VERIFY: Fact-checking Dr. Dan Stock's claims at Mt. Vernon school board meeting

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3. I didn't think anything below an N-95 mask was worth much in the beginning

before all the data came in, because paper surgical masks and especially cloth masks were so virus and droplet permeable.

The research came in fairly quickly, showing that even multi layer cloth masks were fairly effective at stopping larger droplets at their point of origin and the higher quality masks more so. That means the wearer is protecting everyone else from exhaled cooties.

The point of masks is that we wear them for each other, an altruism completely foreign to conservatives who only think about themselves. If everyone is masked, transmission drops off a cliff.

So this guy, a GP, is working on outdated data there, he simply hasn't kept up.

He also hasn't kept up with the mountain of information about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines. No, they're not seeing people who have been vaccinated getting worse disease, quite the opposite. Yes, some vaccinated people have died of Covid, but they were people with massive underlying conditions.

I hate it when these guys get their MDs and think they never have to keep up. He might not be a bad doctor. He just needs his nose rubbed in current evidence and standards of practice.