Political polarisation impedes the public policy response to COVID-19
Nicolas Ajzenman, Tiago Cavalcanti, Daniel Da Mata Wearing face masks should be considered the least controversial of major public responses to COVID-19. Unlike with many other measures such as shelter-in-place ordinances, lockdowns, or capacity restrictions, there is no trade-off between mask use and economic activity. Several recent studies documented that masks can effectively diminish the spread of a viral respiratory infection (Mitze et al. 2020, Fischer et al. 2020, Chu et al. 2020, Leun...
Source: voxeu.org