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A Failure, But Not Of Prediction
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Apr 15, 2020
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CDC saying for years “we don’t know if masks work in epidemics” is like doctors saying “we don’t know if parachutes work for skydivers”: Common sense safety precaution being overruled by the absence of perfect experiments V clever from @slatestarcodex