## The Masks Masquerade
### The Masks Masquerade
#### Metadata
* Author: [[Nassim Nicholas Taleb]]
* Full Title: The Masks Masquerade
* Category: #articles
* URL: <https://medium.com/incerto/the-masks-masquerade-7de897b517b7>
#### Highlights
* We have a) the salon story where two infected stylists failed to infect all their 140 clients (making the probability of infection for bilateral mask wearing safely below 1% for a salon-style exposure) — we know the probability of infection for non mask wearers from tens of thousands of data points and the various R0 estimations) plus b) the rate of infection of countries where masks were mandatory, plus c) tons of papers with more or less flawed methodologies, etc.
* the entire concept of liberty lies in the Non-Aggression Principle, the equivalent of the Silver Rule: do not harm others; they in turn should not harm you. Even more insulting is the demand by pseudolibertarians that Costco should banned from forcing customers to wear mask — but libertarianism allows you to set the rules on your own property
# The Masks Masquerade
## Metadata
- Author: [[Nassim Nicholas Taleb]]
- Full Title: The Masks Masquerade
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://medium.com/incerto/the-masks-masquerade-7de897b517b7
## Highlights
- We have a) the salon story where two infected stylists failed to infect all their 140 clients (making the probability of infection for bilateral mask wearing safely below 1% for a salon-style exposure) — we know the probability of infection for non mask wearers from tens of thousands of data points and the various R0 estimations) plus b) the rate of infection of countries where masks were mandatory, plus c) tons of papers with more or less flawed methodologies, etc.
- the entire concept of liberty lies in the Non-Aggression Principle, the equivalent of the Silver Rule: do not harm others; they in turn should not harm you. Even more insulting is the demand by pseudolibertarians that Costco should banned from forcing customers to wear mask — but libertarianism allows you to set the rules on your own property