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WHO: * wearing mask does nothing and... * workers desperately need mask this is the problem when you lie to your audience to achieve some end. Your message
by _red 7y ago
WHO:
* wearing mask does nothing
and...
* workers desperately need mask
this is the problem when you lie to your audience to achieve some end. Your message not only gets disregarded but you don't actually achieve what you were trying to achieve with your lie in the first place.
We are all lucky to have Tedros as our one-world doctor.
- owenmarshall 7y agoThose two things can both be true in a way: if an untrained person uses masks in non-high risk situations they may gain no significant benefit and even cause more harm by causing supply pressure.
- corpMaverick 7y agoI don´t disagree. But one face mask has a mayor benefit on a doctor or nurse and minimal effect on a regular person. But millions of masks on millions of people may have a major effect in the pandemic.
- joemi 7y agoIt's not a lie. Those two statements are taken wildly out of context. Wearing a mask while walking down the street does effectively nothing for you. But if your job is to be surrounded by infected for the whole day, a mask helps your chances of avoiding getting sick, since you're in close contact all day long. I'm not really sure why people don't understand this.
- nicoburns 7y agoI think the masks make the most difference when the sick people wear them, which is probably happening in Japan I guess.