its your train of thought that's the problem. that's why health officials were telling us not to use masks, not just because supply is short and they need them

its your train of thought that's the problem. that's why health officials were telling us not to use masks, not just because supply is short and they need them for health workers but probably more so because: - viral load is important and that's far too complicated for people to understand, just talk about it in binary sick/not sick. - having better protection incentivizes people taking more risk, better not do that - people might not comprehend that masks are imperfect and can fail, better just to tell them they don't work. health is important, and the way you learn about things is by talking about them. treating it like a special scary topic that only experts should be able to talk about not only leads to disinformation, it leads to lack of trust.