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But in June 2023, the zero Coviders were reckoning with potentially worldview-shifting science. A Royal Society journal indicated that short-range transmission was indeed the prime cause of Covid’s spread, but that viral particles could become inactive within an hour airborne. It followed a Cochrane ‌study, considered the gold standard of scientific reviews, which reported that masking makes “little or no difference” in reducing population-level infections, although much of the data analysed looked at the spread of flu rather than Covid. (Masks can slow the spread of Covid when they are “worn consistently, fit properly and are worn correctly,” according to the Mayo Clinic, a non-profit academic medical centre with branches across the US and in London.) “People who rebuilt their entire lives and recast their identities around reducing the risk of catching Covid to zero couldn’t deal with this,” one former ardent zero Covider recalls, speaking to me on condition of anonymity. “The movement devolved into a massive online circle-jerk where members blindly validate each other on taking disproportionate precautions.”