COVID - How to protect ourselves

[Kurt]

Don't think masks are effective? Read the facts:
https://www.maskssavelives.org/

I am a proponent of wearing masks and have been ever since I came down with severe health issues involving my lungs a couple of years ago. 

I have argued with people, almost lost friendships, worried to no end, etc. to get masks. I wear them whenever I go out. I stand in line every week to buy our family's allotment. 

However, the chart is skewed. Mainland China, like other Asian countries, is a strong mask wearing culture. This is a huge flaw in what is a well intentioned message.

Because of not being a trusted source of accurate info, I take China out of any reported statistical analysis. Even if we do consider China as an outlier and include their numbers in the mask to non-mask comparison, the averages of the mask wearing countries would still be much lower than the other countries. It's undeniable that Asian countries have down a better job at containing COVID than Western countries.

And the chart is supported by all the other stats I've posted above concerning masks and isn't the only evidence presented. If masks help, then we should assume that countries where everyone wears them should have lower COVID numbers than countries that don't.

The chart supports this theory, especially considering the chart isn't drawn to scale and the low numbers are MUCH lower when compared to the higher numbers than the chart seems to show. Redraw the map to scale and the chart would be even more dramatic. Compare Italy and Japan. Italy reported 50X the number of cases Japan has. The chart doesn't show that very well.

While China is in the "non mask" group, there are ZERO non-mask countries in the lower numbers of COVID. Don't just look at China, but why are there NO non-mask wearing countries in the counties with lower case numbers?