfizer VP Michael Yeadon, a toxicologist and allergy/respiratory research expert, maintains that since the infection fatality ratio (IFR) of COVID-19 has not been high, the vaccines should not have been mandated, and that the masks were known to be useless in stopping respiratory viruses from previous scientific literature.
“It was known long before COVID-19 that face masks don’t do anything,” Yeadon said in a statement he sent to The Epoch Times.
“Many don’t know that blue medical masks aren’t filters. Your inspired and expired air moves in and out between the mask & your face. They are splashguards, that’s all.”...
Peer-Reviewed Studies Confirm Vaccine/Mask Mandates Did Not Stop COVID Spread In Schools & Universities | ZeroHedge

Ah, I see the problem. You're using very poor sources.

I provided some reliable, scientific sources.